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Wanorak 
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 Posted: February 19 2015 at 22:43 |
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The Beatles by a hair over the Moodies.
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: February 20 2015 at 08:54 |
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ALL OF THE ABOVE!
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Drew Fisher
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infernalfrog
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Posted: February 20 2015 at 10:35 |
1 - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd 2 - The Doors - The Doors 3 - Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience 4 - Beau Brummels - Triangle
the only good thingabout Sgt Peppers was Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, imo
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Please, forgive my spelling and concordance mistakes. English noob here.
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octopus-4
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Posted: February 20 2015 at 11:12 |
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For me it's Piper. Sgt Pepper is not my fav Beatles' album, Moodys and Hendrix are very better.
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Rednight
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Posted: February 20 2015 at 11:21 |
Yeah, but what was the name of that one Italian group's album from '67 that really made a splash...? And did you mean "The Monkees"? 
Edited by Rednight - February 20 2015 at 11:23
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digdug
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Posted: February 20 2015 at 11:26 |
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From the list - definitely Sgt Peppers
might have chosen the Doors debut
if it was there though
Hendrix would be next for me after that
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Prog On!
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dave-the-rave
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Posted: February 20 2015 at 15:06 |
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Let Jimi come over.
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SteveG
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Posted: February 20 2015 at 15:39 |
As I stated in an earlier post, this was a tough choice for me as well that's why I created the poll.
Ok then, I will have to go with my hero Mr. Hendrix.
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SquonkHunter
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Posted: February 20 2015 at 21:30 |
Days of Future Passed. While all the listed albums are good, the Moody Blues were my gateway into what later became known as Prog. BTW, check out the Porpoise Song on Head. Psychedelic, man! 
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hinafu
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Posted: February 20 2015 at 21:53 |
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Wild Honey.
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Hercules
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Posted: February 21 2015 at 05:00 |
 emigre80 wrote:
Except for A Day in the Life, I find Sergeant Pepper kind of dull. I understand why other people like it, it just doesn't spin my wheels. |
I'd be less charitable than that, actually. I think it's a poor album overall; not one song really satisfies me. Revolver is far superior IMO.
Don't like Barrett era Floyd, the Hendrix album is OK but he isn't a great guitarist by modern standards, and the Monkeys were just a good pop band. So that leaves the Moodies, who aren't my favourites from the 60s, but are the pick of this lot.
Personally, I prefer Traffic and Procol Harum albums from this era.
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Hercules
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Posted: February 21 2015 at 05:02 |
emigre80 wrote:
Except for A Day in the Life, I find Sergeant Pepper kind of dull. I understand why other people like it, it just doesn't spin my wheels. |
I'd be less charitable than that, actually. I think it's a poor album overall; not one song really satisfies me. Revolver is far superior IMO.
Don't like Barrett era Floyd, the Hendrix album is OK but he isn't a great guitarist by modern standards, and the Monkeys were just a good pop band. So that leaves the Moodies, who aren't my favourites from the 60s, but are the pick of this lot.
Personally, I prefer Traffic and Procol Harum albums from this era.
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A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: February 21 2015 at 06:52 |
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The Moody Blues, just before The Beatles.
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emigre80
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Posted: February 21 2015 at 08:39 |
Hercules wrote:
emigre80 wrote:
Except for A Day in the Life, I find Sergeant Pepper kind of dull. I understand why other people like it, it just doesn't spin my wheels. |
I'd be less charitable than that, actually. I think it's a poor album overall; not one song really satisfies me. Revolver is far superior IMO.
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Agreed. Revolver, Abbey Road and the White Album are all far better.
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SteveG
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Posted: February 21 2015 at 08:55 |
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moshkito
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Posted: February 21 2015 at 13:03 |
Hi,
It's interesting seeing the results right now ... and how they are not representative of the whole thing at all... specially at the time.
PF was not a big deal until like 1971 or 1972 in America! Almost none of the psychedelic Syd stuff was being played at all ... and things like The Moody Blues helped FM radio get started because they could play the long cuts and Side 1 or Side 2 of the whole Days of Future passed album, which was far more important to many of us teenagers than Pink floyd's first album, that we did not hear until quite a bit later!
Even Jimi, since his album had a couple of songs that DID get played on the hit radio and that was where we got the album in the first place. Pink Floyd was NOT there at all, THEN ... and we're voting with today's ideas in mind, and at the time it was nowhere near an influence, and STILL isn't for me! Heck, The Small Faces' album Ogden's Nut Gone Flakes was bigger for me, than Syd ever was! But I'm not sure that many folks here have appreciate that wonderful bit of urban-psychedelic that was not dreamy, fairy tale like and sometimes whimsical and silly!
If you vote ... see if you can separate your ideas from today ... from yesterday when you were a kid. In Southern California, 1971, there was no Pink Floyd for me .... and the other 3 albums were very big! And I knew Small Faces from Itchichoo park that I had the single for, and got the album right after I met Guy and he introduced me into more English stuff.
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Stool Man
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Posted: February 21 2015 at 13:12 |
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Pink Floyd wasn't a big deal in America until "Money" was released as a single there in May 1973.
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rotten hound of the burnie crew
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octopus-4
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Posted: February 21 2015 at 13:59 |
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I voted basing on the album I still like most and spin more often. Piper is n.1 for me followed by Days Of Future Passed. By coincidence I've listened to Experience yesterday on a flight. I surely don't have any interest for Sgt Pepper but I love Abbey Road, instead.
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Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
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Chicapah
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Posted: February 21 2015 at 17:01 |
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First time I heard Are You Experienced I thought I was on acid. The other listed albums were great in their own right but none of them affected me mentally that way. I'll never forget it.
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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uduwudu
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Posted: February 21 2015 at 21:37 |
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Would love to have The Who Sell Out mentioned. Symphonic themes, a concept album, great tunes, superb playing and quite psychedelic as well.
But Jimi gets the vote for guitar, songs, innovation and 3rd Stone From The Sun aided and abetted by the most imaginative drummer before Bill Bruford.
The Moodies were v. close for great tunes. Alas, that poetry for me... doesn't do it. But for probably the first prog rock album (Procol or 2 from the Nice as well) this is probably it.
Piper is also great but I think the musicianship and arrangement role is that of Rick Wright and his amazing ability to takes Syd's songs and really give them that timeless nature. Perhaps he should have been more closely involved with Syd during his two solo album period.
Pepper does have the superb A Day In The Life - luckily. Unfortunately it seems the Beatles are to Butlins holiday camps while Hendrix is to Woodstock or the Stones to Altamont for better or worse there...). Better was to come with the flawless Abbey Road and George Harrison's growing more prominent influence.
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