50 Years Ago! (Part 2 - 1975)
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Topic: 50 Years Ago! (Part 2 - 1975)
Posted By: Rick1
Subject: 50 Years Ago! (Part 2 - 1975)
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 05:04
| Dear Reader, part 2 of the 1975 poll (from July onwards). I know many will cry that their favourites are missed out but I expect the Floyd to dominate anyway. Incidentally, that summer I saw my first proper bands at an outdoors gig. One of them was definitely prog and I recall seeing a Mellotron on stage. Their name was Limelight and a few years later they had 'reinvented' themselves as a NWOBHM outfit! |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 05:08
| Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 05:09
| ^ Same here. Lots of good stuff, anyway |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 05:16
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for me, there are 6 here which I could easily choose.. I'm going to miss PF out and go for a favourite which may not pick up many votes... Renaissance ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 05:16
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Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories Gentle Giant - Free Hand |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 05:58
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Oldfield > Floyd > VDGG > TD ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 06:09
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The Floyds, Renaissance, Mike Oldfield, and VDGG. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 06:46
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Pink Floyd > Renaissance > Gentle Giant. The cows are baiting me to try to get me to moo. ------------- ---------- 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: IncogNeato
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 06:54
| WYWH |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 06:57
| Free Hand |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 07:22
| Tangerine Dream-Ricochet |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 07:30
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I went with WYWH. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 07:37
| Much as I like Godbluff (and Gilgamesh , Wish You Were Here and others), to me it was between the “lives” by Tangerine Dream and Magma, I went with the one that had no votes, Magma’s Live. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 07:49
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Tangerine =Floyd > Magma > VDGG ------------- 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 |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 08:14
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Has to be Floyd out of these. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 08:34
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Hi, Here's a list for you ... these are the artists that Space Pirate Radio played in 1975, from the shows I had recorded and survived since then. The regular day shows were still "foreign" but mostly anything else ... still not as much American stuff. If you try to choose a favorite in these, you're truly insane and you have not heard a lot of stuff to compare ... in the end, it's impossible! Regular Space Pirate Shows (sunday nights/monday morning): (NOTE: Guy has a copy of all the shows I was able to save recorded in high quality mp3 from the really good FM signal the station had) Edgar Froese Amon Duul 2 White Noise Second Hand Peter Hammill Faust Guy Guden's Nothing is Sacred outtakes Kraftwerk Le Orme Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Can Tangerine Dream Flash Gordon Radio Show Hawkwind Brian Eno Can Tasavallan Presidenti Shandu The Magician Radio Show Brainticket Walter Wegmuller Harry Nilsson Paul McCartney Hubert Laws Ash Ra Tempel Ange Gilles Zeitschiff Henry Mancini Steve Hillage Cosmic Couriers (one side became the show theme for a long time) Vivian Stanshall Banco Del Muttuo Soccorso Vangelis 4 Karat Gold (All Bums - Lothar Meid) Khan Darryl Way's Wolf Aqua Fragile Ron Geesin/Roger Waters Kayak Ramases Grobbschnitt The Long Hello Aphrodite's Child Eizelgeiger Neu Reale Academie de Musica Popol Vuh Van der Graaf Generator Magma Wigwan Nektar ... and on the regular night shows: Gentle Giant Pink Floozy Renaissance Roy Wood Mike Oldfield Sally Oldfield Genesis Roxy Music Phil Manzanera The Doors Iron Butterfly Jethro Tull Yes Flash Family Streetwalkers Manfred Mann's Earth Band Incredible String Band Robin Williamson Mike Heron Fairport Convention Steeleye Span Horslips Kevin Ayers Roy Harper Third Ear Band Babe Ruth Bonzo Dog Band Edgar Broughton Band Caravan National Health Camel Byzantium Capability Brown Man Help Yourself Neutrons ... and hundreds more I can not even remember!!! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 09:07
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1. Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn 2. Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories 3. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 4. Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 09:18
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Fond-ofs: Ommadawn, WYWH, Godbluff ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 09:57
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Ricochet Ommadawn Another Live (really, more people ought to hear it) ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 10:57
| Godbluff |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 12:40
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Too much great stuff here. No vote ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 13:01
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Godbluff > WYWH > Free Hand ------------- 
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Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 13:23
| Pink Floyd > Mike Oldfield > Renaissance > Gentle Giant |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 13:25
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Pink Floyd>Renaissance - I have no opinion about the rest. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 13:36
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Floyd > GG >= VdGG >= TD > Renaissance > Oldfield The great ones are here. ------------- 
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 16:14
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Voted VDGG Own 8 out of the 10 Blessed year |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 20:35
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VDGG over Magma and Gilgamesh. These three standout above the rest. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: January 31 2025 at 02:01
| Very surprised that there are no votes whatsoever for those fine Todd and Wigwam albums... |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 31 2025 at 02:05
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I guess relatively few of us have heard either? I mean, I know 6 of those albums like the back of my hand (I'm sure you can guess which 6) and 4 of them, I've never actually heard? ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 31 2025 at 03:19
The same for me with most likely the same four albums I've never actually heard.
