Yes to King Crimson - Lizard vs. Starship Trooper

Lizard by a hair. If it was YIND, however...

the Yes is one of the top ten rock albums ever IMO, so ...

Both are probably in my top 20 favourite songs of all time, so I could have picked either. Went with Lizard today, though.

Starship Trooper on Yessongs > Lizard > Starship Trooper on Yes album.
By the way, why does the Yes Album have such a terrible cover?

Starship Trooper.

Starship trooper

Yes - "Starship Trooper"

It bugs me, bugs, Starship Troopers, get it?, that I misnamed the Yes song in both the poll and the topic title, but I don't feel like editing it. Heinlein and the Verhoeven film on the brain (of course Anderson was aware of the novel and inspired by it).

I really dig both tracks but am currently in more of a wacky music mode, which translates into Lizard in this poll. Love the confusion leading up to Prince Rupert.

Oh and don't get me started on Starship Troopers! Yikes... I still find it hard to get my head around the fact that Verhoeven went from a brilliant run of European made movies to the utter sh*te he suddenly started producing in Hollywood. Even his wonderful understanding of actors and how best to use them according to the specific scene went south. My personal opinion on this is that he suffered a small stroke on his way to America and subsequently lost all sense of quality and edge.
Most often though you'll see talented directors get back on their feet after such tomfoolery (like De Toro after Blade ll for instance....but yeah errm Hollow Man

Showgirls though was good in a 'it's ok for dad to watch this flick because it isn't porn even if it's used for the exact same thing-way'.

Have done some fixes, Socrates. The dailymotion embed can cause problems -- I have no problems with my laptop, but on other devices it's different. And soon you should be able to vote. I favour write-in posts and votes more than actual poll votes, and usually only use polls as an accessory to discussion.
My favourite Yes album, which is odd, is Time and a Word, but the Yes album is my second favouite. Fragile is what got me into Yes, and I do still like that album very much. Lizard is my favourite KC album these days, and I also love Islands which tends to not be that appreciated.

Guldbamsen wrote: I really dig both tracks but am currently in more of a wacky music mode, which translates into Lizard in this poll. Love the confusion leading up to Prince Rupert. Oh and don't get me started on Starship Troopers! Yikes... I still find it hard to get my head around the fact that Verhoeven went from a brilliant run of European made movies to the utter sh*te he suddenly started producing in Hollywood. Even his wonderful understanding of actors and how best to use them according to the specific scene went south. My personal opinion on this is that he suffered a small stroke on his way to America and subsequently lost all sense of quality and edge. Most often though you'll see talented directors get back on their feet after such tomfoolery (like De Toro after Blade ll for instance....but yeah errm Hollow Man Showgirls though was good in a 'it's ok for dad to watch this flick because it isn't porn even if it's used for the exact same thing-way'.

I actually like Verhoeven's Starship Troopers adaptation a lot. For me it works pretty well as satire. It's cartoonish and the characters lack depth, but I found it genuinely quite funny as pastiche, and I really like how the propaganda elements are worked into it.

Some people complain because it's so different from the book, but it's not a favourite Heinlein of mine anyway (unlike the marvelous Stranger in a Strange Land which I totally grok).

I liked Verhoeven's Black Book (Zwartboek) from 2006 considerably, which marked his return to Dutch film-making. Showgirls I found so boring, and not even titillating despite the t**s. Still, I guess I can be glad that von Trier is afraid of flying, as he may have suffered in his film-making. Now there's a North-western European guy who can "exploit" nudity pretty well.