Still Life vs Still Life

^ No worries, Doug, it's something of a classic. This is at least the eleventh Still Life vs. Still Life poll since I joined. Various just had the VdGG and Opeth Still Life options, some included more albums named Still Life. Weirdly, the last two such polls I came across were posted exactly one year apart by different people, on November 23, 2015 and November 23, 2016. All the older such polls are locked anyway as autolock happens when a thread is inactive for a certain time. Great minds think alike, one might say. I've liked to do associative titles polls myself, like pitting Vin Diesel's album Pwn Hurts against Van der G's Pawn Hearts. It can be a fun creative exercise, but then one tends to get comments like, "Where is The Cheese-Cutting Crustaceans album Prawn Farts?" Not that I did that Vin Diesel one, but it's something I might do if it existed.

With a long-running forum, one can expect repetition of ideas. My 12 year old son often comes up with ideas for inventions and math equations, and I rather reluctantly tell him it's been done before in various cases. He might be disappointed, but I tell him that that means his ideas were good. Of course it would be nice if someone else hadn't already patented your invention....

The worst threads for me, at least of those I come up with, are those that don't receive a response, not those that may be similar to other ones. Originality becomes hard when a forum has been around for this long, and the repeated classics get repeated traction, often with new members who couldn't participate in the older ones. If one doesn't like seeing a poll ever repeated or a topic idea, one is not required to respond (that said, I wouldn't mind someone pointing that out to me in one of my polls as long as it doesn't come across as complaining, and in fact I would like to compare the results with the older one). Prog Polls is mostly just for fun.

VDGG, however did you know there are like a zillion albums titled STILL LIFE? 

Edited by siLLy puPPy - August 30 2019 at 19:51

octopus-4 wrote: Pat Metheny - Still Life Talking

Yes. Great album!