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Poll Question: Which band do you prefer?
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    Posted: April 04 2022 at 13:18
not crazy about either band.  Nektar is more uneven but "Remember the Future" is the only album by either that I love, so Nektar
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

-Nektar are much more to my tastes than Focus. I can easily understand the attraction of the latter band (for proggers), but their approach aren't what mainly attracts me to prog - or rather progressive rock.
 
Me neither. I got Moving Waves specifically because of Hocus Pocus. However, the rest of the album isn't like that and is more like standard symphonic prog. There is nothing wrong with that but I like something meatier.
 
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.
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^ Thanks!

-Nektar are much more to my tastes than Focus. I can easily understand the attraction of the latter band (for proggers), but their approach aren't what mainly attracts me to prog - or rather progressive rock.



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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

I sort of dismissed Nektar at first. Thinking they were lightweight or something, but I was wrong. Great tunes, awesome atmosphere. They did what they do really well and were exactly as good as they needed to be.

Ditto.
Nicely said btw.
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Focus.
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I sort of dismissed Nektar at first. Thinking they were lightweight or something, but I was wrong. Great tunes, awesome atmosphere. They did what they do really well and were exactly as good as they needed to be.
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Focus. The 1973 live concert in Montreal was pure magic. 
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I am going for Focus.
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Two of my first and original favorite prog bands! It'd be hard to vote against either. Nektar is more of an album band, Focus more of a talent phenom.
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Hard to say, maybe little more Nektar
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I love both, but prefer Nektar, so it gets my vote.
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Focus gets the vote, but I do like Nektar also.
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Focus
                      quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Focus
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that's a happy bag of lettuce
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^ LOL
Don't know if one is "better" than the other or which band was "good" or not, and I cannot let statistics determine for me which one I prefer. For that, I have my guts, and my guts say that I prefer Focus.

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Focus were good. Nektar weren’t very good at at all
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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Nektar
 
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.
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Both equally.

Focus Albums

4 stars 1970: Focus - In and Out of Focus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o34Hftlard4
5 stars 1971: Focus - Moving Waves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCBMPdqDAS0
5 stars 1974: Focus - Hamburger Concerto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl8RbU1hXuQ
3 stars 1985: Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer - Focus - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC8ao1-JpsqNhBg7mEYbc5TraqAOO4o-P
4 stars 2006: Focus - Focus 9 / New Skin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GObrMhsmqYg
5 stars 2014: Focus - Golden Oldies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuGrGFkNxGM
4 stars 2016: Focus & Friends - Focus 8.5 / Beyond the Horizon -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llmzo08kuLBSxn4ZDWKXQ3x66Ppy1PAOw
4 stars 2021: Focus - Focus 50: Live in Rio / Completely Focused - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l72j_QYARhHUH1yUz4OaidXvMC6G1WPOo

Nektar Albums

 5 stars 1971: Nektar -  Journey to the Centre of the Eye - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzCit6gbG4uEQnIgRcLCTfij
 5 stars 1974: Nektar - Sunday Night at the London Roundhouse - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikNHjJ_cxzBAqTmmEoWnP0QMOa_xqJP2
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