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Poll Question: Which of these is your favorite?
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Snow Goose isn't that long but i felt it needed to be included cuz it's a white cover and it has a lot of songs (short though they are).

Also, we're voting for the music just to clarify
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The White Album; I love the diversity in the songs. Also, in some pieces they just kick ass!!
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Points: 30845 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2014 at 19:33
The snow-white lamb on the wall
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Points: 6253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2014 at 22:44
That's not a fair question, I own and love all 4 above Disapprove bah and dang if I had to pick it would be the Wall. No it would be The Beatles white album,... arghhh I don't know UnhappyHug
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The Lamb just ahead of The Snow Goose.
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Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

That's not a fair question, I own and love all 4 above Disapprove bah and dang if I had to pick it would be the Wall. No it would be The Beatles white album,... arghhh I don't know UnhappyHug
This, pretty much.


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Not sure if I should vote since I have not heard The Snow Goose by Camel.  On the other hand, I can’t fathom it being more impressive than The Lamb.

 

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Originally posted by CosmicVibration CosmicVibration wrote:

Not sure if I should vote since I have not heard The Snow Goose by Camel.  On the other hand, I can’t fathom it being more impressive than The Lamb.

 

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It's not. The Lamb is far more dynamic, varied and adventurous. But the Snow Goose is serenely beautiful in a way no other album comes close to being and the various passages flow seamlessly into one another in such a way that you really have to play the whole thing in one go. Some call it boring, and if you like your music full of frenetic action, one could well find it so. It's an album to put on when you are ready to relax and chill. Both tell a story, but the Snow Goose does it without words, using musical textures to portray characters and events. The lyrics and sleeve notes on The Lamb tell the story (which I'm not that keen on) but you have to read Gallico's book first to have a full appreciation of the Snow Goose's genius.

If you don't have the Snow Goose, I cannot recommend it too highly.
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^Nice comments although I find Lamb a bit weak in places.It has way more ideas though. Consistency v Ideas.
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The Beatles. 
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Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

The Beatles. 


Thumbs Up  more to be found in terms of great song writing, great music, and outright creativity on perhaps any one side than any of those others had in the whole album. Much less taken as a whole.
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Points: 7024 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2014 at 18:31
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

The Beatles. 


Thumbs Up  more to be found in terms of great song writing, great music, and outright creativity on perhaps any one side than any of those others had in the whole album. Much less taken as a whole.

Apart from While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Mother Nature's Son, I think The White Album is utterly ordinary. i was brought up in The Beatles era and I never "got" them or why they were so revered. And the hippy trippy s**t they surrounded themselves with left me completely cold.

All the other albums here are vastly more creative and interesting, even if The Lamb and (particularly) the Wall are rather patchy. 
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The Beatles and it's not even close. The Wall would be a distant second.
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Sacrilege - I've NEVER heard Beatles' White Album........
As for albums with a white cover - give me Italy's Celeste S/T, Motorpsycho's Death Defying Unicorn or even Yatha Sidhra's A Meditation Mass over these in the list......
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Points: 1940 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2014 at 19:04
Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

The Beatles. 
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Not even Genesis great ideas for The Lamb caught me enough to put it amongst my favourite prog albums, though there are some genuine moments like 'Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats' and 'Riding the Scree'.
 
The Snow Goose quite clearly appeals to me with a deeper atmosphere, at times even flerting with a genuine classical mood, and at last often sounding boring for who definitely doesn't get its style nor its whole message. I consider myself a lucky man for NOT having had to read Gallico's book in order to have a full appreciation of the Snow Goose's genius, in fact it IS one of my favourite albums.


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Points: 26151 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 02 2014 at 02:51
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Sacrilege - I've NEVER heard Beatles' White Album........
As for albums with a white cover - give me Italy's Celeste S/T, Motorpsycho's Death Defying Unicorn or even Yatha Sidhra's A Meditation Mass over these in the list......

Me neitherSmile

ELP - Works Vol II is another to add to the list. ELP's move towards Boogie Woogie and Jazz was not best received by many thoughLOL
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^ I like both of the Works albums. Good one
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Sacrilege - I've NEVER heard Beatles' White Album........
As for albums with a white cover - give me Italy's Celeste S/T, Motorpsycho's Death Defying Unicorn or even Yatha Sidhra's A Meditation Mass over these in the list......

Me neitherSmile




wow man.  That really blows my mind.  I could understand if one was still fighting acne and digging DT, but it surprising me musical nuts of a certain age haven't heard it. It is... like going to church.. being a Christian.. yet not even having read a single page of the bible.
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Points: 5109 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 02 2014 at 09:35
The Beatles and I hate to say that it even far outweighs my beloved Genesis. As I said in my review, this album is a rite of passage for any music lover. It may be tough to get into at first but more is revealed with each listen. It is probably the only album that reveals the entire scope of what they were capable of. 
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