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1987 Document - REM

A few favourites here ... The Love Cats, Friday I'm in love, Pictures of You ..... but i go with Just Like Heaven

Run With The Wolf Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune

1981 Escape - Journey

Immune: Jethro Tull Eliminate: A bunch

1973 Aladdin Sane - David Bowie

1970 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Many Happy Returns Chicken hawk!! :cheers:

Seems I missed all this whilst being slightly 'Dazed and Confused' at the weekend!!

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1967 Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

I own one Van morrison album and more than a dozen VH efforts in various formats I'd like to someday explore more than just the 2 records everyone has heard, but I'm too busy drinking beer and cranking fair warning His Band And Street Choir is a goodie. To my ears a much brighter and more sunshiney affair than Moondance, but still of course much more reigned in than Astral Weeks. Veedon Fleece and Saint Dominic's Preview are also worth a listen.

who's more of an asshole? Van Morrison, Kid Rock or Ted Nugent? :P Kind like the Olympics of assholes!

No doubt about that!! :LMAO:

Since i joined TRF I have been pleasantly surprised at the diversity of subjects, and as you say, it encourages the listening of new stuff. (Ironically, bearing in mind previous comments, TRF has got me listening to Van Halen albums!!)

We can't just plump for everything that's critically acclaimed can we? That would be fake as f**k, just pretending you like it because the critics love it. Is that rock n roll to you? Would you prefer it if everybody just turned around suddenly and said "Yes let's all vote for Van Morrison whether we like it or not, and anything else that's critically acclaimed! And now we're all going out and buying any albums that are "critically acclaimed" and we're gonna spend the rest of out lives listening to it, and searching for polls like this to make sure we vote for all the "critically acclaimed" albums. Something being critically acclaimed has never held much weight for me when it comes to what I will listen to. It's usually based on what I hear from the artist and what their fans think about their albums. Err ..... all fine and dandy chaps .... but ...... the two albums are bloody good!! It's a bit like me saying to you Treeduck hey why do you rate Return To Forever? Sure they are critically acclaimed so you must just like them because of that.!!! No, you like them because they are great. The two Morrison albums are also great. When it boils down to music, i have never been fake as f**k in my f**king life chief. Where did I accuse you of being fake in your musical tastes? And I wasn't jumping on you with my comment. Just merely stating the fact that Van Halen being so massively popular is the reason they're winning this. They've simply had a bigger impact on fans and the music world overall. Not you!!!! It was more Treeduck i was gassing at!!!! ..... But i'm over it lol!! You better be over it!

We can't just plump for everything that's critically acclaimed can we? That would be fake as f**k, just pretending you like it because the critics love it. Is that rock n roll to you? Would you prefer it if everybody just turned around suddenly and said "Yes let's all vote for Van Morrison whether we like it or not, and anything else that's critically acclaimed! And now we're all going out and buying any albums that are "critically acclaimed" and we're gonna spend the rest of out lives listening to it, and searching for polls like this to make sure we vote for all the "critically acclaimed" albums. Something being critically acclaimed has never held much weight for me when it comes to what I will listen to. It's usually based on what I hear from the artist and what their fans think about their albums. Err ..... all fine and dandy chaps .... but ...... the two albums are bloody good!! It's a bit like me saying to you Treeduck hey why do you rate Return To Forever? Sure they are critically acclaimed so you must just like them because of that.!!! No, you like them because they are great. The two Morrison albums are also great. When it boils down to music, i have never been fake as f**k in my f**king life chief. Where did I accuse you of being fake in your musical tastes? And I wasn't jumping on you with my comment. Just merely stating the fact that Van Halen being so massively popular is the reason they're winning this. They've simply had a bigger impact on fans and the music world overall. Not you!!!! It was more Treeduck i was gassing at!!!! ..... But i'm over it lol!!

