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Poll Question: Which is your favourite album?
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    Posted: January 01 2025 at 05:04
Guitar legend Allan Holdsworth (1946-2017) has played with some of the biggest names in Jazz Rock/Fusion, most notably Soft Machine, Pierre Moerlen's Gong, short-lived supergroup U.K. & last but least 'Igginbottom (Who?). Allan Holdsworth has his own distinctive and instantly recognisable guitar style, which includes a vast array of complex chord progressions, such as diminished, augmented, chromatic and altered scales - and if that makes any sense at all to you, then you know far more about music theory than I do. The appreciation of Allan Holdsworth's guitar virtuosity here at ProgArchives remains undiminished, unlike  Allan Holdsworth's chord progressions. Tongue


3 stars 1978: Bruford - Feels Good to Me - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16B7E02A549EA442
4 stars 1995: Gongzilla - Suffer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEeqz9tYuBw
2 stars 1980: Holdsworth, Beck, Clyne & Stevens - Conversation Piece - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAcusrW39X4
3 stars 1980: Allan Holdsworth & Gordon Beck - The Things You See - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dIoXrkpWL0
5 stars 2004: K2 - Book of the Dead - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKbnOEmGpb0
3 stars 1975: The New Tony Williams Lifetime - Believe It - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo8SRTJOJ2EbxRYR1UzAefYLBiGRkdPxS
3 stars 1968: Soft Machine - The Soft Machine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs441a1O658
3 stars 2003: Soft Works - Abracadabra - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90wuHMT9DFU
4 stars 1973: Tempest - Tempest - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSaQwre_ayk
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Wrong Soft Machine album, first SM album he played on was Bundles. 
Second one was Land of Cockayne.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Wrong Soft Machine album, first SM album he played on was Bundles. 
Second one was Land of Cockayne.

I knew that, but I could hardly list Bundles as the first Soft Machine album. Smile
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Allan feels good to me. UK and Bundles are great too.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Wrong Soft Machine album, first SM album he played on was Bundles. 
Second one was <span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: -0.06em;">Land of Cockayne.</span>



If Bundles is on here I'm picking it.
I went with Believe It! but there's five on here I really like.
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U.K. - U.K.
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Gazeuse!
Soft Machine - The Soft Machine
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Voted for UK's self-titled release.
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1. K2 - Book of the Dead
2. U.K. - U.K.
3. Tempest - Tempest
4. Gongzilla - Suffer
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Book of the Dead is a really good album with a Gabriel esque singer.

Shout out to Jean-Luc Ponty "Enigmatic Ocean".
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Awesome album. 
Welcome to the middle of the film.
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Bruf --
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The Soft Machine (1968)
                      quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Wrong Soft Machine album, first SM album he played on was Bundles. 
Second one was Land of Cockayne.

I knew that, but I could hardly list Bundles as the first Soft Machine album. Smile

But Gazeuse! and Believe it are not the first albums of Gong or Tony Williams, respectively. So, what point are you trying to make? That Allan was a key player in these bands' discography (when he was obviously not) or that these bands existed before and after Allan's contributions? Feels to me as if you're stretching yourself out onto a limb with some of your polls!
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5 stars 2004: K2 - Book of the Dead - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKbnOEmGpb0

The first chapter from the summit of K2 - a towering achievement of prog. Smile



Edited by Psychedelic Paul - January 02 2025 at 04:48
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Wrong Soft Machine album, first SM album he played on was Bundles. 
Second one was Land of Cockayne.

I knew that, but I could hardly list Bundles as the first Soft Machine album. Smile

But Gazeuse! and Believe it are not the first albums of Gong or Tony Williams...

Gazeuse! is the first album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong and the first album by The New Tony Williams Lifetime is Believe It (or not). Smile
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

The Soft Machine (1968)

I guess, as "Holdsworth's future band", but as long as Grumpy is happy.... Wink



Edited by David_D - January 02 2025 at 06:11
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^Allan is the most creative and innovative musician ever. He doesn't get the discussion he deserves on PA. So, any thread about Allan makes me happy.
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