POLL: Selecting the next Extended Play Lounge Album
Added 2024-05-04 03:14:41 +0000 UTCIt's that time again! Our next Extended Play Lounge Episode is up this coming week, and I'm in the mood for some rock or pop/rock. Help me pick from these five albums that have all submitted by your peers to our Master List.
The poll will go through Sunday, May 5. Happy voting!
Comments
I believe 'Band on the Run' was John Lennon's favorite album of Paul's solo career. When I learned about the problems that Paul faced once he left the Beatles and had to pursue a solo career, I understood the whole purpose of the band "Wings". I can't imagine the pressure that Paul had to deal with in trying to make that transition and the fact that Paul was a perfectionist. My feelings is that Paul needed "Wings" to help him to hide behind failures and to also to give more room for creativity and expression.
Rebecca Walsh
2024-05-11 17:56:28 +0000 UTCI always thought Pete saw elements of Tommy in his own past? If so, a load of sympathy needed? But also its a story about how one can unwittingly become a messiah. But Pete SO got mental health issues and how trauma can impact, well before it became better understood.
Adrian Goodrich
2024-05-10 21:02:23 +0000 UTCYes, the Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man indeed!! You got it! With all the falsehoods this involves! And yes, why is Uncle Ernie back? The gross hypocrisy and moneymaking of religious cults! But we're not gonna take it!!!
Adrian Goodrich
2024-05-10 20:26:20 +0000 UTCChristmas means turkeys in the UK (you have turkey at Thanksgiving). I always assumed what you can hear is turkeys gobbling! And, maybe, it was an allusion to all the other guests babbling on, when Tommy in contrast was so isolated?
Adrian Goodrich
2024-05-10 19:34:45 +0000 UTCIt is all too easy to forget what a great guitarist and composer Pete is. Or what a brilliant, talented, drummer "Bell Boy" Keith was. Or just how superb John was on the bass - sometimes beyond superb. And of course what a brilliant vocalist Roger remains, as well as being an all-round totally decent guy with all his amazing charity work. Hopefully his CBE will get upgraded to a knighthood when he finally calls it a day. But then you listen to Tommy, or Quadrophenia, or the fantastic Who's next. And you realise you will never forget.
Adrian Goodrich
2024-05-10 18:53:52 +0000 UTCDoug should do that particular reaction from his own big chair.
Ray Sincere
2024-05-07 20:07:12 +0000 UTCAgree, I love the stripped down harder in your face way it was performed live!
Richard Plante
2024-05-05 11:51:31 +0000 UTCNot tough at all, Tommy, Can you hear me?!!
Steve Hartke
2024-05-05 04:17:07 +0000 UTC"Violator," "Music for the Masses," and "Songs of Faith and Devotion" would be interesting for future episodes in order to show the trajectory of music into the 1980s-1990s; I think Doug has plenty of music to keep his website going. As he is prone to offer insights into how the lyrics are expressed through the musical choices of the bands he investigates, Martin Gore's primal emotivism would be great for an EPL. . .
Allen
2024-05-04 23:53:00 +0000 UTCAll albums are well worth being on EPL. I vote for Songs From the Big Chair, not only because it's a great album, but also because there are many ways of listening to it and I'm interested to know the path Doug takes.
Adie
2024-05-04 19:46:54 +0000 UTCPersonally, I've never been a big fan of Tommy. The story's basically impossible to follow and a lot of the songs are pretty weak. Quadrophenia took all the ideas and did them leagues better. If I do want to listen to Tommy, I think Leeds, Hull, and Isle of Wight are all better than the studio.
Michael LaPorte
2024-05-04 18:55:53 +0000 UTCSonically, Violator was a game-changer in electronic music, merging pop songs with a very "Floyd-esque" keyboard arrangement and vibe. They did not invent electronic music but they refined it many ways. They also had one of the best producers of the time, Flood, and a band member Alan Wilder who was the pre-producer of the band, arranging Martin Gore's demo tracks into the layers of sound that would eventually become Violator. Depeche Mode won't get the votes. The audience has spoken.
JP Donnelly
2024-05-04 18:04:43 +0000 UTCSaw the Who a few months ago at an open air concert playing some of Tommy, totally sooperb listening. Not bad for a couple of near octogenarians. Both Daltry and Townsend in wonderful form. Especially on “See Me Feel Me”
John Baird
2024-05-04 15:59:08 +0000 UTCI'd be happy with any of these, particularly the 3 that fit in the classic rock realm. Band on the Run was my submission so I'm sticking with it and hoping that it will break through at some point.
Ross Pollack
2024-05-04 13:15:53 +0000 UTCWell I just switched my vote to Tommy because it’s obvious that Band won’t win.
