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View Poll Results: Favorite of the early albums...
Sophisticated Beggar 2 10.53%
Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith 2 10.53%
Folkjokeopus 2 10.53%
Flat, Baroque & Berserk 2 10.53%
Stormcock 6 31.58%
Lifemask 0 0%
Valentine 0 0%
HQ 4 21.05%
Bullinamingvase 1 5.26%
Flashes From The Archives of Oblivion 0 0%
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Old 29-09-2008, 02:19 AM
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just for the hell of it.... (1980 onwards poll here)

hmmm. do i put in flashes or commercial breaks?

HQ for me, easy enough choice. (Folkjokeopus is my least favorite of all his albums)
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Easy choice for me given the name I gave to this site...
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Old 29-09-2008, 09:49 AM
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Thumbs up Depends how you define 'early'?
FB&B early as a complete album or certain tracks off t'others like McGoohans Blues.

Stormcock obviously later..

Depends how old you are I suppose and when you collided with that speeding train approaching you at the junction of the fountainhead of the slipstream of your mind in the flower of your adolescent youth?


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Old 29-09-2008, 09:45 PM
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Depends how old you are I suppose and when you collided with that speeding train approaching you at the junction of the fountainhead of the slipstream of your mind in the flower of your adolescent youth?
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Old 30-09-2008, 02:22 AM
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This is where my adult trip began, in 'Bedsit' land, Rusholme Manchester.
The connections are almost spooky, even that stunning track called 'Blackpool'. I've never lost that magical feeling of growing up; just playing the CD hurtles me back to so many memories and that anticipatory feeling of "OK! What's next?"
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Flat Baroque and Berserk was the first Roy album I bought, shortly after seeing him for the first time at the local college in Stevenage in 1969.He sang most of the songs from the album, notably 'White Man' of course, and 'Hells Angels' - a typically manic Roy move bearing in mind he was supporting Free and the audience consisted primarily of completely outta their trees Bikers
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(Folkjokeopus is my least favorite of all his albums)
Does this include the excellent guitaring on the track One for All Shane?
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Does this include the excellent guitaring on the track One for All Shane?
sure does! i cant like everything... the guitaring is ok i suppose, but its not much of a tune (imo)

it was the last album of roys that i got around to listening to
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This has become one of my Favourite RH Albums after keeping it in the car for months, All you need is ... What you have. Love it.

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Does this include the excellent guitaring on the track One for All Shane?
I think a lot of RH's amazing fretwork skills are underestimated. He is really a very good player but perhaps the lyrics are so poetically truthfully strong that we are distracted from it as part of the integral entity in it's contribution to it's completeness.

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