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Poll Question: Favorite Prog Album From 1974
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
8 [2.88%]
7 [2.52%]
51 [18.35%]
7 [2.52%]
1 [0.36%]
7 [2.52%]
1 [0.36%]
27 [9.71%]
0 [0.00%]
50 [17.99%]
9 [3.24%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [0.72%]
1 [0.36%]
0 [0.00%]
59 [21.22%]
4 [1.44%]
3 [1.08%]
4 [1.44%]
10 [3.60%]
4 [1.44%]
2 [0.72%]
14 [5.04%]
2 [0.72%]
5 [1.80%]
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    Posted: August 02 2006 at 04:38
This is my birthyear and my second favorite year in prog. Had to decide to include just one album by each band/artist. That left out In Camera; Roxy & Elsewhere, Wurdah Itah, Midnight Mushrooms; Starless and Bible Black... And there's not enough poll choices for worthy albums by: PFM, Arti e Mestieri, Dzyan, Henry Cow, Roxy Music...

My favorite is the first album in the poll, and the next fifteen are pretty accuratly placed. What's your most treasured progalbum of this year?
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Careful not to repeat years.

1974

 

1.     Phaedra (Tangerine Dream)

2.     Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Rick Wakeman)

3.     Red (King Crimson)

4.     Hamburger Concerto (Focus)

5.     The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage (Peter Hammill)

6.     The Power And The Glory (Gentle Giant)

7.     Mirage (Camel)

8.     Starless And Bible Black (King Crimson)

9.     In Camera (Peter Hammill)

10.                      Turn Of The Cards (Renaissance)

11.                      Hergest Ridge (Mike Oldfield)

12.                      Blackdance (Klaus Schulze)

13.                      Relayer (Yes)

14.                      Aqua (Edgar Froese)

15.                      The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Genesis)

16.                      War Child (Jethro Tull)

17.                      Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends (ELP)

18.                      Rush (Rush)

19.                      The Cosmic Jokers (The Cosmic Jokers)

20.                      Snowflakes Are Dancing (Isao Tomita)

21.                      Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (Brian Eno)

22.                      Galactic Supermarket (The Cosmic Jokers)

23.                      Planeten Sit-In (The Cosmic Jokers)

24.                      Sci Fi Party (The Cosmic Jokers)

25.                      Gilles Zeitschiff (The Cosmic Jokers)
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Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Careful not to repeat years.





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Focus? Genesis? GG? Gryphon? Supertramp? Yes?

All great albums and worthy contenders, but the winner for me is MIRAGE!
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1. Genesis
2. Camel
3. Focus

All three brilliant albums.
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Close call between Crime Of The Century and Rock Bottom >>> went for COTC
 
You and Red running for third place
 
Maneige's debut and Hamburger Concerto also in my faves
 
 
 
Compared to the poll from 71, this is a very poor year


Edited by Sean Trane - August 02 2006 at 08:37
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:


Compared to the poll from 71, this is a very poor year


I agree. But my own top four this year, is in my alltime top 20. I won't make any more yearpolls after this. 72-73 are done by several others. 
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1. Rock Bottom
2. The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
3. In Camera
4. Starless and Bible Black
5. Hatfield and the North

Easy!
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1. red - king crimson
2. mirage - camel
3. relayer - yes


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The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage by a mile.
Some swear they see me weeping in the poppy fields of France
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Relayer, followed by The Power and the Glory. Then Crime of the Century
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1. Rock Bottom
2. Relayer
3. Red
 
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Happy birthyear, Rocktopus!!!Hug
 
This one is a little bit easier for me than 1971 (btw, still haven't seen your reaction to my response in the 1971 pollCry...Wink...Smile...Big smile... though it was pretty much said within your Top Five Albums Each Year thread...), at least the list is shorter.
 
But nonetheless it is still impossible to choose one (like in 1971) as I cannot decide which one of the three (PH In Camera, PH The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage, KC Red) is my favourite. All of them my favourites.
 
RW Rock Bottom still needs more listenings for me to go deeper into...
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Sorry, Fassbinder. And thanks. I did however manage to choose my favorite in the '71 poll. Pawn Hearts is in a unique position to me, maybe in the same way Still Life is to you? It was the introduction to my favorite band, and I do think its one of the perfect albums.

Its not that its better than the rest, just like Rock Bottom (I voted in this poll) isn't better than Silent Corner, Red, You... in this poll. I still voted for it.

Hard to explain. Its irrational, but they've both been hugely inspiring. (so has First Utterance)     
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Crime of the Century
 
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Yes, I know it's irrational. Therefore I cannot explain what Tonton Macoute has in it to be one of my faves of 1971. As for Pawn Hearts -- no question, I like this album, but somehow it is still ranked as my No. 5 VdGG album (after Still Life, Godbluff, H to He... and The Least We Can Do...). Yes, you're right -- it's all irrational.
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Red Queen to Gryphon Three is the best, in my humble opinion.
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1 (i) Gong - You
1 (ii) Camel - Mirage
1 (iii) Queen - Queen II
1 (iv) Supertramp - Crime of the Century
1 (v) Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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1 TPaTG
2 Crime of the Century
3 Relayer
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
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OK, here's my list:

1. Red
2. Hatfield and the North
3. Crime of the Century
4. Mirage
5. Hamburger Concerto
6. Rock Bottom
7. Relayer
8. Turn of the Cards

Edited by Ghost Rider - August 02 2006 at 09:40
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