Which of these 2 songs do you prefer?
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Topic: Which of these 2 songs do you prefer?
Posted By: Cygnus X-1
Subject: Which of these 2 songs do you prefer?
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 14:40
these are 2 masterpieces from 2 brilliant albums. Both very long which is why i chose these particular ones (Also thats the only genesis album i've heard  )So pick one! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Bodins/?chartstyle=DarkSide5Big"> 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 14:42
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Very,very tough choice,I like them both very much,but if I have to pick one I'll pick CTTE. -------------  |
Posted By: porter
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 14:45
CTTE, I could never choose Genesis over Yes  ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: Odysseus
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 15:05
Me neither. 
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porter wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 15:10
| Not much between the two, but I go for CTTE. It's more of a complete work, whereas SR is a collection of songs joined together (albeit in a rather brilliant way). |
Posted By: Mlaen
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 15:16
| Supper's ready because I'm a big Genesis fan. Close to the edge is a masterpiece too, ofcourse. |
Posted By: Tichy
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 17:51
| It's a tough choice, but I pick Supper's Ready for much more emotional music, creative lyrics and of course Peter Gabriel's incredible vocals. |
Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 18:03
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CTTE - the ultimate progressive song!! ------------- yet you still have time! |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 18:17
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Suppers Ready, even though I love both. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: CrazyDiamond
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 18:19
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Close to the edge At themoment For me. ------------- 
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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 19:23
| Dogs |
Posted By: Cygnus X-1
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 06:54
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Close to the edge for me btw ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Bodins/?chartstyle=DarkSide5Big">
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 08:21
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In musical terms, Close to the Edge is one of the best side long epics from prog's golden era - I think that on that album and especially on the brilliant title track Wakeman and Yes brought out the best in each other. Supper's Ready has better lyrics, and Apocalypse in 9/8 is another of the era's high points, but it's more of a medley (like side 2 of Abbey Road) than a fully realised extended composition. CTTE just about wins for me, but it's a very close call. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: GPFR
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 10:33
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Supper's Ready, I cried (not a lot) when I turned up my volume full
blast and played Supper's ready, but only on As sure as Eggs is Eggs.
------------- www.myspace.com/hail_peter 
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 11:35
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Both score 10/10 on my scale, but Supper's ready has the edge (close though). ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Fritha
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 17:57
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The easiest choice in the world if you ask me! Close to the Edge is a wondrous piece of music and perhaps the brightest (in every meaning of the word) moment in prog's history. Supper's Ready, on the other hand, has really been one of the bigger disappointments for me in prog rock so far. The music for the most part neither moves me, hypnotises me or even manages to hold my interest on a purely 'intellectual' level. I find it rather cheesy, to be honest. (On a hypothetical tangent: what if the band had decided to build Can-Utility And the Coastliners into the epic on Foxtrot? Now that might have been something worth a good few listens!) A very popular topic for a poll this, in my experience ------------- I was made to love magic |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 18:08
Close to the Edge! 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 18:33
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I Can't Decide
IMO ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: MustShaveBeard
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 22:52
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Close to the Edge...hmph... more like Close to the Really Terrible Song!!! ------------- Your life or your lupins!!! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 17 2005 at 23:40
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Supper's Ready ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 18 2005 at 02:37
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CTTE
------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: September 18 2005 at 07:18
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Supper's Ready!
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Posted By: TheMusicalBox
Date Posted: September 18 2005 at 13:52
hard choice  ------------- 
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Posted By: Prodigal
Date Posted: September 18 2005 at 15:47
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"Close To The Edge" should be the national anthem of Progland. |
Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 12:39
| CTTE |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 22:35
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it was 21-21.....then i voted ..... putting one song in the lead..... . . . . . ..............
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CTTE!!!!!!!!!! ------------- I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: October 10 2005 at 22:42
Yeah, I don't get it..... But your avatar is really funny! ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Cygnus
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 02:56
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I love them both. Supper's ready has some realy strong parts but CTTE is more "focused" for me. I mean it is one song not a collection...