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Jared wrote:Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 31 2025 at 03:24
well, both Gilgamesh and Wigwam are JR/F, which I can only do in small doses and only then with the emphasis on the R rather than the J. I have tried Gilgamesh but decided it wasn't for me... Magma is a world I simply don't understand at all.. the Utopia album I've probably heard stuff from actually; their first two were pretty good, but have never owned any.. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 31 2025 at 07:59
Too much competition in my opinion. I would have those two along with Renaissance as the bottom three. But that's in my musical world. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: January 31 2025 at 12:23
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Wow...a lot of great stuff came out in the second half of 75. Of all on the list, I listen to Free Hand more than the others.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 02 2025 at 18:20
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Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: February 02 2025 at 21:18
| Gentle Giant: Free Hand |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: February 03 2025 at 07:33
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I guess I have to vote for Godbluff, although Ommadawn is probably closer to some king of perfection. I enjoy a few more of these albums Ricochet and Wish You Were Here in particular. Other favorites of mine released in late, 1975: Eno - Another Green World Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivität Terje Rypdal - Odyssey Klaus Schulze - Timewind |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: February 03 2025 at 07:54
Ha! i saw Limelight supporting Saxon around 1979/80.. sort of an odd 3 three piece, trying to be NWOBHM but not really doing it  Of these albums, there is not one i dont like but i must say of all the Todd/Utopia albums, Another Live, is not one i listen to much.. I'm going to give Wigwam's Nuclear nightclub its first vote 'cos although its not the 'best' lp out of the bunch, its an album i'm particularly fond of ------------- |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: February 03 2025 at 07:59
I actually have their self titled debut. Very much in that Iron Maiden style, just not an album I want to return to. I thought they were Rush fans to be honest by their name. But I don't hear that influence although I only got part way through it. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: February 03 2025 at 08:09
Thats what i thought (that they were Rush fans) and i also (very briefly) had their debut album... trying to rember what label it was on; the cover just had the band name on a plain (possibly black?) background. Like quite a bit of UK 'small town' NWOBHM, there was some fine talent stifled by 'back-room bucket' production.. thank goodness for Tommy Vance's Friday night rock show which gave some these bands a chance to do sessions in the BBC studios so they could show what they could do. Also worked backstage with Iron maiden (first lp and Killers era), Sampson, Praying Mantis and Tygers of Pan Tang during 1980/81 ha! they were the days Sorry for going off topic  ------------- |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: February 03 2025 at 11:08
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PF, only just ahead of MO ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: February 03 2025 at 14:40
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Both WYWH and Godbluff are albums of bands I adore that I rank lower than most in the band's catalogue. To some extent now also Ricochet that I overplayed when I was young. This leaves me with Mike Oldfield vs. Magma, and today I'm in the mood for Magma. Would have voted Manfred Mann's Earthband - Nightingales and Bombers had that been on offer.
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: February 03 2025 at 15:10
I still own Todd Another Life Lp but I never/rarely vote for Live material. |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: February 04 2025 at 02:47
| ^ Understood, but most of that album consisted of previously unreleased material (up to 'Heavy Metal Kids') so a tentative inclusion. |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: February 24 2025 at 03:40
| OK, no PFM |