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Poll Question: Fave from 73 - Big 6 first
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7 [10.94%]
25 [39.06%]
7 [10.94%]
7 [10.94%]
14 [21.88%]
4 [6.25%]
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    Posted: January 29 2023 at 07:33
I'll go with the minority (at the moment) and vote Yes. Love all six of these, although ELP, KC, PF and Yes a bit more than the remaining two...

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Selling England gets the edge, though it's very close with Dark Side.
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Dark Side
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ELP couldn't go wrong and were doing exactly what they should do. BSS is my favourite album but I have to admit that the actual recording and production is pretty awful. However in terms of creativity and a sheer bravura performance it's totally immense.

I'm not really a massive fan of any of the others. DSOTM still sounds like a band chasing commercial success to my ears even all these years later. King Crimson were to absolutely kill it a year later with one of the most important releases of the decade. SEBTP has 3 great tracks but an awful lot of filler imo while Yes were lost in a sea of cardboard animals. However I like A Passion Play and Tull were to become perhaps the most consistently good prog band of the whole decade.



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Well, a very clear winner among the heavyweights!  Selling England was the first prog album I listened to at the age of 12 (although the term 'prog' wasn't really in currency then, I recall many of these bands filed under 'Contemporary Rock'...)
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Genesis!

PF not too far behind

Then ELP
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As much as I love Selling England by the Pound, I have to go with Jethro Tull on this one. I'm probably in the minority here, but I think Passion Play is almost as good as Thick as a Brick... such a superb album Smile
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I think Selling England by the Pound is the best prog album ever made. And | my favourite.
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Selling England is a wonderful album, and Dark Side is very good.
I no longer own any of the other 4 and never played them much when I did.
I like some Yes, Jethro Tull and ELP quite a lot, but not these albums. I've never been a fan of King Crimson.
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All are in my top 20 of all times
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KC
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:


Hang on, I did say the big 6 to begin with!

Sorry Rick, I get a bit carried away at times!  LOL
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1973 also had their fair share of duds, if only on this list

Three albums are over the top (and not just IMHO)

BSS is the start of the end of ELP (read my review)
TFTO is definitely Yes' worst album of the 70's (wellllll, tied with Tormato)
APP is is Tull going totally wrong trying to reproduced the zany success of TAAB and going totally wrong. 

I bought the other three some 48.5 years ago (autumn 74) and still liked them today, though I wasn't all that that crazy about SEBTP and LTIA for a few years. 
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Genesis > Floyd = ELP >> KC > Tull >= Yes
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Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
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I could well imagine voting for a Passion Play here but honestly it has to be Pink Floyd; love most others here as well.
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I surely think there's much repetition in all these polls. Ermm
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All are awesome. My order of preference:
1. Selling England by the Pound.
2. Tales from Topographic Oceans.
3. A Passion Play.
4. Brain Salad Surgery.
5. Lark's Tongues in Aspic.
6. Dark Side Of The Moon.
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All are great to me. A Passion Play gets my vote.
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