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| Poll: Which do you like better? |
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| Silent Tongues, by Cecil Taylor |
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22% |
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| Veedon Fleece, by Van Morrison |
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77% |
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| Total Votes : 18 |
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Listmeister
Gender: Male
Location: Ohio 
- #1
- Posted: 09/04/2014 14:58
- Post subject: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AT: Silent Tongues vs. Veedon Fleece
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| Graeme2 wrote: | | Cecil Taylor makes Trout Mask and The Pop Group sound like easy listening. |
| RepoMan wrote: | 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.
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Silent Tongues by Cecil Taylor
| Skinny wrote: | | Veedon Fleece is my favourite Morrison album, and probably my favourite album left in this tournament. I love Popol Vuh, but easy vote to Van here. |
| meccalecca wrote: | | I'm with Skinny. I've recently fallen in love with Veedon Fleece. It's Astral Weeks part 2. |
| Skinny wrote: | | This is what I've been trying to say for fucking years, to anybody who'll listen. Moondance is awesome, but Veedon Fleece is clearly the rightful heir to Astral Weeks' throne and the title of Van's best album. |
| meccalecca wrote: | | I still prefer Astral Weeks, but the to albums have an extremely similar feel. And that smooth double bass surely doesn't hurt. |
| Skinny wrote: | | They're both two of the best albums ever made, but I have to be in the right mood for Astral Weeks, whereas I can put on Veedon Fleece at any time and be instantly transported. |
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Veedon Fleece by Van Morrison
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NickVolos
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Gender: Male
Location: Land of the Argonauts, Centaurs and other such creatures 
- #2
- Posted: 09/04/2014 15:08
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Van the man...again... 
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WindowAbove
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Location: Iowa
- #3
- Posted: 09/04/2014 16:34
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Veedon Fleece
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NowhereMan
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Location: Nowhereland 
- #4
- Posted: 09/04/2014 16:58
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Van.
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- #5
- Posted: 09/04/2014 17:05
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- #6
- Posted: 09/04/2014 17:23
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Veedon Fleece by a pretty wide margin. I love Taylor, but he has done much better. And damn... when Van's at his best, it's like crack.
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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
- #7
- Posted: 09/04/2014 20:34
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Silent Tongues is a pretty weak output from Cecil, and I've never heard Veedon Fleece, so I'll be abstaining.
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- #8
- Posted: 09/04/2014 23:44
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| sp4cetiger wrote: | | Veedon Fleece by a pretty wide margin. I love Taylor, but he has done much better. And damn... when Van's at his best, it's like crack. |
This. Veedon Fleece has really opened up to me over the past couple of weeks. Gorgeous and deep. The kind of album I can lost in for weeks. Send a lookout party.
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- #9
- Posted: 09/05/2014 02:53
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| satiemaniac wrote: | |
All jazz falls in the second round.
And for all those saying Silent Tongues isn't Taylor's best work, I agree, but it's still pretty damn neat; it might not match up to Unit Structures, Conquistador, Nefertiti, his work with Jazz Composer's Orchestra, etc., but it's still more forward thinking and transcendent than almost every album by any other jazz pianist ever. That being said, Veedon Fleece is a very worthy contender to lose to.
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Skinny
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- #10
- Posted: 09/05/2014 12:01
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I'm voting Veedon Fleece again, and will almost certainly continue doing so until it gets knocked out.
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