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 Posted: March 11 2012 at 01:30 |
 infocat wrote:
What? "Chamber of 32 Doors" is a great song! "Counting Out Time" is the one I'd remove.
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Grand Parade and Chamber of 32 Doors are very good songs but IMO they don't fit the flow of the album. As I said, they would greatly improve Trick of the Tail.
Whenever I play The Lamb nowadays I exclude these two tracks and restrict Silent Sorrow in Empty boats to the first forty 40 seconds. The result, to my ears, is the best studio album ever made. It's in the top five anyway.
I agree that Counting Out Time is the worst track on the album but humour is never far below the surface in the Lamb, and it does flow very nicely from Hairless Heart and again very nicely into Carpet Crawlers.
Edited by ten years after - March 11 2012 at 01:56
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Posted: March 10 2012 at 23:40 |
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Agreed. Grand Parade and 32 Doors are some of my favorites. Counting Out Time is annoying after the first 5 seconds.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Posted: March 10 2012 at 23:38 |
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What? "Chamber of 32 Doors" is a great song! "Counting Out Time" is the one I'd remove.
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Posted: March 10 2012 at 20:43 |
I'm tempted to say Thick As A Brick, but I won't.
I don't think there are any albums that are runined by a single song. There are many which would be improved by removing a song or two.
If Money was removed from Dark Side of the Moon and included on Wish You Were Here it would improve both albums.
Similarly, The Lamb is better without Chamber of 32 Doors and Grand Parade but both tracks would improve Trick of the Tale.
The quality of Sgt Pepper is significantly reduced by "When I'm 64" and "Lovely Rita" which are not even good filler. "She's Leaving" is a good song but does not sit well in the overall tone of the album. It would be a good addition to the White Album. Sgt Pepper still manages to be a great album, but replace these three tracks with Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields and "It's All Too Much" and it would be close to perfect.
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Posted: March 10 2012 at 15:33 |
'I Surrender' on Rainbow's 'Difficult to Cure'. It could be such a perfect dull album, but one good song ruins that harmony! 
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Posted: March 10 2012 at 15:20 |
BaldFriede wrote:
I never understood why people disliked ELP songs like "Benny the Bouncer", "Jeremy Bender" or "Are you ready, Eddy?" They are obviously meant to be humorous numbers, and as such I have always enjoyed them. Why the heck do people have to be so stiff and solemn about prog?
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We are all big Gong and Zappa fans...I mean, we enjoy humour when it's good 
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Posted: March 08 2012 at 08:04 |
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Caress of Steel is not a masterpiece, but the lyrics of I Think I'm Going Bald... WTF?
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"Prog is Not Dead and never has been." (Will Sergeant, from Echo And The Bunnymen)
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Posted: March 08 2012 at 07:27 |
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I like the humor, but these songs are irritating and coming after tarkus they greatly overshadowed!
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Posted: March 08 2012 at 05:53 |
^Couldn't agree more. 
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Posted: March 08 2012 at 05:49 |
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I never understood why people disliked ELP songs like "Benny the Bouncer", "Jeremy Bender" or "Are you ready, Eddy?" They are obviously meant to be humorous numbers, and as such I have always enjoyed them. Why the heck do people have to be so stiff and solemn about prog?
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Posted: March 08 2012 at 04:50 |
Snow Dog wrote:
^I like that end to Ommadawn. Actually used to look forward to it. |
Me too. It's a nice contrast to the rest of the music.
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Posted: March 08 2012 at 04:10 |
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^I like that end to Ommadawn. Actually used to look forward to it.
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Posted: March 07 2012 at 21:03 |
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If you removed 21st Century Schizoid Man from In the Court of the Crimson King it would be a perfectly bad album. So in a way, it does ruin a perfect album.
While I don't hate the track I've always thought On Horseback was inappropratly jammed on the the end of Ommadawn. I noticable flaw on an otherwise pitch perfect album.
Edited by R-A-N-M-A - March 07 2012 at 21:04
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Posted: March 07 2012 at 18:07 |
"Your Own Special Way" on Wind and Wuthering messed up a pretty good collection of prog, IMHO! We always used to make fun of that song when it came up on the playlist....
....of course, we were so damn stoned, we'd laugh at anything!
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Posted: March 07 2012 at 16:35 |
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...I'm a musician/singer/songwriter, visit me on www.reverbnation.com/rupertlenz and there you can choose from 125 recordings you can listen to ( for free ) if you're not limited to prog-rock !
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Posted: March 07 2012 at 15:52 |
cant imagine ANY album being perfect even with the exception of one song
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Posted: March 07 2012 at 15:14 |
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Its not that bad.
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Posted: March 07 2012 at 14:34 |
ProgressiveAttic wrote:
Cans and Brahams from Fragile anyone? I don't object the concept of including a classical solo piece (I am completely fine with Mood For a Day) but Wakeman is capable of higher quality... I don't know what was he thinking.... |
Yes! I’ve never understood why it was necessary to take a good movement by Brahms and turn it into the worst track on a Yes album.
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Posted: March 07 2012 at 12:49 |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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