Three Friends vs. Lizard
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Topic: Three Friends vs. Lizard
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Subject: Three Friends vs. Lizard
Date Posted: March 20 2018 at 23:05
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Both of these albums are the 3rd album in each respective bands discography but which one do you like more?? ------------- “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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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: March 20 2018 at 23:47
| Lizard. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 01:00
| the gentle giant |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 01:57
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"Workin' all day-ay!" Gentle Giant Three Friends. Jon Anderson's cameo is nice, though! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 03:54
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Three Friends is great. Lizard isn't. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 04:35
| Friends by far |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 04:58
| Two long lasting favorites containing some of prog's absolute peaks for me = Prologue/Schooldays and the Lizard-multipart suite. Gave my vote to the latter as there's very little in all of music that transcends me to some kind of dreamy, fairytaleish universe... you know quite like the lazy & misunderstood parody of what prog is supposed to be about for all those boring rockers who loathes it - I guess. |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 05:04
| GG this time, because Schooldays is their best song by far in my opinion. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 05:12
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Three Friends. ------------- 
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 05:45
| I really, really like both just about equally, it just depends on the mood I'm in, so no vote. |
Posted By: socrates17
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 06:20
| Lizard. For one thing, Lizard ranks higher among my favorite KC albums than Three Friends does among my favorite GG albums. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 06:25
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Three Friends for me ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 08:57
A toss up. Both masterpieces for me...took me months to fully appreciate Lizard where I loved Three Friends on the 1st listen. Today the vote goes to Three Friends, though tomorrow it just might be Lizard  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 09:06
KC Lizard  GG Three Friends 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 09:31
This is a very good album match-up, I think, and both rank amongst my very favourite albums by each band. If "both" were an option then I would go with that, but I gave it to Lizard particularly for the suite. Over the last few years, Lizard and Islands have been the KC albums I've turned to the most.
You're in good, or bad depending upon one's perspective, company. I disagree with both you and Fripp (rather like I disagree with Waters and Gilmour's comments on Atom Heart Mother). An interesting article about this divisive album (mostly divisive when it comes to KC fans methinks of which you are not, mind you: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/king-crimson-lizard/" rel="nofollow - http://ultimateclassicrock.com/king-crimson-lizard/ Better to read the article in full at the site, but here are excerpts from the article which quote Fripp:
I am very strange, and the older I get the more comfortable I am with not hiding my own eccentricities and appreciation for the strange. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Hercules wrote:Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 10:30
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Three Friends ------------- |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 12:35
This.....  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 13:42
amen brother duck... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: questionsneverknown
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 14:15
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Love The Giant, but definitely Lizard. It's an album I've lived with for a long time. It's always felt like little else out there in the world. And it has seemed greater and greater to me with every year. ------------- The damage that we do is just so powerfully strong we call it love The damage that we do just goes on and on and on but not long enough. --Robyn Hitchcock |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 16:21
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Lizard. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 16:45
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Lizard. Three Friends is one of my least favorite GG albums from that period. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 21 2018 at 19:26
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Lizard by a long shot, but that's not to say Three Friends is a bad album at all. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: March 22 2018 at 20:27
| Busy Lizzie |
Posted By: maryes
Date Posted: March 23 2018 at 05:24
| Gentle Giant "Three Friends" is one of my top albums of all time, "Lizard" isn't ! |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 23 2018 at 07:49
I feel the same way...it was always one of my least favorites from then and I don't own a copy currently..... I think someone said earlier in this thread that Schooldays from 3 Friends was one of their greatest songs . Again it shows how subjective this whole musical selection thingy really is. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: March 23 2018 at 09:54
| Love them both but Lizard has Jon Anderson on it so that's where my vote landed. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 23 2018 at 10:21
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Lizard by a mile. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 23 2018 at 14:42
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Leezard. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: March 23 2018 at 21:44
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There's a Mexican restaurant near me called Los Tres Amigos. I got rather poor service there. Lizard. ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: DeadSouls
Date Posted: March 31 2018 at 10:26
| KC |
Posted By: tempest_77
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 01:16
| Lizard. |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 02:27
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GG ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Argos
