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BrufordFreak 
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Which of these 1970s prog bands from Québec is your favorite?
Any comments on any of these bands are very welcome.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 09:48 |
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Harmonium is the only one I know.
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 09:51 |
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Harmonium - Les Cinq Saisons
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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VianaProghead
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 10:48 |
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Harmonium.
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"PROG IS MY FERRARI".
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 10:49 |
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Sloche. Maneige a close second. Harmonium also brilliant a close third. Other faves Et Cetera, Pollen, Octobre, Opus-5
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 10:50 |
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I only know 3 bands here, so I don't think I can vote.
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 10:59 |
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Harmonium gets the nod.
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 11:07 |
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As a quebecois, this one i was obliged... But choice has me "teared apart". So ,comment becomes necessary. Harmonium would be the obvious choice (as the picture of my alias is the front cover of the recent Fiori solo album) as overall importance, both on this site and in my life. But Maneige, to all things fusion, chamber prog, Gong and Gentle Giant influences and overall evolution within a discographic career, is without pair. Conventum almost gave birth to the whole Chamber/RIO movement with Henry Cow (Lussier and Frith were working together as soon as the very beginning of the eighties) and their two albums are as close to perfection for all related chamber acoustic folk prog. Finally my choice went to Sloche for a single reason. Which band i'd like any of P.A. readers would discover if they didn't know any of these, thinking it could be the find of their listener's life? There you have it. Main absent here would be Etcetera and their lone album.
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45 years of prog listening and still movin'
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 11:13 |
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^ Merci! J'ai choisi Sloche pour la même raison. Tout le monde connaît Harmonium et Maneige. Sloche était assez unique et à mes oreilles leurs deux albums étaient parfaits ! Thanks! I chose Sloche for the same reason. Everyone knows Harmonium and Maneige. Sloche was quite unique and to my ears their two albums were perfect!
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 11:13 |
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I'd have to pick Harmonium but Sloche is really close, great stuff there. Maniege 3rd.
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 11:15 |
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I went for Maneige, for they have 6 fantastic great historical album and a slightly weaker 80's album, plus four great archival albums and two great pre-Maneige as Lasting Weep. Outside Offenbach, nobody comes close to that amount, and TBH , the band only produced only 4 good (but not great) albums Other faves are Sloche, Harmonium, Conventum, Opus 5, etc... .
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Former quebecois? (Living in CA and writing fluently in french??!) Can't agree more about "the perfection" side of things. Each time i listen to any, i'm stunned by the quality of the recording. While the organic sound (analog keyboards arsenal of Yacola is without egal) is typically 70's, the sound hasn't age a bit. This guy could be seen earning a living, directing a small band in local tv shows in my hometown , Quebec city, while Pollen kbst became musical director of Celine Dion! From a "Quebecois errant" living in Paris for 24 years
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 11:30 |
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 13:25 |
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Pollen.
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Not French or Canadian. Studied multiple languages. Russian, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and dozens of others to a limited extent. Don't speak French fluently. Used Google translate to get it right but have enough knowledge in French to be able to detect if it's accurate. Basically i can read it extremely well but do not speak it very well at all. Quebec remains quite unique whether you're talking about classic prog bands or more modern avant-metal bands like Voivod or Gorguts.
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 13:44 |
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 13:47 |
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Sounds right! pretty good "googling" as well as i've been abused! Can't follow you on these metal quebecois i know does exist, not my cup of tea. But it's been a funny thing to watch those "t shirts rivalry " all these decades long between quebecois prog and metal afficionados. Not too much real fight to be fair....
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 14:04 |
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^ that's ridiculous. Competition between music is lame. Everyone enjoys different music. So what! I do love Gorguts and Voivod and many other weird bands metal or not. Not everyone does. All good!
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Not sure my "personnal translator" put it right this time. Are you angry of what i said? Stunned. I'm an old sixtygoers just unable to support a certain amount of decibels and just leave others at that without expressing any critical point of view about anyone's taste. Where's any notion of competition there? Apart, naturally, of the whole notion of a poll of preference to which you evidently suscribded! This was a nice chat...
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Posted: January 19 2023 at 14:32 |
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^ Non! Ne vous inquiétez pas. Je voulais seulement dire que la musique est subjective et que nous l'aimons tous pour des raisons personnelles. Nous sommes tous d'accord sur certaines musiques et puis certaines nous conviennent personnellement et nous ne pouvons pas expliquer exactement pourquoi ! La vie est un mystère. Acceptons toutes les différences. Pas besoin de compétition ou de mépris pour voir les choses différemment :) J'écoute les débuts de Conventum en ce moment. Je l'aime! Tres unique. |
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