Fave Holdsworth UK tune

Two great Holdsworth tunes. What is your favorite?

Wicked. Fortunately I can listen to the whole album and appreciate everything as much. Makes not much sense to me to vote for one over the other: they're both excellent. I honestly cannot choose.

"Nevermore", although it's only 8 minutes long, is a world unto itself. With Holdsworth's intro, Bruford's drums/cymbals, and Jobson's CS-80 symphonic textures, this demonstrates perfectly that a song can have "scope" and be "spacious" without being excessively long. This should win the poll easily.

Love the whole album!. I got the vinyl on Sunday. 

Hard choice. Both songs are great. I went with Mental Medication, simply because it was the first of the two that popped up in my mind.

"Nevermore" from the list. But that's only because Mental Medication to me is the weakest track on UK's debut. Kind of an unfair battle, isn't it? The "In the Dead of Night" medley is imho motherfuсking spectacular, and a much more worthy contender against Nevermore in a poll like this. B)

I personally think that Holdsworth, though unarguably a brilliant guitar virtuoso, wasn't really a master songwriter. Yeah, he was able to compose insanely complex technical fusion passages, but his compositions lacked that "comfort" aspect which characterized Wetton-Jobson penned songs in UK. While Holdsworth's songwriting had a jazzy edge and tons of technical subversion-driven showoff moments, it wasn't as rich in the memorable hooks and overall energetic rock & roll sensibilities as the Wetton-Jobson songs. You can easily tell that by listening to Danger Money.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: ^I have to disagree with your opinion of Allan's songwriting abilities. His solo albums (his best work) aren't about "showoff" moments. The way he played chords was innovative, and he wrote many ballads. He was also one of the few players who embraced guitar synthesizer technology.

Well, I was only considering his input in UK. :)

My vote goes to "Mental Medication."