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Valarius
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Topic: Pick Only One #3 - Favourite Album Posted: May 06 2015 at 04:40 |
Been away for a few days, but I'm back online now and delivering edition three of everyone's favourite new series of threads; Pick Only One. We've done favourite band and guitarist, so now let's up the stakes and pick one that'll really challenge you all; Favourite album.
The rules are simple (as if the name of the thread doesn't give it away). No runners up. No second best. No honorable mentions. No join firsts. No "I couldn't decide between...". This is a thread series where we separate the boys from the men (and the girls from the women). Where you have to suck it up, grow a pair, and pick only one answer. (Ladies, do whatever the female equivalent is of "growing a pair"...) And please share with us anything about this album, what it means to you, why it's your choice etc. It's fun to read.
So to start of, here's mine:  I'd only heard of Dream Theater at this point, but in 2003 I took a random chance and bought this album. At 16-years of age and only doing a paper-round at the time, the £10 I splashed out on this in a Virgin Megastore seemed a big risk. But it paid off. Initially I didn't like this album. I didn't understand Prog and thought they were sh*t. But I loved my metal, and the intro to Pull Me Under kept me coming back for more until, in time, the album grew on me and I fell in love with every song.
Right now, I've not been listening to too much Dream Theater, but it won't change the fact that Images and Words is my favourite album ever, and one of the most important musical purchases of my life.
Edited by Valarius - May 06 2015 at 04:48
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 08:16 |
This is surely the hardest question (ignoring our little vote in Blighty tomorrow  ) It changes, and it will probably change again, but right now: Anathema - Weather SystemsWhy? Employ these words: Goosebumps, epic, soaring, emotional, heartbraking. And I just love the incredible male/female singer combination on this album. It's not the proggiest of prog, before anyone says, but it is perfect. Shall I discuss my nearlies, or just start another thread....?  BTW, Images And Words is amazing and would be in my top ten
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 08:31 |
Triumvirat-Illusions On A Double Dimple-well, it is the reason I started to really take prog seriously, and listen to it avidly, and that was back in the summer of '85 when I discovered this record (lent to me by Walton Street). And for me, it has stood the test of time so incredibly well-more than any other recording; the music is just as refreshing and clear as it was for me initially 30 years ago! Symphonic Prog at it's finest.
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 08:31 |
*Stepping up to the plate* Yes - Relayer. Although I can see arguments for CTTE or TFTO as Yes' best album - and I have even been known on occasion to make such arguments - nothing blows me away like Gates of Delirium, and therefore I have to vote for the album that contains it. No Yes album is perfect, but this is the one that features the most perfect Yes song, and therefore has to be my choice for favorite album.
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 08:52 |
Currently Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors
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Ian
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 09:06 |
At the moment I'd say The Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 09:16 |
Hounds of Love
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sublime220
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 10:07 |
I guess it has to be Octopus.
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 10:11 |
Kid A
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 10:24 |

Edited by benbell - May 06 2015 at 10:25
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sublime220
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 10:26 |
Polymorphia wrote:
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Honestly would be the next one I would choose.
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 11:31 |
Frances the Mute.
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 11:54 |
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 12:52 |
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That would have been my second choice. If I had been, you know, allowed to have a second choice. Which I understand I am not.
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 12:55 |
For sheer impact in my life and what music could be, the choice for me would be Operation: Mindcrime by Queensryche. I discovered it just when I was starting to get embarrassed for heavy metal (It was the heyday of hair metal and I was not impressed). I liked their prior album, Rage For Order a lot and it was starting to grow away from a traditional NWOHM sound. I felt that my tastes were becoming more sophisticated. ;p
What I heard was so much more aggressive, wonderfully so, but with a story and still with the musical and lyrical challenge I wanted. It was probably my favorite for most of the past 25 years.
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More heavy prog, please!
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 13:43 |
hmmm, Sgt Pe.........oh wait it's on the left of this comment you're reading right now! 
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 14:19 |
Close To The Edge
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Posted: May 06 2015 at 16:36 |
I don't have a favorite, I have favorites, but my favorite is Absolutely Freak Out by Acid Mothers Temple
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