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Poll Question: What is your favorite track on ELP's Tarkus
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
6 [11.76%]
2 [3.92%]
9 [17.65%]
7 [13.73%]
1 [1.96%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [3.92%]
6 [11.76%]
1 [1.96%]
13 [25.49%]
3 [5.88%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.96%]
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    Posted: October 26 2009 at 15:43
For no particular reason I go with Bitches Crystal.
(Main Tarkus set, I've always just kind of thought of
as 1 song)
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Stones of Years for me but I guess it's the 'seamless whole' of the title track that made the album so ground breaking. Much of side two of the album is cruelly neglected I think, with the only filler track being the wretched Are You Ready Eddy ? (If only the answer had been - No ?)
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I voted for "Battlefield."  My second favorite would probably be "Infinite Space (Conclusion)."
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Originally posted by ProGR72 ProGR72 wrote:

You have to put Tarkus as one whole song (it IS one song)...

Right you are!
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Aquatarkus - Emo at his best!
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I never knew all the different subdivisions of the song Tarkus, so I had to look them up, I picked Battlefield, but Stones of Years is a close second. Keith Emerson's solo over the Red Clay chord progression is like no other. 
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I would choose Tarkus as a whole, though I don't like all of the section, only some of them. My very favorite part is Battlefield.
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Tarkus as a wholeWink




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Stones of Years, chills just thinking about it.  And I want to say that Iconoclast will probably get no votes because it's really just sort of a bridge-track on the album, not a song per se.  But man does that thing rock my amadeus.Embarrassed  And side two?, honestly I find more and more that I can live without it.

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Whoah, wait, dude, what the crap? Why'd you split up "Tarkus?" It's, like, "Tarkus," man. That's about all there is to it. 

Anyway, "Jeremy Bender" or "Bitches Crystal." Probably the latter.

What? "Are You Ready Eddie?" gets no votes? Psh. That song's very nice. Leave it alone. It has the best keyboard soloing ever. 

And which was the song about the Jews? I kinda liked that one. 



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Originally posted by Gustavo Froes Gustavo Froes wrote:

what is the name of "the weaver on the web that he made" section?

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The one I voted for.Wink
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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

I gave Tarkus a listen today and I still can't "hear" it in any other way than a 20 minute compact song.
What? Even though its made up of different "songs"?

I mean its not like one part is like another, bbesides the beginning and end of course!Tongue
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As tarkus as a whole is my favorite song it is going to be really difficult to decide...so let me listen to it at least twice (it will be just fun...I can't get tired of it) and then I will vote
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what is the name of "the weaver on the web that he made" section?
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I'd go with Aquatarkus if somehow the "Welcome Back My Friends. . ." live version could be substituted. Since that's impossible, I went with "Bitches Crystal", since she knows how to twist all the lines. . .
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I gave Tarkus a listen today and I still can't "hear" it in any other way than a 20 minute compact song.
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Stones of Years.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by King Crimson776 King Crimson776 wrote:

Is Aquatarkus the part where it's like, "clear the battlefiiieeeld and let me seee", that'll be my fav

That would be Battlefield then.
I really should have looked closer at the damned section names. ConfusedTongue
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Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

I'm gonna give "Stones of Years" some love.  Great section.
 
Me too.
 
For me it's one of the most wonderful moments in prog moments when Greg Lake starts singing: "Has the dawn ever seen your eyes, have the days made you so unwise..." Magnificent lyrics, sung by Lake in a great way, over the wonderful chord changes of Emerson.
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Mass.

Favourite moment.
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