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"Fool's Overture" vs. "Funeral for a Friend"
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    Posted: February 12 2007 at 09:05
"Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies...)" off Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) and "Fool's Overture" off Even in the Quietest Moments (1977) are both great tracks, I feel.  Which do you prefer?

Here's concert footage of Supertramp playing "Fool's Overture" click
And concert footage of Elton John playing "Funeral for a Friend": click
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"Fool's Overture" by far.

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Fool's Overture, without doubt!
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I also prefer "Fool's Overture" by a  considerable margin.  And from that concert footage, I way, way, way prefer it.  I do like to pair those two songs in playlists, though.

I'm definitely bigger on Supertramp, but I do enjoy Elton John ("Tiny Dancer" being my favourite song of his).
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The synths in "Funeral" are classic; I like "Fool's Overture" a lot, but there's nothing special about the arrangement.
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Both are classics that I absolutely love. They are among the songs that truly got me into music when I was a child. Clap

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Elton John for me.. simply a fabulous song.

the Supertramp one...  really didn't do anything for me actually.




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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Elton John for be.. simply a fabulous song.

the Supertramp one...  really didn't do anything for me actually.




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Originally posted by Dragon Phoenix Dragon Phoenix wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Elton John for me.. simply a fabulous song.

the Supertramp one...  really didn't do anything for me actually.




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thanks ...Love lies Bleeding just puts the hooks in me everytime. I love Supertramp.. everything but what everyone seems to annoit as the classic.  I love Crime of the Century and of course Breakfast in America... but Fool's Overture and the album  just didn't do it for me.  Oh well




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I voted for the Elton John song too. As much as  I love Supertramp, I don't think "Fool's Ouverture" is one of their best tracks. 
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Elton John's Funeral For A friend/Love Lies Bleeding.

 
absolutelly stunning song.
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Funeral for a Friend by leaps and bounds. I love supertramp too but Fool's Overture exemplifies their  nack for taking a musical idea that's interesting for 3 minutes and dragging it out to extreme boredom. Luckily they most often know when to cut it short (just not on this one). FFAF on the other hand stay's compositionaly interesting all they way through by not over doing any single idea, it's perfect prog in that respect.

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Both Rock, I can't decide
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Both excellent pieces.
I can't understand why this poll is under "Non-prog music"...they seem fully prog to me!
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Originally posted by BiGi BiGi wrote:

Both excellent pieces.
I can't understand why this poll is under "Non-prog music"...they seem fully prog to me!
 
Yep, Funeral for a Friend is full of excellent prog elements and Supertramp, well one of my favorite prog bands.
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I agree that both of these excellent songs are Prog.  However, as Supertramp is here under Art Rock, but Elton John is not listed at this site,  I played it safe as I would rather not have a thread moved.

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Fool's Overture is just in a whole different class, I'm sorry
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*dusts off the cobwebs* Since this came up in another topic....

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I also prefer "Fool's Overture" by a considerable margin.  And from that concert footage, I way, way, way prefer it.  I do like to pair those two songs in playlists, though.

I'm definitely bigger on Supertramp, but I do enjoy Elton John ("Tiny Dancer" being my favourite song of his).


Hmm, surely I mean to say that I love and vote for both... Really disappointed in past me.

Edited by Logan - September 07 2023 at 13:01
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Supertramp

Funny thing (or maybe not), before I ever heard the Elton John song, I heard the Dream Theater cover. EmbarrassedLOL
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