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Poll Question: Which is your favourite album?
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5 [29.41%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [17.65%]
1 [5.88%]
5 [29.41%]
3 [17.65%]
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    Posted: January 20 2025 at 01:37
* An all-inclusive series of polls with an asterisk marking albums NOT featuring Allan Holdsworth. Smile


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Allan Holdsworth - Road Games (1983)
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Soft Machine - Third
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Downwind
U.K. - Night After Night
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Road Games is criminally underappreciated, and I prefer UK's 'Concert Classics vol.4' over Night After Night.

RG gets my vote.
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Road Games was the album that Eddie Van Halen got Allan a contract with Warner Bros. The producer wanted Allan to hire new band mates and Eddie wanted to play solos on the record. Allan declined and after the album was released his contract was terminated.
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Third is head and shoulders over everything else on here.I would vote Downwind though if SM wasn't on here. And hey, no Holdworth or guitar on Third!
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Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Third is head and shoulders over everything else on here.I would vote Downwind though if SM wasn't on here. And hey, no Holdworth or guitar on Third!

That's true, but if I only listed the albums that Allan Holdsworth actually played on, then Allan Holdsworth's Road Games would be the only album in the poll. Tongue
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Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Third is head and shoulders over everything else on here.I would vote Downwind though if SM wasn't on here. And hey, no Holdworth or guitar on Third!
Third is so overrated and the song "Facelift" is a disaster of messy noise. How anyone enjoys that song is shocking.
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Voted Holdsworth
Bought UK back then but this is an unimaginative live recording
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As much as I love both Road Games and Night After Night, Downwind is the winner here. While neither Mick Taylor, Ross Record, nor Mike Oldfield are comparable to Allan Holdsworth, they do a fabulous job on Downwind, which has become my favorite Gong album.
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