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    obscure French band PUZZLE

    anyone else have the first album?

    I really like it. It's not epiphanous or anything, but I like it enough to have been searching for their 2nd album for EVAH

    one of those "collecting is a sickness" things I guess
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    Which one are you looking for? Himalaya the second Album by the band is rather easy to find, "Helena" the first one is rather hard to come by.

    I think there is a third unnamed one from the late 80s, this one might just be a compilation...

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    I bought the s/t one from Musea in the mid-late 80s. I've never seen the others for sale. In fact, I only became aware of them recently, after seeing them in the Pokora books, I think.
    Good luck with your search. You'll need it.

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    Discogs has them as "Puzzle(26)" and lists only the two LPs mentioned above (no CD reissues).

    Quote Originally Posted by Moecurlythanu
    I bought the s/t one from Musea in the mid-late 80s.
    Puzzle(10) and Puzzle(17) and Puzzle(5) all have self-titled albums. They're not jazz. They're not French.
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    ^^

    The one that's not on Discogs (it's called "Album" by the way (not very original)


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    Quote Originally Posted by MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER View Post
    I really like it. It's not epiphanous or anything,
    Good word, "epiphanous." I learnt me a new word today.

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    You can buy "Himalaya" new at www.btf.it at the Moment (I think this one is a Mellotron Records Reissue).
    Musea still has that one too.

    The Original Albums had about 100 LPs released each, so impossible to find.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Discogs has them as "Puzzle(26)" and lists only the two LPs mentioned above (no CD reissues).

    Puzzle(10) and Puzzle(17) and Puzzle(5) all have self-titled albums. They're not jazz. They're not French.
    The one I have is Prog-Rock, and French. Apparently not the same band as above, though.

    https://www.discogs.com/Puzzle-Puzzle/release/1607286

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    Speaking as someone who doesn't have any albums by any band called Puzzle, and who has drunk several glasses of wine, this is quite a confusing thread.

    I also think it would be a good thing if there was an epiphanous band called "Band" that released a series of albums that were all called "Album" and had identical cover art except that the bass player was wearing a slighty different pair of socks.
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    p.s. There are at least 36 bands called Vortex according to Discogs. I wonder what the most-used band name is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mascodagama View Post
    this is quite a confusing thread.
    Oh I'm sure all the pieces fit together somehow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Oh I'm sure all the pieces fit together somehow.
    Like some sort of...Lego??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mascodagama View Post
    p.s. There are at least 36 bands called Vortex according to Discogs. I wonder what the most-used band name is.
    I am adding my glasses of wine to yours and - with the presupposition that the sum is greater than its parts - state clearly that only the French Vortex (appropriately frenchly pronounced) is the real Vortex, condemning the other 35 imposteurs to eternal damnation.

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    ^ Indeed. C'est cool, Raoul.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheH View Post
    Which one are you looking for? Himalaya the second Album by the band is rather easy to find, "Helena" the first one is rather hard to come by.

    I think there is a third unnamed one from the late 80s, this one might just be a compilation...
    Himalaya is the one I've been looking for but now I learn here there is a third album?!
    Discogs actually just says there's one album by Puzzle(13) and Himalaya and the other is by Puzzle(26) whic is a factor of 13

    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Good word, "epiphanous." I learnt me a new word today.
    ... not sure it's a real word... it just spilled out of my fingers

    Quote Originally Posted by Mascodagama View Post
    Like some sort of...Lego??
    Lego my eggo
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mascodagama View Post
    I also think it would be a good thing if there was an epiphanous band called "Band"
    Then they would be ephiphanous and eponymous.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mascodagama View Post
    I also think it would be a good thing if there was an epiphanous band called "Band" that released a series of albums that were all called "Album"


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mascodagama View Post
    ... identical cover art except that the bass player was wearing a slighty different pair of socks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheH View Post
    The Original Albums had about 100 LPs released each, so impossible to find.
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    On a related note, Discogs seriously needs to de-bug their search algorithm!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post
    On a related note, Discogs seriously needs to de-bug their search algorithm!
    indeed! Puzzle (13) doesn't even come up on initial search
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    more and more I'm beginning to think that Puzzle (13), the one I have and like, is a different French band than Puzzle (26)
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    On iTunes is it called "Download"? I should check.

    EDIT: Nah, just "Album". Lazy.

    2nd EDIT: Wikipedia says this:

    PiL's 1986 album release was simply entitled Album, Compact Disc, or Cassette, depending on the format. The cover's blue typeface and spartan design parodied generic brands; promotional photos featured Lydon in a "generic blue" suit surrounded by generic foods and drinking generic beer. [....] Controversy reared again, with claims that the album cover and title concept had been stolen from the San Francisco noise/punk band, Flipper, contemporaries of PiL, whose album, Album, featured a similarly unadorned sleeve. Flipper retaliated by naming their next album, Public Flipper Limited.

    I was going to suggest that they both probably nicked the idea from Alex Cox's Repo Man. But since the Flipper "Album" came out in 1982 it looks like they were first.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER View Post
    ... not sure it's a real word... it just spilled out of my fingers
    It's a real word:

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epiphanous

    Though whether it applies to Puzzle(26)? I took a listen to the track from Himalaya that's on Discogs and didn't get a whiff of epiph myself, though it's nice enough.
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    Very Off Topic: a Puzzle that doesn't seem to be on Discogs. From Polen (but the Dutch will "fall asleep" :



    https://www.facebook.com/pg/puzzleze...?tab=page_info

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