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Poll Question: Which is Your Favourite early Focus album?
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    Posted: April 28 2021 at 23:10
Which album from the Jan Akkerman era (1970-76) of the legendary Dutch prog band Focus is your favourite?

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Focus 3.

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Focus used to be one of my very favourite bands. I like all of those with the second, third and fourth being favourites at different times and have I think voted for each album at different times in my time here (I think in the last Focus poll I voted for Focus 3). I do think that Hamburger Concerto is a meaty masterpiece and will get my vote despite missing Pierre van der Linden's more interesting rhythms, drumming. I preferred that jazzy approach to the more straight ahead rock style of Allen, but I understand a change was wanted. That was the album that got me to fall for Focus. I would often play it in one of my Creative Writing and English classes in high school as my teacher kept a record collection. Hamburger Concerto and Gryphon's Midnight Mushrumps were the ones I'd almost always play in Mr. Weinberg's classes.
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Well it was Hocus Pocus and the deranged vocals and bizarre instrumental breaks that first caught the attention of my lugholes, and then I heard 'Moving Waves' and that was it!

The only time I ever saw them live was in 1976 when Akkerman had quit/been fired at short notice before the tour started. They performed OK with Catherine, but not great.
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 Moving Waves (or Focus II) over Hamburger Concerto.
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maybe i should try a Focus little marathon as a refresher and then vote. 
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Clearly Hamburger Concerto, their best work.
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sympathy vote for the unerrated Ship of Memories
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I prefer Wish You Were Here.
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Hamburger Concerto
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Hamburger Concerto, narrowly edging out Moving Waves
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Originally posted by VianaProghead VianaProghead wrote:

Clearly Hamburger Concerto, their best work.

yes agree--its perfect from beginning to end---the others are not perfect.
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Moving Waves takes my vote, though I love all these albums.
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Moving Waves used to be the apple of my eye, but now I'm voting Hamburger Concerto since I feel there's more listening waiting for me there than in MW. Besides, Hocus Pocus is quite a downer to my taste.
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Cheeseburger in Paradise Concerto.
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Dark Side of the Moon..... Oh wait, It's not a Floyd poll? Rats!!!LOL
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Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

Dark Side of the Moon..... Oh wait, It's not a Floyd poll? Rats!!!LOL


I've got plenty of ideas for polls which either don't or barely feature the Floyd at all.  Watch out for tomorrow's cracker.
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