The "Big Six": 1974
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Topic: The "Big Six": 1974
Posted By: Xonty
Subject: The "Big Six": 1974
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 14:20
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My favourite year for music (for prog at least). Again, not too difficult seeing ELP and Pink Floyd didn't release any albums then. If you've looked at the other polls, you can probably guess who I'm voting for  I think I'll be amazed if JT get any votes, but we'll see  As always, thanks for any feedback..
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Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 14:28
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Another massive year for progressive rock. For me, it goes to Relayer hands down. 1. Relayer 2. Red 3. Lamb 4. Starless 5. War Child
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Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 14:32
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Red The Lamb Relayer Starless War Child
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Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 14:45
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Easily The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway ! I consider it a real masterpiece! My all times Genesis favourite album. The other ones are either excessively folk or don't manage to move me at all ( Yes - Relayer for example the only ones I enjoy are To Be Over and Gates Of Delirium which unfortunately tires me after some listenings.)
-------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 14:48
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Relayer big time! Red gets honorable mention... still need to listen to it more, though Starless has potential for me ("well no sh*t sherlock!!") ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 15:03
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Red>Relayer>Starless>Lamb
------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 15:07
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Relayer. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 15:07
I can't decide between Red and Relayer 
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Posted By: Progfan1958
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 15:14
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Relayer ------------- Progfan1958 "Peace to you all" "La paix est avec vous" "Pax vobiscum" "Al salaam a'alaykum" "Vrede zij met u allen" "Shalom aleichem" |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 15:16
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1 Relayer 2 The Lamb 3 Red 4 Starless 5 War Child
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Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 15:27
I can't decide between Relayer and The Lamb --------today The Lamb.
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 15:37
^^  ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: fudgenuts64
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 15:49
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Picked Relayer. I really like Gates of Delirium. Lamb is really good, but too much filler.
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Posted By: Prog 74
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 15:57
| The Lamb for me |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 16:07
| Red! |
Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 16:10
| The lamb |
Posted By: tboyd1802
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 16:21
| Easy, Red. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 17:08
The same for me... exactly.   1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis 2. Relayer - Yes 3. Red - King Crimson 4. Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson 5. Warchild - Jethro Tull
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twosteves wrote:Posted By: Kentucky_Hawkwindage
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 17:15
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K.C. Red ------------- "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: Lota
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 17:47
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1. The Lamb
2. Red 3. Relayer 4. Starless and Bible 5. War Child ------------- And In The End, The Love You Take, Is Equal To The Love You Make |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 18:43
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Red over The Lamb ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 19:04
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1. The Lamb
2. Starless and Bible Black I don't understand the attraction to Red. Most everything seems so slow and boring on it to me. Providence is a fantastic piece, though. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 19:16
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Red and then Relayer. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 19:34
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Red or Relayer, Red or Relayer...tough choice. Either is one of the best albums these bands recorded. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 20:51
| Relayer. Just a cosmic blow-out start to finish. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 23:22
| This is the most difficult for me so far, for all of this albums have at least something I don't really like so much. As a whole, I think I like Red best... but I'll be voting for Relayer on the strength of Gates of Delirium. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 01:26
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Red ------------- 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: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 02:10
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Same |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 02:36
| Lamb, more quality songs. I can't vote for Red because Providence throws the whole thing off for me. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 03:07
| Red ( I like Providence) |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 03:10
To each his own! Rest of Red is truly great. Feel slightly bad for voting for Lamb.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 03:23
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Here's a weird thing : I have known Topographic and Lamb for around 25 years, and to this day, I have more 'trouble' seeing the genius in Lamb than the other, and I know them both inside and out, back to front.....
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Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 03:34
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Red
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 03:49
Relayer  ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 04:35
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Red Starless And Bible Black Relayer War Child/The Lamb |
Posted By: snowsnow
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 05:06
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The only 2 here that I adore are The Lamb and Relayer- both plain essential (IMHO) Today Relayer..."Stand and fight we do consider.."
