Favourite Procol Harum album
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Topic: Favourite Procol Harum album
Posted By: Trotsky
Subject: Favourite Procol Harum album
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 23:46
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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 ... ------------- "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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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: July 25 2005 at 00:43
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Shine on Brightly ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 25 2005 at 03:26
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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. ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 25 2005 at 09:15
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Shine On Brightly, A Salty Dog or Grand Hotel. Voted this time for Grand Hotel. I only heard the 1st 7 albums though. |
Posted By: bityear
Date Posted: July 25 2005 at 14:05
Grand Hotel for me. The most perfectly bombastic chamber pop out there.  Love it!! ------------- www.geocities.com/joelbitars |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: July 27 2005 at 09:44
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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". |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 04 2005 at 07:21
This was unsuspected result at least for me! |
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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.Posted By: Damen
Date Posted: August 04 2005 at 11:05
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A Salty Dog is my favorite. ------------- "It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days." -Chris Squire |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date 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 ------------- "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." |
Eetu Pellonpää wrote:
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 05 2005 at 03:50
I find Home (and Barricades) a bit aggressive but Whaling Stories and About To Die are .....To die for
------------- 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 |
Posted By: Yurkspb
Date Posted: August 05 2005 at 04:38
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My vote is for Salty Dog. The second side of the album is pure magic! |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 11:41
Indeed, there's a lot of talk about Brooker/Reid's writing and Robin Trower on guitar (well, maybe not on this forum ------------- "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." |
Posted By: Gluonio
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 09:52
I voted for Shine on Brightly ------------- ...But my dreams are for dreaming and best left that way-and my zero to your power of ten equals nothing at all... |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date 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 ... ------------- "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." |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 02:22
Is this poll still relevant?  ------------- "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." |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 06:17
| Shine On Brightly |
Posted By: akin
Date Posted: January 29 2006 at 09:34
| Shine on brightly, because of the excellent songs and their masterpiece (In held Twas in I). But A Salty Dog comes close. |
Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 06:03
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"A Salty Dog" is my favourite. Title track is the saddest song ever. ------------- "He's a man of the past and one of the present" PETER HAMMILL |