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View Poll Results: Which is the better progressive rock album? | |
Tales From Topographic Oceans
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Selling England by the Pound
|    | 22 | 52.38% |
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12-05-2011, 07:02 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Houston,TX | | | Tales from Topographic Oceans vs. Selling England by the Pound
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After listening to both quite a bit over the last 20 years, to me, they are the epitome of what we want "progressive rock" to sound like. I'd have to say that they are the 2 most perfect progressive rock albums ever.
Just wondering aloud to everyone out there, which one do you think is better? |
12-05-2011, 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by HypersoulRocks  which one do you think is better? | Shoulda made this a poll! [edit: Ah, I see now you have. Excellent!]
My vote goes to TFTO.
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12-05-2011, 07:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Polokwane,South Africa | | | I have always liked genesis and to me Selling England by the Pound is easier to listen to but both are very good IMHO Selling Englamd by the Pound is the best.
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12-05-2011, 07:18 AM
| | | | Both excellent, but I'm more of a Genesis fan.
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12-05-2011, 07:23 AM
|  | Bassasorous | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: charles town, wv | | I like Tales from Topographic Oceans (and any early Yes) but this is kind of like asking what is the best bass for progressive rock.
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12-05-2011, 07:28 AM
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12-05-2011, 08:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Cincinnati OH | | Selling England By the Pound is a collection of fairly cohesive songs.
Topographic Oceans is bloated expansive mess. It successfully cured my early love of prog rock.
That's one man's opinion. 
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12-05-2011, 08:50 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Pennsylvania | | | SEBTP is a concise composition. IMHO, Tales pales in comparison. It is, however, a bit like comparing Camembert with Stilton. Different tastes! |
12-05-2011, 08:59 AM
|  | Who was dragged down by the stone... | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Chicago | | | Yep...Selling England is the poop. Love it. But so much of Nursery Crime and Foxtrot is great.
I got into a argument about Genesis on here...but anything after Wind and Wuthering is not "the poop" but just poop.
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12-05-2011, 09:04 AM
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12-05-2011, 09:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Pennsylvania | | | Yes, I agree. Close To The Edge might be fairer game for a comparative. God, I'd hate to have to choose just one. |
12-05-2011, 09:06 AM
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12-05-2011, 09:31 AM
|  | Friends, Romans, Bass Players... | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | | Well, I think Hemispheres blows both of them out of the water, but if I had to pick one or the other, I'd have to go with Selling England. I was a big Genesis fan back in the 70s, they just seemed more musical and cohesive. Yes to me was somewhere between prog and fusion.
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12-05-2011, 01:11 PM
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Second Place, Thick as a Brick. 
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12-05-2011, 01:30 PM
| | Who was dragged down by the stone... | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Chicago | | | Thick as a brick. Great choice. I was a big Chicago fan, I know apples/oranges w this thread. But "a hit by Verese" off Chicago 5? Great stuff.
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12-05-2011, 01:39 PM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | | of those 2, SEBTP got my vote... but if we are talking circa 1973 releases, I'd have to say "Lark's Tongues In Aspic" trumps them. |
12-05-2011, 01:51 PM
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And In The Court of the Crimson King.
Semi-seriously now: I went to high school 73-76 so this stuff is right where I lived for the longest time. I could never get on with Yes and have never owned an album by them. I know Genesis swung between pretentious and cheesy but like others have said, Genesis was just more listenable. They were basically still songs, long songs but still songs. Yes lived in this funny world that wasn't jazz, nor pretend classical nor song forms. It just never clicked for me and in the epoch under discussion, I listened to ELP more than anything.
How come as soon as a band starts to ape music from 300-500 years ago, we call it progressive? I swear to the buddha, next time I'm in Amoeba Records, I'm gonna find the guy with the biggest gauges and ask where the section for regressive rock is.
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12-05-2011, 02:05 PM
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Key and meter changes, extended "sections" with little or no singing, and zero chance of being played on commercial radio.
The ironic thing is, this sort of music is actually easier (for me anyway) to put together than a tight well-written pop tune is. That's an entirely different discipline. 
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12-05-2011, 02:05 PM
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12-05-2011, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike in Chicago Thick as a brick. Great choice. I was a big Chicago fan, I know apples/oranges w this thread. But "a hit by Verese" off Chicago 5? Great stuff. | Be proud you wrote this.
That horn thing at the end of that piece?
Nice!
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