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Poll Question: Please choose an album of these that you like if you like any of them.
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
1 [1.69%]
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4 [6.78%]
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4 [6.78%]
7 [11.86%]
1 [1.69%]
3 [5.08%]
14 [23.73%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [3.39%]
0 [0.00%]
4 [6.78%]
1 [1.69%]
7 [11.86%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [5.08%]
4 [6.78%]
2 [3.39%]
2 [3.39%]
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Some pretty good albums here, but Cyclone is the album of my choice here. The vocals were quite a shock at first hearing - the album was released in a period when I listened a lot to TD and Klaus Schulze -, but it did not take me long to come to appreciation. Side 2, Madrigal Meridian, is more classic TD and one of the best tracks in their catalog.
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Renaissance for me, fine album. Like HH as well. Over the years I have really gone off ATTWT, I hardly ever play it now.
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Some good albums there.  First time I have seen the wonderful Alan Stivell in a prog archives poll.  I first saw him live in the early 80s, and he reminded me of Pierre Moerlen's Gong - which brings me to the overlooked 'Expresso II'...
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The orange SBB album from 1978 is really good
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Many great choices but I went with Expresso II because I heard it last month. I actually listen to Moerlen's Gong way more often than the RGI trilogy.
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Beefheart all the way.

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Fascinating choice. I find six albums that are very dear to me, Heavy Horses, A Song For All Seasons, Breathless, Cyclone, Expresso II, and Attahk. It's very very hard to make a decision, and I vote for Gong mainly because they don't have a vote yet, and as I have seen that album very rarely mentioned here, they may not get any further ones.

However I post a video from a different album in the selection, because people might not know this, and it is a crime to bury such a spectacularly good song on an otherwise rather underwhelming album.



Edited by Lewian - July 04 2020 at 03:57
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Genesis - And Then There Were Three

I would also have put ELP - Love Beach in the poll. It has a side long piece that is reasonably liked. There is some trash on it but it's not as bad as people like to think.
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Far and away Tull.
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Some good albums there but the one for me is the Renaissance, Song for all Seasons, which is one of their best.
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I really love Studio Tan and Cosmic Messenger but I'm gonna have to go with And Then There Were Three
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nice poll and a tough one, deserves some thought, will choose a bit later Smile
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Easy - Tull.
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Pretty clear victory for JT here. 
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Heavy Horses Tongue
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Tull...then Beefheart...after that .......?
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Would have voted for Studio Tan, but gave a chance to The Captain Smile


Edited by Run Home Slow - July 03 2020 at 19:38
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Other favorites from the list are Barclay James Harvest "XII" (their last great album sadly) and Camel "Breathless", Jethro Tull "Heavy Horses" (one of my faves by them), Tangerine Dream "Cyclone", and Alan Stivell "Journee a La Maison".

Strawbs "Deadlines" probably fits on this list but it's not at the level of any of the above or of their earlier work
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great year but anytime A Song for all Seasons is on a list it wins






Edited by kenethlevine - July 03 2020 at 19:56
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Voted Heavy Horse, but Shiny Beast was a contender.

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