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Jacob's Ladder Xanadu

Signals is an interesting album for me. It was the last one I bought on week of release. I struggled at the time to understand the band's progression towards a more 'synthesized'' sound. It is only in latter years that I have grown to appreciate it. My votes - Subdivisions New World Man

Happy anniversary Earl !! Keep on rockin' !!

If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour? The Magical Mystery Tour US release was basically padded out to make an album with a bunch of singles bolted on. Again Capital records milking things. TBH MMT was more just a soundtrack to a BBC broadcast and is not really an album as such.

Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.

Limelight The Camera Eye

Jacob's Ladder Natural Science

Have a good one Bathory!

Trick vote - a) because I can't really split Cygnus and b) a cracking second side but in the spirit of things - 1. Bringer of Balance 2. Circumstances 3. Vinyl, CD and original picture disc.

Try living in the UK ......... mostly drivel ...... Planet Rock on DAB is as good as it gets. Treeduck (if you read this post) .... are there any other ones you would recommend?

1 - Pre 1975..... We had yet to be introduced. 2 - Caress of Steel to Moving pictures..... We met, fell in love and entered a deep meaningful relationship. 3 - Signals..... The cracks began to show. We seemed to be drifting apart. 4 - Grace Under Pressure ..... We had a major fall out and decided to separate although agreed not to divorce. 5 - Power Windows ...... We dated briefly but decided to split again 6 - Roll The Bones ..... We started meeting on a casual basis 7 - Vapor Trails ...... We fell in love again. Two older wiser beings who had learned to appreciate each other once more. 8 - 2020 ...... Neil's passing has only strengthened our bonds.

Xanadu Cygnus X-1 No brainer.

All good points above .... however .... the two words i mentioned earlier still spring to mind!! I must learn to respect other opinions .... even when they are wrong lol!

The words cupid stunt spring to mind!

2112 & By-Tor

Your experience as a young child is bound to have contributed to your fear ..... So, hears something that I experience: Anxiety attacks when flying a kite. My first memory of it occurring was in college when my then girlfriend (now wife) and I decided to fly a kite one day. We launched the kite and got it going really well, way up in the sky. As I held the kite spool and stared up at the kite, I was overcome by vertigo and sense of panic. I had to hand the spool off to my girlfriend. Even though it felt awful, I found it humorous that such a thing could occur. Of course, after that, any time I went to fly a kite the memory of the feeling of panic started to build even before I looked up. Soon, it developed into a phobia, and I just refused to fly a kite. Years later, I was teacher high school psychology and we were studying phobias and behaviorist theory. I shared my very strange and specific phobia with them, and as we learned about strategies for shaping behavior, the kids decided they would conduct an experiment on me. They started by having a kites in the room, then me standing near a kite, then teaching with a kite in my hands. They then took me outside and had me watch them fly kites from a distance, then had me stand near them as they flew them, then they eventually got me to hold a kite. I laughed as I held it, but i still hated it. :P A few weeks later we were studying states of consciousness and I brought in a hypnotist. That's the day I learned what was actually behind my kite phobia... (to be continued) OK...so, when I was young, my father worked attached to the military. This meant two things, one, that we moved a lot, and two, that he was often stationed away from the family for long periods of time. When I was five or so, my dad got sent to Vietnam where he served primarily in communications. He was gone for 18 months straight, with the only contact with us being via a phone operator where we would talk, say "Over!", and the operator would relay the message. My dad would do the same, and we'd here what he said via the operator. As a result, my memory of my father faded somewhat. Upon his return, we met him a at the Los Angeles Airport. Aa a reunion event, the family, which included my aunts and uncles that lived in Long Beach, had planned a trip to see the Queen Mary. The Queen Mary is a huge passenger ship that no longer sails, but is open as both a hotel and for tours. We were all pretty excited to be together, and you can imagine as a kid I was excited to be going on a huge ocean liner. The gangplank from the dock to the ship is very high up, and my father for some reason thought I'd like to see just how high. Without telling me, he grabbed me from behind and lifted me up over the railing. Being surprised by a relative stranger in this way led to a predictable response. I screamed out in fear of being thrown into the harbor below, and when my dad set me down I ran. What does this have to do with a fear of kites...? I recall that the gangway to the ship was decorated with pennants... http://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61txi9Bkn7L._AC_SY355_.jpg It seems that seeing a kite against a blue sky triggers the memory of being lifted over the edge of the gangway, and the feelings terror experienced as five year-old returns. It's interesting that, as an adult, I experience the physiological response of fear, but not the emotions. After all, it's just a kite in the sky, and I know that there's nothing that can happen to me. But when I look up, it feels like I will plunge upward endlessly into the sky...as if I were falling into the sea. Interesting. How were you able to find that association? Back to the hypnotist... After she led us through some hypnotism, we had a question-answer session. During that, I mentioned my kite phobia and she said that it sounded like a fear of heights. Instantaneously the memory of my father lifting me over the rail came flooding back and it was an incredible moment of clarity.

