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Poll Question: Which track do you prefer?
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    Posted: Yesterday at 08:33
Sorry but for me this is the best I can do in providing the songs. However, most of you already know these anyway. ;)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YKc7jlgKM8





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v719eZmXRdE
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Genesis - The Knife
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You know I kind of had a feeling it would lean this way. I like both songs quite a bit though.
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3 votes with no comments. Not cool...
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

3 votes with no comments. Not cool...



4 votes. Don't you count yourself?
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

3 votes with no comments. Not cool...



4 votes. Don't you count yourself?


I stated my choice.
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Genesis - a cut above ELP.
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Well, I'm an ELP fanboy. It's one of their best songs. There is not one thing I'd change about it.

Unfortunately, playback on external sites is disabled for the upload of the 1970 Beat Club performance; watch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQdYokbp4E

Emerson unfolding a scrap with the Bach tab on it, hot-patching on the fly, and for the trifecta, w**king the ribbon controller were all instructions printed millennia ago on the papyrus scroll unearthed in the Temple of Prog. My favorite live clip of the song!

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Genesis
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Knife Edge for me.
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Knife Edge
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One is proto prog metal and the other one rips off classical composers.
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Knife Edge. Big fan of both songs, however.
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The Knife > Knife Edge. Side Two of ELP's debut album is perfection but Side One has a lot of 'filler' excepting The Barbarian. BTW ELP did credit Janacek on Knife Edge who was not exactly a top line classical composer like a Bach or Mozart (not that my knowledge of classical music is very deep). It's like all the indignation when they 'ripped off' Ginestera for the Toccata track like anyone knew who the actual hell Ginestara was
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I prefer The Knife over Knife Edge, but I consider the latter a fine song. Both convey very different messages.
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ELP - Knife Edge
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

One is proto prog metal
At first I thought: nah it's just an intense song that goes kind of hard. But I could easily imagine it being covered to by late 1970's/1980's Judas Priest or Iron Maiden... or Metallica (when they were good)- without really having to adapt anything. Apart from the drumming of course. Now that I think about it, it's almost a shame that it never happened. So I quess there's some truth to it.

-voted for The Knife btw.
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Easy - The Knife.
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Genesis.
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Both, but unequally...apples and oranges.
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