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    Posted: June 08 2020 at 05:18
Closing of these polls of the three great artists. Here are two great doubles from 1968. Which you take? I´ll take Hendrix! I hope voters have heard these both whole through. And no need to think about what is more important, just your favorite!
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Two very bloated and patchy albums that for me could have been whittled down to excellent singles to shed some of the adipose tissue. The reported problem with Electric Ladyland were the vast armies of hangers on who crowded the studio while it was being recorded which couldn't have been conducive to workflow etc The Beatles has some brilliant songs and some plain vanilla stinkers: Ob-la-Di Ob-la-Dah, Don't Pass Me By, Why Don't We do It In the Road, Birthday, Helter Skelter, Revolution 9 and Savoy Truffle always leave this rodent completely cold. All said and done, voted for the Beatles if only through there being less aimless noodling on the White Album than Electric Ladyland. Both often trotted out by self appointed arbiters of impeccable taste as peerless masterpieces. Beats me.
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Two more albums I’ve never heard !!
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I have enjoyed these two albums for a long time, for very different reasons, but at the end of the day, I prefer Electric Ladyland.

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I went with the White Album because while I really like many songs on Electric Ladyland, the long extended tracks like "Voodoo Chile" and "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" are pretty tough to get through for me personally.

As for the White Album, some songs are indeed substandard ("Obla di Obla da" et al), and it is by no means a homogeneous album. But its overall collage-like character has always fascinated me. Btw. Unlike many others I have "Revolution 9" as one of my favourite tracks of the album.


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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

Closing of these polls of the three great artists. Here are two great doubles from 1968. Which you take? I´ll take Hendrix! I hope voters have heard these both whole through. And no need to think about what is more important, just your favorite!

I dont wanna take the place of Logan but I think that these polls (very interesting for me) should be open in the proto-prog or prog-related section, not here.
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The Beatles...

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Hendrix no contest
Not one bad song on Ladyland... Clap

.....which is much more than I can say for The Beatles (I find it a fairly poor album, FTM)
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Hendrix no contest
Not one bad song on Ladyland... Clap

.....which is much more than I can say for The Beatles (I find it a fairly poor album, FTM)

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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Two more albums I’ve never heard !!

Two albums I've heard and have no real wish to hear again. The White Album has about 3 tracks I enjoy and Electric Ladyland about 4.
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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

Closing of these polls of the three great artists. Here are two great doubles from 1968. Which you take? I´ll take Hendrix! I hope voters have heard these both whole through. And no need to think about what is more important, just your favorite!

I dont wanna take the place of Logan but I think that these polls (very interesting for me) should be open in the proto-prog or prog-related section, not here.
Don´t worry, not going to open these kind any more.
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Originally posted by The Anders The Anders wrote:

I went with the White Album because while I really like many songs on Electric Ladyland, the long extended tracks like "Voodoo Chile" and "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" are pretty tough to get through for me personally.

As for the White Album, some songs are indeed substandard ("Obla di Obla da" et al), and it is by no means a homogeneous album. But its overall collage-like character has always fascinated me. Btw. Unlike many others I have "Revolution 9" as one of my favourite tracks of the album.
Long "Voodoo Chile" is one of my fav Hendrix pieces (absolutely incredible solos), also always loved 1983. Ladyland is masterpiece to me. White Album is my least fav of Beatles after Rubber Soul-albums, some fillers in it, but anyway really great album. Least fav used to be Let It Be, but started to like it much more past few years.
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Originally posted by Manuel Manuel wrote:

I have enjoyed these two albums for a long time, for very different reasons, but at the end of the day, I prefer Electric Ladyland.

This expresses my view as well. Handshake Both albums have their experimental aspects in different ways, but I will take 1983 over Revolution #9 any day. The White Album shows a band starting to go off in different directions individually while Electric Ladyland demonstrates an ascension of Jimi's vision.
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No thanks on the Jimi record. I'll take The Beatles all day!!!
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two words.

Revolution #9

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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

two words.

Revolution #9

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One of the hardest decisions Ive had to make on this website actually... went with the White Album, if nothing else at least I was vote #9 LOL

Two great double albums that both have a few unnecessary tracks but Ladylands got more pointless filler IMO. I think the argument could be made that the entire White Album is "filler" due to the collage-like "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" attitude taken by the band this time around, which is exactly why I love it so much. Its quintessentially "f*ck you, we're the Beatles" and that is why its my favorite record of theirs. Just pure and honest expression. 
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

two words.

Revolution #9

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Although a double album, it's pretty hard for Jimi to compete against three Beatles solo albums (McCartney, Lennon and Harrison) in the fractured White Album. Actually I'll take Electric Ladyland over the Paul McCartney solo album in the White Album, but have the John Lennon and George Harrison solo albums contained in the White Album ahead of Electric Ladyland.

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The White Album is the sort of garden party album I’d put on to have playing in the back whilst barbecueing and wooing women. The Jimi one is an album I put on and attentively listen to
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