Final Round: Favourite 1971 PA Ranked Album
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Topic: Final Round: Favourite 1971 PA Ranked Album
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Subject: Final Round: Favourite 1971 PA Ranked Album
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 11:02
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The albums above received the most votes in the recent multiple choice poll "Favourite 1971 PA ranked Prog Albums". Now it's time to go for the throat and only vote for 1 to determine the best of all 1971 PA ranked Prog Albums. The albums are listed in the order of votes received in the previous multiple choice poll. Have fun
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Posted By: Earthmover
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 11:04
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This one's a bit easier. Pawn Hearts, with Aqualung close behind. -------------  |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 11:12
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Nursery Cryme for me. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: the lighthouse keepe
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 11:28
| Aqualung gets my vote. |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 11:31
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I'll vote for Fragile here, but none of these are really my favorites. Comparatively weak year.
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Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 11:42
| The Yes Album, followed closely by Aqualung. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 11:53
| Pawn Hearts |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 12:08
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Pawn Hearts for me. I love Nursery Cryme but rarely listen to it where Pawn Hearts holds a regular spot in the rotation... ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 12:12
| VDGG folowed by Caravan. |
Posted By: Neelus
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 12:19
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Great to see Pawn Hearts taking an early lead. I hope it hangs on.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 12:35
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In the Land of Grey and Pink
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 12:39
| Sticking with the all-mighty Pawn Hearts. |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 12:39
| NURSERY CRYME |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 13:30
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Another VDGG vote. ------------- 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: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 13:33
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There are quite some good albums in this poll I vote for the Yes Album
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Posted By: Morsenator
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 13:38
Went for Genesis, I agree not really the greatest 70's year. ------------- You love the music, the music loves you! http://moonsofjupiter.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://moonsofjupiter.bandcamp.com/ |
thellama73 wrote:Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 13:59
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Fragile followed by Aqualung
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 15:57
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Nursery Cryme. It has some good company here... ------------- 
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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 16:04
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 16:11
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Nursery Cryme, just ahead of Aqualung, The Yes Album and ITLOGAP. Not that keen on Fragile (very good in parts though) and I really don't like VDGG or Magma at all. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: sukmytoe
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 16:40
| Had to go for Genesis with VDGG close behind. |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 17:33
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In order:
Grey and pink 8.5/10(9/10 including frozen rose) 1001 degrees 8.5/10 The yes album 8.5/10 Fragile 8.5/10 Aqualung 7.5/10(9/10 including disc two 40 years) Pawn hearts 7/10 Nursery cryme 6.5/10 If side 2 of aqualung used the quad versions, the album would have got an 8/10 even without disc 2. I love graaf from 1975-78 and h to he but pawn hearts bores me a bit after the great beginning and end. Not much good melody in between. 1001 is great even with the crazy vocals, yes we're strong. Don't know how frozen rose can miss the grey and pink album. Great track. Best song on nursery is hogweed, then salmacis and absent but the rest are plain. ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 17:59
The yanks prefer the boring side of prog  ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 18:08
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Fragile followed by In The Land Of Grey And Pink ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 18:29
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Caravan easily Followed by - Tull, VDGG, Fragile, Genesis ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 19:58
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The Yes Album ------------- |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 21:37
| Fragile for me. Along Close to the Edge, the only Yes album I would rate 5 stars. It's all incredibly great (oh well, perhaps some of the solo pieces not so much, but they are so short it doesn't really matter). |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 22:34
says the guy who voted for Caravan's worst early album? |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 22:59
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Again 4 of my favorites are on that list...impossible to choose just one....
Yes-Yes and Fragile
Tull- Aqualung
Caravan- land of... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: August 15 2013 at 23:49
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Yes followed by Yes. ------------- 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: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 00:47
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The Yes Album. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 01:02
Lol funny. Caravans peak is grey and pink no doubt ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 03:18
Fragile even though its not that consistent. Roundabout, South Side Of The Sky and Heart Of The Sunrise is plenty
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Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 05:10
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Nursery Cryme -------------  
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Posted By: Mr. Mustard
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 11:52
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I love Nursery Cryme and Fragile, but they're far from the best of either respective group. VDGG was at their peak with Pawn Hearts imo, so it gets my vote. ------------- 
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 15:44
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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.
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 16:07
I agree! -------------
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 17:11
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Regardless of how "progressive" they are, I don't like listening to any of them. Maybe a We Are Heaven as a intro to South Side but that's it.
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 17:14
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Posted By: Earthmover
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 17:32
Damn, We Have Heaven is sooo annoying. And I hate it even more when it comes after Heart of the Sunrise. ------------- |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 18:31
Agreed. The only prog songs I remember hearing on the radio before Roundabout were Lucky Man and Living in the Past. When I got into Yes in '76 the only Yes songs I'd ever heard on the radio were Roundabout (both single and extended versions) and Your Move/All Good People. I never heard anything else from The Yes Album. ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 18:34
| I've heard I've Seen All Good People plenty on radio, to a lesser extent i've heard Yours Is No Disgrace. This isn't at the time of the release though obviously :P |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 21:36
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). |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: August 16 2013 at 22:44
| Fragile is such an amazing sounding album--and still sounds amazing and fresh to me after all these years. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 18:11
Without ANY doubt! ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 18:38
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.
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Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 18:48
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  ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: August 20 2013 at 00:21
| Pawn Hearts. I could very easily see each of my votes going to VDGG in this series of polls for the duration of their classic period. |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: August 25 2013 at 12:26
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What a tough year. I went with The Yes Album, but I can see where all of these albums deserve support. ------------- 
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Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: August 26 2013 at 06:04
| Aqualung - Jethro Tull |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 26 2013 at 06:24
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Caravan just over Yes and Van Damme. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: August 31 2013 at 09:08
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So disappointed I missed the first round. Tago Mago would have been my vote no problem. On this list: 1001 Centagrades by far. |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: August 31 2013 at 19:08
| 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. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: October 10 2013 at 11:52
| Caravan! |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: October 10 2013 at 12:19
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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
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