Ultimate Prog Tournament #6: Camel v. Magma
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Topic: Ultimate Prog Tournament #6: Camel v. Magma
Posted By: horsewithteeth11
Subject: Ultimate Prog Tournament #6: Camel v. Magma
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 15:27
| This one is a toughy for me, but I'll have to go w/ Camel |
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 15:28
| Magma! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 15:29
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Camel's humped. Magma easily.
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 15:44
| Magma, but Camel is a great band too. |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 15:44
| hahahhah... Camel! |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 16:39
| Hey, not really fair, one band relying on brilliantly expressive guitar and the other , the sheer fury of percussive nirvana. But since this is sport and not art, give it to Camel in an overtime shootout |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 16:48
| Camel, one of my favorite symphonic bands. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 17:00
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Toughest choice for me of the first round. They're so different from one another but equally enjoyable. I have to think more on this one. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Kapitan_Mrok
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 17:09
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Wow! Very hard to tell... I love both bands... But i voted for Camel. I think that they are a litlle more "in my kind of music". ------------- Terra Tegit Terram |
Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 17:39
| Camel |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 17:46
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Magma iss da Hundin
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Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 17:56
| Magma, as much as I love Camel. |
Posted By: JoaoPirucas
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 18:01
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Camel > ALL
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 18:04
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Camel is so freaking brilliant, Magma utterly destroys the noobs. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 18:14
seen it all now... Camel beating Magma... Magma +1 ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 20:18
You got a lot of nerves saying this are the ultimate prog tournaments...
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Posted By: febus
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 20:57
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Camel , nice soft Canterbury music...very good but MAGMA wins because they were unique and created a new kind of music
.....just try to find a MAGMA tribute band and Latimer doesn't have the scary eyes of C.Vander
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 21:00
It's all one tournament I've done with my friends and that's only the title. I just call it that since it has 32 of the most recognized and influential prog bands in it. It's not necessarily meant to be taken literally. I only call all of the polls under the same general title so that people who want to understand the reasoning behind these polls can. I also do that so that the polls/layouts have some organization (rather than a bunch of random polls and people accusing me of spamming). |
el b�thy wrote:Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 22:01
hmm.. this doesn't look good for Magma... and on the first round  . Any information on when the winners are announced, MovingPictures?
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 22:37
Yeah, I've been turning over a couple things in my head. I think I'm going to tally up the scores sometime later this week after all the first round have been given a good chance to rack up some votes and start Round 2 this weekend or next week. Although it really all depends on how quickly everything goes. I also thought of getting the polls closed after so much time of the poll being existent, but that would require too much work and the extreme helpfulness of an administrator/collab. I'm pretty sure I'll just post the 2nd round once these first polls are harvested; and in the first post of every round, I'll post who won and with the exact scores I tallied. |
Posted By: Jshutt64
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 23:23
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CAMEL!
Far superior in my opinion...I'm not a big fan of Magma.
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 23:39
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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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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: January 13 2008 at 23:59
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Tough...i will vote tomorrow ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 01:29
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Camel always gets my vote, no matter which band you put against them. |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 07:43
| A quite funny poll. Magma for me. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 13:36
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. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 13:41
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^Now Magma vs. Soft Machine, that would be an interesting contest.
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Posted By: xjester
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 13:59
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Camel. mainly because im not so hot for magma. |
Posted By: Urs Blank
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 16:39
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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! ------------- Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. Salvador Dali. |
Posted By: Nash
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 16:47
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camel, no doubt about this one ------------- http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/191/sydbarrettg.jpg/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: AustinPrince14
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 18:34
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Camel is just the better band. Magma is good, but Camel is better.
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 18:59
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Magma. ------------- '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: Evandro Martini
Date Posted: January 15 2008 at 06:54
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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 ------------- "You’ll never make any money playing music that people can’t sing.” Keith Emerson's father |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 10:42
| Camel are soothing and relaxing, Magma are challenging... Went for the latter. |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 10:43
| Camel for me also. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 10:48
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 12:56
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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 ../album.asp?id=3315 - Live/Hhaï (Köhntark) 4.45 (39 ratings) ../album.asp?id=3315 - 
1978 ../album.asp?id=333 - 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. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:08
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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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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:14
man alive.. no contest between those two albums... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:24
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. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:32
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Another one for Camel here... I never could see the appeal in Magma. ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 14:01
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Magma
But it's close. ------------- 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. |