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grandoleopry 
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 Posted: June 12 2005 at 00:40 |
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Ian Anderson. This guy might win this poll. Shame it's a write in. You ought to give Tull a listen and find out what the buzz is all about.
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Hammill
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Posted: June 12 2005 at 06:07 |
well i think that two very important musicians are missing from the list. peter hammill and ian anderson 
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Sweetnighter
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Posted: June 15 2005 at 01:31 |
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ROGER WATERS HAS 20 VOTES!?!?! <<<waves hands in air like confused idiot>>>
Wow people. Wow. Just wow. I'm going to cry myself to sleep. In this
poll, Peter Gabriel and Fish should be 1st and 2nd, respectively. If
Peter Hammill and Ian Anderson were in the poll, then Roger Waters
would be 5th AT MOST!
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I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die.
"Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend
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Starette
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Posted: June 15 2005 at 02:20 |
Sorry if this seems like a crazy question but Mariah Carey.......why? why why why?
"the crawlers cover the floor..."
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50 tonne angel falls to the earth...
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Certif1ed
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Posted: June 15 2005 at 03:27 |
It's an in-joke on this site that's been running for a little while now 
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gdub411
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Posted: June 15 2005 at 11:14 |
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Wow! Old thread. In fact this thread was my 1st post. AH....memories.....sigh!
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Philrod
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Posted: June 16 2005 at 01:21 |
Well,mostly my top 3 is not there 
in no order: Pete Sinfield, Pete Hammill and Ian Anderson...
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con safo
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Posted: June 16 2005 at 02:23 |
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HAMMILL
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AcostaFulano
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Posted: June 18 2005 at 10:40 |
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I AGREE: FISH FOLLOWED BY ROGER WATERS
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Captain Squib
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Posted: June 18 2005 at 12:41 |
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Jon Anderson! Then Peter Gabriel. Steve Hillage wrote some cool lyrics as well IMHO.
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He who stands on toilet must be high on pot!
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Biggles
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Posted: June 18 2005 at 18:01 |
It's close between Roger Waters and Peter Gabriel, but I went with Roger Waters. Ian Anderson is a damn good lyricist too. Especially on "Thick as a Brick." Palmer-James and Pete Sinfield from King Crimson were also excellent. Songs like "Book of Saturday" have some of the most beautiful lyrics ever.
As much as I like Yes and ELP, it has to be said that Jon Anderson and Greg Lake's lyrics are bloody awful.
"A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace, and rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace."
Um... ok Jon. Whatever you say.
Whacko.
Edited by Biggles
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The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.
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tuxon
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 08:43 |
Fish of course.....Doh
Sheltering her ego on the edge of a floodlit arc
She'll contemplate seduction, she'll calculate the catch
When she moved, her presence speared me
When she spoke, her words ensnared me
Watch the lizard, watch the lizard,
Watch the lizard with the crimson veil
She crucified my heart in the depth of a satin grave
As I lay in sweating monologue I sensed the lovelight fade
Within the spiral of the cigarette
You betrayed your bedside etiquette
I saw the lizard, I saw the lizard
I touched the lizard with the crimson veil
I've seen a different doorway shut a million times before
The smiling she chameleon, the smiling vinyl whores
They know what they want, they sing your name
And glide between the sheets
I never say no, in chemical glow we'll let our bodies meet
So was it just a f**k, was it just a f**k, just another f**k I said
Loving just for laughs, carnal autograph, lying on a lizard's bed
So was it just a f**k, was it just a f**k, just another f**k I bled
Degraded and alone, raped and still forlorn
Betrayed on a lizard's bed
We chameleon, we chameleon, we chameleon
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I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT
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Starette
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 20:45 |
By bad. Again. Maybe I should explore this site a liiittle bit more, but not until exams are over... 
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50 tonne angel falls to the earth...
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 20 2005 at 13:53 |
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Roger Waters
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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rushlady2112
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Posted: June 21 2005 at 23:11 |
I voted for Neil Peart but I have to say Fish is tied with him.
Fish is a great "fiction" lyricist, Peart is a great "non-fiction" lyricist. Depends on what you are in the mood to hear.
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The more that things change, the more they stay the same.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
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ShrinkingViolet
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Posted: June 22 2005 at 15:15 |
I would Say its between Fish and Anderson , my vote goes to Anderson , even though he strays into lovey dovey mushy stuff he has written some of the finest lyrics ever that blow your mind particulary in early period of Yes with classics like CTTE and Gates Of Delirium for example. Yet Fish is almost , if not, equally as good as Anderon and Gabriel ... its hard to choose with such fine lyrics composed that will make their mark in prog music history and in my life .
if i could vote for both Anderson and Fish i would cause they are so wonderful!
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BaldFriede
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Posted: June 22 2005 at 17:13 |
Robert Calvert deserves an honorary mention. Here an example:
Hero with a
Wing
I see myself a
hero
while one wings falls away
and the dial approaches zero
in a
spiralling display.
My past life flashes feverishly,
and lives I did not
lead,
like the time I was a hero
of a weird, outlandish breed.
One arm of flesh and muscle
and one of feathered scale
I
was hero with a wing
that was of no avail.
I could only fly in
circles
like a corkscrew in the sky,
my one wing flapping
frantically
while birds just glided by.
I launched myself from mountains
and from the highest
trees
although I could get nowhere
and just landed on my knees.
But
still I was a hero,
with one wing more than most.
Almost half an
Angel;
a whirling holy ghost.
My father was an eagle
with
two wings wide as sails
my mother was the west wind witch
with grasping
finger nails.
She lured him from his aery
with her twittering
device.
She kept him in a golden cage
and fed him field mice.
This is from the
album "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters" and are in my opinion the
last delirious thoughts of a starfighter pilot, of whose plane "one
wing" just "falls away".
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Olympus
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Posted: September 30 2005 at 19:15 |
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"Let's get the hell away from this Eerie-ass piece of work so we can get on with the rest of our eerie-ass day"
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con safo
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Posted: September 30 2005 at 19:17 |
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No Peter Hammill?
Well besides him i'd say Peter Gabriel, nothing beats the brilliance of the Lamb!
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Hamatai
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Posted: October 01 2005 at 17:48 |
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Peter Hammil
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