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Poll Question: choose the studio album that you like most
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God, I love Chicago.

I - III : Absolutely Essential
V - VII:  Extremely highly recommended
VIII - XI:  Good albums with great highlights
After XI:  Proceed with extreme caution.
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CTA for me

Love all of the early stuff
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Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

Chicago II for me. Not sure people really get how different these guys were for 1970.
 
I'm with you on that....as much as I like the first CTA one the second is better over all. The 3rd is very good also.
I was lucky enough to have seen these guys in early 1970 for $3.50 at college......they were excellent .
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Lurking this 32$ Chicago 10 cd Box-Set.

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I'm not into Chicago yet, but my mother had a Chicago lp, it was great, but I can't remember which one... 
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Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

I love Chicago V


So do I. CTA, ll & lll are great compositional albums. But my overall favorite is Chicago V. Pete Cetera is one of Rock music's greatest vocalists! The gem track in Chicago V is "Good-Bye." One of their best songs.
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How did I miss this poll ??
Definitely have to go with 'VII' - lots of variety and some complex fusion tracks really stand out for me. Some of the band's most creative and intricate playing is found on this album (IMHO).
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II for me
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Originally posted by VOTOMS VOTOMS wrote:

I'm not into Chicago yet, but my mother had a Chicago lp, it was great, but I can't remember which one... 
Probably 'Chicago X' - every one had that one back in the day.....
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

How did I miss this poll ??
Definitely have to go with 'VII' - lots of variety and some complex fusion tracks really stand out for me. Some of the band's most creative and intricate playing is found on this album (IMHO).
Haven't listened to Vll in years......after 5 I stopped buying their lp's......I always felt they could never top the first 3.
I need to listen to 7 and see what I've missed all these years.
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^ Do it !! I couldn't believe my ears when I discovered this one.....
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best
1. CH II
2. CH V
3. CTA
4. CH VII
good
5. CH III
6. CH VIII
middle
7. CH X
8. CH XI
9. CH VI
10. BIG BAND
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I bought that 10 CD box of the first 10 studio albums and it's amazing.

A loose ranking and rating of the ones I've heard:

8/10
V
VIII
CTA

7/10
VII (Used to be my favourite until recently. So close to an 8/10; just has about one too many skippers)
II
III

6/10
VI = XI

5/10
X = Hot Streets (These two still have their highlights)


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Points: 5538 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2018 at 01:22
Not heard all of their albums, but hard to believe any of their albums could get over their first, so that got my vote.
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^Their first was the most bluesy rocky one...they smoothed down quite a bit in the later ones.
I think the first 7 are all good...no 4 being a live one At Carnegie Hall.


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I haven't listened to these guys in a really long time, but I will, since I like their music before they went into cheesy pop in the 80s. 
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

How did I miss this poll ?? *snip*
Definitely have to go with 'VII' - lots of variety and some complex fusion tracks really stand out for me. Some of the band's most creative and intricate playing is found on this album (IMHO).
Haven't listened to Vll in years......after 5 I stopped buying their lp's......I always felt they could never top the first 3.
I need to listen to 7 and see what I've missed all these years.

damn emoticons doc... Captcha got me...

I love me some VII Doc.. be sure you do go back and take a listen... great album.

coin flip between the first two... and since I don't have a coin.. no vote
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the documentary on Spotify is very good and detailed about the bands history.
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