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Direct Link To This Post Topic: Focus 3 or Hamburger Concerto
    Posted: February 16 2013 at 15:30
2 amazing Focus albums. HC has the higher ranking, but F3 is often consider Focus' magnum opus. Which do you prefer? 

I love both, but for me its easy. Focus 3
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2013 at 15:54
Hamburger Concerto all the way. Hamburger Concerto matched against Moving Waves would be a far more difficult choice for me.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2013 at 15:56
Tough choice indeed! F3 is looser and more jam-oriented while HC is lush ( Birth still is the highest Focus point ever- Akkerman's solo is just plain ridiculous!) .

F3 today but hold the mustard!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2013 at 15:58
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2013 at 15:58
Again, 2 albums I love a lot - but the jammy nature of Focus3 wins me over - especially the *beautiful* laid-back section of 'Answers?Questions!Questions?Answers!' Somehow the Live at The Rainbow album was a bit rough......
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2013 at 16:12
I'm surprised III is winning here. It's my pick too i just thought Hamburger Concerto was more popular.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2013 at 20:45
Hamburger Concerto is much more consistent than Focus 3.

Focus 3 is a little indulgent in places....Anonymous 2 is the best music I have heard from any band, that is up until Jan Akkerman comes in with his electric guitar segment, then it's just a "make it up as you go along" jam until the last classic outro of its too lengthy 26 minutes. (I used to remember it giving me the sh*ts having to change the record over when Anoymous 2 had almost finished but there was a few minutes to go on it but you had to listen to the whole track didn't you (?).......so you just had to grin and bear it....flip that bloody record over and finish listening to anonymous 2.......thank god for CDs!) There are other less memorable tracks on this double album but a few classics as well.

Hamburger Concerto on the other hand has 2 grand meister works: Birth and the title track. So it's Hamburger Concerto by a wide margin.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2013 at 23:16
Originally posted by BarryGlibb BarryGlibb wrote:

Hamburger Concerto is much more consistent than Focus 3.

Focus 3 is a little indulgent in places....Anonymous 2 is the best music I have heard from any band, that is up until Jan Akkerman comes in with his electric guitar segment, then it's just a "make it up as you go along" jam until the last classic outro of its too lengthy 26 minutes. (I used to remember it giving me the sh*ts having to change the record over when Anoymous 2 had almost finished but there was a few minutes to go on it but you had to listen to the whole track didn't you (?).......so you just had to grin and bear it....flip that bloody record over and finish listening to anonymous 2.......thank god for CDs!) There are other less memorable tracks on this double album but a few classics as well.

Hamburger Concerto on the other hand has 2 grand meister works: Birth and the title track. So it's Hamburger Concerto by a wide margin.

This. Love both but Hamburger title track is one of my 5 fav long pieces of prog---it's the Dutch guys at their best---and in the Melody Maker poll (a prestigious poll if there ever was one) Jan won best guitarist-- beating Howe, Hackett, Page and Clapton in 1974.Smile First and only time that happened.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2013 at 23:17
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2013 at 02:46
Focus 3 is a good album but a little tedious as a whole due to those long jams that frankly doesn't hold my interest so well. I'm going with Hamburger Concerto.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2013 at 04:03
Hamburger Concerto is their second best album after Moving Waves.
 
Focus 3 is also very good, but not as good as those two.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2013 at 04:41
Focus III. I like the long jams.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2013 at 09:16
Very, very difficult. For me both albums are on the same level.
Okay, today I vote for Focus III, but next week it could be the Hamburger..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2013 at 10:08
3 has the edge but only just.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2013 at 18:51
I love both, but Focus 3 (my favourite Focus album).  Hamburger Concerto, by the way, was one of my very first Prog loves.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2015 at 12:26
"Focus 3" is their best album as for me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2015 at 12:30
Originally posted by HackettFan HackettFan wrote:

Focus III. I like the long jams.
This goes for me too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2015 at 12:46
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2015 at 18:00
Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

Hamburger Concerto is their second best album after Moving Waves.
 
Focus 3 is also very good, but not as good as those two.
Exactly the same for me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2015 at 18:33
I should listen to more Focus, I really like Moving Waves (Always reminds me of Moving Pictures LOL).

Anybody know which one to listen to next? Tongue
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