Top Ten????

[tongle]

OK - one of the reasons why I like Auralmoon is that it has totally widened my own playlist.

I am one of those people who tends to stick to what I know I like - I hate spending cash on a Cd which turns out to be a disappointment. I have discovered so many bands here that I really like that I am beginning to lose track of what I've heard.

So can I suggest an idea (which you may have done already)?

Could we make a top ten list of bands or Cd's which in our personal opinions are MUST HAVE purchases? I understand that this could be quite a challenge - I think I would find it hard myself to chose just 10 but then anything worth doing is often challenging.

So how about it?

So here goes; (though these are not in any particular order)

1. Mike Oldfield - Songs of Distant Earth
2. Tangerine Dream - Tangram
3. Rush - Hemispheres
4. Rush - Moving Pictures
5. Ozric Tentecles - Pungent Efflugent
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall
7. Yes - Going for the one
8. Genesis - Lamb lies down on broadway
9. Camel - Nod and a wink
10. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells I and II


Phew - that was hard! - I would have put in a lot more Yes and Rush if I could.

OK - your turn!

[teermin8r]

Here's my top ten, for what its worth. For the most part I'm going to stay away from the obvious bands and choices, like Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush, King Crimson, etc. My first 2 choices are old standbys (artists) , but I think these albums are not well-known.

1. Goblin's Club - Tangerine Dream (not on the moon yet)
2. The Songs of Distant Earth- Mike Oldfield (not on the moon yet)
3. Oltre L'ignoto - Malibran
4. The Masquerade Overture - Pendragon
5. Variations of a Dream - Pineapple Thief (not on the moon yet)
6. Evolution of the Jazzraptor - Jack Foster iii
7. Heaven and Hell - Vangelis
8. Trying to Kiss the Sun - RPWL
9. Natural Timbre - Steve Howe
10. Any album by Niacin

Not about to say these are the best prog albums ever made, but I do think they are must haves for anyone looking for new and different music than regular artists.

Hope that helps tgleeson.

[tongle]

Thanks teermin8r, some I have heard of here and some new to me so i'll get on with investigating the new ones.

Do you know when Goblin's Club was recorded? I tend not to like their post 1990 stuff.

Already got Heaven and hell - agreed, a great bit of music!!

Very intrigued by Niacin - I think I'll make them my first stop.

Thanks again!!

Ok - anyone else have any suggestions?

[teermin8r]

Goblin's Club is 1996, and it is my favorite Tangerine Dream cd. And so you know I have 13 Tangerine cds and 3 box sets.

[tongle]

Yeah - I'm a bit of a TD collector too but gave up buying after Optical Race - their direction became a little to 'poppy' for me.

Having said that I have seen them live 3 or 4 times since the 1980's - my favourite being when they recorded LOGOs in London - I LOVE that cd.

I also like Edgar Froese solo albums - especially Stuntman - I bet between us we could do a top 10 TD list !!!

I may just buy Goblin's club on your recomendation though!!

Ten fave new discoveries from listening to the Moon and now firmly in my must have and play list.

In no particular order, anything by:

1) Sebastian Hardie
2) Niacin
3) Angel Earth
4) Nathan Mahl
5) Jack Foster III
6) Harmonium
7) Hamadryad
8) Salam Hill
9) Azureth
10) Trace
11) Triumvirat

Ooops!!!! that's 11 and there are more.

All the above are on the playlist. Get requesting.

I was at the Logos gig at the Dominion and I agree that it was one of the best TD gigs I've been to. I started to go off them in the late 80s and the 90s. My fave era is definitely Rubycon, Ricochet, Green Desert times.

[Yesspaz]

My non-obvious top ten of the top of my head.

1. The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
2. Tarentel - From Bone to Satellite
3. King's X - Faith Hope Love
4. King's X - Dogman
5. Don Caballero - American Don
6. Mike Oldfield - Tres Lunas
7. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
8. Rovo - Imago
9. Billy Mahonie - The Big Dig
10.Sigur Ros - Ageatis Byrjun

Honorable Mentions:
a. Turing Machine - A New Machine For Living
b. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
c. American Football - The One With The Wurlitzer
d. King Black Acid - Womb Star Session
e. Kevin Max - Stereotype Be
f. Neal Schon - Electric World


Aaaaah! Not to mention Mogwai, Unwed Sailor, Popol Vuh, Adiemus, Oysterhead, Pele, Sacred Spirits, Iona, The Letter E, Morte Macabre, Platypus..., etc., etc., etc.