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 05:10
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Giant ------------- "All the iron turned to rust; All the proud men turned to dust And so all things, time will mend So this song will end" |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 12:41
So you're basing your answer on that alone?  ------------- “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 |
Posted By: Upbeat Tango Monday
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 15:23
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Both are good records, but I prefer Lizard. ------------- Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: April 14 2018 at 15:47
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Lizard is. There's so much to recommend it whereas 'Friends has some dead spots to these ears. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: April 16 2018 at 05:58
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Jon Anderson sings on one of them. The one that gets my vote!!! |
Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: April 16 2018 at 15:49
| GG |
Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: April 17 2018 at 02:22
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Gentle Giant by far. ------------- 
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Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: April 20 2018 at 15:19
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Happy family and indoor games have crap vocals. Three friends all the way ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 20 2018 at 22:49
| ^Really don´t think vocals in those songs are crap, although Haskell is my least favourite Crimson-vocalists. And anyway they´re one of my favourite Crimson songs, only little weaker song in Lizard is "Lady Of the Dancing Water" (I believe it would have been greater with for example Lake-vocals). |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 02:00
Aw, I wouldn't call them crap. They're def underwhelming, though. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 13:16
I have heard a version of Cadence and Cascade with Lake on vocals (a demo, I think), and it does sound much better. I guess it would have been the same for Lady of the dancing water. |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: April 21 2018 at 14:53
The songs are not too great either  ------------- “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 |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 03 2024 at 17:11
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Three Friends ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: November 03 2024 at 17:17
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GG for sure. Lizard has a couple of crap tunes. Happy family and Indoor games are pretty weak tunes although there’s nice playing in them ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: November 03 2024 at 22:43
| Love both. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 02:21
I like both, but voted for Three Friends. 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 03:55
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I'm not a big fan of either album, but Lizard wins for featuring a song by Jon Anderson.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 08:13
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I really like both, a great deal. I've gone with Lizard, which I still regard as my fave KC... but I don't see 3F as the relative disappointment voiced by some ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 09:42
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I already responded in depth to this topic years ago but each is a favourite of mine by the bands. I voted for Lizard but really I should have just said both and not voted. This is terrific pairing for me. If I went for favourite duo right now from each, then it would be Gentle Giant's Acquiring the Taste and Three Fiends and King Crimson's Lizard and Red. And I still get goosebumps just thinking about the eponymous track at the end of the Three Friends album. Glorious. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 12:06
Me too... it's a real GG highlight which also sends a shiver of delight down my spine, in a similar way to the end of Starless (Red yes, but the USA version paralyses you). ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 12:09
keep persevering Paul, I'd describe both as Connoisseur's albums... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 12:34
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3 Friends by a thin margin, I like both album Imagine for a moment what the vocals of Lizard would have given with the harmonious gentle giants ( Except PRA sung by Jon) |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 14:29
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Easily, Gentle Giant. This is my favorite GG album. It was the first album I bought from them and I love every track. Mister Class and Quality/ Three Friends is one of my favorite highlights in all of Prog. Never cared much for Lizard. Outside the Wetton era of KC, which I'm a big fan ( Red and Larks are top 25 Prog albums), for me, KC is bit hit and miss. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 14:42
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GG by many miles. It's interesting to see all the forum members no longer here in this six year old thread. I miss some of them. |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 14:48
Logan, agree with you on the Three Friends track. Just an emotionally moving song. Like you, Acquiring the Taste and Three Friends are my favorite Giant albums. Of course, GG has a very solid discography. The only true miss is Giant for a Day. Even the Missing Piece and Civilian has its moments. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 16:18
I quite like "Spooky Boogie" off Giant for a Day. Those first eight, the self-titled to Interview, are great. And then there's good live music like Playing the Fool. I was quite obsessed with Gentle Giant when I joined this site. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 19:36
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GG without much thought, I just like it a lot better. I missed this poll the first time around. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 04 2024 at 23:55
*I have nothing against his music and appreciate plenty of his remastering work. |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: November 06 2024 at 09:30
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Three friends (one of my favourite albums of all time and my first Gentle Giant purchase about 35 years ago...). ------------- 
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