Where am I? J to M: 25 Artists Fifth Studio Album
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Topic: Where am I? J to M: 25 Artists Fifth Studio Album
Posted By: Logan
Subject: Where am I? J to M: 25 Artists Fifth Studio Album
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 12:13
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Where am (is) I? I skipped I because I am (is) not important. It was a struggle getting this down to 25 and sacrifices had to be made and I is a less common first letter for the last name of artists. John Irvine has been one of my favourite authors, so I do matter after all. his is the fourth poll in the fifth album by "artists" A to Z series. Before this series I did a "Bands" fifth album A to Z series. I have tried to avoid collaborations, archival works, most posthumous releases and I have tried to stick with studio albums in these series. Also, I have stuck with ones included in Prog Archives. While I have tried to reference various sources, sometimes it can be confusing and expect some errors. I have tried to present a variety of styles for the artist names while highlighting various better known artists (ideally with fairly known and well-rated albums). Hopefully many here can find something to like, and please mention any others that fit and you like. Feel free to vote for an artist's album in this list that you enjoy no matter how limited your knowledge, and despite how many you might enjoy. I have opted to not make this multiple votes, but of course one can mention all one likes (and even dislikes) in a post as well as any others not listed. Notes: 1. Manfred Mann: I included The Manfred Mann Band in the previous bands series,. 2. Kosmischer Läufer: I erroneously included Volume 5 in bands but I will include this under Z for the fictitious Martin Zeichnete. That said, Klaus Morlock can hopefully satisfy that fictitious craving if one is inclined. 3 Miranda, Javier: I very much had wanted to include Departures, which is very recent electronic release from march of 2023. I like it very much, but space was limited and as it is so new that did not make the poll. https://javiermiranda.bandcamp.com/album/departures" rel="nofollow - https://javiermiranda.bandcamp.com/album/departures ----------------------------------------------- Again, it's something of a mixed bag and various of these albums are far from the artists' best. Lindh, for instance (I love all of his earlier albums). While the most important to my life overall of these will have been Kitaro, and I loved all of the Silk Road albums, and Silk Road II was one of my most played albums in the early to mid 90s, the one that speaks to me the most now here is Klaus Morlock, and I love The Three Faces of Janice. I did a topic some time back focusing on Morlock and Kosmischer Laufer and mentioning some similar projects: https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=121359" rel="nofollow - Retro-Music Pretending to Be of the Past ------------- 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. |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 12:16
| Alphonse Mouzon - Virtue (1977) |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 12:24
| Kitaro - Silk Road II |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 12:56
| The stand out for me is Pat Metheny. One of his best. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 14:57
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Somehow this series misses me. I think I heard three of these, none made a big impression. (Will listen to your recommendation in the other thread though.) |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 19:00
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I know very little on this list, went with Neal Morse's "?" which I thought had a cool concept at the time, it's been a while since I heard it though. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 19:02
I hear you, this wouldn't work as best of for the artists generally that released at least five studio albums. It has been something of an interesting one for me to research, and more-so incredibly numbing in its tedious way. Were I to go with debuts/ sole studio albums, there would be many more to cover that I like, and if I did seconds, there would also be many more, thirds and fourths also would have many more. Something of a law of diminishing returns often. Many of my favourites didn't put out five. Quite a few classic ones started out more interesting and were at their most progressive early on. There's a lot less for me to choose that I appreciate in this polls than if I went for a lower number of albums. A lot of the better known names here released what are considered better earlier albums, and we get into a lot that just aren't well-known. One reason why I was interested in covering fifths is because I thought it might be interesting from a discussion/ reading this thread standpoint because so many of our favourites may have fallen out of grace by that time for us. I am interested in what people like and don't like and how people feel some of these compare to earlier releases, what people know etc. That said, I didn't think these topics would be very popular, especially with artists, because the concept of the poll is limiting, and may well offer up many less than stellar and little known albums. That said, I have few I like in all of them, but my biases are having an effect on the content even though these go out side of my wheelhouse and knowledge to a big extent. If I see a name I recognise in the archives letter category, I am more likely to check it out, and as I have been here so many years, and trawled through listings before. I recognise a huge number of those names even if I have not heard them. I try not to favour my favoured categories overmuch. For "artists" one does get huge number of very obscure and often very great to my ears electronic artists, but I try for diversity. ------------- 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. |
