Rd 1 Portland Bracket: Pink Floyd v. Mike Oldfield

It's not often I vote for Floyd in these polls, but I'm not a big fan of Mr. Oldfield's music either, so I will this time.

Walton Street wrote: I like seeing the differences in the musicians here, and the non playing fans ..   very different approaches to the music.   I can eat a good meal and not care less how it got that tasty - but a chef will sit down to that meal and crap all over it for various reasons.   that's my approach to music - I have no musical talent so I can really only appreciate the end product - clueless as to how it got that way.   I'm completely unable to intellectualize music and i'm in awe of the knowledge on this forum ..

  I can really dig what you are saying. My wife and myself are perfect examples.  My wife has zero knowledge of music theory and never once picked up an instrument while I've played for many years and have a solid knowledge base of music theory.

Yet who really is the better reviewer, a much better person to discuss music with, much more able to get at the heart of a band, an album, a particular musical nuance?

My wife.  To me, and I do agree completely with you, it is ONLY the end product that counts and all that matters. It may be prog but it still just music.

Music is meant to be felt, to be experienced..to touch and stimulate not to be dissected and studied like a cadaver. 

Cheers Walton and welcome to the forum. The key to a forum are the people and yes, this forum has some of the neatest, friendliest and smartest people you'd ever meet.  We have met many live and in person and have found all to be even more so in real life

Walton Street wrote: it occurred to me that when you get down to the big 4 or 5 a lot of people wont be able to vote.   It's going to get all Sophie's Choice in here

hard choices .. but part of what I like about many of these early rounds are we are getting those hard choices from the get go with a few exceptions.

Besides even when we get down to the final 4 or even final 8. We all respect the biggies... but we are still have our favorites.  We do identify ourselves as 'Genesis Fan' 'Yes Fan' 'K.C. fan' doesn't mean we don't like the others (for the most part ) but most know who they are going to vote for when it comes down to the heavies.

This tournament will likely be just the big dance. The real fun is the early rounds, looking for the Cinderellas and possible upsets but as in all tournament.. the cream will rise above the chaos and we will likely have heavies winning all 4 regions and facing off against each other. Just like the big dance.

I saw that from an earlier post you had made.

Nice!!

Walton Street wrote: until now I've lived in a world where everyone knows of and loves ELP and no one's heard of Camel.   (I was the flip side of that - no offense)

let me then welcome you to the alternative reality that is Prog Archives

Walton Street wrote: unless the sympathy votes carry the day :)

Oh yes sympathy angle. One already played by Rush fans in the Rush-Le Orme thread.  Well played!

I plan on trying to milk any I can get with the sweet little underdog ELP against the behemoth that is Camel

Walton Street wrote: micky wrote: addictedtoprog wrote: How easy is that...to vote for a band that introduced me and countless other to the world of prog...every single album is worth gold up until "The Wall". As for Mike Oldfield... "Tubular Bells" & "Ommadawn" are beautiful.."Hergest Ridge" & "Amorak" are very gud too... But that aint enough against the mighty "Floyd".   it was a shame Oldfield had to draw Floyd... but someone had to I suppose.   i'd say that a good percentage of the bands pulled against Floyd will meet the same fate.

indeed.  which is why we did the Portland bracket alteration.

Everyone knows the Portland bracket will go down to Floyd and G.G.  It made no sense for a 'fun' tournament to have Camel go out against Floyd and ELP out against G.G as they were originally drawn for 2nd round matchups. So we tweeked it. Left G.G opposite Floyd and made Floyd the de facto one seed and moved Camel against ELP in the 2nd round. A bit of fun and glory to the winner before the winner of that goes out in the 3rd round against G.G.  ELP would have no chance and doubt even Camel will knock off G.G. Though with Camel nothing short of knocking off anyone outside of the (Yes, Genesis, K.C.,Floyd) power group would surprise me. Those bobbleheads are quite something


Edited by micky - December 04 2014 at 08:35

addictedtoprog wrote: How easy is that...to vote for a band that introduced me and countless other to the world of prog...every single album is worth gold up until "The Wall". As for Mike Oldfield... "Tubular Bells" & "Ommadawn" are beautiful.."Hergest Ridge" & "Amorak" are very gud too... But that aint enough against the mighty "Floyd".

  it was a shame Oldfield had to draw Floyd... but someone had to I suppose.

How easy is that...to vote for a band that introduced me and countless other to the world of prog...every single album is worth gold up until "The Wall".
As for Mike Oldfield...
"Tubular Bells" & "Ommadawn" are beautiful.."Hergest Ridge" & "Amorak" are very gud too...
But that aint enough against the mighty "Floyd".

Hey, this poll is different: it's already two giants against each other in the first round.