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Poll Question: Which do you like best?
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

There has always been a certain amount of reappraisal of ELP after the shambles of the Orchestral tour (well from a financial standpoint anyway) so a band that was once highly regarded suddenly became one of the bands to beat up on especially after punk. 

The noted Australian DJ Alan Freeman who worked on British Radio in the seventies and was a massive prog fan regarded Wish You Were as the zenith of prog rock. He also had Brain Salad Surgery very high in his list. We will never agree on this but a top 5 prog album list will always contain either Wish You Were Here or Dark Side Of The Moon (or both!)




It's definitely possible that something by Pink Floyd was in there. I don't think so, but this was so long ago that I absolutely can't discount it. I'm certain that Close to the Edge was #1 because I was very excited about that. Keep in mind this was the very first prog list I had ever seen, so I had absolutely no idea what to expect. I obviously knew that Yes was at least a reasonably popular band, and here they were at Number 1! And I remember Fragile being right up there also(I don't remember the exact number). I just reconstructed that list as best I could from what I remembered. And I know this part people on here will argue and say it's my 'fanboyism' trying to rewrite history, but I'm CERTAIN that Brain Salad Surgery was very high as well. I actually want to say it was like #3 or #4. I just put 5 before because I thought it looked more believable. And then I don't actually remember Selling England by the Pound on there(oddly enough)... and actually the more I think about it, I think A Trick of the Tail might have been higher on the list. This list had more than 5 btw lol. I'm just attempting to reconstruct the top 5 from memory(this was well over 20 years ago). It feels like A Trick of the Tail was the top Genesis album on there.. Ahead of both The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Selling England. Again I could be wrong about that but for some reason I have that in my mind. And Thick as a Brick was on there somewhere very close to the top 5 as well.

Oh well, the only thing I'm certain about is that Close to the Edge was #1, Fragile was right up there as well.. And so was Brain Salad Surgery!

Edit: btw I put Selling England by the Pound at 4. before just because that would make sense to me. Same with In The Court of the Crimson King at 2, I don't remember it being there but it makes sense to me that it would have been.


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Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:


The noted Australian DJ Alan Freeman who worked on British Radio in the seventies and was a massive prog fan regarded Wish You Were as the zenith of prog rock. He also had Brain Salad Surgery very high in his list. We will never agree on this but a top 5 prog album list will always contain either Wish You Were Here or Dark Side Of The Moon (or both!)
 
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The Alan Freeman "Pick of the Pops" Show was always very loud. It definitely wasn't a good time to take a nap. Smile
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:


The noted Australian DJ Alan Freeman who worked on British Radio in the seventies and was a massive prog fan regarded Wish You Were as the zenith of prog rock. He also had Brain Salad Surgery very high in his list. We will never agree on this but a top 5 prog album list will always contain either Wish You Were Here or Dark Side Of The Moon (or both!)
 
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That's LOUD lol. Even on low volume.
 
The Alan Freeman "Pick of the Pops" Show was always very loud. It definitely wasn't a good time to take a nap. Smile
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Haha, yeah I could see that lol. Btw I just noticed your sig.. pretty hilarious at this point huh.
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Yeah, bearing in mind that Mick Jagger is now 76 years old and he's STILL singing "Satisfaction" today does seem pretty hilarious when he once said in his younger days that he'd rather be dead than still singing "Satisfaction" when he was 45 years old. Tongue 
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Yeah, bearing in mind that Mick Jagger is now 76 years old and he's STILL singing "Satisfaction" today does seem pretty hilarious when he once said in his younger days that he'd rather be dead than still singing "Satisfaction" when he was 45 years old. Tongue 


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Tarkus for me
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BSS >> Tarkus > ELP > Trilogy
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Love all four but BSS is the one for me.
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Brain Salad Surgery starting to catch up here, no longer in last place. That's more like it.
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Interesting that the poll goes against the PA ratings as the debut is about 0.3 higher than the other 3. Also Trilogy is generally not considered their best from that era. I think though it showed them being a bit more introspective and perhaps Greg Lake took more of a lead on that album and that appeals to those who don't like the 'grand-standing' of the other 2.

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Well if people want to vote Trilogy as their best album, so be it lol. I just didn't want such an all time classic prog album like Brain Salad Surgery to come in last, and it looks like it's not going to so it's all good now.
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Tarkus these days
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the Debut for me

but they are all great
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Originally posted by digdug digdug wrote:

the Debut for me

but they are all great


That they are. All time great albums, without question.
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What what's.. Brain Salad Surgery(once consider an all time prog masterpiece) in last place?!?

Oh well, the the majority has spoken
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^ umm.. all four are considered all time prog masterpieces and the vote sort of points that out I suppose.

anyhow..  though I'd consider Trilogy their best album, BSS their most definitive album, and Tarkus their most important album..  personally I like the debut the best so it gets my vote.
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Tarkus.
 
But then Trilogy is pretty good in places.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

^ umm.. all four are considered all time prog masterpieces and the vote sort of points that out I suppose.

anyhow..  though I'd consider Trilogy their best album, BSS their most definitive album, and Tarkus their most important album..  personally I like the debut the best so it gets my vote.


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I should re-listen to Brain Salad Surgery that is an enjoyable album but at the moment I vote for EL&P, 1970.

Tarkus includes a good suite but the other side is very weak.

Trilogy is the weakest album of these four. 

Anyway, I'm not a fan of the group.

I consider these four albums quite good but very far to be a masterpiece.
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