RPI. One and only one !
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Topic: RPI. One and only one !
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Subject: RPI. One and only one !
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 11:30
Which RPI's album would you save from a fire ? Just one and only one !  |
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Posted By: ALotOfBottle
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 11:31
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Cervello's Melos! Love this album by bits. But, I don't own it. Out of the ones I do, it would be Zarathustra. ------------- Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided. |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 11:31
My choice   |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 11:32
| Cervello would probably be a second choice with a Battiato. |
Posted By: DeadSouls
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 11:47
| Banco's debut. |
Posted By: andreol263
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 11:50
Probably would change, but RIGHT NOW my choice would be: ------------- 
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 12:18
 Fantastic stuff. Both versions !
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 12:25
Libra-Musica e Parole |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 12:26
Strangely those first answers include all that I love in RPI 
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Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 12:26
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Quella Vecchia Locanda - s/t -------------  
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 12:46
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You know me Pierre, Maxophone! I must say though Anima Latina comes in second
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 12:49
I'm not suprised 
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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 13:18
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Save from a fire - Il Balletto Di Bronzo "Ys" Take to a desert island - Goblin "Roller" Bring with me on the mothership - Area "Crac!" ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 13:32
So YS 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 13:36
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fire huh.. hah... considering I've been blown up and set on fire twice.. I get two choices YS and Palepoli and since I once pulled a guy from a burning car wreck.. I'll take a 3rd as a parting gift... Sulle Corde di Aries. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 13:56
OK |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 14:07
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I'm more flame retardant...and didn't melt at 30k deg C explosions.. only merely burned... so I get 3 choices damnit...I earned that much man... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 14:53
This questions is diabolical!!  I will not answer  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 14:56
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that is why cheating rules.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 14:59
Oh geez that's a tough one. Any other day of the week and it could be one of the QVL albums, or L'isola di Niente, or Palepoli, or maybe Cherry Five, but going with my gut, I'll pick this bad boy: ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 15:07
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if I could have stretched my list of flammable exceptions to saving 4 albums I would have definitely had that first PFM album.. I suppose I could included the time I ran a 78' Firebird into a tree at 85 and it didn't explode ... or kill me as an exception ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 15:15
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Mickster, what is your opinion (and Raffs) of Banco's first three....I can't recall....those would seem to be formidable desert island choices. QVL, Cervello, and Metamorfosi are also considerations. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 15:23
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I think Raff is much more into Darwin and Libero albums... where as the Debut is really the only one of the 3 (or any of their albums) I consistently re-relisten to. To be perfectly honest.. great band as they are.. they would likely be at the bottom for me of the RPI big 6 in terms of pure enjoyment ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 15:29
Really? Can you articulate anything about them that bothers you? I'm always curious about why people don't dig Banco as much as.....say....PFM and Orme I suppose in some ways they are so textbook RPI that maybe they lack certain personality quirks that otherwise endear us to our favorite groups? (I don't know, I'm half in the bag) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 15:33
| For me the first Banco is the Sex Pistols Meeting La Callas. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 15:34
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oh no Jim.. it ain't like I'm saying Banco are like Genesis... Dull.. or f**king Camel. Great band.. great albums.. but yeah.. they do lack something each of the other 5 had that set them apart for me. I'll have to think that over Jim... I'll get back to you. Perhaps after a few strong ones later this evening to loosen up the mud in my brain! ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 15:40
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yeah I'd love to hear you thoughts on Banco....maybe I should look if you reviewed them. everytime I see them lose to PFM I'm like....what is going on in the world???? (drinking a Marzen octoberfest here....such a great evening...cheers) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 15:45
 iced tea here.. but not for long hahahNever did review any of them.. or any IIRC of the PFM, Orme, or Banco albums. Reviewing to me never came easy so I impulsively cherry picked and went for albums I wanted to give shouts out to... those gems that make RPI so great.. and so much more than just the big 6. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 15:46
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What the hell is the big 6? I missed your big 6 list I think ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 15:52
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much like the English fuddie duddies ..there is the obvious big 3.. Yes, K.C, ELP but to avoid butt hurt feelings.. we make it the big 6 and toss in that pop group... Ian Anderson's ego.. and Floyd same in RPI... there is the big 3 on a pedestal all their own.. but just below them.. are artists that belong in the same discussion... Area, Osanna, and Battiato fill out the big 6 of essential RPI artists.. and in its way... just like the English Big 6.. they are the ones that defined it... and those you have to know if you want to know anything about it. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 15:58
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gotcha Headin' off to some dinner here.....please give Raffa my best....later man  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 16:00
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that I will.. time for me to do a seek and destroy mission for beer....see ya around later Jim! ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Guy Guden
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 16:37
| Banco del Mutuo Soccorso- Io Sono Nato Libero |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 17:07
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No idea, really. ------------- |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 17:14
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Okay...Alusa Fallax ------------- |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 17:15
I haven't listened to that in ages... putting that on next... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Barbu wrote:Posted By: mechanicalflattery
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 17:19
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Definitely Storia Di Un Minuto. That album is just too good... literally. Even positive reviews never quite fully cover how good it is. There are a handful of albums I like more, but none I consider to be quite as ubiquitously perfect. Don't like my favorite album? I can live with that, even understand it. Don't like Storia Di Un Minuto? Heathen! Get your deaf f**king ass out of my house (I have hearing loss, I get to use the disability as an insult, it's my personal equivalent of the N word ). It's the one album we should all be capable of properly agreeing on as being good.
