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hellogoodbye 
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 15:36 |
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dr wu23
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 15:53 |
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Two albums I don't play very often......well I like the Tarkus title track better than Ys ,but overall Ys is a better album than the rest of the tracks on Tarkus.....imho.
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 16:11 |
 dr wu23 wrote:
Two albums I don't play very often......well I like the Tarkus title track better than Ys ,but overall Ys is a better album than the rest of the tracks on Tarkus.....imho. |
exactly my thoughts
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 16:14 |
Epilogo beats everything on Tarkus by a wide margin. Probably everything by ELP. Tarkus is probably the second most overrated (such an overrated word...) album of "classic" prog, second only to Le Orme's Uomo Di Pezza. Tarkus side 1 is bearable enough, side 2 is a laughable clusterf**k of incompetency, misdirection, and awkwardness.
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 18:53 |
Any album with a student drawing of a space-age armadillo on the cover wins. Tarkus has the best correlation between music & artwork, and was also the best example of progressive r-o-c-k at the time. Maybe ever. But Ys is very good, too.  |
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Mormegil
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 18:58 |
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Tarkus.
But only because I haven't heard the other album.
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 20:27 |
Ys all the way man.
Obviously ELP was influential in developing that album's sound, but I can't not vote for perfection. Explosive, incendiary... if you want prog with some balls to it, then look no further, because no one has slapped all those frilly, fluffy symphonic-lite bands square in the face harder than the Bronze Ballet!
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 20:28 |
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For me it is really between the title song of Tarkus and the combo Introduzione/Primo Incontro... Of course Tarkus is genius to me, but so it the YS combo, and while the middle "mass" section of Tarkus is really annoying for me, the YS songs flow perfectly for me... plus, the other songs from YS, though I don't like them as much, are easily better than the ones on Tarkus... so YS it is for me.
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 02:58 |
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Obviously, my vote is for one of the greatest prog tracks ever recorded - I never tire of it after listening to it for more than 40 years. The other one? Not bad.
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 04:35 |
Il Balletto Di Bronzo - YS - Full Album Live - 2007, Rome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyum87kdmGw
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Dopeydoc
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 07:45 |
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Tarkus gets my vote. The title track is the master piece of ELP (and still perfect in XXIst century standards).
Ys was excellent, but somehow slightly outdated now IMHO.
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 07:57 |
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Ys is perhaps my favorite Italian Prog album ever (right up there with Darwin! or Zarathustra) but Tarkus is a beast and Side Two is just fine, people.
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 08:49 |
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Pretty easy choice here: half a great album against a bonafide masterpiece. Yup Ys it is.
Methinks most folks are voting for Tarkus just because they know it.
Well get to know those Italians toute suite baby!!!
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 08:55 |
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Tarkus in my opinion is a masterpiece, Ys is a very good album so.... EL&Palmer
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 09:12 |
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I resisted Tarkus for the longest time, having been indoctrinated with ELP's later catalog, but a few years ago I had that "Aha" moment, and I can see the general acclaim it has among prog enthusiasts. Ys has yet to hit me, but perhaps this thread will provide the impetus to give it another spin.
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digdug
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 10:40 |
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love Tarkus but I have to go with
Ys
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Prog On!
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 10:53 |
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The huge bronze balls of Ys crush the weaponised armadillo in my book.
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 11:12 |
YS it is! 
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 11:14 |
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Ys without a doubt
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Manuel
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Posted: February 28 2017 at 14:47 |
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Tarkus, though Ys is quite excellent.
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