This Place is a Zoo #1

Das Machine 

Jethro Tull, "Bungle in the Jungle."

I like Wot Gorilla, but Hibou is hard to beat

For me there are three good surprises of bands that I didn't know before: First, The Lounge Lizards, great musicality and great fun; second the Ultraviolet Hippotamus - a great song too. But my vote goes to Tiger Moth Tales. He has the advantage of a 15 minute-track in which he can put many things, but overall this song stood out for me. So, the Tigers get my vote in this Zoo.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: I could have easily picked one I was familiar with. Not this time. Mirthkon is superb! Reminds me of Bubblemath.

rushfan4 wrote: To try something new, I have created a YouTube playlist of all of these songs if this makes it easier for people to listen to the songs. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh7UTJceJC_X3yrzalZO33O3UoSxQTf37">www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh7UTJceJC_X3yrzalZO33O3UoSxQTf37</a>

Thanks! I am amazed at how few of these songs I have heard

judahbenkenobi wrote: rushfan4 wrote: To try something new, I have created a YouTube playlist of all of these songs if this makes it easier for people to listen to the songs. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh7UTJceJC_X3yrzalZO33O3UoSxQTf37">www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh7UTJceJC_X3yrzalZO33O3UoSxQTf37</a> Thanks! I am amazed at how few of these songs I have heard

That is the fun of creating a poll like this for me.  In this poll, all of these songs are in my collection, but I am really only familiar with a handful of them.  Many of them I've probably only listened to a couple of times and probably then just as a casual listen to the album without individual focus on this particular song.  Highlights for me are the songs from Ut Gret, Gran Torino, Ulraviolet Hippopotamus, Mirthkon, and The Lounge Lizards.  "The moral of the story is to feed the fever and starve the yak". 

Cristi wrote: rushfan4 wrote: judahbenkenobi wrote: rushfan4 wrote: To try something new, I have created a YouTube playlist of all of these songs if this makes it easier for people to listen to the songs. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh7UTJceJC_X3yrzalZO33O3UoSxQTf37">www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh7UTJceJC_X3yrzalZO33O3UoSxQTf37</a> Thanks! I am amazed at how few of these songs I have heard That is the fun of creating a poll like this for me.  In this poll, all of these songs are in my collection, but I am really only familiar with a handful of them.  Many of them I've probably only listened to a couple of times and probably then just as a casual listen to the album without individual focus on this particular song.  Highlights for me are the songs from Ut Gret, Gran Torino, Ulraviolet Hippopotamus, Mirthkon, and The Lounge Lizards.  "The moral of the story is to feed the fever and starve the yak".  surprised, in a good way, to see Kumm in the list. They were great. Out of the ashes of Kumm came out Byron. I enjoy them more than Kumm. Check them out (if you haven't already).

I think it was one of the older members from Romania that introduced me to Kumm and byron.  I just finished listening through my K albums so I had just recently heard the Kumm and Kundalini songs.  I like both of them but in a sense they weren't highlights for me since I had recently heard them.  I am pretty easygoing with my musical tastes and pretty much like everything in this list.  There are probably songs that others would think are duds but I think this made a pretty strong playlist.  I listened through it last night and quite enjoyed it.  It kept me occupied and entertained for 2 hours.

Raff wrote: Grumpyprogfan wrote: I could have easily picked one I was familiar with. Not this time. Mirthkon is superb! Reminds me of Bubblemath. Sadly they are no more. Their mainman, Wally Scharold, moved to Italy a few years ago (his wife is Italian). We were lucky to catch them live at Orion Studios a few years ago - a fantastic double act with their fellow Oaklanders MoeTar (with which they shared keyboardist Matt Lebofsky). MoeTar also split up a couple of years ago. Hard not to vote for the fabulous Ut Gret, but I'd like to listen to the other tracks before making a decision. Thanks for a great poll!

I don't think that I knew that either of those bands had broke up, but I see that Snacks was from 2013, so it has been 7 years since anything new.  I also wasn't aware of the Final Four from MoeTar, which was released in 2018.  I will have to check that out on BandCamp.

Soft Machine!