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Man With Hat
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Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team
Joined: March 12 2005
Location: Neurotica
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Posted: February 25 2015 at 23:30 |
Brick
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer
Joined: June 22 2004
Location: England
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Points: 16130
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Posted: February 25 2015 at 23:46 |
Foxtrot DSOTM
TAAB
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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zravkapt
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Honorary Collaborator
Joined: October 12 2010
Location: Canada
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Points: 6446
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 00:03 |
From my review of TAAB: "No sense in analyzing this album to death. There is almost nothing about it I would change. It
still boggles my mind how these guys came up with an album full of such great music and
playing, yet never did anything else that comes close. I can listen to this all the way through
every day if I wanted to. Any other Tull album and there will be some tracks I will want to skip. This
is like a cross between what ELP and Genesis were doing at the time, but somehow better." From my review of Foxtrot: "This was an early peak for Genesis. Later albums may have better production and may
have sold more copies, but they never got this consistent again. The sound and production
is a step up from Nursery Cryme but would get even more of an improvement with the next
album. There is no filler here like "For Absent Friends" and "More Fool Me". "Time Table" is
the best attempt at something commercial until later in the decade. Genesis' only studio
masterpiece but The Lamb and Trick come close" From my review of DSOTM: "The soundtrack to The Wizard Of Oz is one of Pink Floyd's best albums. He made better
albums like The Final Cut but this is pretty good too. His next album The Wall is even better.
Nothing here is as good as "Another Brick In The Wall", his best song obviously. He
smoked 5000 pounds of marijuana when he made this album...that's why it sounds the
way it does. This is one of the best selling albums of all time[citation needed] ..... ..... In the 1970s stereo salesmen used to play this album to customers, showing them how
great a system was. I can only imagine what they said back then, probably something
like: "I just randomly picked some record out and look...doesn't that sound great!" This
album holds some kind of record for being on the charts for the most weeks; people just
kept buying this thing. In the 1980s there was a plant in West Germany that did nothing but
manufacture DSOTM CDs. The original CD version of this in North America sounded awful;
lots of hiss and supposedly not taken from the masters. The music industry's attitude of "if
it ain't broke, don't fix it" meant that a proper sounding CD was not available in North
America until the 30th anniversary edition in 2003. The record company was making so
much money off of people still buying the old crappy versions, they weren't in a hurry to re-
release the album" I voted for Thick As A Brick
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Polymorphia
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Joined: November 06 2012
Location: here
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 00:20 |
DSOTM.
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hellogoodbye
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Joined: August 29 2011
Location: Troy
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 01:26 |
FOX
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Hercules
Prog Reviewer
Joined: June 14 2007
Location: Near York UK
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Points: 7024
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 03:02 |
Very hard, but Foxtrot by a smidgeon. The other 2 I can't pick between.
All 3 are excellent albums.
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A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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progmatic
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Joined: August 22 2009
Location: Ohio
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Points: 1785
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 07:42 |
Foxtrot Dark Side is a neutron behind while Thick as a Brick is a full molecule behind. Could really have put these three in any order and it would be fine. My favorite depends on current mood and which one I'm listening to at the moment.
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The Bearded Bard
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Joined: January 24 2012
Location: Behind the Sun
Status: Offline
Points: 12859
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 10:11 |
1. TaaB 2. Foxtrot
3. DSotM
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Libor10
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Joined: July 19 2005
Location: Czech republic
Status: Offline
Points: 692
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 10:30 |
Foxtrot by a hair ahead of TaaB. DSotM has never did anything with me (yes, it has great production/sound, but otherwise it's rather dull and empty...).
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Varon
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Joined: August 06 2010
Location: Ukraine
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Points: 502
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 10:55 |
Can't believe TaaB is not winning.
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Would you catch the final words of mine? Would you catch my words???
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verslibre
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Joined: July 01 2004
Location: CA
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Points: 15032
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 11:44 |
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Moogtron III
Prog Reviewer
Joined: April 26 2005
Location: Belgium
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Points: 10616
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 12:00 |
Dark Side Of The Moon, just before Foxtrot
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progadicto
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Joined: July 19 2005
Location: Chile
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 14:31 |
Foxtrot is a perfect album... TaaB is an almost perfect album... DSotM is a perfect boring album...
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micky
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 17:29 |
whew... good thing I left the last one without voting.. now this is a proud vote and an easy one. DSOTM.. the other two? complete trash by comparison. If familiartiy has breed contempt.. it was the album was incredible enough to reach that point.
Edited by micky - February 26 2015 at 17:29
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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rogerthat
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Joined: September 03 2006
Location: .
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Points: 9869
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 18:31 |
Can't agree more with the last sentence. Again the stunning minimalism of Floyd stands out compared to the other albums. I love both those albums too but they never touched me the way DSOTM did.
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Enchant X
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Joined: July 31 2014
Location: Australia
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Points: 867
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Posted: February 27 2015 at 16:16 |
What a tough one ... Genesis is my pick out of the bands mentioned however I`m going for Dark side of the moon ... I see it is Alan Parsons best ever work and little to do with pink floyd why I chose it. Now if side 2 of thick as a brick showed a different approach to side one that might have got my vote and if Foxtrot had of had the high production values of Dark Side of the Moon .. it would have won easily Foxtrot isn't a great sounding recording, great album though ... one of the best. Its a tough poll. Of course these are just my personal points of views but Ive been listing to these albums lots over the past 30 years so I think I know basically what I`m saying so whats better Foxtrot and thick as a brick are better prog ... what wins .. Dark side of the moon thanks to Alan parson.
Edited by Enchant X - February 27 2015 at 16:30
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Dellinger
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Posted: February 27 2015 at 21:20 |
Dark Side for me. I really like them all, but Dark Side holds itself better as a whole album.
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zravkapt
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Joined: October 12 2010
Location: Canada
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Points: 6446
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Posted: June 28 2016 at 17:34 |
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Magma America Great Make Again
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DeadSouls
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Joined: February 28 2016
Location: Chile
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Points: 4255
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Posted: June 28 2016 at 18:25 |
DSOTM
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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Joined: July 01 2015
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Posted: June 28 2016 at 20:03 |
Foxtrot is the lesser of evils in this case.
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