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Poll Question: Which band do you prefer?
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Points: 1474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2014 at 16:49
I think the first two Starcastle albums are good(notice I didn't say great)but I wouldn't consider them total prog classics. If I was going to review and rate them on PA they'd get 3 stars at the most. 
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Starcastle: One of my favorites and been dulling needles on turntables for 40 years listening to Fountains of Light and their first album.  Absolutely love them and they are in my soul.  I can listen to them over Yes any time even though I think Yes was more technically proficient.
Favorite Yes album?.....Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Triumvirat: I had the first 3 albums and gave them away when I moved 35 years ago.  Rediscovered them in the last 2 months and cannot get enough of Spartacus and Illusions on a Double Dimple.  I enjoy Triumvirat over ELP.  I might even give the nod to T'Rat over Starcastle, but then again, I'm fickle.
Flash: All 3 albums have been in my collection although I can only listen to them about once per year. Flash, In the Can and Out of Our Hands are very good examples of early prog. 
What do I listen to now?  Three are on my "Listen every moment I can" list:
1.) Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day
2.) Frost - Milliontown
3.) Unitopia - In the Garden
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Points: 4095 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2016 at 21:18
I think they are both pretty bad---not my kind of music----but it's just an opinion.
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Points: 3 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2016 at 21:25
Beer or wine?  Vodka or rum?
Everything is an acquired taste and opinions are how we define ourselves.
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Points: 4095 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2016 at 21:32
True--I understand---generally speaking I don't like bands who try to sound like other bands---usually like original players who created an original sound.
You can be influenced by great bands but you have to come up with an original sound---that is not derivative.
 
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T-Rat over Starcastle for sure. I agree with some of the comments above but I find Starcastle of lessor quality than the Rat. And I've always found the comparison of T-Rat to ELP a thin argument.
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The 1st Starcastle album is just an amusing, novelty listen while Triumvirat moves beyond the band that obviously influenced them and has much more meat on the bones Wink
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I love both of them!!!
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Points: 30855 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2016 at 12:29
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

I love both of them!!!

Yep.Me too.
Shake & bake.
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Triumvirat were not a copycat band, they were quite different than ELP and in many case much more melodic.
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Points: 20645 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2016 at 13:19
^ 'Much more' melodic...? Don't know about that but imho they weren't really a copycat band as much as influenced by ELP.
But at any rate they were far more interesting than 'Starcasm'.   ;)
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Points: 4812 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 19 2016 at 16:04
It's Triumvi-rat.
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Triumvirat

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