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Posted By: eduardossc
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 08:42
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Another Close to the edge match?. Whatīs the deal ?. Iīll choose Close to the edge when someone compares it to either "Atom heart mother", "Pigs", "Sheep", "Lizard", ..."Gates of delirium" But this time Vs. "Supperīs ready" ?. Iīll come back later to be more explicit, although Iīve already writen enough of "Close" in other Polls |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 08:50
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CTTE... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: eduardossc
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 11:27
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Letīs compare: Vocals: Peter Gabriel.- The most theatrical and expressive vocalist in the prog world ever Jon Anderson.- The least expressive Lyrics: Close to the edge: "Close to the edge down by the corner, close to the edge down by the river", "Close to the edge down by the corner, close to the edge down by the river", "Close to the edge down by the corner, close to the edge down by the river", "Close to the edge down by the corner, close to the edge down by the river", "I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down,"I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down, I get up I get down, . Supperīs ready: With the guards of magog, swarming around, Songwriting: (Includes creativity, innovation, song structure) Close to the edge: An 18 minutes Prog-pop song. With the structure of a conventional pop song. Simple line catchy Choruses repeated over and over. Repeated themes more than once. Simplistic middle section of 5 minutes with yet simplier chorus repeated for a hundred times. Supperīs ready: Full of diferent images, moods, ideas, concepts, sounds, feelings..you name it. Not a single second wasted with no music like "I get up I get down". Supperīs ready never repeats a single word. Or at least, they donīt do it with the intention of making it catchy, as a pop band would. It may well be considered a 23 minutes song made out of 5 different songs, yes. However, Iīd rather listen to these 23 minutes of creativity than to a 3-chorus-driven-18-minutes-pop-song with great playing. Plus, there is nothing as original and bizarre in "Close" as "Apocalypse in 9/8". Playing: YES thinks playing music is an olympic discipline. Still, itīs not that impressive when you realize the strongest aspect of their playing is the individual playing. Every single instrument sounds clean and perfect, strong and powerful. However, after paying attention youīll reallize the instrumentals are always driven by this drum and bass layer that work as base for the multi notes per second of Wakeman all over. Pay attention to the Bass and drums, they never change dramatically to shift the direction of the instrumentals. I repeat, everything sounds great but itīs not as complex as many argue. About Genesisīplaying. They may never show off. They may even could have not. Still, they are not any "one arm musicians" either. Yet, I think the instrumental in "apocalypse" is played in a more interesting way as a team than anything in "Close". So, a 3-1 score for "Supperīs ready". Vs. the multi commented PROG-POP song "Close to the edge" |
Posted By: el axel
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 13:03
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close to the edge definitelly, and i think it's not about a group, it's about a song, i really don't love a group, i love their music, if i would like to be a fan of a group, and not admire them cause of their music, i would be a backstreet boy fan.
a music lover, a life lover & nbsp; axel ------------- the peruavian progfan |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:47
| Tough one, but for me Close To The Edge. But it's another Battle Of The Giants. |
Posted By: BleedingGum
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:51
Supper's Ready for me. 
------------- ...this is called....BleedingGum ... ! |
Posted By: Yams
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 18:04
I can't decide and you can't make me. 
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Posted By: fender101
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 00:41
EXCELLENT REVIEW!!! I vote for CTTE!! 39-38 ------------- Well McGarnical Billy is dead! They slit his throat from ear to ear! |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 07:19
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39-39 now. I saw the CttE/SOYCD before this one. Also this is a match between two 10/10 songs in my book, but current ranking has Supper at #93 versus #168 for CttE. ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: margaret
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 07:27
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now that's a toughie
Supper's Ready - favorite Close to the Edge - better (stronger musically, a better 'composition' not just another tape and splice epic made up of multiple songs fragments. Close to Edge 'flows'....) ------------- 
Space is dark it is so endless When you're lost it's so relentless It is so big, it is small |
Posted By: rushfann2112
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 09:43
i say CttE...ive only heard Suppers Ready once....so if anyone wants to hook me up....
