Discipline vs Avalon

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I'll give Avalon its due too.  It doesn't aim very high, but it succeeds at everything it tries.  Discipline is a lovely album too, but the closing title track just never did it for me.  A sizable blemish on an otherwise pretty flawless album.

Poll Question: what is your favourite album,
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Discipline (King Crimson)	38	[69.09%]
Avalon (Roxy Music)	13	[23.64%]
both	3	[5.45%]
neither	1	[1.82%]
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HolyMoly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26133	Posted: February 17 2013 at 13:56
	I'll give Avalon its due too. It doesn't aim very high, but it succeeds at everything it tries. Discipline is a lovely album too, but the closing title track just never did it for me. A sizable blemish on an otherwise pretty flawless album.
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	Let me be the first to vote for both. I like both of them about equally. Both are very enjoyable listens.
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	I'm a bigger fan of KC than Roxy Music, but I've never really been a big fan of Discipline. A few good tunes, but quite a cold and disjointed feel to it overall. Avalon is a more 'pleasant' listen, so Roxy gets the vote here, I guess.
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	< Do I need to hide my muse? Avalon is a superb sonic tapistry , very rich musically (if one takes the effort to sift through the layers of sound) . I am a huge KC fan also but I just prefer the steamroller version with Wetton, Cross and Bruford. Discipline is a tad too clinical for my exotic/erotic tastes.
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	Avalon: Roxy go Snoozy Zzzzzzzz Discipline: Pretty exciting stuff Yay!
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	Avalon for me; a production masterpiece IMO. I would've voted for Discipline if not for the dull and boring second side. I love the first side of the album.
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	I should give Avalon another listen, but from what I remember nothing enthralled except for the title track.

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	it influenced Talk Talk i think, i bet


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	Avalon by miles. It's the best Roxy Music album - Take a chance with me is the highlight, but it's all very good (and that's from someome who's not a great fan of Bryan Ferry's voice).
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	then we are two


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	I really love Avalon, one of the few goodies of the 80s.
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Icarium Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34050	Posted: February 17 2013 at 08:30
	two very different albums, one so smooth you could have it on a cake, andother so very much different, both influened the sound of 80s in their way, Avalon have a overworthly production and textures, and Discipline have a very exotic feel and rythmicaly complex two counteroppesites of 80s music..