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Posted By: AEProgman
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 19:05
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Damn you foul water fowl, causing such turmoil among the RPI faithful with such a decision! Not to mention the provocative duck avatar that causes our feathers to ruffle..... But if I must, will go for quantity (and quality) and choose: Area - THE ESSENTIAL BOX SET COLLECTION------------- 
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 22 2016 at 19:49
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Per Un Amico ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 02:21
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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 02:53
------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 03:00
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Fantastic stuff !
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Posted By: Son.of.Tiresias
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 04:43
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Vietato ai minori di 18 anni ------------- You may see a smile on Tony Banks´ face but that´s unlikely. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 06:25
hah.... http://s5.photobucket.com/user/magnification01/media/f_zpszkoalgos.jpg.html" rel="nofollow">  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 06:26
yep.... would have been the 5th album I would have saved.... awesome album man ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 06:38
At 7.27 ... Too short  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xapKHZmTN_s |
Posted By: andreol263
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 06:39
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^Yeah, even better than the debut, that was incredible in itself -------------
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 06:46
Impossible I'd have to chose between Melos, Pollution, Anima Latina (very nice pick Pierre), Sulle Corde di Aires, Crac! and a couple ones I'm forgetting right this minute. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 06:59
A little fast and loose with the rules there, Mr Progman! Nice collection though - especially if you take out Event '76, use it as a frisbee, and replace with e.g. the 1978 album. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 07:02
Hold on a second - what's wrong with Event '76? Nahh don't answer that. I hear they use it as part of an interrogation program in Uzbekistan. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 07:06
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As for the actual question, any of my likely choices were already picked, in reality it's probably between Ys and one of the first four Area studio albums (though don't ask which one!). If I had to choose something that wasn't already mentioned, maybe Il Paese dei Balocchi, I'm pretty fond of that one.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 07:08
Ahh the beautiful valium tour de force I mean that as a compliment btw. There's just something very heady and valium-like to that album. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 07:10
| Il Paese is a very special album, one of the most mysterious of RPI. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 07:12
I dig what you are saying... I put the RRR album in that category... and since I doubt anyone will mention it... #6 of the albums I'd save... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 07:15
Yeah, it is one to put on and drift to...a proper head album
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 07:19
I doubt someone mentions this. And though it's one of me favorites.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W03dQPHHg7o |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 07:19
I know what you mean about that mysterious vibe. Mind you when it comes to the lyrics pretty much all RPI is mysterious to me. For all I know Franco Battiato could be singing about blue and purple space rabbits doing battle over a cosmic carrot.
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 07:23
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For an animal like me, purple space rabbits is a term of common usage
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Posted By: andreol263
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 07:30
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Some of you probably would kill me, but for the second album that i would save from the fire would be or Egonon - Risveglio or Il Paradiso Degli Orchi - Il Corponauta, i haven't listened to so much beautiful and original music like in these two. -------------
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 08:28
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Far too difficult - but I still like to ask: A lot of my actual italian favorites falls outside the so-called RPI-genre (Dedalus, Picchio Dal Pozzo and Aktualas debuts, Sensational Fix - Portable Madness, Pierrot Lunaire - Gudrun, Perigeo - Genealogia... to name some of them) so is any kind of italian favorite progalbum ok or just RPI? (To my ears Area falls outside as well, but I see they they've been moved to RPI from jazz fusion)
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 08:32
| Any kink of of Italian favorite prog album |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 12:42
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Franco Leprino - Integrati... Disintegrati ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 12:43
While I was choosing ... |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 12:44
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Nice choice Greg. and first in electronic, I think.
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 14:16
Well it's not my thread, but if Area is RPI then that means anything Italian can on some point of view be RPI, 'cos they got as far out as anyone did...or if they didn't, please tell me what was further out so I can hear it! Plus the thread is more interesting if it's more inclusive, I reckon. Dedalus, Aktuala and Picchio dal Pozzo are certainly the bees knees as far as I'm concerned. The other albums I haven't heard yet
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 23 2016 at 15:08
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Absolutely. I would applause a vote for some works by Ennio Morricone. BTW. This, for me, is a RPI's album. Maybe I'm wrong.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRJiy2cQjiM
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