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In the spirit of the thread, I again will go with Abbey Road.

Harrison's two songs are both fabulous, but excepting those two songs, the rest of the album is relatively weak compared to their earlier work. I've never understood the pedestal created for nonsense like Maxwell, Poly Pam, Mr. Mustard. I want you? Lennon was really phoning it in here. I don't hate the album. It's still the Fabs, but I just feel like they were really eyeing the parking lot by this point, and I don't agree with the popular notion that this album was some rabbit pulled out of a hat. The songs of Let it Be are far stronger in my opinion despite that being the album people like to hate. Yes, I believe LIB is WAY, way better than Abbey Road any way you slice it.

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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

In the spirit of the thread, I again will go with Abbey Road.

Harrison's two songs are both fabulous, but excepting those two songs, the rest of the album is relatively weak compared to their earlier work. I've never understood the pedestal created for nonsense like Maxwell, Poly Pam, Mr. Mustard. I want you? Lennon was really phoning it in here. I don't hate the album. It's still the Fabs, but I just feel like they were really eyeing the parking lot by this point, and I don't agree with the popular notion that this album was some rabbit pulled out of a hat. The songs of Let it Be are far stronger in my opinion despite that being the album people like to hate. Yes, I believe LIB is WAY, way better than Abbey Road any way you slice it.



would you accept Pam, Maxwell & Mustard from Zappa?

If yes, accept it from the fab four. IMHO, Abbey Road is by far their better albums, with LIB a distant second, just ahead of Sgt Pepper.

The studio side of LIB is half-baked, sometimes sounding like somebad tracks from White Album... and Spector's got nothuing to do with my remark.


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I knew I'd be roasted for saying that, but I stand by it ferociously. Aside from the throwaway junk Maggie/Dig it, there isn't a bad track there. Instead there is some really beautiful stuff (Across the Universe better than anything John did on Abbey), Long Winding, and more rock/roll passion than they'd managed in a long time.

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Wait a sec, Hugues. Are you saying you think LIB is their second best album of all of them?
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Originally posted by Valdez Valdez wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2
Opeth - Still Life
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Big Big Train - English Electric
Kansas - Leftoverture
Neil Morse - ?
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Spocks Beard - V
Steely Dan - Aja


I agree with you on almost all of these but I have never heard of anyone not liking Steely Dans Aja.


No idea why, I've tried several times, the production is excellent but it never connects with me.
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Makes me wonder if anyone prefers Gaucho to Aja?
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I like gaucho and the royal scam too. Haven’t listened to them in a while though.
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I probably spin Aja on a monthly basis, for me it has everything that Steely Dan is. I play Gaucho as well, but Aja has everything for me. Production wise easily one of the best ever.
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Steely's best is IMHO Royal Scam, but I was never big about Dan



Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Wait a sec, Hugues. Are you saying you think LIB is their second best album of all of them?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCcJZRtkXc

Just ahead of Sgt, Revolver & Rubber Soul.

Never big on MMT or White Album (too much junk on those)




Edited by Sean Trane - 1 hour 8 minutes ago at 17:05
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Can't stomach this one

Should be titled Let It Come Up


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