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    Posted: February 20 2011 at 02:54
PG is chock full of great ideas but Quadrophenia sees great ideas through to fruition. Hence my vote and also my general view of both bands. LZ are better at coming up with great ideas and great musical moments rather than entire songs or albums.  Who, especially circa Quadrophenia, rely too much on spinning variations of the Won't get fooled again refrain but their consistency is winsome.
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Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Easiest poll ever.
 
Physical Graffiti is far from being the Zeppelin I enjoy, although disc 2 has some good tunes.
 
Quadrophenia on the other hand, is another artistical peak from The Who. A masterpiece of creative rock.



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I love PG and I voted for it, but I have to admit Quad has an amazing album flow that Zepp never had. Both two great albums. 
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2011 at 21:48
Easiest poll ever.
 
Physical Graffiti is far from being the Zeppelin I enjoy, although disc 2 has some good tunes.
 
Quadrophenia on the other hand, is another artistical peak from The Who. A masterpiece of creative rock.
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Points: 17362 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2011 at 21:38
Originally posted by Adams Bolero Adams Bolero wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Well, there's plenty of nude album covers on the site, so what's the difference if they see it here vs the artist pages?
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Well, there's plenty of nude album covers on the site, so what's the difference if they see it here vs the artist pages?
Very good point. I completely forgot about that. The cover of Gong's Acid Motherhood album comes to mind. Even adults should be stopped from seeing that coverPinch 
Ya Ho Wha 13's album ''I'm Gonna Take You Home'' is probably the dodgiest cover i've seen. One of the great things about being a Prog fan is that we have such a varied selection of erotic covers to oggle overLOL
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Well, there's plenty of nude album covers on the site, so what's the difference if they see it here vs the artist pages?
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Led Zeppelin for sure. By the way I'm no prude but does PA allow nude avatars? I'm sure many younger prog fans are here and we don't want to sexualize them at a young age.

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Originally posted by Misomex777 Misomex777 wrote:

These cds are not prog rockConfused
 
They're not? The bands themselves certainly wouldn't be labelled "prog-rock"performers; however, the albums themselves are very progressive. Quadrophenia is an extremely complex concept album, and the song "Lover Reign O'er Me" is the epitome of a prog-rock opus, with synth orchestration and varying time signatures (I don't see much difference between this and, say, The Wall as far as compositional content) . Physical Graffiti features extended instumentals and lengthier songs than the average Zeppelin album, and the influences run from funk to blues to country to Middle-eastern music. Can you actually say "Kashmir" is not progressive?
 
But then I believe the term "progressive" denotes a frame of reference for specific compositions, and not necessarily for entire albums. Not every song on an album from Genesis, Tull, ELP, King Crimson or Pink Floyd are what could be termed  "progressive". Nevertheless we tag the bands as such. The need to stratify and delineate each band and place them neatly into convenient little categorical boxes gets a bit overzealous at times.
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I'm not a big fan of either but i prefer Physical Graffiti
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Actually played both of them this past week.  Two of my favorite albums.

Physical Graffiti by the skinniest of hairs.
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Points: 14258 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2011 at 08:46
I love parts of Quadrophenia, tho its uneven, but most of PhysGraffiti is legendary
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quadro by far though i like PG
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Points: 1302 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2011 at 23:29
Physical Graffiti. I think Quadrophenia is the only Who I can still listen to.
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Definatly Physical Graffitti
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Points: 21795 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2011 at 17:26
Quadrophenia, that's what I put on when I'm depressed.
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Points: 17990 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2011 at 17:21
I cannot vote...I saw the post this morning and since then I just cannot do it. Both are epic, monster albums in my catalog. Each has its own ups and downs....and to me they cancel out.
 
I just can't pull the trigger.....Confused
 
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Zepp for me,not that big a fan of Quadraphenia i'm afraidConfused
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Points: 2555 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2011 at 11:28
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Points: 12818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2011 at 11:07
I can happily sit through Quad and then play it again because of a high quality consistency of almost everything rock music-wise, IMHO. Never been able to do that with PG, although several major tunes there ......alas sitting amongst some  mediocre.

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