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Sorry about Paranoid. Honestly this poll is kind of all over the place. I'm all for AFTK winning myself, but I know there are more fans of Hems, MP, and PeW on this forum that AFTK. It's a Rush board, so them winning is not surprising. But this does sort of illustrate my entirely subjective view that AFTK is a really overrated (by the fan base) album. Some pretty iconic albums, including from Rush, that lost to it. You had a chance to nominate HYF a while ago, so kwitcherwhining. I think this whole poll idea and results is just an deliberate rise to get goose to leave TRF. And it's so crazy, it just might work. Cue Mark-Paul Gosselar. :syrinx:

Sorry about Paranoid. Honestly this poll is kind of all over the place. I'm all for AFTK winning myself, but I know there are more fans of Hems, MP, and PeW on this forum that AFTK.

I finally thought hard about it...and yeah, I don't like anything else on here as much as AFTK, not even Quad, CTTE, Abbey Road, or Zoso. Now, if Queen II had made it this far, I really wouldn't be able to decide.

I meant for this to be about these four bands in particular. Not saying that any of these albums are necessarily the best of 1969 by excluding other fantastic releases from that year, though Abbey Road is probably still my fav of the year. Just that Beatles, Stones, Who, and Kinks are often seen as the kind of big four british invasion bands of the 60s, and these are all some of their best albums.

Arthur is my first Kinks album and so far I think I'm really digging it, maybe even loving it. What would you recommend next from them?

I know people will kill me for saying this but...once I discovered bands like Tull, Genesis and Yes...the "proggier" Rush era suddenly sounded...childish. And I cannot stand Hemispheres. Childish LOl Cant stand Hemispheres ? Lol You are truly a phony RUSH fan Nothing you can say will change that :hi: Hi SteveSmith! We missed your patented brand of shitting all over the Forum followed by a tearful and moving apology. We really did. Well, JohnnyBlaze did. He moped and moped. Or maybe he bought a moped, I dunno... D'you play an instrument, SteveSmith? Just wonderin'. enjoy your time here; another phony Rush fan lol. your right i think it is steve Smith Mick Just waiting for another private message but how attractive I am now...sheesh...he scared me lol Oh my... yeah that's too creepy for comfort.

I find the Stones to be more of singles band. They've got some great songs but I've yet to find a Stones album that I can listen to all the way through. There's too many songs that are either fake country, pseudo RnB, pop pap, morose ballads etc. And even the songs that rock don't rock hard enough! I like some Stones songs like that but I wish they had more balls, especially in the guitar department. I have similar feelings. I can see the appeal of full Stones albums, but often there are tracks, many tracks, that I can't help but perceive as filler and just not nearly on par with their singles. Some Girls and maybe Sticky Fingers are probably the exceptions for me. I haven't heard Sticky Fingers in full in a long time because my CD glitches out on me and cuts some tracks short, but what I recall was engaging all the way through. And Some Girls has so many hits that the album cuts almost can't fail. There's some bluesy number Keith sings that I'm just okay with and the rest is pretty much gold. From the title cut, to the cover tune, to the endlessly entertaining Girl with Faraway Eyes. Also Tattoo You can make a convincing case for having a bit of a concept (upbeat side one, slower side two) and for having extremely consistent album cuts (almost indistinguishable at times) bookended by stone cold classics (plus it's much shorter than the similarly consistent sounding Exile, which just goes on and on sometimes).

I read a book while recording a record onto audacity so I can have the mp3s on my ipod. I go to save it and an error message comes up. I try this a few more times before I think I've solved the error message...maybe I find that all of the audio is gone, which was just there a few minutes ago. I haven't closed audacity, and I haven't deleted it, and the track is still the same length as it was before, just without any audio. I get sent on a hunt to find the missing files hidden somewhere in my laptop, which takes forever being a mac I finally find them...only to discover that they're in roughly 6 second increments which are out of order and can only be opened one at a time by audacity, confirming my fear that it would take significantly longer to recover the recorded album than it would to rerecord it. And I'm still not 100% sure I know how this happened in the first place.

Why we think our choice is the best album, or why was 1969 such a notable year for albums? the first one

runs a bit long. But shows a lot of promise from an unexpected place. Hope he goes more ambitious next time.

