Ultimate Prog Tournament #6: Camel v. Magma

CAMEL!

Tough...i will vote tomorrow

Edited by memowakeman - January 14 2008 at 00:05

 A quite funny poll. Magma for me.

^Now Magma vs. Soft Machine, that would be an interesting contest.

Well I have to vote for Magma, although I a big Camel fan. The fact is that Magma is harder to understand and appreciate than Camel, but when you get their music you realize how brilliant it is!

Camel is just the better band. Magma is good, but Camel is better.

It's a chocie between the relatively simple and very well done, and the absolutely avant-garde music, always trying to do something absolutely new.

But Magma, unlike Gentle Giant and others, seems to me a band with a strong desire to do new things, but not good enough composition to match this desire, so I vote for Camel

Camel for me also.

With Magma getting knocked out so early, this competition is effectively sunk for me.  I actually like both bands very much, and I have many albums from both (all the key albums and more), but I much prefer Magma.  I do love The Snow Goose by Camel which is a beautiful and exciting album for me, and one of the albums that has had the biggest effect on me.

I wonder how many people voting in this poll have listened to multiple albums by both bands.

If I had to pick an album of each band to face-off, it would be these (the magma album happens to be my favourite live album of all and one of my favourite albums period):


1975
Live/Hhaï (Köhntark)
4.45
(39 ratings)


1978
A Live Record
4.37
(72 ratings)

I wonder what the results would be like if I did a poll for these two live albums going up against each other? -- the voting requirement being dependent on people having heard both, of course.  I'm going to -- I can't resist -- as a corollary. 






Edited by Logan - January 18 2008 at 12:59

Logan wrote: With Magma getting knocked out so early, this competition is effectively sunk for me.  I actually like both bands very much, and I have many albums from both (all the key albums and more), but I much prefer Magma.  I do love The Snow Goose by Camel which is a beautiful and exciting album for me, and one of the albums that has had the biggest effect on me. I wonder how many people voting in this poll have listened to multiple albums by both bands. If I had to pick an album of each band to face-off, it would be these (the magma album happens to be my favourite live album of all and one of my favourite albums period): 1975 Live/Hha� (K�hntark) 4.45 (39 ratings) 1978 A Live Record 4.37 (72 ratings) I wonder what the results would be like if I did a poll for these two live albums going up against each other? -- the voting requirement being dependent on people having heard both, of course.  I'm going to -- I can't resist -- as a corollary.

man alive.. no contest between those two albums...