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Tate and Phil are on there Earl, look a little closer. My 49 year old eyes must be going. I blew it then. I would have voted for Tate. You can always delete your vote and have another go! :P

I don't know about Hems, but I'm pretty sure Feedback is a 60s album.

Tate and Phil are on there Earl, look a little closer.

I really go back and forth on this. On the whole, Floyd were the more consistent and high quality band. For a time, about a whole decade, you couldn't go wrong with any of the groups latest projects, they were all their own kinds of masterworks. Dark Side to The Wall is a tough run to beat, even for the biggest bands of all time (even the Beatles and the Stones have a hard time comparing to that run). However, they're work, even at its best, has always felt a little bit less personal to me than Yes. I adore Dark Side Of The Moon, but so does pretty much everybody. When you want to introduce someone to music or albums, very few people are going to argue with DSOTM or WYWH as an entry point. That may sound like high praise for Floyd (and it is), but it's also a little uninviting in a way. Floyd becomes the cliche answer, the critic's choice. And while I shouldn't really care what others think when it comes to my own enjoyment of music, some of pop culture and society's ideas are just too loud to ignore. Yes, on the other hand, are both renown and berated by even their own fans for following their every whim. In many ways they were far more ambitious than Floyd, and in many departments one could argue they were more talented (do I really want to decide between Howe and Gilmore? no). Perhaps they produced fewer masterpieces than Floyd...or perhaps they produced more. It honestly depends on who you ask. Critics never ever saw eye to eye with them, but the young prog rock audience adored them, so they were free to do whatever they pleased for a while. Now, there is the issue of consistency with Yes. Even some of their best albums are prone to severe quality and quantity issues (Fragile and Tales seem to have opposite problems, but both can be crippling). Even die hard Yes fans can tend to admit there are only two or three albums that are INARGUABLY great, though they will certainly have their personal favorites. Every album seems to have a vice about it: "The Yes Album is pre-Wakeman and still not quite the Yes sound, Fragile has too many throwaway tracks, Tales is TOO MUCH, Relayer is too weird and loud, Awake is AOR, 90125 is a sell out!" And those are some of their most beloved albums. Overall, Yes is a harder band to love than Floyd, and not necessarily more rewarding than Floyd, but that feeling you get when you hear strokes of genius come together on one of their albums to whisk you off to another world as vivid as the Roger Dean artwork on the cover...that's what brings you back every time, no matter what anyone else says. So this is very tough. Floyd is the sensible choice really, but Yes is so much more fun. Today, I'll vote Yes.

Geddy is an acquired taste vocally, but if you're into him...he's incredible. The power, the passion, the early lack of self control. As my dad says, his voice with Neil's lyrics is where a lot more of the magic happened in the band than most people expect.

1. The Doors - The Doors 2. The Beatles - Abbey Road 3. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience 4. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 5. Love - Forever Changes 6. Phallus Dei - Amon Duul II 7. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 8. Yes - Yes 9. The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation SocietY 10. The Beatles - Revolver 11. The Who - Tommy 12. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed 13. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II 14. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats 15. My Generation-The Who 16. Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane 17. The Beatles - The Beatles 18. Blind Faith - Blind Faith 19. Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes ( Featuring Veronica ) - The Ronettes 20. Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer 21. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 22. Cream - Disraeli Gears 23. The Mamas and The Papas -- If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears 24. Stand Up -- Jethro Tull 25. The 13th Floor Elevators- The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators 26. CSN - CSN 27. The Stooges - The Stooges 28. In The Court of King Crimson - King Crimson 29. In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly 30. Ummagumma - Pink Floyd 31. Canned Wheat - The Guess Who

I'd say of the great lead singers listed, Elvis, Plant, Mercury, Morrison and Roth really embody the idea of a rock and roll front man. Yeah...although I'd maybe add Mick, Bon, and Steven Tyler, but basically you're on the money.