For me it's looking like Abbey Road > Arthur > Let It Bleed > Tommy Really can't beat Abbey Road, but I just got Arthur and it's been consistently interesting and catchy and inventive all the way through. Let It Bleed might be my favorite Stones album, though it has a filler track or two. And Tommy is great in theory, but the concept was a little ahead of it's time for the production and it really shows today. Quadrophenia achieves better what Tommy sets out to do imo.

70s > 80s = 90s > 00's onwards > 60s > everything before 80s got really overproduced to my ears. There's a reason GnR cut through the bright and shiny hair metal and have gone down in history as better than those bands with production more akin to Toys In The Attic than Hysteria. For a time in the late 70s and early 80s, production was at a big peak for may bands, not least Rush with PeW through Signals. Some 70s production was maybe still too rough around the edges to sound so clear today as it used to, but the best produced albums of the 70s are generally the best produced albums of all time, and still sound fresh. Albums like Born To Run, A Night At The Opera, basically anything Pink Floyd did in the 70s, Permanent Waves, Selling England By The Pound, Boston, Fragile, Who's Next, Quadrophenia, and so many others from that decade... every album since has been held to the high standard of some of these records.

These four bands all released some of their most renowned albums in 69, but who had the best one, or did the beatles, or the kinks, or the stones? :P and why?

Why don't you listen to the rest of them?? :o I go one at a time. Those are the ones I've gotten to so far. Same with any band. I can be very patient. It took me four years to listen through Queen's discography.

I've heard four of them, and rank them as such: SBS Paranoid MoR BS

I passed up on finally getting Down On The Upside today, I'll be back for it by the end of the week when i get paid. In the meantime, I saw a Screaming Life / FOPP lp at the record store the other day and didn't feel like diving that deep so soon, but what do people think of those two EPs?

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How many Megadeth albums is that for you now? Youthanasia has some good stuff on it but it was also the beginning of their commercial phase. Most of the songs follow the same format. Not many twists and turns musically but still good solid stuff. That's only album number four. Looking at SFSGSW next. Have you heard anything from SFSGSW? Yeah, just In My Darkest Hour a few times. Great song. But I've heard the whole album is kinda inconsistent.

How many Megadeth albums is that for you now? Youthanasia has some good stuff on it but it was also the beginning of their commercial phase. Most of the songs follow the same format. Not many twists and turns musically but still good solid stuff. That's only album number four. Looking at SFSGSW next.

this seems ill-advised...especially coming from he guy who made the last thread about people's least favorite Rush songs. Much flack incoming.

yesterday: Jack White - Boarding House Reach (vinyl) Ozzy Osborne - Diary Of A Madman (vinyl) ($4! a steal!) Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses (vinyl) Van Halen - Fair Warning (CD) today: Kinks - Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) (digital) Megadeth - Youthanasia (digital)

Why are you "very concerned"? If a parent was gravely ill, I'd get that but this is a band who doesn't know you from Adam (or Steve). I think this is a great place for Occam's Razor and figure it's probably got something to do with Hemispheres. Well, that's a bit of overdramatisation on my part. I just really don't want to get my hopes up here for something it might not be.

Theories: 1. This is a very cruel april fools joke, which seems very out of character for Rush 2. this is the Hemisphere's 40th remaster announcement, with blue vinyl...but they've been saving these remasters for November over the past two years... 3. And I really am not sure I even want to let myself hope for this... but there is a slim chance this is a new album announcement... very slim... why would they be so secretive about it though... and act like in recent interviews that there are no future plans...? 4. No it's not a tour announcement. I refuse to believe that. Case closed. I have no idea, and I'm very concerned.

So Jack White just released a new album that I bought today. This is easily his most experimental record, with electronic beats and synthesizers, strange samples, unorthodox song structures, and even spoken word and rapped passages. It's received about every rating from 10/10 to 4.5/10. Has anyone else heard this album? If so what are your thoughts? Is this part of the future of rock and roll, a way to break back into the mainstream? Or is this just a very strange aside that won't likely be looked to for future inspiration by newer artists? And if you hate it, feel free to expound upon that too. Respectfully. lol

The Clash are really surprising me here. I mean, I know it's just five votes, but it's got them tied for the lead with Hems and completely slaughtering some very substantial competition. IIRC, London Calling barely scraped into the finals in the first place. Perhaps I should've allowed two votes in this round and done another round...I guess it's a bit late to change anything now.