Prog Cup: Round 1, Match 2. never/ever/again

[soundchaser]

A:

Yes - Siberian Khatru
Gong - You Can't Kill Me
The Moody Blues - Legend of a Mind
Anthony Phillips - God If I Saw Her Now
Hawkwind - Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in smoke)
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet Part One
Hatfield and the North - Fitter Stoke Has a Bath
Kevin Ayers - Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
Brian Eno - Kings Lead Hat
Faust - It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl

B:


1. Kraftwerk- Radioactivity link
2. Manfred Mann's Earth Band- Solar Fire link
3. UK- Rendezvous 6:02 link
4. Grobschnitt- Solar Music link
5. Aphrodite's Child- The Four Horsemen link
6. Camel- Ice link
7. Uriah Heep- July Morning link
8. Genesis- The Carpet Crawlers link
9. Focus- Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! link
10. Manuel Göttsching- Despair link

[kath]

did i say i was torn last time? i need to quit sayin crap like that. i have a feeling i'm just gonna get more more tore tore as this goes along.

both have things right up my bloomers. but in the end (har har), B has more, by a cell wall.

B

[NMB]

A has 2 of my favourites in You Can't Kill Me and Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes but it also has the thoroughly underwhelming Moody Blues. But I hardly know any of B's list. So although B is probably wonderful (I don't have Youtube access to check the links) familiarity means I have to choose A.

[C]

Because we are such a close loving community I reckon I know the recipient of both robust lists!!

A close one and a dilemma.

A list with Gottsching, UK and Focus' AQ/QA clinches it [sorry A]


B




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[BlueMeanie]

A By a country mile.

[purgatory brite]

After great deliberation A

[BlueMeanie]

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[never/ever]

Damn. Again fine lists. The TD-track is a beauty but there's a bit more in list B to my liking!


B

[Neil Jung]

I know more of A which has the magnificent Legend Of A Mind, which I almost chose myself. I've suffered Grobschnitt before. I'm short of time to listen to anything new so it'll have to be A.

A

[C]

I'm short of time to listen to anything new

No reference to your vote dear boy, but:

Camel, Kraftwerk, MMEB, Genesis, UK, Ap's Child...

New?

Get a grip lad!




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[Belle Lettre]

Bloody hell..I don't completely want to do this but..

B

[pcqgod]

A

[trans-chigley express]

They are two terrific lists. In A it's nice to see Ant Phillips in there. The Brian Eno track is somewhat broad church but an ace song. excellent Yes, Hawkwind, Tangerine Dream and Kevin Ayers picks and that Faust track has become a recent favourite of mine since I bought the Krautrock comp that it features on.


For B Kraftwerk, Aphrodite's Child and Genesis are the highlights but great Camel and Gottsching tracks too. I'll have to check out the UK track as I've never heard that particular album and there are a couple of others I will check out when I'm on a computer with speakers but I'll be surprised if any of them will sway me from A.
A

[Johnny Fartpants]

Hmmmmm .... *strokes Prog chin attachment*

I vote A

[kath]

Hmmmmm .... *strokes Prog chin attachment*

it occurs to me, all of a sudden like, that i might seriously give up a kidney just to see you decked out in yer swishing cape and yer prog chin attachment.

[Loki]

A

[soundchaser]

A tough one for me. A has my beloved Siberian Khatru, as well as the great Hawkwind song, Psychedelic Warlords, but B has a greater spread of songs that appeal to my personal taste. Well, I’m going to go for…

B.

[the hesitant weasel]

has to be B

despite the Hawks finest...

[Nikki Gradual]

Both a bit too prog in places for my liking. You lot may be competing the prog cup, but I am (perhaps alone) in the progressive rock cup.
However, that curmudgeonly delineation aside, having taken the time to listen to the tracks I wasn't familiar with, they are both cracking lists of songs (their occasional lack of progressiveness aside, naturally, and yes I am going to bang on about this throughout) and I really enjoyed them. The vote, after much agonising goes to:

A

[Mike Boom]

A

Much more up my streeet with the Eno ,Faust, Anthony Phillips, great Moodies and a face Yes.