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| Poll: Which do you like better? |
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| Silent Tongues, by Cecil Taylor |
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46% |
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| Eldorado, a Symphony, by The Electric Light Orchestra |
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33% |
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| Liked both. |
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| Didn't like either. |
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20% |
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| Total Votes : 15 |
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Listmeister
Gender: Male
Location: Ohio 
- #1
- Posted: 08/18/2014 01:54
- Post subject: [Closed] B1974 1AB: Silent Tongues vs. Eldorado, A Symphony
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Full disclosure. It's going to be impossible for me to write objectively about these two artists. One artist is one of my all-time favorites, the other represents a genre I'm not really that into. So, less said the better.
Anyway, here are the two albums.
Silent Tongues by Cecil Taylor, nominated by Kool Keith Sweat.
Eldorado, A Symphony By The Electric Li... Orchestra, nominated by Basdewit97.
Last edited by Listmeister on 08/21/2014 16:21; edited 1 time in total
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Graeme2
Gender: Male
Location: The Upside Down 
- #2
- Posted: 08/18/2014 10:27
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Cecil Taylor makes Trout Mask and The Pop Group sound like easy listening.
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- #3
- Posted: 08/18/2014 10:38
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| Graeme2 wrote: | | Cecil Taylor makes Trout Mask and The Pop Group sound like easy listening. |
Great. You just made it the favorite. LOL.
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Graeme2
Gender: Male
Location: The Upside Down
- #4
- Posted: 08/18/2014 11:44
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| RepoMan wrote: | | Great. You just made it the favorite. LOL. |
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Skinny
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- #5
- Posted: 08/18/2014 11:50
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Anything but ELO. That said, I'm probably being a bit unfair on Taylor there by suggesting it was a default, anti-ELO position, when I did enjoy his record. It's not my favourite jazz album in the tournament, but it was still cool. Vote to Taylor.
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- #6
- Posted: 08/18/2014 15:20
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Yeah, Eldorado's the first of two albums that I've really disliked so far in this tourney. And they both happen to be in the same batch as I'm currently trying to figure out which album I like less - this or Crime of The Century. It's quite a battle. But, I think Eldorado's going to take it. There are probably more moments on Eldorado that are just flat out funny.
In comparison to trying to get through Eldorado, Silent Tongues was pretty easy on the ears and a welcome tonic. Taylor's Unit Structures has been blowing my mind over the past couple of weeks though.
Silent Tongues
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meccalecca
Voice of Reason
Gender: Male
Location: The Land of Enchantment
- #7
- Posted: 08/18/2014 15:39
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| RepoMan wrote: | | Yeah, Eldorado's the first of two albums that I've really disliked so far in this tourney. |
You guys are no fun. What's not to love about totally over the top AOR prog pop?
Well, it's not exactly ELO's best but I kind of love it.
Cecil Taylor may be agreater, but ELO's attempt to be the 70s version of the Beatles is something I've always appreciated for whatever reason.
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NowhereMan
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Location: Nowhereland
- #8
- Posted: 08/18/2014 21:51
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Eldorado. Brilliant, Especially the opening two tracks and the finale.
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NickVolos
Segnahc Reve4
Gender: Male
Location: Land of the Argonauts, Centaurs and other such creatures 
- #9
- Posted: 08/19/2014 18:19
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Voted for Eldorado. Silent Tongues is not my kind of jazz... too free, abstract, technical...COLD.
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- #10
- Posted: 08/19/2014 18:51
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Vote to Silent Tongues. I enjoy Eldorado quite a bit mainly because it's fun, but Silent Tongues impresses me. It's my kind of jazz.
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