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Poll Question: Which Album do You Prefer?
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    Posted: September 22 2009 at 19:16

Both these albums were released by Ian Anderson and company.  Both were released back-to-back.  Both are concept albums.  And both have just one long piece--a radio programmer's nightmare!  And yes, both of them are prog!

Which do you prefer?
 
I love both equally.  But I give THICK AS A BRICK a slight nod due to its brillient Monty Python-esque newspaper parody cover.
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I'm a fan of Thick as a Brick, but I am afraid to say that I have not heard Passion Play.
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While I adore Thick as a Brick, I now much prefer A Passion Play.  The latter is more coherent musically (though I would not have said so a year ago).
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It's quite similar, except that synthesizers were employed for the first time.  Also, it's a bit more "prog" than THICK. 
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Didnt we have this poll like a week ago?
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Originally posted by rpe9p rpe9p wrote:

Didnt we have this poll like a week ago?
That's what I was thinking! Shocked  Anyway, I took the cowards way out this time and voted for BOTH of them since I had the opportunity.  Both are great - yet - different.  I agree with Epignosis that A Passion Play is actually more coherent overall.  It is its unusual sound that makes it seem otherwise.
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TAAB is one of the finest albums ever made.  APP one of the worst.  So you know where my vote went.
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Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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I like both, equally for sure
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The last TaaB-APP poll was launched on August 27, 2009 by Phideaux.
My opinion has not changed dureing the last 27 days. I vote for Thick as a Brick. I find A Passion Play harder to get into and to me it seems less coherent, although it has some very fine moments.
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Originally posted by rpe9p rpe9p wrote:

Didnt we have this poll like a week ago?
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APP for me
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Sorry, I didn't know about the other poll!  I haven't been on this site in a while.
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think has a brik
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My vote goes to APP by a "hare." TAAB makes me want to march off to war, for some reason. APP makes me want to ponder the beauty of not knowing.

Edited by Ronnie Pilgrim - March 10 2010 at 19:54
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Option No. 3.

I'm not exactly the world's biggest Tull fan, but I won't deny that TAAB and APP are great albums and their best (maybe because they are also their proggiest.)
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Points: 366 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2010 at 19:21
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

While I adore Thick as a Brick, I now much prefer A Passion Play.  The latter is more coherent musically (though I would not have said so a year ago).


I voted for A Passion Play, because I love it. Actually I don't like Thick as a Brick so much, though it's a masterpiece. But I like the version in The 25th Anniversary Boxed Set (Disc 3, The Beacons Bottom Tapes) (1993).

The length is 9.01, and the music is very thick, coherent. It is a true masterpiece! But I assume we were not voting about that version. Maybe I should put up a poll. I'll do that. Here, TaaB vs TaaB: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=65448

Everyone should get that version.

Edit: oops, the poll was about albums. I don't know about that, haha ;D


Edited by progressive - March 01 2010 at 23:55

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