Three albums that were released October 1971

The force was strong in 1971.

Have loved all three albums and all three tracks, and if you were just asking for favourite I'd be with VdGG in both cases -- at others times I might have been with the other choices.

I'm crap at doing best, unless it's best for me. That said, my intuition, not that one should put too much trust in one's intuition, tells me that not only is Pawn Hearts my favourite of these, but it is the truest masterpiece of these. It is also the album of these three that I would call the masterpiece of the band, so that alone gives it a significant edge. That's actually an easy choice for me despite that Pink Floyd would generally and globally be considered the most significant of these bands.

As to the tracks, this is a little harder for me, "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" is my favourite, and I think it amazing, but ultimately I think "Echoes" more significant in various ways, so it will get my vote. That said, both are really significant to the bands' oeuvres. Well, all of these tracks are in that sense, but Focus' later "Hamburger Concerto" seems more significant to me than "Eruption".    

By the way, I know that Micky derides "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers", but to me it sounds brilliant. My favourite long track by Pink Floyd, I'd call it a suite rather than an epic, is "Atom Heart Mother", and purely as my favourite, that would give "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers", which also has a suite quality, a run for the money.

Edited by Logan - October 01 2019 at 11:10

I'll take Meddle.....if I had to listen to it for ever it would be ok....Focus 2 also ,but Pawn Hearts would eventually give me a nervous breakdown.  ;)

Barbu wrote: Logan wrote: By the way, I know that Micky derides "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers", but to me it sounds brilliant. Is that the same dude who say that everything Tull after Aqualung is boring as sh*t? With such unsophisticated claims it's hard to take what the guy is saying seriously.

I consider Micky to be an online friend, but I may have been trolling a bit. Micky is a character, but then so is Micky Mouse.

I don't want to bad mouth Micky, I'd much rather do that to his face. :) He's a character, as I said, and he has gone through a lot it seems. I think he has a good heart, and the sh*t-kicking antics are more like schtick-kicking antics. It can be very abrasive, but we can all be abrasive.

I usually avoid reading those highly abrasive posters but in this particular case it's just impossible to ignore him since when he's here...he's all over the f**king place!

but don't get me wrong, I do not dislike the dude, I simply deplores his tactics.

Je pense que j'ai dit ce que j'avais à dire.

Edited by Barbu - October 01 2019 at 19:14

Meddle x2.

Pawn Hearts

Pawn Hearts is more consistent as an album, but I think I prefer "Eruption" over "A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers" (I do like the latter, but it's probably my least favourite track on Hearts). I'm pretty sure that at this point I've extracted everything out of Meddle that I ever will, to the point where listening to it just doesn't feel worth the time anymore.