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Barbu 
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: February 10 2014 at 01:36 |
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To Be Over
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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
"Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart
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digdug
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Posted: February 10 2014 at 07:26 |
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South Side
Survival would be next
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Prog On!
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chopper
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Posted: February 10 2014 at 09:56 |
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Shame that "I'm Running" has no votes, even though it's up against some stiff competition. To me, this is one of the songs that made Big Generator a reasonable album, undeserving of all the stick it gets. It's probably the best Rabin-era song apart from "I am waiting".
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Mormegil
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Posted: February 10 2014 at 22:23 |
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Easy - South Side of the Sky
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Welcome to the middle of the film.
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SquonkHunter
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Posted: February 11 2014 at 18:47 |
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Survival - first (the "flanged" version from Yesterdays is better)
South Side of the Sky - a close second
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"You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..."
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uduwudu
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Posted: February 12 2014 at 02:43 |
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To Be Over needs the love. Great number, 1/4/ of a classic album. The front runner is pretty good too... all good stuff one cannot be without...
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N-sz
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Posted: February 12 2014 at 20:13 |
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Survival is brilliant, I think. I still need to hear their debut. How does the rest of it compare?
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chopper
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Posted: February 13 2014 at 06:50 |
 uduwudu wrote:
To Be Over needs the love. Great number, 1/4/ of a classic album. |
How can it be 1/4 of an album with 3 tracks?
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chopper
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Posted: February 13 2014 at 07:02 |
SquonkHunter wrote:
Survival - first (the "flanged" version from Yesterdays is better)
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I thought the "Yesterdays" version was just taken straight from the debut - is it different?
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uduwudu
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Posted: February 13 2014 at 15:20 |
chopper wrote:
uduwudu wrote:
To Be Over needs the love. Great number, 1/4/ of a classic album. |
How can it be 1/4 of an album with 3 tracks? |
Funny old maths. Gates is twice the length of the other two therefore one of the other two must be 25% of the whole - time wise. Piece wise it's 1/3 of the album.
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Logan
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^ It's funny, I would automatically think more in terms of total time in such instances (percent of the temporal pie to put it badly), unless specified otherwise, rather than the number of pieces (tracks).
It's less than a quarter of the total length, but as it is almost one half of side B, I would also refer to it as a quarter of the album rather than a third (unless, as I said, I specified otherwise). Maybe cause I'm still a vinyl guy (still think in terms of sides A and B with such albums), I'm more likely to split things up the way uduwudu does.
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Dellinger
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Posted: February 13 2014 at 21:10 |
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Whether you are a vinyl guy or not, I think the time is indeed more important than the number of tracks. Imagine saying that Pigs on the Wing (either part 1 or 2... or even the two together) are 1/5 (or 1/4, in case you consider them together) of Animals... that would just be wrong.
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Posted: February 13 2014 at 21:24 |
N-sz wrote:
Survival is brilliant, I think. I still need to hear their debut. How does the rest of it compare? |
It's great, very late 60s Hammond-y stuff and really nice vocal harmonies.
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Padraic
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Posted: February 13 2014 at 21:24 |
chopper wrote:
Shame that "I'm Running" has no votes, even though it's up against some stiff competition. To me, this is one of the songs that made Big Generator a reasonable album, undeserving of all the stick it gets. It's probably the best Rabin-era song apart from "I am waiting". |
I am unwavering in my belief that Big Generator is a large pile of trash.
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chopper
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Posted: February 14 2014 at 06:56 |
Padraic wrote:
chopper wrote:
Shame that "I'm Running" has no votes, even though it's up against some stiff competition. To me, this is one of the songs that made Big Generator a reasonable album, undeserving of all the stick it gets. It's probably the best Rabin-era song apart from "I am waiting". |
I am unwavering in my belief that Big Generator is a large pile of trash. |
Fair enough. 
Actually I listen to it more than 90125. Side one I can take or leave (mainly leave) but side two has 4 excellent tracks on it.
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Posted: February 14 2014 at 21:29 |
chopper wrote:
Padraic wrote:
chopper wrote:
Shame that "I'm Running" has no votes, even though it's up against some stiff competition. To me, this is one of the songs that made Big Generator a reasonable album, undeserving of all the stick it gets. It's probably the best Rabin-era song apart from "I am waiting". |
I am unwavering in my belief that Big Generator is a large pile of trash. |
Fair enough.
Actually I listen to it more than 90125. Side one I can take or leave (mainly leave) but side two has 4 excellent tracks on it. |
If there is anything I would call good on Big Generator, or that would help it not to be so abismaly bad, that would be "Shoot High, Aim Low", I would think the proggier song on the album. I also like a lot "Holy Lamb", I find the vocal melodies on that one really beautiful.
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Posted: February 14 2014 at 22:08 |
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South Side, no contest.
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 12:38 |
PabstRibbon wrote:
South side, no brainer |
Yep. But among the rest I would go for I'm Running.
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: February 17 2014 at 12:43 |
chopper wrote:
Shame that "I'm Running" has no votes, even though it's up against some stiff competition. To me, this is one of the songs that made Big Generator a reasonable album, undeserving of all the stick it gets. It's probably the best Rabin-era song apart from "I am waiting". |
Best Rabin-era song, although some of his Union material and State of Play can compete. This would make a good poll for someone to put up.
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