Traffic - which album do you consider their best?

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Mr FaNTASY??

― meister, Thursday, 24 March 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Seconded.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 24 March 2005 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

John Barleycorn Must Die. Definitely.

― Bill the Butcher, Thursday, 24 March 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Fantasy thirded. But "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" is my favorite song.

― paper storage bag, Thursday, 24 March 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, "Mr. Fantasy" is probably their best. But I quite like the *shorter* songs on "Low Spark"--I never want to hear the title track again. I only kinda like "Empty Phases" on "Barleycorn."

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Fantasy for me. The first one I heard and still the best, I think. I guess there are like three different versions of it though, between the UK and at least 2 different US issues? Very confusing. I'm talking about the US one that starts off with "Heaven Is In Your Mind" and lacks "Paper Sun" (I think the latter is amazing of course! just never owned that version of the album.)

But I quite like the *shorter* songs on "Low Spark"

yeah "Light Up or Leave Me Alone" is one of my faves.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

Got to be Last Exit

― brimstead, Sunday, 7 April 2013 02:48 (thirteen years ago)

Gots to be "Low Spark..."

― bodacious ignoramus, Sunday, 7 April 2013 04:57 (thirteen years ago)

I've actually spent the most time with On The Road, which I'm sure puts me in a distinct minority. Oddly, I've never purchased another album by them. It has my favorite songs, in even more long-winded and noodly versions than the studio stuff.

― *honk honk* *whooooosh* *faaaaaart* (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 April 2013 15:14 (thirteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Just remembered I was talking to someone (forgotten who, possibly multiple people) at the last FAP about odd stuff Traffic did and my much belated update is that the intro to this is what I was talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utv0HW9k5a0

― Bob Karol G (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 15 October 2026 23:07 (five days ago)

Best is John Barleycorn Must Die. Number two might actually be Shoot out at the fantasy factory.

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 18 October 2026 03:29 (two days ago)

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