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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Guldbamsen Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2020 at 03:20
^I love both but since you put it that way: Floyd it is
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I reckon this question is the acid test for prog psychology lesson #1. I consider DSOTM a pop record and not deserving of its place in the list. Anybody who argues against this should consider the glaring fact. DSOTM is loved by Ceņine Dion fans, Foxtrot is not...I rest my case M'lud...
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685 more PA members had sufficient cause to rate DSOTM (1973) than Foxtrot (1972) so maybe that might tip the scales? Either way, no-one can claim this poll question is objectively any more crassly asinine than any other poll question.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote hellogoodbye Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2020 at 02:07
I grew up with Foxtrot, but today I live with Dark side.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Blacksword Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2020 at 01:20
Which one do I enjoy the most?? Is that question..?

Difficult choice. I've no idea. I love them both.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2020 at 01:11
PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote YESESIS Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 20:29
Ok, have to do something about my 'fanboy' image and just be 100% objective here and pick.. Foxtrot!!!!!

No, the superior album has to be Dark Side(considered by many a top 5 all time album). Super's Ready is a towering prog classic though obviously.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Enchant X Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 19:33
PINK FLOYD. Dark Side of the Moon is superior in that it achieved greater success but I prefer Genesis Foxtrot, I voted for Pink Floyd because it is superior in what I just mentioned.  Tongue
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Foxtrot.....probably due to hearing DSOTM far too many times on the radio and peoples turntables.
But I really like Watcher and Suppers Ready.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Man With Hat Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 18:48
Foxtrot 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dellinger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 18:37
Dark Side for me, easily. The only one I really love on Foxtrot is Supper's Ready... it would have been a far closer call if it had been Foxtrot vs Meddle (though in the total votes I guess Foxtrot would have won very easily).
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote VianaProghead Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 17:30
Both are masterpieces, but perhaps Foxtrot due to Supper's Ready.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Manuel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 16:24
It's very close, but Foxtrot gets my vote.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Dark Elf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 16:19
Dark Side of the Moon. Soundwise, DSotM is far superior (Foxtrot originally was quite muddy sounding), and it is a far more cohesive album compositionally. DSotM is, by all accounts outside this smug little progressive cocoon here, is one of the greatest rock albums of all time. The same will never be said of Foxtrot. Plus, I have always been irritated at Steve Hackett for not properly acknowledging that he lifted "Horizons" from Bach.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Upbeat Tango Monday Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 15:59
I much prefer Foxtrot
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote siLLy puPPy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 15:44
On RYM which is a much larger user based site than PA, Floyd clearly wins

Out of the top 5000 albums of all time


241 Foxtrot
Genesis
Foxtrot
October 1972
fantasy, epic, uncommon time signatures, philosophical, complex


On Pa they are fairly neck in neck but Dark Side is still ahead. For me personally Dark Side by a mile
















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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mirakaze Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 15:07
Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Dark Side of the Moon has always been a far superior album listening experience for me. 

It's like comparing a walk on a beautiful, sandy beach on a peaceful summer's eve to that over jagged rocks long after sunset.


I agree with that analogy, in the sense that Foxtrot feels like an adventure in little-explored terrain while DSotM feels like a casual stroll in a well-lit area upon which countless others have trod before LOL

(okay, that may be a little extreme/unfair but in all seriousness, I personally find Foxtrot many times more invigorating to listen to)


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote someone_else Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 15:05
Both are masterpieces. Foxtrot is my overall #2 whereas Dark Side of the Moon is not my #1, so...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 14:37
Originally posted by Sztermel Sztermel wrote:

Genesis by far, but I can't vote :,,,,,(


You need 40 points before you can vote in the poll options, so for the meantime, write-in votes must suffice. At your rate of posting, this could take a very long time.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Shadowyzard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2020 at 14:27
Wow, the results so far are so close.

^casting my vote for Foxtrot to make it even closer.
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