ABB's Random Recent Purchase Poll - vol 1
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Topic: ABB's Random Recent Purchase Poll - vol 1
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Subject: ABB's Random Recent Purchase Poll - vol 1
Date Posted: October 24 2013 at 20:19
Hello all! At the final record fair for the year down here in Melbourne, I recently picked up a few random titles on both LP and CD over numerous genres, and I'd like to know what you think! Which ones should I be excited to own, and which did I make a horrible mistake with (Peter Baumann's `Trans-Harmonic Nights', I'm looking in your direction there!  ). Please vote for your favourite, and offer any opinions, both positive and negative on any you may have heard!
I think S.F.F. will walk away with this, and well deserved! One of my absolute favourites, and I was very lucky to snap up a pristine vinyl of it, that cover looks amazing on the larger LP format. But I think I might vote for one of the underdogs here myself! 
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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: October 24 2013 at 20:39
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I've never heard the Baumann or Hoerning(I think it should be?) but of the rest I voted for Embryo. The JMJ and Third Ear Band albums are good too.
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: October 24 2013 at 20:48
Zravkapt, you are totally right about me spelling Hoerning's name wrong, and I thought I checked that poll a dozen times before posting it! Thanks for the heads up! 
I'm enjoying that Embryo album a lot, just not quite as much as others from them like `Steig Aus' and `Rocksession'! `Father Son....' is very repetitive, rough, and a little unfocused! I was a little bummed that a few tracks even end on fade-outs! Ah well, still good! I've got it ready to go in the car as I head for work shortly!
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 24 2013 at 22:38
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Beggars Opera......I love that early Brit prog stuff. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: October 25 2013 at 00:53
| I know about half of these, I guess I'll go with Beggars Opera, very nice indeed but haven't heard it in a few years. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 25 2013 at 01:29
SFF for me. Symphonic Pictures is a little known masterpiece  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 25 2013 at 01:43
| I only know Oxygene which is probably my favourite debut album. Took electronic music to another level. |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: October 25 2013 at 01:46
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Good to see some love for that Beggars Opera album! I’m greatly enjoying it, and I'm glad it doesn’t have that `carnival' organ sound that their first album does, even though that's a pretty good album anyway!
Crimson King, I thought `Symphonic Pictures' was actually quite well known and highly regarded, but it really is the quiet achiever! It's one that those who've heard it know how special it is, but more people need to `hear the good word'! Actually, at the Record Fair when I bought it, none of the several proggy vendors I always buy things from had any idea about the album, or had even heard of it. It will probably get my vote in the end, but I'm very impressed by the Third Ear Band `Macbeth' album! |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: October 25 2013 at 02:13
Richard! I was saying to Nick (Progbethyname) the other day that I only heard this for the first time a few days ago! I picked the CD of this up for a mere $2 at the Record Fair on the weekend, and I braced myself for a drippy and bland new-age album....and instead I find it to be one of the loveliest, most melodic and endlessly enjoyable electronic albums! I completely understand why it was popular in it's day. Very impressed! I think it would make for a perfect introduction to someone wanting to get their foot in the door of the progressive-electronic genre. 
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richardh wrote:Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: October 25 2013 at 09:38
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SFF of course but the Hoenig is amazing. I have it on cassette (remember those?) and have been looking for a CD version since the dawn of time. ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: October 25 2013 at 13:41
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Oxygene by a mile! ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 25 2013 at 14:35
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I was tempted by the Embryo, but I went with the Morton Subotnick album, which is, I think, such a classic. I also really like the Third Ear band one, as well as Oxygene. I don't really know the others. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 25 2013 at 19:34
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Symphonic Pictures ------------- |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 25 2013 at 20:39
| Beggar's Opera-it has a special atmosphere all it's own-luv it! |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: October 26 2013 at 04:34
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Thanks everyone for voting!
Thomas, that Hoening is pretty decent for an 80's release! Of course it's got some plastic sounding digital production and playing once in a while, but it's much better than I expected. I looked it up on a blog site, and the reviewer mentioned that although the vinyl can be snapped up pretty easily and cheaply, that CD goes for upwards of $150!!! Logan, I'm finding the Morton Subotnick a bit of a struggle, but I plan on giving it a few more spins! if I can grow to love Vangelis' `Beaubourg', I think I can get my head around this one! I mentioned in an email to my friend Doug from the Archives here that my first impression was that it sounded like `R2D2 on a bad acid trip', and not a lot of actual music! We'll see... And speaking of Doug, I thought you might go the Beggars Opera one! I love so much the tracks `I've No Idea' and `Nimbus' especially. Later on, I'll post some Youtube clips of the various albums, highlight some of their best bits. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 26 2013 at 06:02
SFF gets my vote, but the Beggars Opera album is very close. But then you know that 
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: October 26 2013 at 06:10
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Yes, I like that Beggars Opera one, but damn...I've loved the SFF one for so many years that it's kind of on a pedastal all it's own! Just a flawless instrumental album.
At the record fair, I mentioned above how none of the other `proggy' vendors had heard of it, and they were asking what it sounded like. I struggled....kind of suggested maybe ELP or parts of Focus without the classical elements, maybe Finch without the blistering lead guitar...I don't know, I really drew a blank trying to explain it. Any thoughts, Tom, so I can be prepared next time?!
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 26 2013 at 06:26
Those are the exact same albums that I have myself - only change the Subotnick one for SF&Fs Symphonic Pictures. I did however go for the Embryo album. I played it a lot last Christmas and was surprised to hear just how well it stands up to the subsequent Steig Aus and Rocksession, which both are personal faves. This is arguably Embryo at their most thrilling and psychedelic stage of their Krautrock sound, and I dig the hell out of it  ------------- “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: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 26 2013 at 06:32
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I can't compare them to any other band. The production of the album is amazing for the time. I love how Heinz Frohling split into halves a Gibson Les Paul guitar and a Rickenbacker bass and joined them together for his convenience. Very clever. And the 'tron is played like never before. Anglagard owe a lot to this album. Funny how I've never thought as highly of their next album 'Sunburst'.
So, did you like Silver Peacock (Intro & song) ?? I don't think there's a duff moment on Waters Of Change, although it hasn't aged well. |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: October 27 2013 at 06:52
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Here's a few Youtube samples of some of these albums!
Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon - part 1 Beggars Opera - I've No Idea Michael Hoenig - Bones on the Beach: Will add more soon.
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