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Poll Question: Which do you prefer more?
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Mr Hackett again
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Mr. Hackett by a petal . . .
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

That lovely Chinese lotus flower by the length of a grain of rice.

Yes, that's the one that gets my vote.
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I have to go for the grim, bleak Ravine...
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"The Flower ...". It at least has some content. "Ravine" is so ... empty ... within or without The Lamb ... . 

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The flower!
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:


I had to think about this one a little bit more than the others, but my vote once again went to Spectral Mornings.  I love the atmosphere of Ravine but that is ultimately what it is - an atmospheric connection between two more important songs.  BTW, pieces such as this is what make The Lamb such a great album.  As a song by itself though, there is little to compare it to the melodicism of the Red Flower.  Om Mani Padme Hum - May the jewel in the lotus blossom.
I you said it very well. Ravine is critical to the Lamb, but it's not a stand alone piece.
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Hackett.
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I had to think about this one a little bit more than the others, but my vote once again went to Spectral Mornings.  I love the atmosphere of Ravine but that is ultimately what it is - an atmospheric connection between two more important songs.  BTW, pieces such as this is what make The Lamb such a great album.  As a song by itself though, there is little to compare it to the melodicism of the Red Flower.  Om Mani Padme Hum - May the jewel in the lotus blossom.
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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The Flower
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Tough call.

I guess Genesis this time.
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That lovely Chinese lotus flower by the length of a grain of rice.
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How do you think these match up. Both are steady mood pieces without heavy dynamics. What do you think? The one with Japanese Kyoto at the beginning of not?
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