Part 2: 25 albums derived from a 23 poll series

This is the second poll I have made which is curated from a series of 23 polls with 25 options each about a year ago where I went down the Rate Your Music (RYM) General Music chart looking at albums that were also included in Prog Archives. It would have been much easier just looking at Rate Your Music's prog chart, but we have differences in classification.

While I covered Proto-Prog and Prog Related (according to PA) acts' albums in the series, I have not included those in these polls.

I have tried not to duplicate any act names that were in the first poll of this new series, and when I do a third poll I shall endeavor not to include any band/artist names that were in the first two polls.   If I do a tenth, all bets are off!

The first poll included the "Prog" (according to PA categories) albums that received five votes or more in the polls of the earlier series. This covers many, but not all, of those that received four and three votes (25 options is the max for polls here). You will notice in the list below that there is one that received seven votes. That was an omission on my part. The Rotters' Club even got my vote in the poll it was in -- that and Gong's Angel's Egg were my top two for that round, but I gave it to Hatfield. I had meant to put it in the last poll, but distractions happen.

The poll order follows RYM's ranking from higher to lower in their list of albums. I chose the album for the polls by an artist/band that received the most votes (one per artist) in my earlier poll series. If an act had more than one album with the same number of votes, then I went with the one that was ranked higher at RYM. I considered, say with Zappa defaulting to a studio album with less votes, but decided to go with the album with the most votes. Not really comfortable with that, but....

An album's standing, meaning its number number of votes, in its poll of the series would have been affected by its competition in any given poll. That earlier series did not have multiple votes, If I had enabled multiple votes, then I am sure I would not be doing this one.

Here is this poll's list with the number of votes:

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (4)
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (4)
Opeth - Damnation (4)
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (4)
Swans - Children of God (3)
T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland (3)
The Moody Blues with the LFO - Days of Future Passed (3)
Eskaton - 4 Visions (3)
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un amico (3)
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (3)
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (3)
Änglagård - Hybris (3)
Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo (3)
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Io sono nato libero (4)
Area - Arbeit macht frei (3)
Herbie Hancock - Crossings (3)
Phoenix - Cantofabule (3)
Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club (7)* (great album missed before)
Grobschnitt - Solar Music: Live (3)
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die (3)
Colosseum - Valentyne Suite (4)
Zappa - Zappa in New York (4)
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time (4)
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising (4)
The Pentangle - Basket of Light (4)

This round, multiple votes are enabled. Vote for up to 10 albums.

Here is the first topic with poll: 25 album choices derived from a 23 poll series (THIS IS A HYPERTEXTLINK CLICK)

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I have more favourites this round than last, and had I had more than 25 options, an all-time favourite album of mine would have come up in two more spaces.

My votes go to:

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Swans - Children of God
Eskaton - 4 Visions
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
Area - Arbeit macht frei
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club
The Pentangle - Basket of Light
Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo

For my tenth I would vote for Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Io sono nato libero, but I choose to vote for less than 10 and those other nine are like desert island disc to me.

Manuel wrote: Another great list. This time, however, it’s an easy pick for me. PFM.

That would be number 11 methinks. Great album, and if it were Storia di un minuto then I think PFM would have got a tenth vote (only tenth because there is much I love here). It's a strong showing for the Italians.

Edited by Logan - June 03 2023 at 21:19

Traffic over Wyatt, Hammill and The Pentangle.

I made the same mistake, this is a multiple choice poll 

These are probably my ten favourites without any order.

Edited by VianaProghead - June 04 2023 at 04:43

The Moodys, Steve Hillage, and PFM. 

Lewian wrote: Once more too many good albums to pick a clear winner; it could be around seven here depending on my mood. I go with Fish Rising today.