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Posted By: margaret
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 10:13
do youself a big favor and pick up Genesis - Foxtrot. It's not that expensive ($11-$12 last time I saw it, and you'll find some great stuff in addition to Supper's Ready. An excellent album. -------------
Space is dark it is so endless When you're lost it's so relentless It is so big, it is small |
Posted By: gok22us
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 10:17
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Well, it's really tough. Close to the Edge, was the track that sold me to prog rock. It's genious, so cohesive, interesting musically, but so catchy. Very accessible, but not shabby musically either. Suppers Ready, is also absolute genious. The song is very intense, however, it doesn't seem as much as one song as it does 5 songs sewn together. That being said, it works EXTREMELY well. And Peter Gabriel is like the best vocalist in prog. All in all, i'll pick Close to the Edge because of the sheer immediate and lasting effect that the song has. However, i'm very unhappy calling Supper's Ready worse than anything. |
Posted By: margaret
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 10:22
I couldn't have said that any better. Though I'd put Greg Lake by a hair over Gabriel. -------------
Space is dark it is so endless When you're lost it's so relentless It is so big, it is small |
Posted By: eduardossc
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 10:36
"Close" has that immediate and lasting effect because it has those poppy and catchy choruses all over. At the end of the song and afterwards you will always remember first: "I get up I get down, I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down,I get up I get down" way before any serious line in "Supperīs ready". Donīt feel unhappy. I regularily want to listen to songs like "Electric blue" by Icehouse, "Broken wings" by Mr. mister, "Everybody have fun tonight" by Wang chung, etc. before getting in the mood for paying the necessary attention to something like "A cena per esempio" by Banco. |
Posted By: margaret
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 10:39
you can't be serious
"there's Winston Churchill dressed in drag, he used to be a British flag, plastic bag, what a drag." that line kills me everytime. -------------
Space is dark it is so endless When you're lost it's so relentless It is so big, it is small |
Posted By: krauthead
Date Posted: October 16 2005 at 18:42
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Close to the Edge ------------- *Dancing madly backwards on a sea of air* - Captain Beyond |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 16 2005 at 19:18
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Suppers ready for me ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 09:17
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Supper's Ready ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: Publius84
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 11:01
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Close to the Edge. Suppers ready isn't even my fav by Genesis. But it's a matter of time, I think. ------------- I know what I like and I like what I know... Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul... |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 11:27
agreed the shear compositional effort required to do a...18 minute long song, plus of course that intro... plus that organ solo... plus the 'I get up, I get down' section trumps Winston Churchill dressed in drag hahahha. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Gentle Tull
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 11:58
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two of my three favorite songs.... but I'll go for Supper's Ready. ------------- 
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Posted By: chessman
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 12:13
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Another hard choice. Close To The Edge is a classic piece of work, very, very good (Although I like Gates Of Delirium and Awaken better) Suppers Ready is pure genius. Couldn't not vote for it. |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 12:16
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ECHOES ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 14:14
Close to the Edge 
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Posted By: Page to Squire
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 15:49
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Ctte , more interesting than suppers Ready ------------- I talk to the wind... It tells me to burn things |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 15:53
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Yeah we get it! you like Pink Floyd! ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: Laurent
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 19:14
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CTTE. Perhamps the greatst piece of music ever written. ------------- 
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Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 19:25
Same here, but I'll go for CttE .------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Ty1020/"> 
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Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 19:25
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The choice between these "dinosaur" epics of prog is like "what do you like more, oranges or bananas" Well, I like both. But I voted for CTTE. No argumentation, though, just the feeling of the moment. Both are 6/5 on my scale. |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 19:26
So.................................... What's wrong with a song being catchy then? ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 19:38
| Suppers ready goes silly after 10 minutes. Close to the edge for sure :) |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 19:47
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CTTE - I love both though a great deal, but CTTE is the ultimate prog song from the ultimate prog album. Both 5 star masterpieces though. ------------- 
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