A very hard poll

 

Deep Purple hasn´t ever been my biggest favourite, but I have listened and also bought almost all their seventies albums, the main reason is that one guy sold them to me very cheap years ago.

Sabbath is a no-brainier for me. It was my initial reaction, but just before I cast my vote I did pause for thought. After all, the only Sabbath albums I really love are the first six - although 13 comes close, with a wave of nostalgia.

But then I realised that there’s not a band in this poll where I could not say similar. While I have plenty of bands and artists in my collection (perhaps even the majority) where I like all, or almost all, of what they’ve released; every band here I like only selected parts (generally a run of albums). So second thoughts cast aside, and my vote goes to Sabbath.

(For the record, Procol Harum is easily second, for me. The hard part of the poll for me being third place, but I think I’ll give that to The Moody Blies.)

I highly recommend folks to see the Daily Doug shows on Chicago Transit Authority, and then Chicago 2 ... it is actually very good and you can see how special and intricate the work they did was ... a very special band, that did things with the horns and brass that most never considered and so much of it was very tasteful and well thought out ... and hearing DD appreciate it ... is very special indeed for me.