You mean a bloke in the buff

I prefer to view 2112 as an entire entity but for the sake of this exercise I voted for Soliloquy. B-side A Passage To Bangkok.

"In My Dreams" DOKKEN Earl met him and begged for an autographed picture but all he got was a fistful of Neil shirt that he ripped off him... Don’t forget some Neil chest hairs that he got during that shirt ripping! Scars of pleasure scars of pain RUSHHEAD Ramer stalking Make Neil sensitive again Earl has the hair collected in a little bag. He sniffs it twice a day, it's like his cocaine! From what Earl is saying about his recent good fortunes in the romance stakes, it's more than that he's sniffing!! Zepphead! I miss you too! You are another wonderful addition to this fun off the wall Rush Bunch!! The Romance Stakes have be a shaky bet over the last five years of my life my friend. However Lisa and I have been going strong for two months now. Two of the best months of my life. I will take those stakes. I am thankful every day. I can smell her on my nose right now as I type. She does things to me no woman has ever done to me before. I'm "In Trance." Love, SCORPIONS She's my "Lady Starlight" Glad to hear that ...... and I love the Scorpions reference!!! A great band!! Thanks ZeppBrother! SCORPIONS RULE!

"In My Dreams" DOKKEN Earl met him and begged for an autographed picture but all he got was a fistful of Neil shirt that he ripped off him... Don’t forget some Neil chest hairs that he got during that shirt ripping! Scars of pleasure scars of pain RUSHHEAD Ramer stalking Make Neil sensitive again Earl has the hair collected in a little bag. He sniffs it twice a day, it's like his cocaine! From what Earl is saying about his recent good fortunes in the romance stakes, it's more than that he's sniffing!! Earl doesn't like them to smell though, he prefers them smelling of roses. Hahahaha! You guys are killing me. So funny! Thanks for the laughs! I LOVE THIS PLACE! Yes Pat, it's true. Lisa does smell like roses. She's sweet from head to toe. Cotton Candy Sugar. Bliss. Lisa? Is that another new one?? Blimey! I'm losing track! Earl must be sprinkling powdered rhino horn on his cornflakes! HAHAHAHAHA! "Powdered rhino horn!" Never heard that one! Could you imagine the power of powdered unicorn horn? LOL!!! :LMAO:

Interesting thread. There are always tracks on albums that are a little out of place (makes the experience all the more interesting) although a few of the suggestions above made me think. - I can certainly see the argument for Best I Can back to Rush although in my opinion it's too good a song to be there! - Vital Signs is definitely a candidate for moving forward to Signals or even further.

Hey! I want all 8!! (well technically I have all eight but you know what I mean!) My vote is for Rush.

"In My Dreams" DOKKEN Earl met him and begged for an autographed picture but all he got was a fistful of Neil shirt that he ripped off him... Don’t forget some Neil chest hairs that he got during that shirt ripping! Scars of pleasure scars of pain RUSHHEAD Ramer stalking Make Neil sensitive again Earl has the hair collected in a little bag. He sniffs it twice a day, it's like his cocaine! From what Earl is saying about his recent good fortunes in the romance stakes, it's more than that he's sniffing!! Earl doesn't like them to smell though, he prefers them smelling of roses. Hahahaha! You guys are killing me. So funny! Thanks for the laughs! I LOVE THIS PLACE! Yes Pat, it's true. Lisa does smell like roses. She's sweet from head to toe. Cotton Candy Sugar. Bliss. Lisa? Is that another new one?? Blimey! I'm losing track! Earl must be sprinkling powdered rhino horn on his cornflakes!

"In My Dreams" DOKKEN Earl met him and begged for an autographed picture but all he got was a fistful of Neil shirt that he ripped off him... Don’t forget some Neil chest hairs that he got during that shirt ripping! Scars of pleasure scars of pain RUSHHEAD Ramer stalking Make Neil sensitive again Earl has the hair collected in a little bag. He sniffs it twice a day, it's like his cocaine! From what Earl is saying about his recent good fortunes in the romance stakes, it's more than that he's sniffing!! Zepphead! I miss you too! You are another wonderful addition to this fun off the wall Rush Bunch!! The Romance Stakes have be a shaky bet over the last five years of my life my friend. However Lisa and I have been going strong for two months now. Two of the best months of my life. I will take those stakes. I am thankful every day. I can smell her on my nose right now as I type. She does things to me no woman has ever done to me before. I'm "In Trance." Love, SCORPIONS She's my "Lady Starlight" Glad to hear that ...... and I love the Scorpions reference!!! A great band!!