Lewian wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 19:18
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Here is music from an album that I think many a Proghead would like. Ledesma, José Luis Fernández - Designios (2003) A more experimental one from Henry Kaiser: I'm a sucker for electronic music and like this. Teddy Lasry with La femme qui venait d'ailleurs And my choice from the [i[legendary Klaus Morlock: Still lots of quality and interest for me to have dug into here. A little research usually uncovers gems for me, and I do these polls also for me to learn about music that is new to me. And often in these, I will see unknown (or hardly known) albums for artists whose earlier work I have been into. ------------- 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: Manuel
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 19:54
| Tony Levin. |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 21:41
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John McLaughlin - Electric Guitarist Although this was his fourth studio solo release. Extrapolation, Devotion and My Goal's Beyond were the three prior to Electric Guitarist. Where Fortune Smiles was a collaborative effort that has in subsequent years been credited as a McLaughlin solo release (No doubt for sales). |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 22:10
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Wow, I get to vote for Jean-Michel Jarre's finest album! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 03 2023 at 23:37
Interesting, thanks for the info. There are quite a few iffy ones in the series. Seems I ended up just following PA for this, because the site I commonly cross-referenced these clearly lists Fortune Smiles as a collaboration (and I know I had looked at that page before). I won't change it cause it has votes and because there are going to be quite a few iffy and just plain wrong entries across these polls.
My favourites are the more traditional and better known Oxygene and Equinoxe, but it has been some years since I heard Les chants magnétiques/ Magnetic Fields -- last heard when I was 15 or 16. Putting it on, I remember Part II well, but that's popular Jarre. It does sound more synth pop than the earlier albums, which are more traditionally Progressive Electronic to my ear (i.e more like Berlin School) Here is Part 2 from the live The Concerts in China from 1982. ------------- 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: geekfreak
Date Posted: April 04 2023 at 04:07
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Neal Morse ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: April 04 2023 at 04:27
| JMJ |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: April 04 2023 at 04:31
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Malmsteen and Neal Morse |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: April 04 2023 at 06:20
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Kerzner, Levin and Metheny for this round. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: April 04 2023 at 08:32
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Morse, Neal - ? [Aka: Question Mark] followed by Jarre, Jean-Michel - Les Chants Magnétiques.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 04 2023 at 10:05
When I first got into JMJ, my favorite was Rendez-vous for years. The one I heard immediately afterward was Equinoxe, which I've always preferred to the more popular Oxygene. For whatever reason, Magnetic Fields hits me the right way. It's more accessible but feels less restrained to these ears. I prefer the studio versions to every live version I've heard. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 04 2023 at 10:34
| ^ My favourite by him is still Rendez-Vous but I love Magnetic Fields almost as much. |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: April 04 2023 at 12:05
| Neal Morse. Question Mark was the first album of his that I heard and I still regard it as (probably) his best (some others come close). |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 04 2023 at 16:14
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Pat Metheny > Neal Morse ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: April 04 2023 at 23:55
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Yes, a little like Lewian for me. But I usually enjoy every Klaus Morlock-project and The Three Faces of Janice is is up there among his strongest and most memorable forgotten old 1970's soundtrack that isn't a forgotten old soundtrack. So he got my vote. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 05 2023 at 05:46
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^ Yep, that was the obvious choice for me in what is slim pickings for me. That, Betheny's Cradle and Penumbra were my first to hear of "Klaus Morlock". Those are awesome. That said, I do like the Teddy Lasry album very much too. ------------- 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: woelfman
Date Posted: April 05 2023 at 19:21
| Neal Morse followed by Yngwie Malmstein |