Pick Only One #3 - Favourite Album
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Topic: Pick Only One #3 - Favourite Album
Posted By: Valarius
Subject: Pick Only One #3 - Favourite Album
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 04:40
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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. |
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date 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 Systems Why? 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  |
Posted By: presdoug
Date 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. |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 08:31
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*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 By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 08:52
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Currently Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 09:06
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At the moment I'd say The Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 09:16
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Hounds of Love ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 10:07
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I guess it has to be Octopus. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 10:11
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Kid A ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: benbell
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 10:24
 ------------- http://www.gandalfsfist.com/" rel="nofollow - Gandalf's Fist http://www.patchworkcacophony.com/" rel="nofollow - Patchwork Cacophony |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 10:26
------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Polymorphia wrote:Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 11:31
Frances the Mute. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 11:54
/cosigned ------------- 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 12:46
 ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 12:52
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 By: twalsh
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 12:55
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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.  ------------- More heavy prog, please! |
Posted By: Michael678
Date 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!  ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: justin4950834-2
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 14:19
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Close To The Edge |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 15:26
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Posted By: twseel
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 16:36
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I don't have a favorite, I have favorites, but my favorite is Absolutely Freak Out by Acid Mothers Temple ------------- 
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 18:15
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David Sancious, Bruce Springsteen's original piano player and sideman extraordinaire. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 19:45
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man.. that is hard. ONE album to rule them all... especially if one loves many genres with equal passion.. if someone put a gun against my head and forced me to pick ONE. It would be this one.. I can live without the Allmans, the Airplane, Willie, Lady Day, Battiato, Osanna... but I simply couldn't without this album. Rach plays Rach... very dear to my heart.. and soul. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Gully Foyle
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 19:47
right now? |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 20:53
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Rael Imperial Aerosol King ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Terakonin
Date Posted: May 06 2015 at 23:21
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King Crimson - Red. Starless, Fallen Angel and One More Red Nightmare just do it for me. ------------- You left a note in your perfect script Stay as long as you like I haven't left your bed since |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: May 07 2015 at 09:30
| I think L'Isola Di Niente by Premiata Forneria Marconi |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 07 2015 at 09:35
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Yes - Close to the Edge Years ago (I think it was in the late 1970s) I read that their only strive was perfection. Though they did not reach it, they came as close to its edge as is possible for human beings.
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 07 2015 at 15:12
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Brain Salad Surgery - ELP ------------- 
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: May 07 2015 at 16:42
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See my avatar, yes Permanent Waves. It's an album that suits my tastes perfectly. That melancholic vibe and the tone of the synths plus it takes me back to the early eighties when i'd drive around the beaches with this album cranked. Dark Side Of the Moon is my runnerup. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: May 08 2015 at 10:35
I get the feeling you love Triumvirat, big fella'. |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: May 08 2015 at 10:47
 I just can answer for today, and it is this one above.
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: May 10 2015 at 09:12
| Has been Red for a long time. |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: May 10 2015 at 09:56
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Right now I feel FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM's: ELYZIUM is an album that is god to me. The dark, gritty atmosphere created in this album is off the charts while soundwise it is easily the most lavishly produced by none much better than, Andy Jackson. ELYZIUM brings new meaning to gothic/atmospheric metal in general and for a 1990 release I feel sound-wise it is still relevant today. So yeah...melody, jaw dropping bass and huge atmospheric soundscapes make this the perfect sonic Elysium for me. :) Prog on. ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: May 10 2015 at 11:25
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hmmm.......it changes every few weeks, but based on the impression it made on me way back then, the enjoyment I still get when I dig it out and hear it full volume via headphones in the dark..... Still can't understand why it is still very underrated by too many so-called experts... I blame Geoff Barton for a ho-hum review in 'Sounds' back in 1978!
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: May 11 2015 at 21:27
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Approaching Silence - David Sylvian ------------- |