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This was a close one! Thanks for all the participation. In the end, here are the results:

In the Court of the Crimson King - 31%

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - 26%

Affinity - 19%

Snow - 18%

Mirage - 6%

I'll be recording the King Crimson album today or tomorrow and plan to release episode 3 on Wednesday. 

Cheers!

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Anonymous

Ah yes. I can’t wait!

MPHawk

This couldn't be more well timed! I get to see the Crim on Thursday so your insights will be fresh in my mind. Thanks, Doug!

Anonymous

This is a poll where there are no losers, especially since I suspect you’ll be getting around to them all eventually 😉. Thank you, Doug!

Joey Wise

The lamb is a huge undertaking so COTCK was prolly the right choice

Anonymous

I keep hearing about how amazing this community is supposed to be so please explain how Mirage can finish last 😛

doughelvering

Most I've heard from mentioned that these are all hard choices. No band is a loser here.

Frits van Voorst

Two remarks: if possible, choose the SW remix. The clarity is way better for he could use all original tracks in stead of the 8 combined tracks of the former master tape. Second: the track Moonchild starts off as a regular, poetic song, but dissolves into directionless, unstructured playing for almost 10 minutes. I doubt if that is interesting for you or any listener.

prog mushroom

Great choice ❤️ Epitaph,I talk to the wind.... Masterpieces

MPHawk

I would take 10 minutes of directionless, unstructured playing by KC over a lot of bands' thoroughly composed music any day, and I'm eager to see how Doug reacts. The long improvisations are where a lot of the magic happens.

Khaled Akbik

I hope Haken’s Affinity gets a chance. It’s one hell of an album.

Blinky

A warning regarding the King Crimson video: Posting it on YouTube might straight up be a no-go. Fripp is notoriously tight with this stuff. Things have loosened in the last year or so as KC have put their stuff online (YouTube, Spotify, etc.), but it's worth expecting that it'll get taken down.

Evan

Outstanding! Looking forward to the reaction! :))

Nathan-Andrew

Same. Much of that thoroughly composed music is all-too predictable. I’m interested in discovering what unexpected things this music has to say, in what arises spontaneously from this collection of musicians. The music doesn’t have to fit my expectations.

Frits van Voorst

Citation of shepherdexpress.com, as a background for the band and album: "King Crimson, a band that went from 0 to 100 in an instant. They played their first gig at a dinky London club in April 1969. They were heard across the UK on a BBC broadcast in June. In July they played before hundreds of thousands opening for The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park. By the end of that month they were signed to Island Records and in October they released their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King."

Guilherme Cruz

Doug, for a future poll, please put Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, but the live version, with orchestra from the 2006 live dvd. You can enjoy the music, the arrangement and educate us with your knowledge. And as you did a live DT with Mike Mangini on the drums, It would be cool to do a live performance with Mike Portnoy. Here is a 4k version of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D33QzgK5pPk Thanks

Wade Markham

I'd like to see the Radiant Records official live video of Neal Morse's performance of Sola Scriptura. It's the entire album. It's from the 2015 Morsefest.

Great Scott

I'd love to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night. And there's tons of TSO stuff online, including full concerts recorded by the audience members, so I think they'd like the PR. There's the normal album version, but I believe there's also the version with the full story narration mixed in. Maybe sometime soon...

Paul t hebert

I still say ambrosia’a‘s first and second albums are Progressive masterpieces. Also crack the sky animal notes, safety in numbers and nuclear apathy you will find on par with that