If you could only keep one album from the 1968-1973 period?

[blossomworld]

Stack-o-tracks, obviously.



Really though, I think I'm gonna have to go with Surf's Up. It's not the most consistent album (Sunflower is much more even), but it has so many absolutely phenomenal songs on it (Long Promised Road, Feel Flows, Til I Die, the title track of course) that it gets pushed above the rest of their albums of that era for me.

[thetojo]

Funny, my gut reaction was Holland, but thinking about it, I would rank 20/20, Sunflower and Surf's Up higher.

I think I'd keep 20/20 over Sunflower because the Bruce tunes from the latter really grate with me for some reason.

[Wild-Honey]

Probably Friends. It doesn't have any of my favourite songs on it, but I like them all.  It's a gorgeous album, it's not like listening to music, it's like feeling it. The other albums have one or two songs on them I'm not keen on (Sunflower particularly)

[Micha]

If I get to keep the single records of the era, the album to keep was Sunflower. Without the singles, it would be a tough tie between that and 20/20. Had the collection of songs commonly referred to as "Landlocked" been released as an actual album, that would be it.

[drbeachboy]

Probably Friends. It's a gorgeous album, it's not like listening to music, it's like feeling it.

Exactly! Well put.

[clinikillz]

Friends, but if 1967 was included, I'd have picked Wild Honey.

[kwebb]

Either Holland or Surf's Up

[Wrightfan]

Tough choices, so I have to rank them based on how I feel now:

1. Sunflower (Bright, happy, and optimistic.)
2. Surf's Up (Sad, depressing, and surprisingly current in today's U.S. climate.)
3. Friends (Happy, but not as good as Sunflower.)
4. Holland (Sad, but not as good as Surf's Up. See what I did? )
5. 20/20 (Good but uneven.)
6. Carl and the Passions: So Tough (It's growing on me lately, but still the weakest of the studio albums.)

[donald]

Forced into a corner and canonly choose one?    20-20.   Has a variety of stuff including smile bits and I Can H ear Music.   do it again, Nearest FAP......    Kind of a comp album...... A lot of variety.

[Matt H]

And there are no Dennis songs or even lead vocals on IN CONCERT, another drawback.

That really surprises me, I wonder why there are not any Dennis songs or leads on the album.  It seems like he sang enough in those years to have at least 1.

[RangeRoverA1]

Had the collection of songs commonly referred to as "Landlocked" been released as an actual album, that would be it.

My favorite's got to be "Over the Waves". nice short circus ditty.

[Manfred]

Holland  for sure.

[Micha]

Had the collection of songs commonly referred to as "Landlocked" been released as an actual album, that would be it.

My favorite's got to be "Over the Waves". nice short circus ditty.

That piece is all about sound effects. If you listen to it standing right between the stereo speakers, you get dizzy as if you were a carousel. Everything seems to turn around you.

[Wrightfan]

Had the collection of songs commonly referred to as "Landlocked" been released as an actual album, that would be it.

My favorite's got to be "Over the Waves". nice short circus ditty.

I don't think it would work as a stand alone track imo. You know where it would be great though? Cross-faded into the tag of Loop de Loop.