Spirit of Eden vs Quadrophenia
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Topic: Spirit of Eden vs Quadrophenia
Posted By: Svetonio
Subject: Spirit of Eden vs Quadrophenia
Date Posted: October 01 2015 at 11:17
Just for fun! 70s Art Rock vs 80s Art Rock! Please vote!
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: October 01 2015 at 11:35
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Talk Talk by default. It's a good album, though not brilliant. I do like some of The Who's stuff (not much) but Quadrophenia (and Tommy) leave me completely cold. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: October 01 2015 at 11:37
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Quad ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: DandyDan
Date Posted: October 01 2015 at 11:48
| Quad for me, seen the live show too. I've always intended to get into Talk Talk, so I suppose 'Spirit of Eden' is a good place to start! |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: October 01 2015 at 18:02
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Talk Talk leaves me cold cold. Quadrophenia is The Who at their best. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: October 01 2015 at 18:07
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Spirit of Eden, a brilliant fusion infused post rock album, filled to the brim with beauty. -------------  
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Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: October 01 2015 at 18:10
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Spirit of Eden, pretty easily. Never liked The Who much. -------------  
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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: October 01 2015 at 18:15
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They are both such great, great records but c'mon... Quadrophenia!!!
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Posted By: Cailyn
Date Posted: October 01 2015 at 19:04
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Bellboy! etc ------------- http://www.cailynmusic.com |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 02 2015 at 02:57
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Luv...Reign o'er meeeee ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: October 02 2015 at 10:31
| Quadrophenia gets my vote. |
Posted By: King Only
Date Posted: October 02 2015 at 12:17
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I love both of these albums equally. You can really hear how much thought and effort and emotion went into these recordings. They are extremely different but in some ways the same I guess. About a search for a deeper meaning, or finding modern life unfulfilling? With the Talk Talk album, the lyrics and the music are more abstract. But I think the basic sentiment is similar. So glad that there are people who make art like these albums instead of the typical phony top 40 Hollywood bullsh*t that saturates our society. So good to hear something that has real emotion put into it instead of the sh*t that our mass media culture spews out. A respite from the tidal wave of vomit from the mouth of consumerism. For me, music like these two albums is a refuge and one of the few things that makes life worth living.
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: October 02 2015 at 13:20
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Quadrophenia ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: October 02 2015 at 17:36
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Quadrophenia. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: October 02 2015 at 17:43
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Quadrophenia for me! ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: October 02 2015 at 18:59
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Talk talk by far |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: October 02 2015 at 19:37
| Talk Talk. Beautiful stuff. And it's real Prog too. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: October 04 2015 at 19:58
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Posted By: Cailyn
Date Posted: October 04 2015 at 21:09
What a silly little slight...oh it's REAL PROG unlike Quadrophenia which is fake prog--or worse yet, not really prog at all???? Bullsh*t   I think Quadrophenia is real Prog (capitol P  )...large scale theme, a true concept album carried to conclusion, brilliant bass work, crazy crazy drum fills, monster guitar tones, and Roger Daltrey.Need I say more??? ------------- http://www.cailynmusic.com |
HackettFan wrote:Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: October 04 2015 at 21:27
However, both albums were / are Art Rock (though from two very different decades) and never prog. Oh and there are two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPlOaNQSpE" rel="nofollow - instrumentals that are the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGxFvswt2hM" rel="nofollow - prog tracks at Quad, and Doctor Jimmy is prog too. Well, it's first half of 70s and prog was something the most fashionable back then. On the other side, Spirit of Eden, as an Art Rock /Ambient album that was in a perfect harmony with 80s aesthetic of art rock, had nothing to do with Prog - except maybe that influence of 70s Ambient music; in fact, 70s Ambient music was widely accepted by prog fans, long before internet, as a sub-genre of Prog. And if I'v been informed well, Ambient was here among the others PA genres, and it was a perfect place for THE artists like Brian Eno (now in "Progressive electronic" section what at PA means that Berlin School of electronic music and what have nothing to do with Brian Eno's 70s ambiental works), but Ambient was expelled from PA together with Art Rock section; I presume by the same creators (and their forum's "lawyers") of artificial genres like "eclectic prog", "prog related", "crossover prog" and "proto-prog", what could be useful, because PA don't have multiply tags, to describe some of the classic era bigs with more eclectic catalogues (e.g. Deep Purple, King Crimson, Family, ELO) and also for many of the contemporary prog bands and solo artists who builded their stuff in extremely hybrid way, like a palimpsest painting, but not for the classic Art Rock acts nor for the classic Art Rock masterpieces from late 60s, 70s and 80s like Quadrophenia and Spirit of Eden - they both should be in the PA Art Rock section if that section exists as it was a big mistake to reject Art Rock section what made a huge damage for the site and the genre, or - not be in the Prog Archives.
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Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: October 04 2015 at 21:59
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voted for Talk Talk ------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: October 05 2015 at 05:35
Agree.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 05 2015 at 09:37
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Hmmm.......interesting poll. Spirit of Eden beat Hybris 45 to 38 for 'modern prog album' yet it's losing to Quadrophenia , 27 to 15.  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: October 06 2015 at 03:59
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