The "Big Six": 1971
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Topic: The "Big Six": 1971
Posted By: Xonty
Subject: The "Big Six": 1971
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 11:02
A few classics in here, so I imagine this will be a difficult vote for most!  Nursery Cryme and Aqualung are incredibly tight for me, but I'll have to give this one to my beloved Genesis again  The Yes albums are right up there for me too - four 5-star albums!TFAF
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Posted By: O666
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 11:47
| ISLANDS |
Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 11:48
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Tull again, this becomes boring
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 11:52
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Nursery Cryme, with Fragile nipping at its heels.
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 11:55
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Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 12:24
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Tarkus, followed by Aqualung and Nursery Cryme. -------------  
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Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 12:35
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Wow, tough call Fragile and Aqualung are two of my all time faves The rest are all really good as well. Fragile I guess. ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 12:36
| Nursery Cryme followed by Tarkus |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 13:05
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Yes - Fragile
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 13:15
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Genesis -------------   
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 13:27
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Tarkus, then a tie between Fragile and Aqualung. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 13:28
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A tossup between Tarkus and Meddle, Meddle wins the toss.
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Posted By: melotron98
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 13:29
| Tarkus |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 13:47
| Meddle > Yes Album > Fragile > Tarkus > Nursery Cryme > Aqualung |
Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 13:54
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The Yes Album ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 13:55
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 14:14
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Nursery Cryme, then Aqualung, then Meddle (Echoes is the best thing here), then The Yes Album. Not much between all of them.
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Posted By: fudgenuts64
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 14:31
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Cryme, such a great pastoral album. I love Fragile too though.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 14:32
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1-3 Meddle, Nursery, Islands, 4-6 Fragile, Aqualung, Yes Album - All great! 7 the Peter Frampton of prog
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 14:50
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Fragile, just before The Yes Album and Nursery Cryme. But my favorite track off all of the albums in the poll is the "Tarkus" suite.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 14:55
| Fragile |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 15:05
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Tarkus over Nursery Cryme for me. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 15:13
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A remarkably strong selection: five 5-star albums in my book! 1. Meddle 2. Nursery Cryme 3. Fragile 4. Islands 5. The Yes Album 6. Aqualung 7. Tarkus ------------- 
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 15:56
| I can't believe me, but Crimson again. |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 16:19
| Aqualung, Meddle, or Fragile. As an album, I think Fragile holds up the best, although Aqualung has higher highs, I think it has lower lows too, and Meddle is really just OOTD and Echoes for me. Fragile it is. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 16:25
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Hmmm Fragile or Meddle ? Going with Floyd this time. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 16:47
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Aqualung ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Kirillov
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 16:50
| Nursery Cryme, just ahead of Islands |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 19:12
Nursery Cryme with Aqualung as close runner up. |
Xonty wrote:Posted By: Kentucky_Hawkwindage
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 19:26
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I probaly wouldn't have voted this way 35 years ago,but today with i go with Tarkus. ------------- "Nobody's Gonna Change My World That's Something To Unreal" Lyrics that i live my life by-from Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy's track You Won't Change Me |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 20:22
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I don't know King Crimson - Islands so I can't vote, but if it was not in this "Big Seven": 1971 list I would vote for ELP - Tarkus as their ground breaking style most excited me. I'd like to mention Le Orme - Collage as another great album to be included too and somewhat underrated, but other people as well would think of many others they would love were included too, there are a bunch of other famous 71' albums that I'm still waiting the opportunity to know. -------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 20:30
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Genesis' Nursery Cryme for me of course, but I love Floyd's Meddle and King Crimson's Islands. I do like both The Yes Album and Fragile a lot as well. ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 20:34
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Aqualung
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Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 21:27
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Impossible!! l like them all.
Vote Nursery Cryme, my favourite Genesis album. Meddle and Islands close behind.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 21:31
| Fragile, easily, for me. |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 22:57
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Fragile---an innovative landmark prog album--with a great beat, original sound and still sounds fresh after all these years. The guys were on a creative roll.
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Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 23:00
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Aqualung again. I hate the production on Nursery Cryme and find Fragile disjointed. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: JesusisLord
Date Posted: August 13 2014 at 23:58
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Wanted so much to go for Aqualung, but not against The Musical Box ------------- And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Phillipians 2:11 |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 01:11
Tend to think that Fragile has 'filler' rather than being disjointed. Its interesting to me that none of the albums in the list are perfect in terms of flow , concept or not having some less impressive stuff. Each album in the list has amazing tracks though. I went for Fragile although it was a close run thing with Tarkus. Both albums feel to me like a leap forward and while ELP produced arguably their greatest masterwork with the Tarkus suite I think Yes had the edge with their trio of symphonic masterworks that inhabit Fragile and the filler is at least interesting.
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 01:34
| all are excellent minus King Crimson , my vote is Emerson, Lake And Palmer - Tarkus (4.04) |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 02:49
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Fragile ------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 03:35
I always thought Aqualung's production was pretty bad, and songs like Wondering Aloud disrupted the flow (even if they were quite pretty), but I guess that's just me
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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 04:21
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Aqualung
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Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 06:23
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Fragile without question for me! I won't lie, this was a tricky poll!
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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 07:17
Given your avatar I thought you might have voted differently........
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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 07:27
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This is the most difficult of these polls so far without doubt. A selection of seminal albums of such great quality, this shows how good a year for prog 1971 was. Two from Yes in the same year as well!! This is particularly tough for me. As a Floyd fan I absolutely love Echoes and One of These Days but the rest of Meddle is I feel of a much lower standard than that, still overall a 5-star album. I'm not usually that partial to Tull or KC but the selections here are my favourite from each of them. Nursery Cryme is great as are both the Yes albums, although the solo pieces spoil the flow of Fragile in my opinion. Tarkus is a fabulous album too. Honestly I could pick any of these on a given day, but this time I'll go with Meddle - it needs the vote!!
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Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 12:01
| King Crimson. Again. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 12:05
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Nursery Cryme ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 14:51
24 before my love and I'll be there then Mr. Wakeman solos~ 
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: August 14 2014 at 15:22
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torn between The Yes Album, Fragile, & Meddle. i picked Fragile but that could change. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: August 15 2014 at 12:26
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Crim>Floyd>Tull>Yes (Fragile) ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: SquonkHunter
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 20:38
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The Yes Album as my sentimental favorite. This was my first in-depth exposure to Prog. Fragile right behind it.The rest behind. ------------- "You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..." |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 20:43
| This lot is really tough - Fragile, I think, for today.... |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 15:31
Yes, Fragile.------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 16:50
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Aqualung
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Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 22:20
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Fragile the best album. But Tull the best band with the inclusion of Life is a long song EP.
The Yes album is full of songs made in 1970. Time and a word is songs made in 1969. ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |