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Poll Question: Which pair of songs is strongest?
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    Posted: September 20 2016 at 20:22
Our classic rock station had "double shots" in the 80s where you could phone in a couple favorites from a band and get them played back to back.  For this poll I paired songs from the same album.  Smile

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One Slip/Turning Away, good combo. 

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Tull for me.
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
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Rush
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Weak selection.... I'll go for Genesis, I guess. The Yes pair are ok too.
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Floyd, although I love Countdown and Home By the Sea.
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All of these are good, but it is not hard to give my vote to Rush here.
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Wot - no Emerson, Lake and Powell?
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no Asia, no GTR, aaaahh the horror!!!!!!!
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Asia and GTR were horrific!!
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^ I wouldn't say horrific, in fact quite decent, the problem is that their albums are quite uneven.
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I remember at the time that despite their stellar line-ups, my mates and I were deeply disappointed with these bands.  It seems that all that mattered to our heroes was commercial success, especially Stateside.  That's probably why the neo-prog movement of the early 80s was so successful as it reconnected the music with the audience...
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^ now that you mention it, where's Marillion? No 80s double shots without Marillion?
Joke aside, it's a good poll, let's see some more.
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Genesis quite comfortably ahead of Rush. 

With Roger Waters gone Pink Floyd became about as exiting as U2. Less - actually. IMO! Total Yawnfest. The rest is terrible as well. 
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^ Genesis still had a shred of creativity in them which had deserted the rest (including Rush after 'Grace Under Pressure')
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Voted Rush but not a big fan of Countdown. I would prefer Losing It / Analog Kid or Losing it / Subdivisions.

Actually, I'd prefer Analog Kid / Digital Man over all of them 
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First vote for the mighty YES
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

^ now that you mention it, where's Marillion? No 80s double shots without Marillion?
Joke aside, it's a good poll, let's see some more.



The theme of this particular poll was the "classic rock" bands my FM station was playing at the time.  Marillion was not on the playlist.  Also, I wanted to keep the number of choices relatively small, so that we didn't get one of those polls where each choice has one or two votesSmile

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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Our classic rock station had "double shots" in the 80s where you could phone in a couple favorites from a band and get them played back to back.  For this poll I paired songs from the same album.  Smile
Could you ask the radio station to play Atom Heart Mother and Echoes? Tongue
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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Our classic rock station had "double shots" in the 80s where you could phone in a couple favorites from a band and get them played back to back.  For this poll I paired songs from the same album.  Smile
Could you ask the radio station to play Atom Heart Mother and Echoes? Tongue



In the 80s they would have hung up on you and then played "Money" and "Another Brick".   However, back in the early 70s that same station absolutely would have played the long tracks as well as obscure album tracks.   The station still exists today, quite similar to the way it was in the 80s, although with very little new music.  Funny how that "classic rock" format was formed and has endured, despite the fact that most people will tell you they hate it.  LOL

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