Xanadu or Stairway to Heaven? |
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TexasKing
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 21 2016 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 577 |
Topic: Xanadu or Stairway to Heaven? Posted: December 07 2016 at 08:08 |
The song of your choice between these two?
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someone_else
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: May 02 2008 Location: Going Bananas Status: Offline Points: 24032 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 08:12 |
Both are great, but Xanadu blows Stairway to Heaven away.
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Catcher10
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 08:16 |
StH for me has been played out since the heyday of FM radio, and also every year it is the #1 song on every classic rock radio year end list. It became a generic song for me......Ironically I spun LZ IV last weekend and really got into the song for the first time in years.
Clearly it is a masterpiece....... But I can listen to Xanadu (and have been since the album came out) without issue. Good poll.
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Hercules
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 14 2007 Location: Near York UK Status: Offline Points: 7024 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 08:20 |
Both are great, but Stairway to Heaven blows Xanadu away.
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A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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digdug
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4707 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 09:16 |
have to with Stairway
but Xanadu is amazing as well |
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Prog On!
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Barbu
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30845 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 09:18 |
C'mon, man.
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HosiannaMantra
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 14 2016 Location: Croatia Status: Offline Points: 206 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 09:25 |
Stairway
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Man With Hat
Collaborator Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166178 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 09:32 |
I guess Rush.
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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. |
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Manuel
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 09 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12468 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 09:40 |
Xanadu, out two excellent songs.
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omphaloskepsis
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2011 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 5996 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 09:46 |
Love them both but give me the Stairway to Heaven. I know it's overplayed but that's not the songs fault.
Edited by omphaloskepsis - December 07 2016 at 09:46 |
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 10:42 |
Xanadu. More exciting music, but of course Stairway will always be a classic.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Magnum Vaeltaja
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 01 2015 Location: Out East Status: Offline Points: 6777 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 12:06 |
Preach, brotha!
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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 15:28 |
Stairway. No. Contest.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
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rushfan4
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 15:53 |
An actual vote from me that is not for the Rush song. As overplayed as Stairway may be, it has still been one of my favorite songs for a long, long time.
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DeadSouls
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 28 2016 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 4255 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 16:02 |
WTF is Xanadu.
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Libor10
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 19 2005 Location: Czech republic Status: Offline Points: 692 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 16:48 |
Compare these two songs is rather strange. They are different beast IMO. No vote here.
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 17:07 |
Tom Sawyer
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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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Logan
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 17:33 |
It's the Olivia Newton John/ ELO stitle song of a roller-disco movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4WLZHXcds which Samuel Taylor Coleridge based his poem Kubla Khan on: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery...." Anyway, I voted for "Stairway to Heaven": "Stairway to Heaven" by Alison Hawthorne Deming "The queen grows fat beneath my house while drones infest the walls reconnaissance to feed her glut, wood ripped from studs and joists. I’ll pay to drill the slab and ruin her pestilential nest. How to find the song in this day’s summons? I’ve been accused of darkness by my inner light. My brother sits in the chemo chair another long day of toxic infusion, the house of his body— bones, brain and balls gone skeltering. I sit in my parked car listening to Robert Plant recall how the English envied the Americans for getting the blues, getting all of it, into song...." Edited by Logan - December 07 2016 at 17:36 |
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Just a music fan passing through trying to fill some void. Various music I am into now: a youtube playlist
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DeadSouls
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 28 2016 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 4255 |
Posted: December 07 2016 at 17:57 |
Amazing
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Atavachron
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 18:49 |
Oh my god I think that's the guy from The Warriors
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