Tgleeson, my advice? By far the best thing to do is to just listen to the Moon and if something really jumps out at you, request more from the same album. If you like it, buy it. Repeat as necessary. Welcome to the Moon, last outpost of musical (in)sanity.

[Rick and Roll]

I will stay away from the obvious ones too (add Tull to Term's fine list), and will not include non-prog favorites such as Queenryche's "Empire" or anything by Dada, XTC - "Oranges and Lemons" stop me please!

1) Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase
2) Echolyn - As The World
3) Djam Karet - The Devouring
4) King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska (with a nod to Spaz for mentioning the other King's X)
5) Salem Hill - Be
6) Izz - I Move
7) Iluvatar - Children
8) Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
9) The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
10) Frank Gambale - The Great Explorers

Like how we get diffrent ones....

Let's do a top 100 sometime..........

[Yesspaz]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
4) King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska (with a nod to Spaz for mentioning the other King's X)

A cut from this fine album will play on BrainRock's July 27/28 installment, for those who care

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by Yesspaz
A cut from this fine album will play on BrainRock's July 27/28 installment, for those who care

You're cross-pollinating, again!

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
You're cross-pollinating, again!

He's a busy Bee!!!!

[Yesspaz]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
You're cross-pollinating, again!

Ah, that demon of promotion and marketing. Darned BS in mass media!

[fonzy]

Hi friends! Here is my “10 new discoveries on the moon list” (not in anny perticular order)


Dûn: Eros
De De Lind: Io Non So Da Dove Vengo
Jade Warior: Waves
Passport: Looking Through
Henry Cow: In Praise Of Learning
Steve Hillage: Fish Rising
Joachim Kuhn: Hip Elegy
Eberhard Weber: Colours Of Cloe
Schorch Trio: Scorch Trio
Birdsongs of The Mesozoik: Iridium Controversy

And of course any Dream theater album there is on the moon “lol”

I also want to take this oportunity to thank Tommy, Sean and Alex for providing me many new music experiences when I least expected it.. a few of them are on the list.

Also many huggs to the fellow moonies for forcing me to hear lots of new stuff while desperatley waiting for my Tubelar bells requests....”lol”

All the love! Pontus

[ivan_2068]

I won't include any big five bands album because every prog' fan must have at least the classic ones, so here's my list:

1.- Anglagard: Hybris
2.- Anglagard: Epilog
3.- Magenta: Revolutions
4.- Trespass (Israel): In Haze of Times
5.- Triumvirat: Illusions on a Double Dimple
6.- Par Lindh Project: Gothic Impressions
7.- Kansas: Leftoverture
8.- Le Orme: Felona e Sorona
9.- Banco del Mutuo Soccorso: Darwin
10.- Uriah Heep: Look at Yourself

And I can imagine 100 more essential albums.

Iván

[Yesspaz]

Originally posted by fonzy
I also want to take this oportunity to thank Tommy, Sean and Alex for providing me many new music experiences...

Originally posted by Yesspaz

Don't be sad Spaz.................I'm sure that Fonzy would mention you if he were to be thanking people for new painful experiences.

[Yesspaz]

Probably hasn't heard my show...

Originally posted by Yesspaz
Probably hasn't heard my show...

Oh I think he has..................

[prythm]

For me this is a very useful thread. I’d like to see lists from more of the luna locals.

[moses]

These are not in any order, but they are ten:

1) Iona
2) Salem Hill
3) KBB
4) Gilgamesh
5) Schleigho
6) Don Caballero
7) Glass Hammer
8) Echolyn
9) Panzerpappa
10) Return To Forever

Some of those are fusion bands, but they're all on the Moon. And I like them.

(Oops I started a sentence with "and.")