POLL: Choose the Next Extended Play Lounge
Added 2024-02-29 20:57:35 +0000 UTCHi y'all...it's time to choose our next Extended Play Lounge featured album. I've added five possibilities from our Master List. Choose your favorite option!
Comments
I continue to pray and hope for a Moonmadness EPL!
Olivier Pelletier
2024-03-09 09:39:23 +0000 UTCAgreed. I love this album too. And VDGG has no chance against better known bands either.
Jean-Michel LaFontaine
2024-03-04 03:33:08 +0000 UTCI think this one of of their strongest early albums. It's probably still my favorite, in fact.
Ray Sincere
2024-03-03 23:05:03 +0000 UTCI agree.
Ray Sincere
2024-03-03 23:04:16 +0000 UTCOf course I'm going to go with Van Der Graaf Generator. Honestly, I think it's unfair to put an electric folk album like Liege & Lief up against four progressive rock albums in a community that primarily loves progressive rock. What chance has it got?
Ray Sincere
2024-03-03 23:03:37 +0000 UTCInteresting, thank you for the info. Maybe I was too young at this time and that is why learned about it later and Playboy has quite a different reputation in my mind. Note though that Leftoverture is not late 50s through early 70s
Eusebio R-Z
2024-03-02 18:57:13 +0000 UTCBack at its peak from the late 50s through the early 70s, Playboy was well-known for its literary and music-related content, as well as its photography, and its interviews with well-known musicians of the day were quite excellent. The annual Playboy Jazz Poll, and its All-Star vote were well respected in the jazz community.
Peter Tutak
2024-03-02 18:04:00 +0000 UTCI love Kansas and Leftoverture is a great album!
Pam Norris
2024-03-02 13:56:26 +0000 UTCThe fact that Playboy magazine was published in braille suggests that some people did read it for the articles. Probably not specifically for the music reviews, though.
Steve Hall
2024-03-02 11:57:18 +0000 UTCI voted camel because it has a better chance of creeping up the voting, but a close call with liege and lief in terms of what to,listen to.
Chris Gadsby
2024-03-01 19:04:09 +0000 UTCIt's comforting for people to share their connection to certain music with others, so I don't begrudge the choices. I would go with a lesser known album. Camel, Van Der Graaf or Fairport. Thankfully we have a world of music to explore.
Potted Rodent
2024-03-01 13:00:31 +0000 UTCMoonmadness is such a fantastic album! Though it doesn't seem to be winning, I hope to see you react to it some time soon :)
GreenRiverRonin
2024-03-01 11:14:16 +0000 UTCSadly, it looks like the predictable will win. It would be great if we could be a bit more adveturous and look at something from another genre like Liege and Leif, which was a seismic album for roots music.
Rolling Ronnie
2024-03-01 09:46:52 +0000 UTCThe Moody Blues album should be at the top of everyone's list. By far their best album, containing a level of humanity that is as rare as it is moving.
John Clark
2024-03-01 08:55:13 +0000 UTCI just checked out the Wikipedia entry for Leftoverture... I think it's very sad how Wikipedia has declined. Playboy magazine being cited as one of the top reliable sources for music criticism? Seriously? If I picture someone saying "Oh, Yes, I read Playboy for its great music review articles", it would be as part of a stereotypical cartoon where there is also an angry wife holding a rolling pin and replying "yeah, right! I'll show you music reviews!"
Eusebio R-Z
2024-03-01 07:29:22 +0000 UTCAs far as I know, Doug has never done Fairport Convention. As fine as the other albums are, I think it's time for this one.
Richard Moore
2024-03-01 05:23:41 +0000 UTCLove Kansas!
Gary Gelinas
2024-03-01 05:00:42 +0000 UTCFair points. My use of CTTE was just an example of as you put it "an unfair fight" and not to compare CTTE to Leftoverture in universal appeal and praise. As far as the poll goes, I'd wager most people voting are from the US so from that perspective, it truly is an unfair fight. How you address that issue in the future is another topic for discussion. Thanks for the reply.
Ron Swirson
2024-03-01 04:31:54 +0000 UTCHmmm. Leftoverture "well-known and beloved" in North America certainly, the rest of the world not so much. I take your post as suggesting that it will not be a fair contest as it will walk away with the poll. To be fair it currently seems to be doing just that; however I take issue with your implications that it can be compared to Close to the Edge and that the other bands are "not in the same league". Apologies if I have misread your intentions, but that's how it came across to me.
Lashers
2024-03-01 04:15:51 +0000 UTCHohoho . . . what an interesting way to open an album; there is definitely something of the Apollo moon-landing zeitgeist present before settling into more familiar Moody territory.
