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Poll Question: Which of these songs about zoo animals is your favorite?
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    Posted: October 26 2022 at 09:01
Tiger Moth Tales
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Can't see Jadis go pointless..
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That Lounge Lizards song is good musically and you have to chuckle at the lyrics.  LOL
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Originally posted by rushfan4 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.


Nice! I like playlists. Listening through it on shuffle but in background as I work. I'll vote on the one that catches my ear the most after I get through. So far, the post rock track "Arrival of the Rhino" caught my attention and the Lounge Lizards.
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I set this up as a playlist on my iPhone, and I think that it is kind of fun to listen to.  I am one who generally listens to entire albums and entire discographies of bands, which generally I enjoy doing, but there can be a certain tedium to this.  I tend to find listening to albums that are entirely instrumental to be kind of boring to be honest and bands and albums can have a kind of sameness about them when listening to their discographies.  They really can't help that to a certain extent.  A vocalist's voice is a vocalist's voice and there are only so many ways that they can make it sound.  And generally the instrumentalists have their own styles which might change a bit from song to song or album to album but they are generally still playing the same 3 or 4 instruments.  Making a playlist like this, these may not be the best songs on their respective albums but by pulling them out into a different environment I think it helps them stand out a little more.  As an example, I'm not really a big fan of the Ozric Tentacles.  I'm not sure why.  I like pretty much everything I've heard from them but I never feel the urge to pull out an Ozric album, but when this song comes up in this rotation, I'm like, "hey that's pretty good...who is that?"  Right now, I just had that same effect with the GranTorino album.  Any how, I just thought I would share those thoughts and I am curious if anyone else enjoys creating playlists like this.

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Soft Machine!
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Heard all except Soft Machine because the video was not available. Sealion was the only one I'd heard before. I have to admit it was a difficult choice between Tiger Moth Tales, Ut Gret, Mastodon, and Kundalini.

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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan 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 moreCry. 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 pollClap!
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.
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Sealion.
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Originally posted by judahbenkenobi judahbenkenobi wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 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.



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.
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Originally posted by judahbenkenobi judahbenkenobi wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 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.



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). 
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Originally posted by judahbenkenobi judahbenkenobi wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 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.



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". 
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Originally posted by rushfan4 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.



Thanks! I am amazed at how few of these songs I have heard
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan 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 moreCry. 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 pollClap!
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I could have easily picked one I was familiar with. Not this time.

Mirthkon is superb! Reminds me of Bubblemath.
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So, I have been listening to the playlist (while watching the Tour de France stage at the same time...) and it was quite a nice listen in general, despite the fact that I skipped some of the tracks. Looking at the first votes, I'm afraid there's some pavlovian voting going on: we vote for the bands we know without listening to the others. That's a pity.

I very much like Genesis' Wot Gorilla, Ozric Tentacles and Big Big Train, but I knew them before, so they were not surprising me.
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.

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Originally posted by rushfan4 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.

Very useful, thanks! Thumbs Up

The razamataz is a pain in the bum
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I like Wot Gorilla, but Hibou is hard to beat
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