Welp, the meme continues. Presto...90s era Rush in spirit, but early 90s era Rush...which to me sounds like they thought they were still in the 80s. I've never thought Rush recognized the 90s had begun until CP, before that...RTB has more in common with Huey Lewis and The News than Pearl Jam. So Imma say 80s...just to be controversial and stuff. Also it was written, recorded, packaged, released, and played in the 80s so...

Also this thread has made me realize how vastly I prefer McCartney as a singer to Lennon. Their voices are so similar but at the end of the day...Paul just seems a bit more capable.

That's more like it. A current top three of Plant, Mercury, and Dio. Sounds about right really (even though I didn't vote for Dio)

Lol, now I know I voted for him too but... Only on the Rush forum is the lead a four way tie between Plant, Mercury, Gillan, and GEDDY I love him, but he's pretty obviously not as universally renown as the other three here.

ZZ Top beats out Cream and Hendrix for me, as far as blues rock trios go. Hendrix himself is the best guitarist of the bunch, but his band was only so awesome. Cream didn't last long enough to be even better than they were, which is a shame, cuz I think they had it in them. Clapton stopped rocking shortly after that, though he was still great. But how can I say no to Cheap Sunglasses?

Dang, I know I helped you with the list a bit...but that was too hard, Lucky I know who my number one is.

1. The Doors - The Doors 2. The Beatles - Abbey Road 3. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience 4. The Beach Boys -- Pet Sounds 5. Love - Forever Changes 6. Phallus Dei - Amon Duul II 7. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 8. Yes - Yes 9. The Kinks -- The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation SocietY 10. The Beatles - Revolver 11. The Who -- Tommy 12. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed 13. Led Zeppelin II

It has to bother Portnoy that their first two albums without him are excellent and that they dared to write something like Illumination Theory without him. Not long after one of those two records Mike had his t-Shirt meltdown on Twitter. Someone DARED to wear a post-portnoy shirt to a portnoy signing. it was funny actually, lol Mick This is the difference between egomaniac Portnoy and ego-centric Gene Simmons from that recent video in the Kiss thread. Gene and Paul made an interviewer exchange his Iron Maiden shirt for a Kiss shirt in order to continue the interview with Kiss, but they didn't get upset about it, it was purely business (and nearly a bit of a joke) to them. Someone wears the "wrong" shirt to a Portnoy signing, and he gets upset and posts on social media about how "wrong" that is. I find the Kiss story actually pretty funny and totally Kiss and Gene being his greedy self. I find the Portnoy story just childish and sad.

And if Mangini ever had to leave... Portnoy would be calling up Petrucci and the rest in minutes.

