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Syndromet 
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 Posted: November 01 2005 at 03:12 |
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Gentle giant all the way
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 It is said to be the first Test-pressing of the corean release??
http://www.freewebs.com/ligyrophobia/
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Tommy
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 14:42 |
Though I fully expected bands like YES to trounce GENESIS in the polls this one is more of a surprise! Gentle Giant beating Genesis, who'd have believed it? |
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goose
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 14:49 |
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Ahh... a tricky one, but although I'm more familiar with Genesis there's only one album by them I love all the way through, and GG are also more adventurous, so they'll get my vote.
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Murder1
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 15:14 |
I never could get into Gentle Giant; too leftfield for me.
Im a huge Genesis fan, so this was quite easy .I prefer their sense of good solid songwriting much more than Gentle Giant`s complexity.
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Charles
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 15:48 |
Unlike the YES/Genesis thread this one is a bit harder although as reitterated before Genesis is my all time favorite group of all time, Gentle Giant's music was extremely challenging, but not in a bad way, and quite virtuostic..... Many great albums and timeless songs... Their influence is now being shown in bands like Anglagard, Spock's Beard and Echolyn....
Charles
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G'day
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Damen
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 18:29 |
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Genesis got my vote, but Gentle Giant is superior from a technical standpoint.
Edited by Damen
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"It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days."
-Chris Squire
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AngleofRepose
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 19:01 |
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Genesis. One has to try to like GG - a definitive minus in my book.
Proggers had me going fo awhile thinking that having to desperately try
to like music was in fact a plus, until I heard jazz critics note that they're
less impressed with artists who only appeal to die-hard jazz enthusiasts.
It was then I realized that I too am less impressed with these types of
artists. GG, who fall into this category, are certainly talented, though. And
I like their albums alright.
Plus Genesis is so epic.
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Runaway
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 19:16 |
Everyone knows my answer by now.
(Although Genesis is also awesome...)
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Legoman
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Posted: November 01 2005 at 20:06 |
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Wow... really close poll. Gentle Giant all the way, though.
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OT Räihälä
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 05:32 |
Early Genesis were good, but I rate Gentle Giant equally high as Gesualdo, Beethoven, Stravinsky and suchlike, all composers who really found a totally new path. So Gentle Giant above any other prog band, but this poll is a bit unfair to Genesis.
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Wandering Days
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 05:51 |
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I like early Genesis, but there is no question that my vote goes to Gentle Giant!
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Past all mortals as we, here we can be.
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SolariS
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 12:45 |
i just got chills thinking about genesis, so i picked them.
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magog
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 13:09 |
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Very difficult choice, because they're both on my top three...If I had
to say progressive with a band I'd choose Gentle Giant, and also think
Genesis have never done an album like In a glass house, and in the end
Genesis betrayed their noble origins...despite it all in this moment I
go with Genesis, expecially because I find a bit of them in amost every
band I'm listening to. What would have been prog without Genesis??
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zabriskiepoint
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 14:56 |
 AngleofRepose wrote:
Genesis. One has to try to like GG - a definitive minus in my book.
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That's exactly what happened to me, I heard of how good GG was and dl all their albums ; i listened to each like 4 times, and just hated them... i cannot stand to listen to Gentle Giant for even a second now.
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John Gargo
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 15:28 |
Gentle Giant for me, although both bands are brilliant.
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Syndromet
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Posted: November 04 2005 at 03:35 |
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It is said to be the first Test-pressing of the corean release??
http://www.freewebs.com/ligyrophobia/
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Andrea Cortese
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Posted: November 04 2005 at 03:43 |
How I could answer to such a question? Here we are speaking about TWO MILIAR STONES!
BTW I like GG a little bit more.
Edited by Andrea Cortese
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: November 04 2005 at 04:09 |
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Two great,legendary bands.Such a hard choice but I picked Genesis.
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Korova
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Posted: November 04 2005 at 07:57 |
I was listening to Interview 
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La Speranza della coscienza è forza
La Speranza del sentimento è schiavitù
La Speranza del corpo è malattia
(G.I. Gurdjieff)
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Jeremy Bender
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Posted: November 04 2005 at 07:59 |
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Gentle Giant by a mile......I always found Genesis extremely boring. It's a good band, but they leave me cold.
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