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Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 05:32
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"Reminded of the inner pact between us" |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 05:51
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Red - King Crimson The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis Mirage - Camel Phaedra - Tangerine Dream Red Queen to Gryphon Three - Gryphon Eldorado - Electric Light Orchestra Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson Turn of the Cards - Renaissance Hero and Heroine - Strawbs Il Tempo Della Gioia - Quella Vecchia Locanda Illusions on a Double Dimple - Triumvirat Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Utopia The Power and the Glory - Gentle Giant Where Have I Known You Before - Return to Forever Exotic Birds and Fruit - Procol Harum The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage - Peter Hammill Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North Hamburger Concerto - Focus |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 05:53
| Well, that may be because Red is to KC what CTTE is to Yes or SEBTP is to Genesis. As in, it's an album that attracts lot of people who may not even be huge KC fans. ITCOTCK is another such album of KC. Relayer isn't quite in that category, which doesn't make it better or worse than Red. It's all down to preferences and I personally prefer Red. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 06:41
The Lamb gets my vote too, and that would also be my order of preference exactly. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 07:54
Very true, and Red is a stellar record.
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Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 08:33
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Went back and forth between Red and Lamb. If I remove my favorite song from each (Starless and Fly On a Windshield) and compare the remainder, Lamb wins.
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Posted By: thwok
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 10:12
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We all know that Red is one of the few albums at the apogee of progressive rock, unless you think "progressive" only means symphonic.with keyboards. However, I like to spread the love whenever possible. Therefore, I'm picking Starless and Bible Black. Incidentally, the fact that Fripp and company could come up with these two masterpieces in the SAME YEAR is simply astonishing to me. ------------- I am the funkiest man on the planet! |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 10:40
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Red, nothing else from the big six this year comes close, IMO. -------------  
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Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 10:42
| It's so very strange to me. Red is stripped down KC to such an extent that it seems like punk rock to me. If the Lamb were to be edged out by Starless and Bible Black that would at least make more sense to me. Oh well. |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 10:55
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The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway for me. Such a musically diverse album and contains, in my opinion, some of Genesis' most haunting and beautiful but with an extra dose of strange music. ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 10:56
You think Red is boring? Oh dear... ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: Kirillov
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 11:00
| Red |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 11:13
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1-The Lamb (I vote to this) 1- RED (I dont know why I choose another!!!) 3-Warchild 4- Starless I dont have No.2 in this poll. Hardest poll in "The Big Six" series for me. And I like Todd's Utopia so much.
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 12:07
Masters Of Rock  ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 12:37
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I can't help but notice the lack of Gentle Giant appreciation in these polls. For shame! ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 12:40
^^^ They were never part of the big six and never really that big but a f**king great band I tell you! ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: floflo79
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 13:36
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Lamb ------------- 
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Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 16:52
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The Red one
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Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: August 17 2014 at 23:24
^This x 2!
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 18 2014 at 02:36
| Red > The Lamb > Relayer, but they are all very close to each other in my personal top 3 |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: August 18 2014 at 17:48
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Wurdah itah ------------- 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. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 19 2014 at 04:53
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1. The Lamb Lies Down 2. Red 3. Relayer 4. Starless and Bible Black 5. War Child ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: snowsnow
Date Posted: August 19 2014 at 07:44
It is possible to find that King Crimson can leave one totally bemused i.e. me! |
Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: August 19 2014 at 08:33
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Relayer, but Lamb comes close ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: August 19 2014 at 08:50
------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 19 2014 at 08:53
| Relayer >> Red > SBB > Lamb >> War Child |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: August 19 2014 at 17:59
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From that list The lamb and Warchild remaster due to the bonus tracks ------------- 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. |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: August 20 2014 at 21:53
Yes, Relayer.------------- 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: Progosopher
Date Posted: August 22 2014 at 00:25
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1. Relayer
2. Lamb 3. Starless 4. Red 5. War ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |