Rd 1 Portland Bracket: Pink Floyd v. Mike Oldfield

I was going to write that Mike Oldfield leaves me cold too, but its not true. His contribution to Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road (on Robert Wyatts Rock Bottom) certainly doesn't. More often it leaves me in tears. I also really like Mike's distinct sound/playing but for some reason I seem unable to enjoy listening to his albums.

No need to stop and look at the carnage. PF by a wide margin

Edited by tdfloyd - December 01 2014 at 10:22

Tough to go against Mr. Oldfield
I count 3 different 5 star albums

but I can't vote against Floyd

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

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".

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.

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

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: 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

I saw that from an earlier post you had made.

Nice!!