Allen
2024-03-01 00:46:17 +0000 UTCWhen you do get to To Our Childrens Childrens Children, I hope youβll consider doing a collaboration with Jim Newstead. I believe heβs at the same place in his Moody Blues listen as well. Although, I would love for the collaboration to be on my favorite of The Magnificent Seven: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (EGBDF).
Illume Eltanin
2024-03-01 00:44:52 +0000 UTCI see, again, the underappreciation of folk rock, unfortunately. Fairport's 'Liege and Lief', at only 14%, is an insult to one of the most influential albums in rock history. Everyone from Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull, to psych folksters like Comus and Dando Shaft were inspired by this album.
Guitar Channel
2024-03-01 00:20:03 +0000 UTCI love to Our Children's Children, a great album. No comment on Kansas though...no surprise there.
Rebecca Walsh
2024-03-01 00:11:11 +0000 UTCdoug's doing the moodies in order. he's already done the albums before this
Bubbalino
2024-02-29 23:50:34 +0000 UTCLeftoverture, awesome!
Anthony Taylor
2024-02-29 23:02:18 +0000 UTCWow - for the first time I've voted for one that might win!
Trevor Cotterell
2024-02-29 22:33:41 +0000 UTCThey each have something to commend them. They each have something to discourage me from listening. On that basis, I'll endure passage through the lychgate that is the opening track to listen to (most of) the rest of the Moody Blues album.
George Davis-Stewart
2024-02-29 22:12:01 +0000 UTCKanas is a favourite for me!
Karl Stubsjoen
2024-02-29 22:10:22 +0000 UTCOh, Dear Lort. An impossible decision! All equally excellent and worth exploring!
Tom (the soggy one)
2024-02-29 22:05:40 +0000 UTCLeftoverture is a personal top 5 album all time and Kansas is an extremely underappreciated band in general. Most people associate them with Dust In The Wind and know little else. Spock's Beard, Transatlantic and Neal Morse material probably owes their biggest debt to Kansas among all of their influences. Leftoverture is every bit of a must hear as any of the classics by Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd et al.
Christopher Arters (relative timeworx - Mr.A)
2024-02-29 22:03:17 +0000 UTCI viewed the list before voting and I thought to myself that Doug might not be aware of how well-known Leftoverture is and beloved. Doug, just as a note for future polling., check out the already existing popularity of the bands and or albums and work the poll options that way. This poll is like having Yes's Close to the Edge up against Lindisfarne or Van der Graaf Generator etc albums. All very good bands so don't come after me but they are not all in the same league. PS: it's a no-brainer CTTE would win in a landslide but it would unfairly rob you (and others) of potentially hearing those other worthy bands. Yeah, you can say those bands will have other opportunities and that would be true but it would be less frequent opportunities than others. I know you're running a business and need eyeballs so in a sense I understand the conflict, or it's just one of those learning experiences and chalk it all up to that. Great job Doug overall and love your channel, send my best to Megan.
Ron Swirson
2024-02-29 21:51:07 +0000 UTCOh, easy Godbluff, best prog album of all time. Eclectic, refined, complex and moving. Glad that it has benn selected to the final voting. Sadly, Leftoverture and Moonmadness is a strong opposition. But both of those albums are amazing, so I won't be that upset to hear any of those.
Einaras SipaviΔius
2024-02-29 21:46:41 +0000 UTCsigh
Matthew Weber
2024-02-29 21:23:09 +0000 UTCAs devoted as I am to the Moodies, I'll pass on TOCCC in favor of one of their stronger early albums for future consideration.
ghattier
2024-02-29 21:21:50 +0000 UTCVoting for Fairport !
BRIAN MILLER
2024-02-29 21:21:23 +0000 UTCTough choice - I went with Camel because it might be a good change of pace from all of the heavy material that you've been analyzing.
Ford H. Cotton III
2024-02-29 21:20:30 +0000 UTCYeah I know - more's the pity
David Crossen
2024-02-29 21:16:49 +0000 UTCi really hope you'll be doing Godbluff one day. A prog band sounding so heavy without any electric guitar is something else. One of my top 5 albums of all time. Won't win this poll though...
Jean-Michel LaFontaine
2024-02-29 21:16:38 +0000 UTCIt's going to be Kansas.
Jean-Michel LaFontaine
2024-02-29 21:15:32 +0000 UTCthat too
Bubbalino
2024-02-29 21:14:06 +0000 UTCAnything but Kansas please
David Crossen
2024-02-29 21:12:13 +0000 UTCBloody Moose
Berniyh
2024-02-29 21:03:36 +0000 UTCMOODY BLUES
Bubbalino
2024-02-29 20:58:30 +0000 UTC
