Final Round: Favourite 1971 PA Ranked Album

cstack3 wrote: I also think it is very significant, as the single "Roundabout" broke the glass ceiling for Yes and prog in general in a very big way stateside.  I prefer some of the songs on "The Yes Album" but I don't think it got much radio airplay in the states.

cstack3 wrote: Fragile.  Am I the only person on PA who really enjoys the solo bits?  I think they are clever & innovative, i.e. "progressive."   I also think it is very significant, as the single "Roundabout" broke the glass ceiling for Yes and prog in general in a very big way stateside.  I prefer some of the songs on "The Yes Album" but I don't think it got much radio airplay in the states.

I do enjoy them... not as much as the group songs, and not all of them. This is how it works for me. "Mood for a day" is a great song in it's own right, just love it. "We have Heaven" took some time, but it grew on me and I enjoy it, and it works beautifully as an intro for "South Side of the Sky". "The Fish" is also great, but doesn't really work by itself... for me it is the continuation of "Long Distance Runaround", and neither song sounds complete to me without the other. That Leaves "5% for nothing", which I don't really care about, but lasting about half a minute it doesn't bother me one beat, and "Cans and Brahms", which isn't particularly bad, but neither do I enjoy it tremendously. I read once something about "Catherine of Aragon" having been written and inteded as the solo piece of Wakeman for this album (not with that name, I'm sure, and that may explain why it features the rest of Yes on the other instruments), but Wakeman had some sort of restriction by his own record company, and couldn't write anythin for Yes. However, if only this had been his solo song on the album, it would have made it an even greater album than it already is (though that song would have been strongly missed on 6 wives, which is also incredible for me).

dr prog wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: dr prog wrote: The yanks prefer the boring side of prog says the guy who voted for Caravan's worst early album? Lol funny. Caravans peak is grey and pink no doubt

Horizons wrote: Hercules wrote: dr prog wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: dr prog wrote: The yanks prefer the boring side of prog says the guy who voted for Caravan's worst early album? Lol funny. Caravans peak is grey and pink no doubt Without ANY doubt! Correct, it is without any doubt their weakest of their "classic" era. If I Could.. actually has song that aren't failed experiments (9feet), and the shorter songs don't get annoying 30 seconds in.

If I could is a bit amateur and raw. The compositions aren't at the same level as Grey and Pink. 3 awesome tracks on grey and pink are:

In the land of grey and pink
Winter wine
Frozen rose(Alias the word-I don't know it's name)

Nothing on If I could get close to these 3. The only song on Nursery Cryme that can match any of these 3 would be Hogweed imo. Salmacis isn't far off though. So why the hell is Nursery winning? Cos this is the Genesis fan club forum

What a tough year.  I went with The Yes Album, but I can see where all of these albums deserve support.

Caravan just over Yes and Van Damme.

voted for 1001 Centigrades, I don't feel it gets enough love around here. It might not be an album I listen to very often, but it's good, real good.

Wow, so difficult! Nursery Cryme, Fragile, Aqualung, The Yes Album, and Pawn Hearts are all probably in my top 40 prog rock albums, but in the end I went with In The Land Of Grey And Pink, just because I fell in love with it more than any of the others even though looking back I would probably go for Genesis or Jethro Tull