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Poll Question: Which is your favorite?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2008 at 23:23
CAMEL!
 
Far superior in my opinion...I'm not a big fan of Magma.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2008 at 23:39
This one was very hard i must say i havent heard much by magma so far, what i have heard was very wierd stuff but good. Camel on the other hand i got 1 album by and its not very wierd pretty easy stuff to get into but still i love it very catchy and sweet music. In the end i voted for magma tough i wanted to vote for camel, becus i like to vote for the underdog.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2008 at 23:59

Tough...i will vote tomorrow



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 01:29
Camel always gets my vote, no matter which band you put against them.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 07:43
 A quite funny poll. Magma for me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 13:36
Originally posted by febus febus wrote:

Camel , nice soft Canterbury music...


Camel are NOT a Canterbury band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A few ex-Canterbury musicians joined  them but they are (emphatically) unconnected with Canterbury.

As for the poll, Camel v anyone else = Camel.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 13:41
^Now Magma vs. Soft Machine, that would be an interesting contest.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 13:59
Camel.
mainly because im not so hot for magma.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 16:39
Well I have to vote for Magma, although I a big Camel fan. The fact is that Magma is harder to understand and appreciate than Camel, but when you get their music you realize how brilliant it is!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 16:47
camel, no doubt about this one

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 18:34
Camel is just the better band. Magma is good, but Camel is better.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 18:59
Magma.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2008 at 06:54
It's a chocie between the relatively simple and very well done, and the absolutely avant-garde music, always trying to do something absolutely new.

But Magma, unlike Gentle Giant and others, seems to me a band with a strong desire to do new things, but not good enough composition to match this desire, so I vote for Camel
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 10:42
Camel are soothing and relaxing, Magma are challenging... Went for the latter.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 10:43
Camel for me also.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 10:48
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 12:56
With Magma getting knocked out so early, this competition is effectively sunk for me.  I actually like both bands very much, and I have many albums from both (all the key albums and more), but I much prefer Magma.  I do love The Snow Goose by Camel which is a beautiful and exciting album for me, and one of the albums that has had the biggest effect on me.

I wonder how many people voting in this poll have listened to multiple albums by both bands.

If I had to pick an album of each band to face-off, it would be these (the magma album happens to be my favourite live album of all and one of my favourite albums period):


1975
Live/Hhaï (Köhntark)
4.45
(39 ratings)


1978
A Live Record
4.37
(72 ratings)

I wonder what the results would be like if I did a poll for these two live albums going up against each other? -- the voting requirement being dependent on people having heard both, of course.  I'm going to -- I can't resist -- as a corollary. 






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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:08
Having seen Magma live twice I know where my vote goes. One of the concerts I saw of them was at the Leverkusener Jazztage. Mari Boine, the Sami shaman singer, played before Magma, and I really liked her performance. However, when Magma took the stage they completely blew her away. They played MDK and Köhntark; the encores were Kobaiah and Hhai. Simply great.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:14
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

With Magma getting knocked out so early, this competition is effectively sunk for me.  I actually like both bands very much, and I have many albums from both (all the key albums and more), but I much prefer Magma.  I do love The Snow Goose by Camel which is a beautiful and exciting album for me, and one of the albums that has had the biggest effect on me.

I wonder how many people voting in this poll have listened to multiple albums by both bands.

If I had to pick an album of each band to face-off, it would be these (the magma album happens to be my favourite live album of all and one of my favourite albums period):


1975
Live/Hha� (K�hntark)
4.45
(39 ratings)


1978
A Live Record
4.37
(72 ratings)

I wonder what the results would be like if I did a poll for these two live albums going up against each other? -- the voting requirement being dependent on people having heard both, of course.  I'm going to -- I can't resist -- as a corollary. 






man alive.. no contest between those two albums...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:24
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

With Magma getting knocked out so early, this competition is effectively sunk for me.  I actually like both bands very much, and I have many albums from both (all the key albums and more), but I much prefer Magma.  I do love The Snow Goose by Camel which is a beautiful and exciting album for me, and one of the albums that has had the biggest effect on me.

I wonder how many people voting in this poll have listened to multiple albums by both bands.

If I had to pick an album of each band to face-off, it would be these (the magma album happens to be my favourite live album of all and one of my favourite albums period):


1975
Live/Hha� (K�hntark)
4.45
(39 ratings)


1978
A Live Record
4.37
(72 ratings)

I wonder what the results would be like if I did a poll for these two live albums going up against each other? -- the voting requirement being dependent on people having heard both, of course.  I'm going to -- I can't resist -- as a corollary. 

This neatly shows why Camel is winning the poll by about doube as many votes. Double as many people rated the Camel live album. It is about the same in this poll. Which simply means double as many members of the archive know Camel.


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