Pam Norris
2024-05-04 11:44:23 +0000 UTCOk, this is a tough one! Play them all! Lol
Jesse L. Purdom
2024-05-04 10:53:46 +0000 UTCSuch difficult choices! Songs from the Big Chair and Violator are huge in my life. I appreciate the others, as well, but I have to go with Songs From the Big Chair
Laura Fancy
2024-05-04 10:52:12 +0000 UTCBand on the Run for me! I love this album so much. Tears and Depeche don’t fit with the others in this poll. Not the same kind of music. I’d be happy as long as they don’t win.
Pam Norris
2024-05-04 10:38:12 +0000 UTCThat would have been my next choice after Tears for Fears
KellieE69
2024-05-04 10:17:10 +0000 UTCBecause I am completely unable to choose between my top 4 of these... I'm going for my number 5 because it's still a great album and I didn't think before I voted for it that it would get that much love... so Big Up for Tears for Fears!
Chris Ramsbottom
2024-05-04 08:46:31 +0000 UTCSpoilt for choice with this lot, but Tears For Fears JUST tips The Who for me🙂
Ruth James
2024-05-04 07:41:06 +0000 UTCBand On The Run for me. One of Paul’s best albums after The Beatles. The title track was according to Paul a small attempt at the rock opera genre, which Tommy is a great example of.
Karl Stubsjoen
2024-05-04 07:23:45 +0000 UTCMy first thought is, wait, Doug hasn't done Tommy yet? It's about time!
Richard Moore
2024-05-04 05:37:09 +0000 UTCDepeche Mode is getting no love of course, lol...my favorite song from them was "I feel you" and "People are People" was another song that I was familiar with. Everytime I see Depeche Mode I think of this friend of mine back in my Freshman Year of College when I was a 'party girl' and she loved Depeche Mode and would play it over and over while we hung out. Q: Do you think Depeche Mode as Party Music?
Rebecca Walsh
2024-05-04 05:36:35 +0000 UTCYeah I feel as a newbie to the council with great power comes etc... I get giddy being involved in these polls, but also feel quite tasked as well. Lol.
Duff
2024-05-04 05:28:43 +0000 UTC80’s kid here. Choice was easy for me. Tears for Fears all the way.
KellieE69
2024-05-04 05:21:23 +0000 UTCI was torn between Songs From The Big Chair and All Things Must Pass . Songs... has three of my favorite Tears For Fears tracks and I am curious to hear the ones I am unfamiliar with especially since in a somewhat derogatory review it was compared to Dark Side of the Moon. However George Harrison, who was always my favorite Beatle and the one I consider the most talented won in the end. My brother who is fourteen years older than me always had an epic album collection (at least for the 70s IMHO) that I had access to at a young age and this was always a favorite. The cover made me think of Rip Van Winkle which Tull's first album also did. I was too young to get the "out of the band" imagery that apparently rankled Lennon causing him to be less than pleased with it in reviews. I have to admit that pleased me since I felt he and Paul were too dismissive of "little brother's" contributions. The Spector "Wall Of Sound" effect doesn't hurt either. Finally as a diehard Yes fan longer is always better so why not a triple album, more melodious bang for your buck I say !
Duff
2024-05-04 05:19:47 +0000 UTCThat doesn't mean I don't want Tommy to win.
Robert Thornton
2024-05-04 05:13:53 +0000 UTCWell, alrighty then. Tommy it is for me this time. But both All Things Must Pass and Band On The Run are also essential listening for me.
Illume Eltanin
2024-05-04 04:37:23 +0000 UTCI was thinking the same thing.
Robert Thornton
2024-05-04 04:17:56 +0000 UTCIf 'Songs From the Big Chair' doesn't make it this time - I sure hope it does at some point in the future. It is a true masterpiece.
Robert Thornton
2024-05-04 04:17:08 +0000 UTCI’ve heard less than half of all of them.
R. Douglas Helvering
2024-05-04 03:58:36 +0000 UTCAll Things Must Pass, Band On The Run, and Tommy are all essential listens. Have you heard any of them before?
Illume Eltanin
2024-05-04 03:57:20 +0000 UTCI am loving the fact that 'Tommy' is in the lead...so much history behind this song. Woodstock performance abeit is something that Pete Townshend would rather forget, but it clearly portrays the late 60's movement.
Rebecca Walsh
2024-05-04 03:56:16 +0000 UTCWell Crikey Moses, you don’t make it easy on us, do ya, Doug?! What a list!! Must consider carefully … 🤔
Margaret Barnes
2024-05-04 03:22:57 +0000 UTC
