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Alberto Muņoz 
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 Posted: November 26 2008 at 15:09 |
Go Pantagruel offsprings!!!!
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 14:59 |
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Woah, GG winning.
Voted for them, but that was basically a reflex.
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Logan
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 14:50 |
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glass house
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 14:23 |
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 14:15 |
 King By-Tor wrote:
The Doctor wrote:
Agh! As much as I hate to vote against Rush, I gotta go with GG. If the vote continues this way, it looks like it will be my 2nd and 3rd favorite bands going toe to toe. It will be even harder for me next round to vote against GG.  |
who says GG will win this one? 
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GO RUSH!!!!
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 14:03 |
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The Doctor
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 13:58 |
Agh! As much as I hate to vote against Rush, I gotta go with GG. If the vote continues this way, it looks like it will be my 2nd and 3rd favorite bands going toe to toe. It will be even harder for me next round to vote against GG.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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crimhead
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 13:38 |
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GG. I love those guys.
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 13:37 |
King By-Tor wrote:
LiquidEternity wrote:
Aw, I love Knots. Oh well. Maybe the song In a Glass House is a better example of why they are far more exciting as a band than Rush. Plus, if you look at the ratio of good albums to lame ones, Gentle Giant has 8:3, while Rush has 5:13. In my opinion.
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heh. For me it's 19:0, but that's why I'm a fanboy. GG have about 4:the rest, but that's a big IMO
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For me: Rush- 19:0 Gentle Giant- 9:2 
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 13:31 |
LiquidEternity wrote:
Aw, I love Knots. Oh well. Maybe the song In a Glass House is a better example of why they are far more exciting as a band than Rush. Plus, if you look at the ratio of good albums to lame ones, Gentle Giant has 8:3, while Rush has 5:13. In my opinion.
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heh. For me it's 19:0, but that's why I'm a fanboy. GG have about 4:the rest, but that's a big IMO
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Logan
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 13:26 |
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I enjoy "Knots", but it sounds too forced to me in its construction. I prefer "On Reflection", "Design" (despite it being rather forced by design), and others. If I were to (generally) recommend two must-hear GG songs, they would be the related ones, "Pantagruel's Nativity" and "Advent of Panurge". The tracks the got me into GG were "Free Hand" and "In a Glass House" (which I acquired before getting any GG albums).
Edited by Logan - November 26 2008 at 13:28
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RaphaelT
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 13:24 |
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GG - just for Three Friends
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yet you still have time!
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Tapfret
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 13:18 |
Visitor13 wrote:
'Knots' is one of the last songs I'd use to prove GG's superiority over Rush...
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And it still works.
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LiquidEternity
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 13:09 |
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Aw, I love Knots. Oh well. Maybe the song In a Glass House is a better example of why they are far more exciting as a band than Rush. Plus, if you look at the ratio of good albums to lame ones, Gentle Giant has 8:3, while Rush has 5:13. In my opinion.
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Anguiad
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 13:06 |
Damn this is perhaps the worse thing about this poll, not knowing so much about the other band so the vote goes to the one you are already familiar. But I know someday I'll get into GG, 'cause they are also one of the titan bands. Let this be a good and fair match! 
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"Tis your birth and faith that wrong you...not I."
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Logan
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 12:54 |
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I'd expected that this might come down to VdGG vs. GG, but the Rushfan force is strong. I like Rush considerably, and there was a time when I was in my early teens that Hemispheres and Fragile were my pillars of Prog. I only discovered Gentle Giant a few years ago, and it was my favourite band. Over the last couple of years my GG interest has waned considerably ('twas my favourite band when I joined ProgArchives), but I still think GG is very good. Acquiring the Taste, in particular, I loved, but then I loved GG's first eight studio albums (and Playing the Fool, of course), but thought GG's final three albums abhorrent. I vote for GG. The musicians are more versatile, there is greater variety in the music, interesting twists, the music is tight, there's good jazzy qualities, plus there's the academic music influence. GG is more fun for me, and beautiful for me, and importantly for me, the music is much quirkier, and I like quirky music. Goes back to listen to one of my favourite GG tracks; it's off In a Glass House -- "Way of Life." Next stop "The Moon is Down" (my traditional favourite GG track). These polls are good for revisiting music.
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Visitor13
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 12:46 |
LiquidEternity wrote:
Gentle Giant. They are just a thousand times better. More creative, more talented, and less obnoxious on the vocals. Rush is great, but they never wrote Knots. |
'Knots' is one of the last songs I'd use to prove GG's superiority over Rush. It may be a complex song, but I find it really unexciting. Overall though the trio of Octopus-Glass House-Power & Glory settle this in GG's favour comfortably.
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The Pessimist
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 12:37 |
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
Arnold Schoenberg
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Abstrakt
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 12:24 |
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Rush at the moment. I bet it's because i havn't listened to Gentle Giant in a while, and have forgotten just how awesome they are.
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: November 26 2008 at 12:20 |
And Knots isn't obnoxious on the vocals? 
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