Still Life vs Still Life
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Topic: Still Life vs Still Life
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Subject: Still Life vs Still Life
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 05:11
| Two still life’s, both in the top 100. I choose opeth. |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 06:03
 I think this has been done before, why compare these two I do not understand. What's next Moodies vs Gojira? Gentle Giant vs Meshuggah? |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 06:05
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VDGG. The Opeth album is excellent though. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Chaser
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 06:14
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VdGG's "Still Life" is one of my favourite albums ever, whereas Opeth is prog metal - ugh! ------------- Songs cast a light on you |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 06:16
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No vote as I have not heard the Opeth album. VdGG's Still Life is in my top 20, though. ------------- 
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Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 06:22
| I love progressive metal but still never really took to Opeth. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 06:35
I'm indifferent to progressive metal, but for some reason, took to Opeth like a duck to water. I saw them supporting Dream Theater once, and they blew them off the stage. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Fischman wrote:Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 07:36
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Pat Metheny - Still Life Talking ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 08:02
| VDGG for sure. |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 08:15
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I've tried with those earlier Opeth albums and it's just not for me. That VDGG record, on the other hand, is awesome!!!
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 10:05
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Le Générateur ------------- |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 11:05
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I like -used to love- Opeth's Morningrise album. Other than that, I'm perfectly okay without Opeth. I was never impressed by their "Still Life", an album that is seen as their biggest masterpiece by the majority. VDGG is one of my favourite bands, and I very much like their "Still Life". So it shouldn't be difficult to guess which one I've voted for. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 11:26
| Still Life by Opeth is not my favorite Opeth album, but Still Life by VDGG is one of my favorite albums. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 12:12
| I don't know the Opeth album at all so I won't vote. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 15:35
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VDGG ------------- 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: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 15:36
Easy calls for me. Gojira & GG ------------- 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: Logan
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 15:50
I think it's because of the names, Van der Graaf Generator sounds kind of like Opeth if you say it with enough of a speech impediment.. Been done several times as I recall. Now Annie Haslam's Still Life album vs. Opeth's I could wrap my brain around. (that might make for interesting contrast). And Fate's Warning's Still Life vs. VdGG's Still Life would be understandable, but actually, I would have sooner seen VdGG up against this Still Life: As it is, it has to be the VdGG for me. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 16:21
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"It's crazy, and plainly That simply is not enough." ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 23 2019 at 20:11
| VdGG. |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: August 24 2019 at 08:37
| Sorry guys, didn’t know this has been done before |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 24 2019 at 09:24
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^ 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. |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: August 30 2019 at 17:55
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Obviously, VDGG. But... I consider the high position of Still Life (and even more that of Godbluff) by Van der Graaf in the Top 100 of PA completely overestimated. In my opinion, Godbluff and Still Life despite being very good, in fact almost masterpieces in an absolute sense, compared to The Least We Can Do, From H to He, and Pawn Hearts, are much less beautiful and in general IMO they should not be present in the Top 50 prog rock albums of all time. Editing: Stll Life - VdGG is number 52, ok, it doesnt change the matter.
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: August 30 2019 at 19:50
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VDGG, however did you know there are like a zillion albums titled STILL LIFE? Even on PA there's an album by Fates Warning and a band called Still Life with a self titled album but also an album by Annie Haslam and MORE http://rateyourmusic.com/search?bx=16b8dbb1911d229c681d45926377d9f6&searchtype=l&searchterm=still+life" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/search?bx=16b8dbb1911d229c681d45926377d9f6&searchtype=l&searchterm=still+life
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Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: September 01 2019 at 04:55
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Stones' Still Life. Needs a major over haul and it's not prog but there we go... |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: September 01 2019 at 14:24
Yes. Great album! |
Posted By: thief
Date Posted: November 05 2019 at 06:49
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It has to be Van der Graaf Generator. On a good day it might even grab 5 stars, it's a very solid offering without weak links. Opeth is not bad, but I always found it a bit underwhelming... But I'm revisiting the latter's discography this week and I enjoyed Orchid and Morningrise very much. |