Your favorite, everybody's worst (and vice versa)?

Tubular Bells is an amazing piece of work for a 17-yr-old to compose and later record at the age of 19. I bet nobody here could've done anything like that when we were teenagers.

My favourite Pink Floyd albums are Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother - both often near the bottom of many Floydians' lists.

Edited by Stool Man - May 20 2013 at 03:21

Moving Pictures is only my 6th or 7th favourite Rush album.

I think The Final Cut is Pink Floyd's best album after the Big 5.

progbethyname wrote: I like Tangerine Dream's Hyperborea better than Tangram and force Majour

Edited by richardh - May 21 2013 at 14:47

I like Trespass and And Then There Were Three most of Genesis, more than what came between those albums

I've always greatly enjoyed many of the Tangerine Dream albums from that period, even the `Firestarter' soundtrack worked beautifully on it's own too.

RichardH and Nick, you've inspired me today....going to go on a bit of an 80's TDream bender when I start work shortly! Long overdue!

As you were, gentlemen!

progbethyname wrote: As I was? Well if you mean listening to copious amounts of prog in my Underware, then yes I shall return to my glory. Lol Anyway, I really reccomend picking up the savvy compilation Riding on the ray. It's a 2 disc set with highlights from their catalog from 1980-1987. Enjoy buddy.

Hey, whatever your trip is, baby, you just keep right on doing it!   

OK, I'm sort of cheating, the 80's Tangerine Dream-athon has started with `Force Majeure'!

Forgot to mention, RichardH, I quite liked `Le Parc' as well, all pleasant and undemanding but still respectable.

Thanks for the info about the `Kyoto' album, Richard, that one definately passed me by, but even your description of it sounds fascinating and promising!

Halfway through `Logos' right now!

I wished more people could see the worth of the 80's TDream works!

A lot of everybody's favorites are not my fav, but usually somewhere in top 5 or 10.

Amongst more criticized albums I really love Uriah Heep's 'Wonderworld' and Queen's 'Hot Space'.

Stool Man wrote: Tubular Bells is an amazing piece of work for a 17-yr-old to compose and later record at the age of 19. I bet nobody here could've done anything like that when we were teenagers.

richardh wrote: Morsenator wrote: richardh wrote: Morsenator wrote: Tubular Bells is my 12th or so favourite Mike Oldfield album (some albums I rank well over it are TB II&III, Platinum, Five Miles Out and Guitars) My favourite Jean Michel Jarre album is Oxygene 7-13, which I absolutely love. Perelandra is one of my favourites from Glass Hammer. I agree on Mike Oldfield although I think his run of albums from Tubular Bells to Discovery is fantastic and then after that there are still gems like Songs Of Distant Earth and Amarok. So putting TB at number 12 in a Mike Oldfield list is no disgrace JM Jarre - wouldn't be able to go with that although I do like that album I'm a big GH fan but my collection only starts from Chronometree . I'm going to have to hunt down that album. BTW I rated Three Cheers For The Broken Hearted as a 5 star album (although GH have several imo) Yeah, no disgrace to TB was intended I just don't think it's such a full-blown masterpiece many people regard it as. Ommadawn, Amarok and TSoDE etc. are in a whole different level to it. And yeah, you need to get Perelandra, there are some great tracks there. Time Marches On is maybe my fav GH song. TB is well known to be several pieces composed over 3 to 4 years I think. I like side two a lot more than side one especially the girlie choir bit but in general I think less is more when Oldfield decided what he wanted to achieve with 40-45 minutes of music. I've ordered Perelandra btw

Yeah, I know that TB is an amazing thing for a teenager in the 70's to compose. It could be that hearing about 20 different or not-so-different versions of Side 1 have just made me not want to listen it again in any near future Side 2 is has some very neat stuff, I agree. That beginning

I too should get more GH albums, I've heard almost them all but only have Perelandra and Perilous.. There's like some 200 prog records I would buy right now if I had the money Btw I'm currently reading That Hideous Strength by C.S.Lewis for the second time.. not a bad trilogy to get inspiration for a prog album

My favorite KISS is Dynasty, and my favorite from The Smiths is their debut.