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Man With Hat 
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 Posted: January 02 2013 at 02:49 |
Damn...another difficult round. Erpsongs, Crawling Wind, Barbaro, Moonsongs all top notch. I'm going to go with Moonsongs. Thinking Plague's first where they were firing on all cylinders. They really found their 'voice' here IMO and starting to write some great music. Almost pains me not to vote for CW as it's damn intense (esp with the original EP material).
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 21:47 |
 Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Well this is a tough one, I have seven of these and like them all, could easily vote for either Ozrics, either Thinking Plague or the UZ, Ummagumma is one of my favorite Floyd albums as I love the live material.
I'll vote for Present, the CD is excellent but the DVD that comes with it is out of this world.
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I have a feeling you were at that show.
I'm going with Univers Zero's Crawling Wind. Originally released as an EP in Japan only it has been increased to over 42 minutes now. Some amazing live stuff on here and studio tracks.
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 21:26 |
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Well this is a tough one, I have seven of these and like them all, could easily vote for either Ozrics, either Thinking Plague or the UZ, Ummagumma is one of my favorite Floyd albums as I love the live material.
I'll vote for Present, the CD is excellent but the DVD that comes with it is out of this world.
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 20:03 |
HolyMoly wrote:
I'll give Moonsongs a vote, one of my favorite TP albums. Warheads, Etude for Combo, title track.... three classics right there. As much as I like In Extremis (historically my favorite, but nowadays I dunno), the earlier stuff really benefits from Bob Drake's input. There's a certain roughness to his playing that keeps the album on edge. After Drake left, his successors were pretty much virtuosos, which is great, but something was kind of lost with no Bob. And I'm drawing a blank on the singer's name, but I really like her work with the band on this album and In This Life.
Hard not to vote for Ummagumma, but .... when you get down to it, Ummagumma is kind of a BS album, being half live and half solo experiments. Don't get me wrong -- a fantastic album by one of my favorite bands, but if I were to make a case against it, I'd bring up how they kind of side-stepped the issue that they really were still kind of confused and uncertain after Syd left. Ironically, though, it's that very confusion that makes early Floyd so compelling to me. Somewhere along the way, they must have said, we may not have a clear direction right now, but let's just poke around and see what works. |
Love Moonsongs ! Gave it 4.5 stars and probably only rate "In This Life" by them higher, another early album of theirs. I like your evealuation of the early ones too. They do "sound" different and the word you used "roughness" is a good way to describe it.
Man the live part of Ummagumma i'd give 5 stars too, love it ! The studio part is an acquired taste no doubt.
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 19:58 |
Logan wrote:
After a little doobious thought, I'm voting for Walter Wegmuller's Tarot. Trippy.
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An all-star cast as well with basically the Cosmic Jokers playing the music. Some find Walter's spoken word bits a negative but to me they fit the trippy music.
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 19:57 |
infocat wrote:
Weird, unlike previous z.a.r.p.e.k. polls, where I know at most one of the albums, I own six of these!
I vote Erpland.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 19:38 |
I'll give Moonsongs a vote, one of my favorite TP albums. Warheads, Etude for Combo, title track.... three classics right there. As much as I like In Extremis (historically my favorite, but nowadays I dunno), the earlier stuff really benefits from Bob Drake's input. There's a certain roughness to his playing that keeps the album on edge. After Drake left, his successors were pretty much virtuosos, which is great, but something was kind of lost with no Bob. And I'm drawing a blank on the singer's name, but I really like her work with the band on this album and In This Life.
Hard not to vote for Ummagumma, but .... when you get down to it, Ummagumma is kind of a BS album, being half live and half solo experiments. Don't get me wrong -- a fantastic album by one of my favorite bands, but if I were to make a case against it, I'd bring up how they kind of side-stepped the issue that they really were still kind of confused and uncertain after Syd left. Ironically, though, it's that very confusion that makes early Floyd so compelling to me. Somewhere along the way, they must have said, we may not have a clear direction right now, but let's just poke around and see what works.
Edited by HolyMoly - January 01 2013 at 19:39
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Logan
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 19:27 |
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After a little doobious thought, I'm voting for Walter Wegmuller's Tarot. Trippy.
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infocat
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 19:04 |
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Weird, unlike previous z.a.r.p.e.k. polls, where I know at most one of the albums, I own six of these!
I vote Erpland.
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 16:14 |
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Top three would have to be Univers Zero's "Crawling Wind", Thinking Plague's "Moonsongs" and Walter Wegmuller. Mind you that Floyd album has to be part of this so i'll call this a top four and pick one later.
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 16:04 |
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Okay i have acouple of 2 on 1's here so two Thinking Plagues and two Ozric Tentacles. Floyd will of course win again but lets talk about these.
Edited by Mellotron Storm - January 01 2013 at 16:36
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