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Poll Question: Which instrumental impresses you the most?
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21 [53.85%]
2 [5.13%]
2 [5.13%]
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    Posted: January 20 2022 at 02:26
Sadly there are some Project albums, such as The Turn of the Friendly Card (1980), which don't have an instrumental opener.

I very much like all of these five pieces. It's either 'Voyager' or 'A Dream Within a Dream', I vote later.
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Sirius 
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I Robot.
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I Robot
 
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Tales gets the nod.
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Definitely I Robot.
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"I Robot" is by far the winner here, although "Sirius" and "Voyager" are both very good.

"Lucifer" seems like an attempt to re-create "I Robot" that of course falls far short.
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Even though one is probably the best for dribbling a basketball to, my favorite is "irobot."
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'I Robot', and a perfect album, by the way!
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Surprised to see a clear winner in this poll, I thought the race would be much more even.

Poor 'Voyager'! Cry I love the way it grounds the album's airy soundscape. 

(I voted the first option -- such a powerful introduction to the 19th century horror atmosphere of Edgar Allan Poe's tales.)
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Originally posted by Matti Matti wrote:

Surprised to see a clear winner in this poll, I thought the race would be much more even.

Poor 'Voyager'! Cry I love the way it grounds the album's airy soundscape.


my vote, mainly to give it at least one CryOuch
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I Robot for me. A Dream Within a Dream and Sirius are great as well, but sound too short and incomplete without being followed by the next track.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by Matti Matti wrote:

Surprised to see a clear winner in this poll, I thought the race would be much more even.

Poor 'Voyager'! Cry I love the way it grounds the album's airy soundscape.


my vote, mainly to give it at least one CryOuch

'Voyager' is my clear favorite, such an inexplicable landslide
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Another vote for I Robot
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A Dream within a Dream
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