Xanadu or Stairway to Heaven? |
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TheLionOfPrague
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Posted: December 08 2016 at 09:52 |
Stairway to Heaven. Few songs beat it.
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I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place
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Flight123
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Posted: December 08 2016 at 09:45 |
Don't worry, I remember it as well! Zabadak was another favourite!
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chopper
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Posted: December 08 2016 at 09:41 |
Now we're talking. Thanks for posting that, I remember seeing that whip on Top of the Pops (ok, so I'm old). |
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Rednight
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Posted: December 08 2016 at 09:22 |
You gotta' be kidding'.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Thatfabulousalien
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 27 2016 Location: Aussie/NZ Status: Offline Points: 1409 |
Posted: December 08 2016 at 02:59 |
I don't like Rush much at all but Stairway is one of the worst songs I've heard, in my opinion.
Zeppelin have far better songs they deserve to be recognised for but I digress. For this, I pick rush |
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Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: December 08 2016 at 02:43 |
Never reached heaven with Rush.
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Flight123
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Posted: December 08 2016 at 02:25 |
Zep's classic is not really prog but still beats Rush's 'effort' hands down (the lyrics sound like they have been written by a 14 year old)
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BarryGlibb
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 28 2010 Location: Melbourne, Oz Status: Offline Points: 1781 |
Posted: December 08 2016 at 00:24 |
I'm going for Olivia's version of Xanadu.......
although Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich's "Legend of Xanadu" kills them all!!! |
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Dellinger
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 21:07 |
I do like Xanadu... but Stairway to Heaven easily.
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Pastmaster
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 20:06 |
Rush
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Logan
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 18:54 |
Well spotted. He was also in the, erm, classic, Megaforce.
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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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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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DeadSouls
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 17:57 |
Amazing
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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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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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Libor10
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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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DeadSouls
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Posted: December 07 2016 at 16:02 |
WTF is Xanadu.
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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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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
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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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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