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Poll Question: Pick the album you think should win!
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
10 [15.87%]
23 [36.51%]
16 [25.40%]
3 [4.76%]
5 [7.94%]
6 [9.52%]
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As much as I love Giant, I have to give my vote to Rush.
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40 votes in and Rush edge out Gentle Giant for the first time!
The contest was pretty tight in the 70s and in the 80s polls, and this continues on here!

I can now safely say that my expectations for the top two are met but I have no idea who will win. Let's see!
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Gentle Giant - 'Octopus' followed closely by Rush - 'Moving Pictures'.
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Beatles magnum opus
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All decent albums but Revolver is iconic for me...but then Im old........
Octopus has Advent .. and River...2 from them I really like but the rest of the lp doesn't grab me that much.
Rush has Sawyer, Limelight and Camera Eye..the rest are just ok...
Revolver is simply iconic on every single track ,,,,maybe they should have done a 5 minute version of Tomorrow Never knows to get the win.....Wink
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Octopus is a magnum opus of musical talent, complexity, and genius, and it gets my vote
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Octopus.
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Gentle Giant - 'Octopus' (1972)
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Usual report is coming: 50 votes in and things are beginning to look very good for 'Octopus'!
We still have four days of voting, so anything could happen.
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Anglagard - 'Hybris' (1992)
 
 
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Must say that none of the albums I voted for in any of the decade polls made its way to the finals ^^' .

I went for Octopus (that seems to be currently tied with Pink Floyd in the 70's poll).
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Since Revolver is the greatest popular album of all time I'm going to bypass it and vote for Big Big Train ahead of Gentle Giant.
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I'm disappointed to find that I only have one of these albums (Rush).  I have English Electric Full Power.  Never heard any Gentle Giant or Anglagard.  Only own the Beatles Number 1's album!

So I can't vote..... 
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Originally posted by essexboyinwales essexboyinwales wrote:

I'm disappointed to find that I only have one of these albums (Rush).  I have English Electric Full Power.  Never heard any Gentle Giant or Anglagard.  Only own the Beatles Number 1's album!

So I can't vote..... 
You can! No limitations like 'you have to know each album in the poll by heart'.
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Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Originally posted by essexboyinwales essexboyinwales wrote:

I'm disappointed to find that I only have one of these albums (Rush).  I have English Electric Full Power.  Never heard any Gentle Giant or Anglagard.  Only own the Beatles Number 1's album!

So I can't vote..... 
You can! No limitations like 'you have to know each album in the poll by heart'.

OK, well I went with BBT then!

Must listen to this Octopus thing.....
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All classics but Revolver is head and shoulders above them all
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Giant. Revolver is a great album, but Octopus is the one I'm most likely to pick up and play. 
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A peculiar observation: All the albums featured on the finals poll (except 'Revolver', which should not count, as we started from 1964) were released in the first three years of the featured decades... Does this indicate the forum users consider the first halves of the decades stronger in terms of musical output?

*'A Love Supreme' that represented 1964 was not too close to winning the 60s poll though!


Edited by A Crimson Mellotron - June 02 2021 at 11:46
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Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

A peculiar observation: All the albums featured on the finals poll (except 'Revolver', which should not count, as we started from 1964) were released in the first three years of the featured decades... Does this indicate the forum users consider the first halves of the decades stronger in terms of musical output?
 

I think this is not decade-wise but general. Starting from 1968-71 or so when "prog" started, people can more easily agree on older stuff. Some here live in the past, some others don't live in the past but more recent tastes are far more diversified, so generally older stuff has more potential to pick up many votes. If this is how it is, by implication it also means that we should expect albums from earlier years in each decade doing better - without having anything in particular to do with the decade
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