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Maike 
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 Topic: Karn Evil 9 vs. Tarkus
Posted: August 12 2005 at 19:43 |
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Can I pick both???
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 17:20 |
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STILL... YOU TURN ME ON
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King of Loss
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 15:57 |
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TARKUS!
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 10:39 |
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Tarkus!
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Bj-1
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 17:50 |
Can't decide!!!! They are both amazing pieces of music!!!!
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 06:28 |
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Tarkus is my choice...
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Jeremy Bender
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 05:35 |
Karn Evil 9!!!! Duh
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 03:51 |
 Wizard/TRueStar wrote:
The version of Tarkus on Ladies and Gentlemen gets my vote!
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Mine too! It is totally awesome, both vocally and instrumentally. But KE9 comes a very close second...
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R o V e R
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 03:34 |
difficult poll
i'm not going to vote.
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Trotsky
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 03:24 |
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Tarkus for me ... I never lose interest in any part of it ... even though KE9 probably has more variations, there are also parts where I lose interest ... sometimes
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benny bouncer
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Posted: January 29 2005 at 12:31 |
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I dont think i can vote lol.....i think both KE9 and Tarkus are progressive rock masterpieces. Both never cease to amaze me when i hear them...and i have listened to them MANY times lol....but i couldn't vote one above the other....
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gdub411
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Posted: January 29 2005 at 10:25 |
The proof of Tarkus's superiority lies in the results of the poll.
While polls cannot be truly guaged here, I cannot see why anyone would be so obsessed with pushing one song over the other...since we're arguing the same band afterall.
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Posted: January 29 2005 at 08:11 |
This is an outragious poll ok!
Brain salad surgery was a an album to me that advanced the bands style years over night...I do listern to BSS a hell of a lot more than i do Tarkus,but have a kinda preference to Tarkus,not in a one better than the other way but i feel the BSS recording pretty poor compared to the older albums that kinda irritates me a bit.But @ the end of the day i'm not gonna compare no way..
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richardh
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Posted: January 20 2005 at 02:48 |
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Karn Evil 9 is a much grander idea that explores a futuristic theme in 3 movements.Tarkus is a series of peices.By it's nature it's disjointed.The sum of the parts are not greater IMO.I'm genuinely surprised at some of the comments and the current poll result.I was getting a tad 'bored' with Tarkus even in my teens.It should be highly regarded of course as a ground breaking peice but KE9 has stood the test of time a lot better IMO.
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Posted: January 19 2005 at 23:58 |
gdub411 wrote:
Anyways back to the topic..To me Karn Evil sounds like many songs all related to each other. Maybe there are 3 different topics on Tarkus, but Tarkus sounds like one complete piece, compared to many parts piecemealed together and lumped as one song. They wouldn't have given 8 impressions if it flowed like a standard song, now would they? |
Where'd 8 impressions come from?
Battlefield sounds nothing like Aquatarkus that comes afterwards... even less than the 2nd Impression sounds like the 3rd. The 3 Impressions are impressions of one song... no separate name or title... whereas the songs of Tarkus have completely different names... The first impression has 2 separate musical ideas that make up 1 Impression which sets the state of change thruout the piece..
However my love KE9 is probably based on the fact that since the BSS Tour, I've seen Tarkus performed at nearly every concert. But after that tour.. they never did the entire 3 Impressions together again. Just the 1st one. But watching all 3 Impressions done on the BSS tour, is one of the most spectacular things I've ever seen...
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THIS IS ELP
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starofsirius
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Posted: January 19 2005 at 23:34 |
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Tarkus for me. I could listen to that all the time. Greg's voice is perfect throughout that whole song. Stones of Years is such an awesome section of that song the organ, bass and drums are all so perfect. An amazing track, I love the armadillo tank too, I think thats the coolest thing.
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"I'm in a freefall like a snowflake falling down down down down down."
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gdub411
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Posted: January 19 2005 at 22:32 |
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Anyways back to the topic..To me Karn Evil sounds like many songs all related to each other. Maybe there are 3 different topics on Tarkus, but Tarkus sounds like one complete piece, compared to many parts piecemealed together and lumped as one song. They wouldn't have given 8 impressions if it flowed like a standard song, now would they?
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threefates
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Posted: January 19 2005 at 21:51 |
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THIS IS ELP
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Sweetnighter
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Posted: January 19 2005 at 21:47 |
Sweet shirt Reed Lover... although don't you think a bra would make it look better? 
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Aquatarkus as a reason why they like
that epic better. I love that synth solo!! With the more rounded wah
synth sound in the right speaker and the more distorted one in the left
(if you hadn't noticed that check it out, its cool) and the slow
military drum cresendo... pure awesomeness.
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Reed Lover
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Posted: January 19 2005 at 21:25 |
threefates wrote:
gdub411 wrote:
Reed Lover wrote:
gdub411 wrote:
My ideal woman would be one with a flat head so I have somewhere to set my beer.
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No, your ideal woman would have balls!
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a chick with a d##k.....hmmm! Now there's a thought.
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No Gdub's ideal woman would be a man with big tits...
Course I've heard you've put some weight on, Reed, since this picture was taken... in your butt, no less...
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damn that photo! Them's not breasts.......its ..err..... a pigeon chest????
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