Xonty wrote: Wow, quite a difficult poll seeing as Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who, and The Stones are in there but it's gotta be Procol Harum for me. Can't stop listening to them.

the Zombies, Procol Harum and Cream

Dean wrote: Erm, sorry, but this poll doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. No vote.

octopus-4 wrote: chopper wrote: Dean wrote: Erm, sorry, but this poll doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. No vote. Hmm you're right Dean, it doesn't actually say what we're supposed to be voting for - the best presumably? the best one to our taste (see the poll's first post)

Lynx33 wrote: Dean wrote: octopus-4 wrote: chopper wrote: Dean wrote: Erm, sorry, but this poll doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. No vote. Hmm you're right Dean, it doesn't actually say what we're supposed to be voting for - the best presumably? the best one to our taste (see the poll's first post) I can actually read thanks, it  did not make a great deal of sense to me when I originally read it and it still does not make a great deal of sense now.  This is a Prog site, this thread is in the Prog Polls section of the Prog Music Lounges yet only three of these bands are remotely Prog and not one of the early albums by any of them are Prog.  The only thing these bands have in common is that they are British (one is from Northern Ireland, the rest are English).  Their début albums were released over a 4 year time span during the most creative time in British Pop music which makes comparison meaningless, with the exception of two of the bands, those débuts were composed mostly of cover songs. Couple that with the simple fact that there are at least four different distinct styles of music here, all of which adequately fit my taste without one being more "best" than another, then I don't see what I or anyone else is supposed to be voting for.  How can Please Please Me/With The Beatles be more "best" for our tastes than Days of Future Past, Saucerful of Secrets? How does anyone compare Stop Your Sobbin' with Repent Walpurgis or Don't Ever Change with A Quick One, While He's Away? What is this grousing? If you don't like the poll, don't vote. But keep degrading, fake-elevated opinion to yourself. Polls are for fun and not for schooling each other. There is always some antisocial, community ruining factor about people's behaviour who THINK they know things better than anybody else

Dean wrote: Lynx33 wrote: Dean wrote: octopus-4 wrote: chopper wrote: Dean wrote: Erm, sorry, but this poll doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. No vote. Hmm you're right Dean, it doesn't actually say what we're supposed to be voting for - the best presumably? the best one to our taste (see the poll's first post) I can actually read thanks, it  did not make a great deal of sense to me when I originally read it and it still does not make a great deal of sense now.  This is a Prog site, this thread is in the Prog Polls section of the Prog Music Lounges yet only three of these bands are remotely Prog and not one of the early albums by any of them are Prog.  The only thing these bands have in common is that they are British (one is from Northern Ireland, the rest are English).  Their début albums were released over a 4 year time span during the most creative time in British Pop music which makes comparison meaningless, with the exception of two of the bands, those débuts were composed mostly of cover songs. Couple that with the simple fact that there are at least four different distinct styles of music here, all of which adequately fit my taste without one being more "best" than another, then I don't see what I or anyone else is supposed to be voting for.  How can Please Please Me/With The Beatles be more "best" for our tastes than Days of Future Past, Saucerful of Secrets? How does anyone compare Stop Your Sobbin' with Repent Walpurgis or Don't Ever Change with A Quick One, While He's Away? What is this grousing? If you don't like the poll, don't vote. But keep degrading, fake-elevated opinion to yourself. Polls are for fun and not for schooling each other. There is always some antisocial, community ruining factor about people's behaviour who THINK they know things better than anybody else Really? I just don't understand the poll or what I'm supposed to be voting for. I don't see how this is a fake-elevated opinion of myself, if anything it is quite the contrary. So dry your tears and tell me what the connection is that I'm expected to vote upon here.

I agree with Dean and that was the reason behind my question "how early is early"? - The Beatles eventually trounced everyone else in this poll quite comfortably, but if by "early" you mean their first 2 albums then that makes things different. If you include albums 3 and 4 then it make the result different again (and by that I mean The Beatles really started to take off on albums 3 and 4, imo). I think you need to quote a definitive time period because, without looking up the dates for all these bands, I don't really know which material I'm comparing.

Edited by chopper - September 15 2014 at 06:43

Strange list and poll as others have pointed out.....many of the songs by 4 or 5 bands up there were equally as good in those days. Can't choose.....

Lol, good poll links. I vote Stones. Time is on My Side, Heart of Stone, Ruby Tuesday, good stuff.