Prog World Cup-Quarterfinals: Yes- Univers Zero

I'm sure this 'Univers Zero' is terrific but look at my username and you know automatically who I'm voting for. Plus, as others have said in previous threads, when you think classic 70's prog the first band most people think of is Yes. 

Love me some Yes.   Voted the Zeroes.

11 votes? Damn... this site IS changing hahah.  I would have take any bet that they didn't reach 10.

baby steps darlin'....  the revelation is still going on.. plenty of time to take control and send the remaining 'prog fan' to reeducation camps.. or simply put them against the wall.... remember.. until a few years ago I was 'that guy' who dismissed that progressive stuff as tuneless and talentless.

M27Barney wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: M27Barney wrote: Tales from Topographic Oceans is 50 orders of magnitude better than anything UZ have done.... Exactly how much UZ have you heard to make such a definitive and extravagant statement?  ENOUGH! I HAVE their highest rated CD. Not my cup of tea...But I suppose that's the hook for the lovers of UZ. If they sounded like yes they would hate them! Non overlapping magisterias...

Just curious... Who said that UZ are more important to Prog than Yes? I don't remember seeing anything like that in this thread or anywhere else. That being said, these polls - which should be fun, but are taken way too seriously by some people - are based on personal taste rather than any objective factors such as a band's importance in the development of a genre. I'd never claim that UZ are more influential than Yes, because this would not be true, but I may decide to vote for them because I like them better.

GrafHaarschnitt wrote: Oh man, I think you got brainwashed by your heart Micky. Didn´t expect something like that from you.

Happy to see you answer to such a provocative text. Don´t know many members yet, but you polarize a little. And I don´t think I misread you entirely, just trying to be a little funny. To say the least it was already clear that you were a person going strong on emotions. ... Losing somehow focus I wanna add that I think that the mind can be a strong part in Emotion too and I guess thats why I also think that prog is a very overwhelmingly emotional music. For my feeling prog has that almost religious aspect of something more or hidden. It´s very romantic.

^ nice post.  I can agree in large part with that.  and yeah I have been slightly polarizing and divisive.. since the day I joined the site.  I didn't find out till some years later than when I recruited to come over to this site and help whip it into shape my elevation to collab split the old classic admin team in half and only got in via tiebreaker hahah.  Best compliment I ever got from an admin was being compared to a rattlesnake..  that when you come across Micky you either run or try to shoot it dead but you don't stupidly poke it with a stick and antagonize it. 

^ French is prohibited here. You have been warned.