ELP's Tarkus or Pink Floyd's Echoes
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Topic: ELP's Tarkus or Pink Floyd's Echoes
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Subject: ELP's Tarkus or Pink Floyd's Echoes
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 13:27
| I thought I did this one before but maybe not. A brief google search only pulled up the respective albums. Both have padding in them imo but which one do you like better? |
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 13:51
| Echoes for sure. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 13:59
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"Tarkus" ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 15:03
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Echoes of course. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 15:20
Echoes gets my vote here. 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 15:47
| Echoes for me too. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 17:25
| Tarkus, by far. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 18:37
Grrrrr.  Actually, I expect that if you are into Triumvirat. 
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presdoug wrote:Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 18:56
 ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 19:08
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Love both, vote went to the Tank! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 19:51
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I'm much more into psychedelia than symphonic, Echoes all the way. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: July 06 2025 at 23:23
| ELP's 'Tarkus' does it for me, the other one does not. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 00:39
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Both are great, but ... Echoes over Tarkus. ------------- 
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 01:08
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Echoes. Tarkus is one of my favourite ELP tracks, but I have always preferred the Floyd. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 02:57
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Tarkus. No doubt Floyd will win but I really like Tarkus, even a lot of the much-criticised second side. ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 02:57
| Love them both. If a gun was held to me, Tarkus just about - mainly because of the Welcome Back My Friends version.... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 04:03
| As a 14 year old, Tarkus was everything to me. Just the first few minutes has more creativity than 99% of so called progressive music. It's a game changer. For ELP it came naturally and insanely the album was recorded in just 2 weeks. That is the very definition of unfiltered brilliance let loose. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 04:05
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I love them both. I couldn't tell you which one I love more, so I'm voting "Both equally". ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 04:19
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ELP - Tarkus
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 04:32
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Echoes, but TArkus is at the same level ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Disconnect
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 05:27
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Tarkus for me. To be fair, the only PF album I can stand to spin is Animals. PF just doesn't "do it" for me. ------------- "My own response to King Crimson is one of quiet terror." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 05:59
Not even Wish you Were Here?!  Also the first versions of Dogs and Sheep were created along with the songs of WYWH.
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Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 07:21
| Easily Tarkus for me... |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 07:31
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The Floyds. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 07:52
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Echoes Echoes Echoes Echoes Echoes Echoes ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 11:06
An interesting matchup would be side one of Meddle vs side two of Tarkus. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 11:28
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Echoes is one of my all time favourites. I love Tarkus but it's not quite up there. ------------- I make typos so you see I'm not a machine, but I may be a machine pretending to not be a machine. |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 16:22
| Don't know if equally, but both |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 22:02
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Both ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 07 2025 at 23:11
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the Armadillo, but Echoes is amazing. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: July 09 2025 at 18:54
I'm of the same opinion. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 09 2025 at 19:20
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So vote-- Tark is still losing by five votes. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: July 09 2025 at 22:34
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I ticked the both equally box. Could listen to either and enjoy. It certainly was more interesting back then. ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 09 2025 at 23:30
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^ 40% of the vote against the might of Pink Floyd is ok
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 15 2025 at 02:03
| Echoes for me. I love Tarkus too, but I can't stand the middle "mass" section. |