POLL: Pick the next Extended Play Lounge
Added 2024-05-19 02:00:48 +0000 UTCSince we're focusing on Metal this month in our Fan Favorites, I decided to put up some of the biggest of the big prog albums from our list against each other.
I know some of the music (but not all) from all of these albums. Help me decide which one to listen to next!
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Well I just got a notification for this closed poll . Lol. Well they're all good but Songs From The Wood would have lost even with my vote, my second choice would have been Going For The One, and it's very telling for me to put my favorite band second . More a testament to my favorite ever Tull album than any disparaging thought about the other. Every album up to and including Drama are awesome. Also Union and The Ladder.
Duff
2024-05-21 05:40:19 +0000 UTCAs per my earlier post, after a lot of angst I voted for Wind and Wuthering. But in the end, it had to be. But I would urge Doug to consider, at some point, Steve Hackett's more recent takes on this work. I saw his band play the main songs (NOT the one about a chuffing mouse!) at Sheffield a few years ago - I was sat four rows from the front - and it was just perfect.
Adrian Goodrich
2024-05-20 22:01:04 +0000 UTCNot enough, though, hence him leaving. I think having "All in a Mouse's Night" picked ahead of "Inside and Out" finished him off. But Steve and the rest of the band were diverging. And his first few solo albums (which I love) gave him the opportunity to fly his own path.
Adrian Goodrich
2024-05-20 21:54:44 +0000 UTCThis one is so hard! I LOVE all these five albums. And we have here five of my eight favourite Prog bands (the other three being Renaissance, Marillion and - if they are Prog - Pink Floyd). NEARLY voted for Going For The One - who could not, with the absolutely chuffing wonderful, brings tears to my eyes every time Turn Of The Century? And nearly so good Awaken and Parallels? A Farewell to Kings was the first Rush Album I ever heard, in the late 1970s, and is still my favourite. Xanadu...wow! Had the ELP album been Trilogy or Tarkus, that might have got my vote, although their first album came close. Songs From The Wood...love it! Although TAAB just shades it IMO, and I would likely have voted for that. But Wind and Wuthering it has to be. The Hackett swansong, and boy how much! Eleventh Earl is perhaps my favourite on the album - "bury your memories, bury your friends. Leave it alone, for a year or two. Till the stories grow hazy, and the legends come true. Then do it again; some things never end." But One for The Vine, Blood On The Rooftops, Unquiet Sleepers...In That Quiet Earth ((I live in Brontë country, walking distance of where Wuthering Heights was set and that last line of the book resonates) and Afterglow are transitional Genesis as good as they get. Real hard choice. But in the end, no choice at all.
Adrian Goodrich
2024-05-20 21:47:08 +0000 UTCThis is the most difficult FF for me to choose from, but to me W&W is probably the most charming and musically deep of the Genesis oeuvre, post-PG. Great musicianship is balanced by whimsy, careful song construction balanced by out and out jamming, sumptuous chord sequences balanced by simple, open textures and dark, dense atmospheres leavened by the ray-of-light, uplifting timbre of Phil Collins' vocals. This album still raises the hair on the back of my neck almost 50 years later.
Peter Tutak
2024-05-20 03:04:55 +0000 UTCMy thoughts exactly. Picked Wind and Wuthering but would love Doug to do one of the Tull “folk” trilogy. (My pick would have been Heavy Horses)
Chris Gadsby
2024-05-19 22:43:58 +0000 UTCPicking Wind and Wuthering and if it wins I want to remind Doug to think of it as a "theme and variations". Tough to vote against Songs From The Woods, however.
Russell L. Craft
2024-05-19 22:00:26 +0000 UTCWind and Wuthering is an underappreciated gem in the Genesis catalog. Musically challenging as always, though trending to be a bit more accessible... lyrically, the storytelling is very vivid as well. I can't tell you how many inebriated high school parties there were (yes, I confess to underage drinking in PA - back when the drinking age in NJ was 18! What were they thinking?!) - with a roomfull of max decible level voices singing "Afterglow"...! Of course, our prom theme was "Ripples" from TOTT, so it was kinda prog-high!!
Christopher Arters (relative timeworx - Mr.A)
2024-05-19 18:50:17 +0000 UTCIt's hands down Wind & Wuthering for me. A lot of Steve's work on this. And then he left.
Andrew Marsh
2024-05-19 17:33:12 +0000 UTCDisappointed that Songs from the Wood is showing so poorly. An immaculate album.
Dave Cohen
2024-05-19 17:29:37 +0000 UTCI agree with everyone! Very hard to pick, because I would want all of them. I went for Yes on the basis that I've played it more often than the others over all the years since it was released, so it's closer to my heart.
