Random Album Clash - 1968
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Topic: Random Album Clash - 1968
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Subject: Random Album Clash - 1968
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 05:20
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Wednesday is here, so Random Album Clash is back! This week with another decade that hasn't been mentioned so far - the 1960s. Pick a favorite from 1968, one of the most interesting years for rock, prog, pop, and what have you really, and as usual, tell us who you picked and why! |
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Posted By: Adaon
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 05:25
| This Was rocks from the very first second of My Sunday Feeling and has a great drum solo track in Dharma for One. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 05:38
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The Book Of Taliesyn would have been an easy vote if it were in the poll. Better than the debut IMO. I haven't listened to some of these in a while, I'll have to listen a bit and then choose.
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Posted By: Adaon
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 05:40
It would have gotten my vote too.
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Cristi wrote:Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 05:49
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Floyd ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 05:52
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Floyd, followed by Caravan ------------- ---------- 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: Manuel
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 05:53
| I voted for Electric Ladyland. I love This Was and Wheels of Fire, but Hendrix takes the top this time. |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 06:34
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Moody Blues just ahead of Caravan, Beatles, Tull and Hendrix. ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 06:41
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I like most of the albums in the poll, so it's really tough to decide, but I went with The Moody Blues, mainly because I can relate to being In Search of the Lost Chord on my guitar, or finding any chords at all really.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 06:45
| The Beatles, one of my favourite albums. A vast array of brilliant songs. |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 06:49
Great! The album's really pleasant in my ears as well.
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 06:49
*mental note* People like Taliesyn better than the debut!
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 06:50
My favorite album from '68!
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 06:50
I don't know about "people", but I do like it more.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 08:40
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You do realize its "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" that recorded Electric Ladyland. Which gets my vote everyday and twice on Sunday. -------------   
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 08:43
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HOW HAS NO ONE VOTED FOR CREAM YET?! ------------- "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp "I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 08:44
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Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets. ------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 08:53
Somebody has. The only thing that stopped me voting for it were all the albums that are better.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 09:01
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 09:39
Yes but the number of characters is restricted. In fact, I also wanted to write 'Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention' but most likely wouldn't have been possible to fit everything in the bar.
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 09:51
| Moody Blues |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 09:55
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We're Only In It For The Money, followed closely by Soft Machine's debut |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 10:36
Because Jimi. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 10:48
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Good year, but oh... these impossible polls... If I had three votes they would go to Pink Floyd, Soft Machine and Frank Zappa. With only one vote, today it goes to Zappa. ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 11:20
| JT |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 11:30
| The White Album |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 11:37
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Fab Four ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 11:53
| Beatles. Not my favorite Beatles album, but full of many good songs. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 13:11
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1968 was a great year, and there are several high points to found on this list. The top is In Search of the Lost Chord, where the Moody Blues redefine themselves for the second time in as many years by becoming their own orchestra. Electric Ladyland comes in second, with Cream third. ------------- 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: Olape
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 13:15
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A saucerful of secrets +1 ------------- 
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Posted By: Zgljone86
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 13:34
| Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 13:43
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SM over FZ and PF ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 20:19
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Some fine lp's there but have to go with Moody Blues- In Search Of....one of my all time favorites. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 20:53
| Random or not they're all good albums. |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: October 21 2020 at 23:35
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Jimi Hendrix Experience ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: October 22 2020 at 07:47
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Zappa. 'WOIIFTM' is a stellar album. ------------- Levitating downwards, atomic feedback scream. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 22 2020 at 07:55
| Pink Floyd - 'A Saucerful of Secrets' |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: October 22 2020 at 08:56
Great choice! I think it's one of their most underappreciated albums.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 22 2020 at 08:59
More, which is one of my favorites, is even more (underappreciated).
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 22 2020 at 09:03
^ I've been listening to More Pink Floyd albums over the last three days than I normally listen to in a whole year, and you're absolutely right: the More soundtrack is an underappreciated classic! 
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: October 22 2020 at 09:14
Ahh, More is damn good!
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 22 2020 at 16:16
| Somewhat ridiculously I'm the first to vote for Procol Harum. Nothing much floats my boat on that list. I might have gone for Ars Long Vita Brevis if that was on there. My fave from the year is easily Love - Forever Changes but it's not usually regarded as even being a proto-prog album. Shame. |
Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: October 23 2020 at 14:02
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Incredible year for Rock. Some obvious choices for me, proggy or not: The Kinks Are The Village Green Society (the best Kinks album, albeit narrowly) Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (ditto) Both those albums are snugly in my my greatest albums of all time list. Another ignored classic - Donovan in Concert - one of the great live albums of the 60's. ------------- Believe me Pope Paul, my toes are clean |
Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: October 23 2020 at 15:37
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A Saucerful of Secrets. The first album I ever bought, more than 50 years ago. Then The Beatles White album, my second purchase. |