1. Just Like Heaven - The Cure 2. YYZ - Rush 3. The River - Bruce Springsteen 4. Neon Knights - Black Sabbath 5. How Soon is Now -- The Smiths 6. Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac 7. Blue Monday - New Order 8. True Faith - New Order 9. Breakthru - Queen 10. Don't Come Around Here No More -- Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers 11. I Melt With You-Modern English 12. China Girl -- David Bowie 13. Mickey - Toni Basil 14. Time The Avenger - The Pretenders 15. Hold Me Now-Thompson Twins 16. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds 17. Eighties - Killing Joke 18. Train in Vain -- The Clash 19. Lips Like Sugar - Echo and the Bunnymen 20. Save Me - Queen 21. Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo 22. Hallowed Be The Name - Iron Maiden 23. Let's Go Crazy - Prince 24. Me So Horny - 2 Live Crew 25. Rocket Queen - Guns N' Roses (maybe my favorite hard rock tune of the 80's) 26. Best Friend - The English Beat 27. The Killing Moon-Echo and the Bunnymen 28. Nelson Mandela - Specials 29. Unchained--VFH 30. Something About You - Level 42 31. Eminence Front - The Who 32) Beat's So Lonely - Charlie Sexton 33. Two Tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood 34) There Is A Light That Never Goes Out-The Smiths 35) Gates of Steel - DEVO 36) The Call - The Walls Came Down 37) Golden Brown - The Stranglers 38. Kids in America - Kim Wilde 39. The One I Love - REM 40. Where is My Mind - Pixies 41. Sixty-Eight Guns -- The Alarm 42. Rough Boys - Pete Townshend 43. Hold Me -- Fleetwood Mac 44. So. Central Rain - R.E.M. 45. Haunted When the Minutes Drag -- Love and Rockets 46. Girls, Girls, Girls -- Motley Crue 47. Come On, Eileen -- Dexy's Midnight Runners 48. Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie 49. We Are Machine - Amon Duul II 50. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult 51. Summer Of '69 - Bryan Adams 52. I Love Rock 'n' Roll -- Joan Jett and The Blackhearts 53. Hungry Like the Wolf -- Duran Duran 54. Hammer To Fall - Queen 55. Killed by Death - Motorhead 56. Rebel Yell -- Billy Idol 57. Girl I'm Gonna Miss You - Milli Vanilli 58. Don't Change - INXS 59. Heaven's On Fire - Kiss 60. Lick It Up - Kiss 61. Open Your Eyes - Lords Of The New Church 62. The Rhythm of the Heat - Peter Gabriel 63. Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? - Ramones 64. Debaser - Pixies 65. Catch - The Cure 66. Rock This Town -- Stray Cats 67. Everything's Gone Green -- New Order 68. A Million Miles Away--The Plimsouls 69. Burning for You - Blue Oyster Cult 70) Don't Dream It's Over-Crowded House 71. Cult Of Personality - Living Colour. 72. Word Up - Cameo 73. Telegraph Road - Dire Straits 74. Drive -- The Cars 75. Be Still My Beating Heart - Sting 76. Battery - Metallica 77. Handle With Care - Traveling Wilburys 78. Rise - Public Image Ltd. 79. You've Got Another Thing Coming -- Judas Priest 80. True - Spandau Ballet 81. Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin 82. Hot for Teacher - Van Halen 83. in Between Days - The Cure 84. Safety Dance - Men Without Hats 85. Photograph - Def Leppard 86. Chalkhills and Children - XTC 87. Dare To Be Stupid - Weird Al Yankovic 88. She's Tight -- Cheap Trick 89. We Built This City - Starship 90. Pretty in Pink -- Psychedelic Furs 91. Close (To the Edit) -- Art of Noise 92. Personal Jesus-Depeche Mode 93. Life Is Real (Song For Lennon) - Queen 94. Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys 95. Shout - Tears For Fears 96. Your Love - The Outfield 97. 99 Luftballons - Nena 98. Play The Game - Queen

1. The Doors - The Doors 2. The Beatles - Abbey Road

If you haven’t already, listen to the Twelve Step Suite. What album is that on?

93. Life Is Real (Song For Lennon) - Queen

Learning sheet music will teach you a lot (I mean a heck of a lot), but in the grand scheme of all things, it will not teach you music. That, you have to figure out yourself.

Wait, you haven't heard Scenes From A Memory yet? You listened to Octavarium and Dramatic Turn first? Seriously? I once heard a radio station list a top ten prog rock albums of all time, and ADTOE and 2112 were the top two (this was like, 2012 or so), so I obviously had to check out who was giving Rush a run for their money and the album they claimed was so good. Nowadays I know that was probably just because ADTOE had just come out, but nevertheless that's the first one I checked out. Then I got Images And Words after reading that it was actually their best album, then I figured I could go whichever way I pleased so I looked into Octavarium and a live concert where they played the whole 6DOIT suite. Between then and now I had the s/t and Scenes checked out from my library, but I didn't listen to them very well or very much and I don't remember them much now. I've also listened to the first disc of TA once, but I didn't have the stamina at the time to continue onto the second disc. So then, after hearing Octavarium again, and remembering what I do love about DT, my dad and I got Awake, and suddenly DT started mattering to me again. So Scenes is probably next.

I don't think any of them know how to read sheet music. Pretty sure they were all pretty much self taught, just playing along to their favorite records.

Glad to see you like ADTOE. it really is a great album. Mick That was actually my first DT album, Yeah, I think it's pretty great. A little overstuffed at times, but everything there is more than worth a listen.

This Snoop? I've heard he's a pretty great producer! ;)