Adie
2024-05-19 15:25:46 +0000 UTCThis is a tough choice, we need all these albums to be analyzed! :D
Potted Rodent
2024-05-19 14:54:09 +0000 UTCYou can’t do this to me! How can you expect anyone to choose just one of that lot? My choice? Do them all over the next few months.
Brian James
2024-05-19 13:36:45 +0000 UTCI am pretty sure that Doug hasn't yet reacted to Eleventh Earl of Mar which is one of the best two tracks on the album imho
Ruth James
2024-05-19 12:19:56 +0000 UTCI can see all of these sleeves in the record store racks when they were released. I have voted for the one that I picked out and purchased. Most unadventurous.
George Davis-Stewart
2024-05-19 09:25:39 +0000 UTCHard to pick which one. But I'd love to hear your analysis of side 2 of W & W, because it features some of Genesis' most interesting- not to mention- beautiful music, with Steve Hackett's influence to the fore. Had the band given more prominence to Steve's contributions he might not have left.
Ralph Darvill
2024-05-19 08:35:24 +0000 UTCI consider it an advantage that Doug already did a lot of W&W. It provides the opportunity to dig deeper than a first listen.
Frits van Voorst
2024-05-19 07:26:22 +0000 UTCWhat a list!! Torn between four of them, ELP, Rush, Yes & Genesis. After several rounds of “Rock, Paper, Scissors” knock out competition, “Wind & Wuthering” got my vote.
Phil Sparkes
2024-05-19 07:17:33 +0000 UTCGoing For The One! Dr. Doug has heard Awaken multiple times, but not the way Steve Howe considers “the full piece,” with Wonderous Stories preceding it. No, the music doesn’t really tie together, but, for me, it’s the experience of the same spiritual seeker, both at the beginning of studying with his teacher and when he finally attains Nirvana for himself. While Olias of Sunhillow is my favorite recorded album, side 2 of Going For The One is my favorite album side, Olias included.
Illume Eltanin
2024-05-19 05:24:23 +0000 UTCSongs from the Wood gets my vote. Unfortunately, doesn't look like it will make it this time. Surprised by its poor showing in this vote
Alex Libia
2024-05-19 04:33:34 +0000 UTCI'm more of a Tull fan than any of the other bands listed here, so of course I voted for Songs From The Wood.
BRIAN MILLER
2024-05-19 04:31:56 +0000 UTCDayum! I want to vote... All of them!
Eusebio R-Z
2024-05-19 04:22:32 +0000 UTCThese are all 4 and 5 star albums. There is no wrong answer, there's no let down regardless which one wins. My goodness. That makes it hard to vote! But also hard to root for anything 😕 😆. This is a hot take and perhaps if I think on it for a day.... but if Doug has heard most of W&W then I won't vote for it -- I prefer most if not all fresh tracks for Doug.
Richard Rathbun
2024-05-19 03:04:00 +0000 UTCVoted for Songs from the Wood, but I'd tune in for any of them. Except Rush. Never got Rush, sorry.
Jesstifer
2024-05-19 03:03:11 +0000 UTCYou’ve heard a lot of Wind and Wuthering. But not all! Hear it all!
Gary Thobaben
2024-05-19 02:54:24 +0000 UTCOh I would love Songs From The Wood. Alas, Rush always seems to win out (maybe a win/win situation, of course).
Craig Higgins
2024-05-19 02:48:10 +0000 UTCThis is too hard! I love all of them
Juan Ignacio Quesada
2024-05-19 02:23:59 +0000 UTCI just revisited Going for the One last week. It's a good album. A Farewell to Kings on the other hand is a classic. Not to say other albums in the pole aren't. Wind and Wuthering is wonderful.
Robert Thornton
2024-05-19 02:20:30 +0000 UTCand to add...I have always preferred "A Trick of the Tail" when it comes to patiently listening to a whole album....that album is a Masterpiece!
Rebecca Walsh
2024-05-19 02:19:18 +0000 UTCWind and Weathering is an album I possess and treasure. The problem is that Doug has reacted to 75% of it already...good to get it over and done with....just 4 songs left All in a mouse's night, Afterglow, Your'e Own Special Way, and Wot Gorilla? ...to be honest what is left ain't all that good....simply be it, I guess to have a reaction to All in a Mouse's Night might be worth watching...then again, the album is solid anyway and worth repeating. I could definitely go for some Rush instead, just me.
Rebecca Walsh
2024-05-19 02:14:50 +0000 UTCI wouldn't be mad at any of these, but W&W holds a special place for me.
mike.cats.guns
2024-05-19 02:04:04 +0000 UTC