We can't just plump for everything that's critically acclaimed can we? That would be fake as f**k, just pretending you like it because the critics love it. Is that rock n roll to you? Would you prefer it if everybody just turned around suddenly and said "Yes let's all vote for Van Morrison whether we like it or not, and anything else that's critically acclaimed! And now we're all going out and buying any albums that are "critically acclaimed" and we're gonna spend the rest of out lives listening to it, and searching for polls like this to make sure we vote for all the "critically acclaimed" albums. Something being critically acclaimed has never held much weight for me when it comes to what I will listen to. It's usually based on what I hear from the artist and what their fans think about their albums. Err ..... all fine and dandy chaps .... but ...... the two albums are bloody good!! It's a bit like me saying to you Treeduck hey why do you rate Return To Forever? Sure they are critically acclaimed so you must just like them because of that.!!! No, you like them because they are great. The two Morrison albums are also great. When it boils down to music, i have never been fake as f**k in my f**king life chief. It's you who's talking about albums that are critically acclaimed, I've never mentioned it. I never even think about it normally. It makes no difference to me if an album is popular, unpopular, critically acclaimed or not. Think back to the 70's. Black Sabbath used to be thought of as a joke band by the critics, it's only been in retrospect in the last 20 years that Sabbath have been acclaimed by critics. They're still the same band to me though. I made a flippant comment, mentioned the acclaimed thing (which is fact) and then get jumped on. Don't make any odds to me whether critics like something, or whether the act is the biggest thing on the planet, I like purely on my own tastes and preferences. Just don't expect to get called a fake on the strength of a one-liner!! Now you're putting words into my mouth. I was just asking the question, should we all just praise all the critically acclaimed albums, after your shock at the poll results so far. You shouldn't be shocked though when Van Halen win a poll against Van Morrison on a mostly prog rock/hard rock forum. Sorry, just rubbed me up the wrong way .... if you knew me (which will happen if we keep gabbing on the forum!) .... if anything, I go for music which is not popularly acclaimed ..... like to be different. Take Rush for instance .... over the years there have been a load of 'Rush haters' .... that made me like them even more!

I started listening in 72. They certainly weren't seen as a joke band then .... but N. Ireland was like bible-belt country and they were called the music of the devil. I had one of those khaki army style schoolbags and i had a bit inverted cross with Black Sabbath done on it with permanent marker. My folks hated it.

We can't just plump for everything that's critically acclaimed can we? That would be fake as f**k, just pretending you like it because the critics love it. Is that rock n roll to you? Would you prefer it if everybody just turned around suddenly and said "Yes let's all vote for Van Morrison whether we like it or not, and anything else that's critically acclaimed! And now we're all going out and buying any albums that are "critically acclaimed" and we're gonna spend the rest of out lives listening to it, and searching for polls like this to make sure we vote for all the "critically acclaimed" albums. Something being critically acclaimed has never held much weight for me when it comes to what I will listen to. It's usually based on what I hear from the artist and what their fans think about their albums. Err ..... all fine and dandy chaps .... but ...... the two albums are bloody good!! It's a bit like me saying to you Treeduck hey why do you rate Return To Forever? Sure they are critically acclaimed so you must just like them because of that.!!! No, you like them because they are great. The two Morrison albums are also great. When it boils down to music, i have never been fake as f**k in my f**king life chief. It's you who's talking about albums that are critically acclaimed, I've never mentioned it. I never even think about it normally. It makes no difference to me if an album is popular, unpopular, critically acclaimed or not. Think back to the 70's. Black Sabbath used to be thought of as a joke band by the critics, it's only been in retrospect in the last 20 years that Sabbath have been acclaimed by critics. They're still the same band to me though. I made a flippant comment, mentioned the acclaimed thing (which is fact) and then get jumped on. Don't make any odds to me whether critics like something, or whether the act is the biggest thing on the planet, I like purely on my own tastes and preferences. Just don't expect to get called a fake on the strength of a one-liner!!

We can't just plump for everything that's critically acclaimed can we? That would be fake as f**k, just pretending you like it because the critics love it. Is that rock n roll to you? Would you prefer it if everybody just turned around suddenly and said "Yes let's all vote for Van Morrison whether we like it or not, and anything else that's critically acclaimed! And now we're all going out and buying any albums that are "critically acclaimed" and we're gonna spend the rest of out lives listening to it, and searching for polls like this to make sure we vote for all the "critically acclaimed" albums. Something being critically acclaimed has never held much weight for me when it comes to what I will listen to. It's usually based on what I hear from the artist and what their fans think about their albums. Err ..... all fine and dandy chaps .... but ...... the two albums are bloody good!! It's a bit like me saying to you Treeduck hey why do you rate Return To Forever? Sure they are critically acclaimed so you must just like them because of that.!!! No, you like them because they are great. The two Morrison albums are also great. When it boils down to music, i have never been fake as f**k in my f**king life chief.

Moondance and Astral Weeks ..... two of the most critically acclaimed albums in the history of modern music, being soundly thumped by a pair of Van Halen albums ..... ya have to laugh! (or perhaps cry)