PA PROG OLYMPICS CHAMPIONSHIP

"Genres have absolutely nothing to do with it Con-man. If anything, TAAB was one of the first CONCEPT albums, now try and tell me that prog-metal bands haven't adopted concepts."

Er...Concept albums had been around many years before TAAB. TAAB was a spoof concept album. I haven't noticed many prog metal artists producing 45-minute tracks or spoof concept albums.

“This is simply utter nonsense”
Are you saying that your opinions are more valid than others?

It's irrelevant who's opinions they are. Some opinions are more valid than others. I don't consider the opinions "Anthony Eden was a better Prime Minister than Clement Atlee", "Eden and Atlee were equally good Prime Ministers" and "it's all down to personal taste" valid. Culture isn't somehow inherently exempt from judgements. If it was, it would never progress.

"TAAB: recorded December 1971 at Morgan Studios, London
RED: recorded July-August 1974"

Sorry, I took it from release dates.

Ricochet wrote: com'on, Thick.

    

Of course. Why are all you people making it lose?

bump, last day to post your votes

condor wrote: Someone used the fact TAAB was written 3 (actually 2) years before Red to suggest it was more significant. This makes no sene when you consider they are in totally different genres. In terms of significance, Red appears to win hands down. Red possibly influenced a whole genre, prog metal. TAAB only appears to have influenced A Passion Play and not much more. Secondly, T.Rox suggests all this is opinion and therefore all opinions are equally valid. This is simply utter nonsense. I'm sorry if you don't suggest but this is all I could take from your mysterious suggestion that we are all entitled to our opnions. As far as I'm aware, this isn't an argument about free speech.

 

Can't wait!

As a side note, can we please close the tangent discussion on this thread. If you would like, make another thread about it, or PM a member about it, but please let's end the bickering in this thread here.

Thanks,

OG

Firepuck wrote: OpethGuitarist, there have been some good suggestions for the next olympics. If I may, I have a couple of other ideas...   1. no albums in the PA top 100 allowed (multiple variants on this) 2. how about best song olympics 3. as mentioned, albums nominated in previous PO's not allowed 4. timeline olympics (ie 90's)   I had a great time with this and looked forward everyday to checking the status of the games. Regardless of which album wins (both are great and would be deserving winners IMO) I think that most people would agree that the games were well worth the exercise.   As a final note I want to say that there were several albums nominated that I haven't heard yet (which became somewhat of an issue during voting ) and to those that wanted to expose members to their favourites perhaps they have succeeded in some small way - I for one have taken the bait and purchased 'Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden'  based on it's inclusion in the games and my ensuing reading of the reviews of the album.   Thanks again to OpethGuitarist!

OpethGuitarist, there have been some good suggestions for the next olympics. If I may, I have a couple of other ideas...

Fact: I think TAAB is the best album ... ever!

Edited by T.Rox - November 02 2006 at 05:49

condor wrote: Here's a definition of great: "of major significance or importance; "a great work of art"; "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey" Try thinking about why Einstein or Marx or Darwin were great rather than just good, then try and apply this to music. If you still think TAAB is the greatest album, you really have got your head screwed on wrong.

Edited by Australian - November 02 2006 at 04:51