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micky 
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 Posted: August 02 2015 at 10:43 |
  it is effective .. and one of my favorite reviewing tools. my favorite... oh this gem.. 'I find listening to this CD to be just a little more enjoyable than viewing images
of endless Middle Eastern atrocities, or reading the gruesome details of the latest
killings by some gun-toting psychopath.'
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Disparate Times
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Posted: August 02 2015 at 10:47 |
Listening to Neal Morse is worse than taking a cheese grater to your nipples
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micky
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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micky
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Finnforest
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Posted: August 02 2015 at 11:01 |
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I might have to look for that one...don't remember
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Posted: August 02 2015 at 11:05 |
As usual
FOXTROT/NURSERY CRYME
A tie
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: August 02 2015 at 11:17 |
I don't think you can really say definitively what is the "best prog rock album" ever. Based on what? Sales? Instrumentals? Lyrics? Cover? Influences? Your personal tastes? I would merely say that TAAB, Close to the Edge, Foxtrot, Dark Side of the Moon and In the Court of the Crimson King would be an approximate top 5 based on several different indicators that none possess in total. If one is really honest with oneself, each album has an Achilles Heel of greater or lesser proportions.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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micky
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Posted: August 02 2015 at 11:26 |
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I might have to look for that one...don't remember
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I think I did that one in early 2007 .. back when DT fan infested the forum. It sort of was taking a beehive and putting on a tee and kicking the f**ker through the uprights.. they came out in angry swarms.. first to me and I told them to eat sh*t and die.. so they went to the admin team which told them the same and also got a good laugh out of it. They saw what I was doing and what was the real target of the review.
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Barbu
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Posted: August 04 2015 at 00:46 |
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Going with TAAB
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: August 04 2015 at 21:59 |
When you say "best" I take it to mean as "nearly perfect, even flawless as possible," not "my favorite." This requires a bit of objectivity. In this case, I might say:
Magma's MDK or The Who's Quadrophenia or UK's UK or Cocteau Twins' Treasure or After Crying's Megalázottak és Megszomorítottak or maudlin of the Well's Part the Second or Five-Storey Ensemble's Not This City
These are albums that wow me start to finish, in which I feel there is not lull or letdown, that every song, every contribution is significant and innovative (for that time).
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madspace
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Posted: August 05 2015 at 03:41 |
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Foxtrot!
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tamijo
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Posted: August 05 2015 at 05:21 |
King Crimson – Larks' Tongues in Aspic
I have no problem with best or favorite, because my taste is flawless 
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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micky
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Posted: August 05 2015 at 05:23 |
BrufordFreak wrote:
When you say "best" I take it to mean as "nearly perfect, even flawless as possible," not "my favorite." This requires a bit of objectivity.
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it takes a fair bit of objectivity... to recognize the nearly perfect, even flawless that are NOT favorite albums. Most people you would surmise would have as their absolute favorites.. albums they do find to be nearly perfect or even... flawless. As I noted upstream in the thread. I see there really are two ways to approach lists and topics like this.. best - albums you love (whoopie!) greatest - those that have a combination of factors independent of whether you like it or not that set it above other albums. FAR more interesting if one is able to compose a list like that. THAT requires more than a fair bit of objectivity.. not to mention overall knowledge of the realm of prog/progressive rock over and above knowing what one likes... and liking what one knows.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: August 05 2015 at 05:44 |
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Close to The Edge.
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"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?"
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Posted: August 05 2015 at 07:07 |
micky wrote:
BrufordFreak wrote:
When you say "best" I take it to mean as "nearly perfect, even flawless as possible," not "my favorite." This requires a bit of objectivity.
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it takes a fair bit of objectivity... to recognize the nearly perfect, even flawless that are NOT favorite albums.
Most people you would surmise would have as their absolute favorites.. albums they do find to be nearly perfect or even... flawless.
As I noted upstream in the thread. I see there really are two ways to approach lists and topics like this..
best - albums you love (whoopie!)
greatest - those that have a combination of factors independent of whether you like it or not that set it above other albums. FAR more interesting if one is able to compose a list like that.
THAT requires more than a fair bit of objectivity.. not to mention overall knowledge of the realm of prog/progressive rock over and above knowing what one likes... and liking what one knows.
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Using that guidance, I would have to say that Close to the Edge is the most flawless prog album. However, I still prefer Tales and Relayer, in spite of their (comparatively) flawed states.
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dr wu23
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Posted: August 05 2015 at 13:36 |
As always best album is completely subjective so it's kind of meaningless.......my personal favorite for that category is the inimitable ITCOTCK.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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justin4950834-2
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Posted: August 05 2015 at 16:25 |
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Selling England By The Pound to me is 99.9% perfect.
Why not 100%, because Aisle of Plenty should of kept going for at least another minute to get even bigger and more dramatic and then fade out, but that is a long album for vinyl and I'm guessing they ran out of space to do such things.
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justin4950834-2
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Posted: August 05 2015 at 16:28 |
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You can usually find some sort of flaw in an album if you look for them, but I usually don't let them bother me.
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Posted: August 06 2015 at 13:06 |
justin4950834-2 wrote:
Selling England By The Pound to me is 99.9% perfect.
Why not 100%, because Aisle of Plenty should of kept going for at least another minute to get even bigger and more dramatic and then fade out, but that is a long album for vinyl and I'm guessing they ran out of space to do such things.
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I've thought the same too. Aisle should of kept going for a minute or so.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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