Battle of the Bands: Twelfth Album
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Topic: Battle of the Bands: Twelfth Album
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Battle of the Bands: Twelfth Album
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 02:26
Hold Your Fire, it's the penultimate poll before The Final Cut. I'm predicting IQ will win this poll without much Resistance, but will another band be a Big Generator of votes? Time will tell. 
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Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 02:30
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Definitely Hold Your Fire; one of the most underrated albums in Rush's catalogue ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 02:41
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KC over 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: zbida
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 03:05
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Big Generator over Genesis? Disagree and vote for Genesis. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 03:23
| IQ. Resistance is a long way from their best, but.... |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 03:56
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My fave KC album gets the nod here. IQ a distant second. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 04:02
| Marillion - Anoraknophobia (2001) |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 04:14
Listened to this for the first time in ages yesterday. Couldn't bring myself to listen to the dreadful final track though.... |
Cristi wrote:Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 04:28
love that song
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Posted By: felonafan
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 05:00
| voted for Stormwatch. It is very underestimated album. |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 05:25
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Slim pickings from this list. But KC > IQ ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 05:37
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I only know (listened to more than a couple of times) two albums: Van der Graaf Generator - ALT and Emerson, Lake & Palmer - In the Hot Seat. Of these, I would probably choose In the Hot Seat, which I think is OK and not the steaming pile of dung that many people seem to think it is, whereas ALT is my least favourite Van der Graaf Generator album and one that I can't even say that I like. I'm not going to vote for anything in this poll. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 06:28
| Rush - Hold Your Fire (1987) |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 07:08
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KC here, one of my least favorite of their albums but this is a very weak field. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 07:28
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I really cannot get into Resistance, even though I loved the Road of Bones. The only album I really like on that list is Harbour of Tears, though it took a lot of listens for me to "get" it. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 07:37
| In spite of its commercial success, the album Genesis is excellent. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 07:50
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This time I'm going with my beloved band Camel with Harbour of Tears. However, it's followed very close to Resistance of IQ. These are two amazing prog pieces.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 07:51
| Camel, King Crimson and Jethro Tull. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 07:53
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IQ, ahead of RRUUSSHH and Tull. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 08:46
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Stormwatch is a very good album in my book, but ALT is too, and it needs more support it seems. Harbour of Tears is a fine album, and I recently heard a song from Tuscany among "random songs" on my player and it was much better than I remember the album to be, so may be worth a relisten. |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 09:09
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VDGG +1 King Crimson ------------- 
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 09:53
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Stormwatch, followed by Hold Your Fire. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 10:13
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Stormwatch this time, followed by Hold Your Fire and Genesis. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 10:29
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On a completely random note, I have voted for the same artist in every round of these polls so far. ------------- "We're going to need a bigger swear jar." Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 12:55
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Talk about a bunch of also rans. As much as it is from a very maligned period for the band, Genesis. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: rik wilson
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 15:13
| KC gets my vote... Alt just sucks, Harbour is weak, and the rest are pitiful...slim pickings ,indeed. And I find Construction only slightly ahead of Thrak and Beat as their worst effort. |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 17:08
| Big Generator I'm a huge fan. |
Posted By: EduTatsumi
Date Posted: November 26 2021 at 22:56
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First choice: IQ - Resistance Second choice: Camel - Harbour of Tears
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Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 01:31
And oddly enough, I rank those three as their best. No accounting for taste I guess.
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Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 01:33
One of my faves too. I don't understand the dislike it receives. But I also adore THRAK and Beat as much as Larks', so call me crazy.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 03:17
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I give the edge to Floyd, just over IQ and Rush. ------------- 
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Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 09:37
| Stormwatch. I have no idea why it gets such criticism. Fine album. Same goes for HYF. It's not AFTK but its solid 80s Rush. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 10:05
whoever gave the second vote for Marillion gets a  from me . 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 10:09
It wasn't me. I voted for IQ. I have anoraknophobia when it comes to Marillion's albums.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 10:12
Not everything is about you Paul. Also, lame joke BTW, you don't have to show your hate for this band every time you see the name, at this point you are beyond exaggerating to be honest.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 10:21
Don't forget, I'm adding Marillion to my prog channel just for you. You never know, I may even end up liking Marillion when I've listened to all of their albums.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 10:23
and you still did not realize you've just insulted me above there. Empathy is hard...
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 10:28
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^ That sounds like a cue for a song.... |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 10:29
| ^ also you don't have to do anything for me, if you want to listen to Marillion, go ahead, just don't say you are doing it for me. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 12:13
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 12:18
when you get gratuitously mocked for liking a band for close to two years, one gets touchy-touchy.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 12:49
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^ I'm often mocked for my somewhat eccentric tastes in music, but I've learned to take it on the chin by now. For instance, when I admittedly prefer The Quest to the classic Close to the Edge album, or Love Beach in preference to Brain Salad Surgery, then I expect a bit of flak to come flying my way.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 12:56
it's not the same thing, every time me or someone else mentions Marillion, you have to express your disliking, mockery, no one has done that with any of your favorite bands. I wish you wouldn't do it for others, that's all. As for your eccentric tastes, people still wonder if you are joking or you are being serious. We never know.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 13:03
Well, at least I'm going to make a special effort to listen to all of Marillion's albums and you're more than welcome to continue mocking me for my admittedly bizarre tastes in music. In the meantime, I'm off to the magical land of Xanadu to listen to my favourite ELO album again.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 13:12
I am not mocking you, a lot of times I don't even know if you are being serious.
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Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 14:17
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The Final Cut ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: projeKct
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 14:44
| None of them is great, but I voted for The Final Cut. Nice concept album with a lot of atmosphere. Outstanding production too. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 15:57
However, I admit I enjoy your banter with Paul, sometimes. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 16:00
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I can't believe Stormwatch isn't winning this poll by a folk tale country mile. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 16:03
^ also Genesis got 10 votes 
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Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: November 28 2021 at 22:54
Same.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 02:04
| Resistance but I also like Stormwatch a lot so it's close between those. |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 12:53
| I've always felt the Genesis album (also known as Shapes) is all too often lumped together with the two mediocre albums that followed it. While there are 2 ready-made singles/videos and a little too much Simmons drums, the rest of the album is far above average. "Mama", "Home by the Sea", "Second Home by the Sea", and "Silver Rainbow" are all among the best things they've ever done, while both "Taking it all too hard" and "It's Gonna Get Better" are truly beautiful. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 13:21
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IQ....Tull....Crimson....Rush.... Resistance and Stormwatch are on the list and people are voting for Final Cut and Generator and Genesis.....?  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 13:23
 ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 17:50
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: December 01 2021 at 08:49
| Hold Your Fire, all the time. Though Harbour of Tears is a highlight in Camel's late catalogue. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 01 2021 at 09:05
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