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    Posted: May 15 2014 at 13:07
Genesis for me, but I love all of them so much! 

Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a MemoryThe Lamb Lies Down on BroadwayQuadrophenia
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The lamb, followed by The Who then DT.

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I haven't heard Quadrophenia, but The Lamb is perfect in my book. Not that Metropolis is bad, of course! But the Lamb is, well, The Lamb.
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First vote for DT.  Quadrophenia and the Lamb are both OK but I've never really gotten into their concepts, where as with DT I enjoy the concept.
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Disc One of Lamb blows just about everything out of the water but Disc Two goes AWOL imo. Quadrophenia is consistent all the way through so I voted for that. Don't care for that DT album (although I do like some of their stuff such as Awake,Octavarium and Change Of Seasons) 

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Quadrophenia by far for now, gonna try and sit through the just-about 95 minutes of Genesis again (oh lord help me!) one of these days as it is the one album from them im scared of the most (not totally though)
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The Lamb.
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I don't like Quadraphenia at all, can tolerate DT and like The Lamb without considering a masterpiece - it could have been a magnificent single album if they'd cut the garbage out and kept the gems.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Disc One of Lamb blows just about everything out of the water but Disc Two goes AWOL imo.

Disc 2 is still brilliant, there's just a bit some filler in stuff like "The Waiting Room", "Ravine", and "Silent Sorrow". Some great songs though, especially "Anyway", "Colony Of Slippermen", "Riding The Scree", etc. but there's no way it could keep up with the standard of disc 1 Unhappy
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I think Lamb is about the whole voyage. Not a minute less. It's perfect like that.
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The Lamb.  Smile
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The Lamb fo sho.
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Quadrophenia is brilliant. The others, less so. And unlike Lamb, which descends into mythological pablum by the second half, The Who's stunning "Love Reign O'er Me" is one of the greatest finales of any rock album, be it concept or not. 
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I'm gonna have to go with The Lamb because the other two, while I do like them, kinda have a similar sound throughout. Plus the lyrics on The Lamb are just fun.
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Originally posted by Xonty Xonty wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Disc One of Lamb blows just about everything out of the water but Disc Two goes AWOL imo.

Disc 2 is still brilliant, there's just a bit some filler in stuff like "The Waiting Room", "Ravine", and "Silent Sorrow". Some great songs though, especially "Anyway", "Colony Of Slippermen", "Riding The Scree", etc. but there's no way it could keep up with the standard of disc 1 Unhappy

The Lamia is as brilliant as anything on Disc 1 IMHO.

Anyway, I voted for The Lamb because I think it simply blows the other two albums away. The other two albums are one-dimensional and offer nothing remotely moving to these ears.


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I like all three, but I'll vote for Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory.
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I like all three. Quadrophenia gets my vote.
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I cast a stone towards Dream Theater to be different but really Genesis wins this hands down
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