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Poll Question: Which band do you prefer?
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Direct Link To This Post Topic: Battle of the Prog Bands R3D8: Rush vs. GY!BE
    Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:06
Welcome to Round 3 Division 8 of Battle of the Prog Bands!  This time our two contenders are Rush and Godspeed You! Black Emeperor.  Vote for your favorite, and the band with the most votes will move onto Round 3.  Please do not vote unless you have listened to at least one album by both artists.
 
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A rather odd comparison.  I pick GY!BE as Rush just hasn't been doing it for me lately.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:07
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:10
Rush by the amount of distance from here to Cygnus X-1.  (Approximately 6000 light years, or 2000 parsecs, or around

5.67631704 × 1019 meters.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:11
Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Rush by the amount of distance from here to Cygnus X-1.  (Approximately 6000 light years, or 2000 parsecs, or around

5.67631704 × 1019 meters.

 
Jon, you like Rush? I must say, I'm extremely surprised.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:11

oh, so this  must be the Canadian round, eh?

I vote GYBE all the way!!!!
who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:13
Originally posted by Anthony H. Anthony H. wrote:

Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Rush by the amount of distance from here to Cygnus X-1.  (Approximately 6000 light years, or 2000 parsecs, or around

5.67631704 × 1019 meters.

 
Jon, you like Rush? I must say, I'm extremely surprised.

Why are you surprised?  I don't listen to them constantly, but I love certain albums (most specifically A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres, and to a slightly lesser degree Moving Pictures). 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:14
Originally posted by UndercoverBoy UndercoverBoy wrote:

I pick GY!BE as Rush just hasn't been doing it for me lately.

PS
I still love Permanent Waves though! Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:14
RUSH!!!  Lol thats only because i could NEVER get into Godspeed You! Black Emperor...if you catch my drift haha
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:15
Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Rush by the amount of distance from here to Cygnus X-1.  (Approximately 6000 light years, or 2000 parsecs, or around

5.67631704 × 1019 meters.



Elegantly put.
And I wholeheartedly agree.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:16
GY!BE

Used to love Rush, but I like them less every time I hear them for some reason.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:16
Gotta connect the songs with the science, after all. Wink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X-1
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:18

GY!BE are one of my biggest PA recommendation disappointments.  Rush are my favorite band.  I do believe that the distance in Jon's equation probably applies to me as well.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:19
Wow apples and oranges, gotta go GY!BE though. Always in the mood for some of the best post rock around. Rush are great too though but I can't see them ever competing against F# A# (infinity)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:23
This really isn't a fair comparison.  I'm not voting on this one.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:25
Rush! Slappa da Bass!!! I wonder if anyone will get that...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:36
I vote the band that has Geddy Lee in it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:47
Rush, Rush and a thousand times Rush.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 16:52
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 17:09
Originally posted by GY!BE GY!BE wrote:

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Vote Rush, for the lulz.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2010 at 17:10
Rush by miles and miles. I was lucky enough to see them live for the first time last friday (it was the first time they came to Argentina too)
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