England vs Italy, European Nations Final

Same ! But... I can't decide !

Fair enough. I'm young enough that I had the internet to help me get into prog, so I went straight to the original version. I've heard Photos once while I was shopping in my local record store. As great as the music is, it felt very off because of the English lyrics and the slight tracklist discrepancy. I imagine a lot of folks on the forum are similarly partial to Per Un Amico as that's what they heard first like myself. But if you heard Photos first, I imagine it's quite the opposite way around, where Per Un Amico sounds off.

Anyway like I was saying I'm not going to tell you how to make your polls.

So that makes two of us who have stated this outright, and I do honestly wonder how many others might feel the same way, but have not been so overt about expressing it.

I don’t really have a problem with this album being chosen - apart from suggesting it is a level playing field. A level playing field would have been the Italian band singing in Italian.

My vote, like yours, would have gone to Italy, but ended up going to England by default.

but if you had used the original Italian language version of that album, Per Un Amico, rather than its English counterpart, I would vote for it in a heartbeat. As it is I'm afraid Gentle Giant is what I would rather listen to.

It is, and it’s a load of bollocks compared to the Italian sung albums it’s reworked from. The same goes for Banco and Maxophone. The Italian sung albums are fantastic. The English versions decidedly less so.

it's mostly Per un Amico reworked with English lyrics. 

Eeek!!  Abandon poll!!