Lady Fantasy or Close To The Edge

Lady fantasy? you have to be kidding me.

Its a great piece but how can one compare that to CTTE.

Whats next, DT's Scenes from a memory  to Gentle Giants Glass house, well thats diffrent in the sense that atleast lady fantasy is good.

I love Lady Fantasy...
but you can't put it up against 'Close to the Edge'
Yes wins this one, no contest.

This is really surprising to me. After the CTTE almost flawless victory on that "Tarkus Vs CTTE" Poll, I thought CTTE would make a perfect 100% result here.

I consider Tarkus a much better match than "Lady fantasy" against The superb Prog-pop (like Rock -pop, techno-pop) song "Close to the edge". Whatsmore, I voted Tarkus on that one.

I think the songwriting is way better on "Lady fantasy" than on "Close to the edge". That means I can listen to it more times without the feeling that I´ve listened too much of it. The main problem with "Close to the edge" is that it is too Poppy for my taste. I mean, The lenght and the playing is prog 100%. Still, the structure is very very simple and conventional. Like a regular pop song and those choruses repeated all over the track makes me feel like listening "The sun always shines on tv" for the 20th time. That´s the problem. "Lady fantasy" on the other hand, may not present the intensity and fantastic playing of the section 14:51 to 15:54 on "Close". But does not present a single moment of "Deja vu". I mean, that you´ve heard the same before.

Also, on "Close". In order to get to that fantastic piece of one minute of music, you have to bear 5 complete minutes of a repetitive ballad. Those moments offer absolutly no chalenge after the first listen. I find that middle section not just borring, but also pointless. "Close" is almost a sing along song. I reaaly still don´t understand the phenomenon around "Close".

I sure do appreciate it and enjoy the bass, drum and guitar game, but that´s it. Once I start paying more attention to the melody I can´t help feeling bored. Like: "Oh yeah, the multi chorus song"

I take "Lady fantasy" on this one too.

Lady FAntasy gets my vote... Absolute CAmel Masterpiece...

The Slime wrote: Lady Fantasy, I love you!

"Lady Fantsy, i love you" too

Pointless comparison but Lady Fantasy by a mile - no contest!

As good as Lady Fantasy is, it absolutely does not match CTTE

I vote Close to the edge. The sound that Yes make in that year is just amazing!

Lady Fantasy is a wimpy, wet dream kinda tune with absolutely
no edge of any kind...Camel was listened to back in the day (at
least in our hood) with mild amusement, but everyone
considered them as jumping on the bus that was already
rolling, definitely in the minor leagues compared to the big
boys, ELP, Tull, and you know, the usual suspects. I listened to
them recently, but it hasn't fared any better with the years. For
people who haven't the attention span to tackle the real
compositional pinnacles of this time (comparing "Close..." to
"Thick as a Brick" would be more apt), Camel is just fine, but to
suggest that Lady fantasy can hold a candle to THE epic of
early prog is unfathomable. The chords are the same as "Light
my Fire" for god's sake...

Lady Fantasy easily and by a mile.