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Posted: May 15 2013 at 09:48

Love the way this thread is turning !

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 10:01

Ummagumma is easily one of my favorite pf albums. Both the first AND second side

Lizard is the best KC album by far

Red is one of my least favorite.

Trilogy is by far the worst elp album

I can't stand Steven Wilson's music

most Rush is boring,

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 10:30

presdoug wrote:

The.Crimson.King wrote:

presdoug wrote:

7) Just about my all time favorite PFM album is Chocolate Kings, so many bad things said about it, but for me, the band are firing on all six cylinders on that record!

I think Chocolate Kings is a great album. I love the lyrics to "From Under"...

"So providence called her last friend

Heroin the charming ocean

Patient enough for every problem

<span style="line-height: 1.2;"> Silent enough to drown so many good friends"</span>

Love it-
"Even sad, even dying of sadness
They are the winners, beautiful winners
They are the land of your fall"

"Cadillac gurus

Old Jesus, new circus

Blind 50's revivals

The wind up pelvis band

Keeps on playing

Still someone saying 'Don't sell me lies'" Thumbs Up

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 10:46

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Ummmm? Yeah, Iron Maiden's x factor I like better than No Prayer for the dying and Killers

I'm with you there. Those are two of my least favorite Maiden albums (along with Fear of the Dark).

ELP's Tarkus, I never did understand the hype on that album.

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 11:17

Angel Rat is my favorite Voivod album, and IMHO better than any rush album. Piggy riffage is awesome there!!

Diatribes is my favorite Napalm Death (isnt prog)

I can't understand Porcupine Tree music.

Katatonia > Opeth

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 11:29

Best Rush album is Signals.

Best Yes album - Yes album.

I love Amon Düül ll's Vive la Trance album - even if most critics see it as a major step down from Wolf City. I see the two as complimentary records - who just as easily could've been made into a double album.

I don't get Roine Stolt - or his projects(Transatlantic, Kaipa, Tulipan Princes etc etc). My taste is all - and it kind of bugs me, seeing as I have an enormous respect for the man. He is as sympathetic as they get. His music on the other hand, yeah well maybe it's too sympathetic as well now that I think of it...

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 11:35

I only like the popular RIO bands.

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 11:37

My favorite Death album is 'Scream Bloody Gore', and their more progressive 90s releases don't interest me at all except for the quality guitar solos.

I also prefer My Dying Bride's early death metal EP days over the bulk of their later, more heralded gothic doom releases.

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 11:45

Prog Sothoth wrote:

My favorite Death album is 'Scream Bloody Gore'

YEASSIR, agreed!! Raw sh*t ever!!

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 12:01

Prog Sothoth wrote:

My favorite Death album is 'Scream Bloody Gore', and their more progressive 90s releases don't interest me at all except for the quality guitar solos.

I also prefer My Dying Bride's early death metal EP days over the bulk of their later, more heralded gothic doom releases.

Agree with you on My Dying Bride. The first album I bought was "As the Flower Withers" and loved it to death, but every thing I tried after that left me less-and-less impressed and more-and-more disappointed.

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 12:17

I love Saga (that in itself is a statement) !

I prefer the latest period (House of Cards up to The Human Condition) to the early period (even though there are classic tunes there).

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 12:27

Melomaniac wrote:

I love Saga (that in itself is a statement) !

I prefer the latest period (House of Cards up to The Human Condition) to the early period (even though there are classic tunes there).

I love the Saga album "Worlds Apart"...especially the song "No Regrets (Chapter V)". I remember when "On the Loose" got a lot of early 80's MTV airplay...damn catchy tune Wink

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 12:27

Just elaborating on my somewhat cryptic relationship with Rush. While I think Moving Pictures is a rather tame affair, I deeply treasure Caress of Steel.

Another one is Klaus Schulze. X seems to be the people's choice, but I must admit that I prefer the coffee trilogy( ie Blackdance, Picture Music and Timewind), Bodylove, Audentity, Mirage, Irrlicht, Cyborg and Moondawn over it.

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 12:34

Guldbamsen wrote:

I deeply treasure Caress of Steel.

One of my top 3 Rush albums from the 70's

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 13:00

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 13:29

Unorthodox is my favorite Edge of Sanity album.

I love Neil Young's Trans.

The Smiths debut > last album.

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 14:08

I don't like anything I've heard from Gentle Giant. Can't put my finger on what's wrong with them, to my ears. They somehow lack charm and esprit.

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 14:32

Hemispheres and Moving Pictures both pretty terrible albums in my book. Similarly, Scenes From A Memory Metropolis is just acutely embarrassing for the species. And Moonmadness is surprisingly not good, though some of the stuff on that one is much better live. I'm not sure what things I really like (I mean, yeah, Lizard's great but most people seem to be OK with it) that are universally regarded as terrible. I think Love Beach is OK and I like The Final Cut a bit more than The Wall but other than that...

Might say that Peter Hammill's best solo albums are Loops and Reels and the redone Usher, both of which most people haven't heard or don't like... doesn't help that I'm not sure if he's reissued Usher yet, I've only got a second hand copy.

Actually actually actually, Caress of Steel is my favourite Rush album.

Edited by TGM: Orb - May 15 2013 at 14:36

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 14:54

Morsenator wrote:

Tubular Bells is my 12th or so favourite Mike Oldfield album (some albums I rank well over it are TB II&III, Platinum, Five Miles Out and Guitars)

My favourite Jean Michel Jarre album is Oxygene 7-13, which I absolutely love.

Perelandra is one of my favourites from Glass Hammer.

I agree on Mike Oldfield although I think his run of albums from Tubular Bells to Discovery is fantastic and then after that there are still gems like Songs Of Distant Earth and Amarok. So putting TB at number 12 in a Mike Oldfield list is no disgrace Smile

JM Jarre - wouldn't be able to go with that although I do like that album

I'm a big GH fan but my collection only starts from Chronometree . I'm going to have to hunt down that album. BTW I rated Three Cheers For The Broken Hearted as a 5 star album (although GH have several imo)

Edited by richardh - May 15 2013 at 14:55

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 15:04

silverpot wrote:

I don't like anything I've heard from Gentle Giant. Can't put my finger on what's wrong with them, to my ears. They somehow lack charm and esprit.

It was a struggle for me initially when I first bought the Edge Of Twilight compilation. One track though helped me get there more than any other - Playing The Game. Kerry Minnear's organ solo is just so lush and unforced. I love the feel of that track. I kind of agree about some of their tracks as you describe them.Maybe they were just a little bit too 'fiddly' at times for the sake of it.