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Trotsky 
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 Topic: Favourite Procol Harum album
Posted: July 24 2005 at 23:46 |
A bit of tricky one this, as I'm talking about the original albums ... many excellent PH songs did not come out on the original albums, but have been included on CD releases as bonus tracks ... these songs include A Whiter Shade Of Pale and Homburg as well as some excellent B-sides like Lime Street Blues, In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence and Long Gone Geek which definitely enhance the albums to which they are now attached (in the CD era) ...
My favourite original album has to A Salty Dog, brill from start to finish ...
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NetsNJFan
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 00:43 |
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Shine on Brightly
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 03:26 |
SOB!
The first has many excellent prog tunes also andwith Whiter Shade Of Pale as a bonus , it is also tops.
This Well's On Fire , their latest is actually quite good, although nothing new.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 09:15 |
Shine On Brightly, A Salty Dog or Grand Hotel.
Voted this time for Grand Hotel.
I only heard the 1st 7 albums though.
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 14:05 |
Grand Hotel for me. The most perfectly bombastic chamber pop out there. 
Love it!!
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: July 27 2005 at 09:44 |
My two equally fave studio albums by PH are "Shine On Brightly" and "Grand Hotel", with "Home" and "Broken Barricades" tied up in a close second position. I voted for "Shine" so it could get closer to "Hotel".
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: August 04 2005 at 07:21 |
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Damen
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Posted: August 04 2005 at 11:05 |
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A Salty Dog is my favorite.
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Trotsky
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Posted: August 05 2005 at 03:18 |
Yes to me too ... I admit that I always felt that this record was a little overrated (maybe cos I always compare the title track unfavourably to the A Salty Dog track) ... but since I like almost all of them very much ... I'm not complaining 
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 05 2005 at 03:50 |
 Trotsky wrote:
Yes to me too ... I admit that I always felt that this record was a little overrated (maybe cos I always compare the title track unfavourably to the A Salty Dog track) ... but since I like almost all of them very much ... I'm not complaining
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I find Home (and Barricades) a bit aggressive but Whaling Stories and About To Die are .....To die for. Ditto for Salty Dog! What I miss is that lush Hammond organ so present in the first 2 albums
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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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Yurkspb
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Posted: August 05 2005 at 04:38 |
My vote is for Salty Dog. The second side of the album is pure magic!
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Trotsky
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Posted: August 06 2005 at 11:41 |
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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Gluonio
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Posted: August 07 2005 at 09:52 |
I voted for Shine on Brightly 
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Posted: August 20 2005 at 12:28 |
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Just sent in 12 PH album reviews ... and thought I'd bring this back up ...
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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Trotsky
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Posted: January 25 2006 at 02:22 |
Is this poll still relevant? 
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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ANDREW
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Posted: January 29 2006 at 06:17 |
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Shine On Brightly
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Posted: January 29 2006 at 09:34 |
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Shine on brightly, because of the excellent songs and their masterpiece (In held Twas in I). But A Salty Dog comes close.
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M. B. Zapelini
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Posted: January 30 2006 at 06:03 |
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"A Salty Dog" is my favourite. Title track is the saddest song ever.
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Favourite Procol Harum album
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Is the "Grand Hotel" most balanced album then? At least it is a great song. I though that "Edmonton" might win. "Home" is also good record, wrapped in weird covers though.