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"Big Six" by years (1969-1974)
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Poll Question: Pick your favourite year
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
4 [5.97%]
1 [1.49%]
10 [14.93%]
24 [35.82%]
24 [35.82%]
4 [5.97%]
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    Posted: January 08 2022 at 07:14
Seems I already voted when the poll first came up, but can't remember what. 

Probably/hopefully 1973 because of SEbtP / LTiA / TDSotM / BSS. 
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And nice bump. I'll go with the '71 vintage.
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nice poll
bump!
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I would say the only Waters dominated albums are The Wall and The Final Cut, and that didn't happen until '79. Wish you were here was a group effort all right, and Animals has Dogs, which was mostly composed by Gilmour, as I understand it, having Waters credits because, as always, he wrote the lyrics... and that song takes nearly half the votes, and as proved by the polls that have been made lately, it's the most beloved song on that supposedly Waters dominated album.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Progishness Progishness wrote:

Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

Interesting approach to a poll and kind of confirms the 'high water mark' of prog debate.  Although I agree with the big six thesis, 1975 was the last vintage year for prog but that came largely from outside the big six (KC split, ELP on hiatus, etc.)


...And dare I suggest it, Pink Floyd about to enter the Waters dominated (as opposed to Waters lead) era?

You may dare, though Animals is outstanding.


It's one album that I've always found a bit cold and bleak to be honest, as good as the individual tracks are (especially Sheep & Dogs). The change was in Roger's attitude, as (in my opinion) this is where he started telling us what to think.


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How about a poll on the "Big Six" in the 80s? LOL
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Originally posted by Progishness Progishness wrote:

Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

Interesting approach to a poll and kind of confirms the 'high water mark' of prog debate.  Although I agree with the big six thesis, 1975 was the last vintage year for prog but that came largely from outside the big six (KC split, ELP on hiatus, etc.)


...And dare I suggest it, Pink Floyd about to enter the Waters dominated (as opposed to Waters lead) era?

You may dare, though Animals is outstanding.
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

Interesting approach to a poll and kind of confirms the 'high water mark' of prog debate.  Although I agree with the big six thesis, 1975 was the last vintage year for prog but that came largely from outside the big six (KC split, ELP on hiatus, etc.)


...And dare I suggest it, Pink Floyd about to enter the Waters dominated (as opposed to Waters lead) era?
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Interesting approach to a poll and kind of confirms the 'high water mark' of prog debate.  Although I agree with the big six thesis, 1975 was the last vintage year for prog but that came largely from outside the big six (KC split, ELP on hiatus, etc.)
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

The world was created in 1969, as far as I'm concerned. God bless the omnipotent KC.

Amen brother Steve,

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The advances in technology played a part too - the prog bands were going into the studio with the attitude 'we've got all this wonderful latest equipment, so let's exploit it and see what we can get it to do'.  Advances in the studios themselves, and recording and production techniques also played a big part in the prog sound.  And this was all in the analogue era!


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Originally posted by Progishness Progishness wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

Great albums in all these years, but the best for me is '73 - all five stars (which is not the case for any of the other years).


73 for me too! The ultimate year of excess and prog pomp run amok!


Arguably the 1971-73 period was prog's halcyon days, when it was properly maturing, and before it started getting a bit overblown, pompous, and self-indulgent.

Discuss.

A lot of prog haters would argue prog was always overblown and self indulgent, so it's hard to know where to draw that line. I usually seen it drawn at TFTO and TLLDOB, one of which does sit in the 71-73 period. But I think I agree for the most part. In these early years prog was still getting its bearings and discovering all it could do. Directly afterwards it started discovering more of what it couldn't do (keep Peter Gabriel around, release more than one PF album every two years, keep KC together, keep a consistent lineup in Yes, make a whole album song every JT album, keep making great ELP albums, etc.)
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Originally posted by The Anders The Anders wrote:

"1973: TfTO / SEbtP / LTiA / TDSotM / BSS / APP"

Imagine someone who doesn't know anything about prog reading this...
That would have been me back in September 2019 when none of those abbreviations meant anything to me either. Smile


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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

Great albums in all these years, but the best for me is '73 - all five stars (which is not the case for any of the other years).


73 for me too! The ultimate year of excess and prog pomp run amok!


Arguably the 1971-73 period was prog's halcyon days, when it was properly maturing, and before it started getting a bit overblown, pompous, and self-indulgent.

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Originally posted by The Anders The Anders wrote:

"1973: TfTO / SEbtP / LTiA / TDSotM / BSS / APP"

Imagine someone who doesn't know anything about prog reading this...


It's a secret code!
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It's slightly more challenging when you lay out what came out each year...

...But 1972 gets it, like almost always.

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Tough call, I went with 1972.  
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Got to be 1973.
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