Rush vs King Crimson

Dellinger wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Hercules wrote: Dellinger wrote: I really thought KC would be winning this poll by a much wider margin. I do like what I've heard of Rush, but I would say KC has reached higher peaks than Rush. Anyone can think of at least one Rush song that could win a poll against "Starless"?   For me, yes. I'll list some:   The Pass YYZ (and just about every other track on Moving Pictures. actually) Red Barchetta La Villa Strangiato Bastille Day Something for Nothing Jacob's Ladder.....   I could go on for some time.           I'll add Cygnus X-1 Xanadu By Tor and the Snow Dog on the other hand how do we know they will win in a poll. Of course I meant in a poll. Surely there are many people who will like many songs more than Starless... but if you make a poll, which song could actually beat it? Of course, it's rather easy to find out, one only needs to make the poll. Perhaps later on I'll do it... but there are many songs suggested, and people may grow tired of seeing so many polls of "X Rush Song vs Starless".

rushfan4 wrote: Ian, I hope that you don't admit that to the ladies.

Snow Dog wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Ian, I hope that you don't admit that to the ladies. Does thick mean something in America that I'm not aware of?

Let us just say that there is a medical industry that specializes in increasing the thickness of a certain male organ in answer to the saying that "size doesn't matter" followed by a snicker. 

We are talking girth here aren't we.

rushfan4 wrote: In other words, it was a failed attempt at a joke that just didn't work.

rushfan4 wrote: So then you were just yanking my chain.

Rush!!!

Dellinger wrote: JJLehto wrote: Horizons wrote: In the Court of the Crimson King isn't a 5* album. Yeah even as huge KC fan I have to say it's like a 3ish. However, Red alone is better than anything Rush has made combined. OK that's extreme, but Ill stick with it :D Even though there are many albums and songs that I like from King Crimson, I believe the only album that I would rate with 5* is ItCotCK. But then, that's just me.

Rush easily for me.  IMO, they are more cohesive than KC.

Horizons wrote: Dellinger wrote: JJLehto wrote: Horizons wrote: In the Court of the Crimson King isn't a 5* album. Yeah even as huge KC fan I have to say it's like a 3ish. However, Red alone is better than anything Rush has made combined. OK that's extreme, but Ill stick with it :D Even though there are many albums and songs that I like from King Crimson, I believe the only album that I would rate with 5* is ItCotCK. But then, that's just me. Just because it was influential doesn't make it 5*. In the Court.. is nothing compared to their other albums musically.

Well, I wouldn't rate it 5* because it was influential or anything. It was released 10 years before I was born, and I got to know many other prog bands before I heard ItCotCK, so how influential it was means little to me. I would rate it 5* because it is the album that has the music I like better throughout the whole album, and the one album which I like best to listen from start to end. Epitaph is perhaps my very favourite song of theirs (close with Starless).