Prog Poll through the years pt11: 1977
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Topic: Prog Poll through the years pt11: 1977
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Subject: Prog Poll through the years pt11: 1977
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 05:05
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Top 15 - Here is the prog poll for definitive albums of 1977. If I missed any that you believe are essential, place them in other section. Bear in mind of course I can’t place every album but these are the ones that seem to find their way into best of lists and are discussed by progheads. In the year punk tried to kill off prog, there were still some treasures but as you can see the list of classics was thinning out.
Wind & Wuthering – Genesis
Animals – Pink Floyd Songs From The Wood – Jethro Tull Ocean - Eloy Rockpommel's Land – Grobschnitt Quark, Strangeness and Charm – Hawkwind Jet Lag - Premiata Forneria Marconi Oxygene - Jean Michel Jarre Enigmatic Ocean – Jean Luc Ponty The Quiet Zone / The Pleasure Dome – Van Der Graaf A Farewell To Kings – Rush Seconds Out – Genesis Rare Birds - Hoelderlin Elegant Gypsy- Al Di Meola Playing The Fool Live – Gentle Giant ------------- 
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 05:19
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Had to top up my caffeine level there!
From '77 you could also have had The Geese & The Ghost and Even In The Quietest Moments. I did vote 'other', but I went for Forse Le Lucciole... by Locanda Delle Fate. I know some good people think it borders on elevator prog, but I'm a slut for catchy melodies
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Posted By: b4usleep
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 05:45
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Animals
------------- Really don't mind if you sit this one out. My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout. |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 06:55
 1977 is my favourite prog year .
You missed off 2 of my favourites, Going For The One (my fave Yes album) and Black Noise by FM.
However, even if you had, I'd still have voted for Animals
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Posted By: halfmanhalfcrab
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 07:30
| Oxygene! |
Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 07:34
| what a year huh ?? well rockpommels land, animals, rare birds are really good stuff but for me eloy's ocean is much essential and unique album. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 07:42
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Playing the Fool, a live masterpiece. ------------- 
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 08:01
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Roj M30 wrote:Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 08:03
I need to get into more Eloy I think..
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Posted By: Okocha
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 09:23
| Wind & Wuthering |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 09:35
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Animals, with A Farewell to Kings a close second. On a side not, the site keeps telling me I am making too many posts in too short a time. Can I help it if thee are thirty polls I need to vote in RIGHT NOW?
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 11:04
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Animals ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 11:05
| Wind and Wuthering. Nice year. |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 11:07
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Rare Birds -------------  |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 13:40
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Other - Either National Health's debut or Univers Zero's debut.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 13:46
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Univers Zero - 1313
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 13:48
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Quark (I would have gone for GFTO if it had been there) ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 13:52
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A Farewell to Kings ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 16:55
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Animals from this list ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 16:59
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Peliculas by La Maquina de Hacer Pajaros.
Aja, Animals, Enigmatic Ocean, Wind & Wuthering, A Farewell to Kings, Hatfield & The North, Songs from the Wood and Blackouts all are mighty great too!
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 17:08
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Animals for me.
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: April 17 2010 at 15:28
But Univers Zero would be my real choice. It is my favourite album ever. ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: April 17 2010 at 15:29
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Songs from the wood - Jethro Tull followed by Animals , Wind and wuthering and Ocean - Eloy |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: April 17 2010 at 18:44
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I suppose there are two ways of presenting a poll - either put up the albums you personally like most or put up those which are well known. This poll clearly goes for the first option which is fair enough.
If the list was of famous prog albums then the following would have to be included.
Yes - Going For the One
ELP - Works Volume 1
Alan Parsons - I Robot
Rush - A farewell to Kings
However, Wind and Wuthering belongs in 1976 - i bought it between Christmas and New Year that year. I have to say that i was rather disappointed in it and still don't get a great deal out of it.
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 02:01
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I just went for what people liked overall. Here Genesis, Rush and Pink Floyd are battling it out -------------
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Posted By: bsms810
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 06:08
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This one ill give to Floyd ------------- 'when was the last time you had a girlfriend?' 'I dont look at it as when, I look at it as who...and why' - David Brent |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 06:18
| That was a great year but I'll go for my favourite Rush album, A Farewell To Kings. Going Fot The One (Yes) would have been second which didn't make the list and then Genesis W & W. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 14:37
| Going For The One by Yes, no doubt. The sound, the compositions, the crystalline production.... |
Posted By: Lewa
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 16:24
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Music Inspired By Watership Down - Bo Hansson |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 16:33
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PF Animals |
Posted By: Aeolus
Date Posted: April 19 2010 at 23:12
| The year of the snake. The year I was born. Rush certainly! |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: April 20 2010 at 16:04
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1. Animals / Pink Floyd 2. Other : Going for the one / Yes -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: eddiefang
Date Posted: April 20 2010 at 16:58
Going For The One, the last album of Yes' main sequence
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: April 20 2010 at 21:26
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Animals – Pink Floyd
------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: javiprog
Date Posted: April 21 2010 at 07:04
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eloy's coean is outstanding
for me one of the best albums of all time
allthought i love songs from the wood,animals and many more from the list i gave my vote to ocean because it deserves more atention
it's an amazing album so magical and out of this world
eloy's best for sure
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 21 2010 at 07:15
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I didn't hear it for the first time in '77 and there are other some good ones I know in the list but Wind And Wuthering made a great impression on me.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: April 21 2010 at 14:23
| Animals for me. |
Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: April 21 2010 at 15:56
| SOngs from the woood over ANimals |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: April 21 2010 at 16:02
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1 Going for the One
2 Seconds Out
3 Quark
------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: nordwind
Date Posted: April 24 2010 at 22:51
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"A Farewell to Things" ------------- Jazz isn't dead.......it just smells funny. Frank Zappa / Live in New York |
Posted By: EatThatPhonebook
Date Posted: April 27 2010 at 07:29
| Animals. Behind it A Farewell To Kings, Ocean, and Elegant gypsy |
Posted By: arcane-beautiful
Date Posted: April 27 2010 at 09:02
| i take back what i said, i prefer animals than wind and wuthering |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 09 2010 at 08:57
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I declare Animals by Pink Floyd the winners! -------------
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Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: May 12 2010 at 18:41
^good thing too because Wind and Wuthering was released in Dec 1976 ------------- 
"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
Posted By: ko
Date Posted: May 15 2010 at 06:13
| Songs from the Wood |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 15 2010 at 07:22
| Poll is still going but theres no getting close to ANIMALS. Poll will close tomorrow. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 08:50
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Poll closed! Animals Is the winner!
thanks everyone for voting
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