Heart of the Sunrise Vs Starship Trooper - Progressive Rock Music Forum

HOTS for me

Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

Heart of the Sunrise. Easy choice for me but of course Starship Trooper is great song.

Now, had it been Yours Is No Disgrace Vs HotS, much tougher to pick

Starship Trooper... That damn bruford fills... just legendary

I went with Starship Trooper, However Heart is defiantly my favorite track on Fragile.

( wow, It's tied at 18 each right now. )

Edited by Argo2112 - November 13 2018 at 07:16

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socrates17 wrote:

Neither. Paul Kantner's Starship suite (side 2 of Blows Against the Empire) puts both to shame, especially when a reconstituted Jefferson Starship played it in the mid '90s.

Paul Kantner's Starship is one of the all time underrated albums, ever. But, that said (and I'll paraphrase from what someone else has already posted) "Starship Trooper" is just TOO good. For me the only Yes that is better is probably CTTE.

twosteves wrote:

voted both equally---because Starship is a great prog song that takes you on a trip and of course Howes landmark guitar solo and Heart is so avant garde and cool and unique---with that jazzy middle section---so hard to choose one---

(^^also Dellinger been listening to a lot of live ABWH recently --I read Howe interview in Prog Mag and he describes ABWH as a "hot little band"---and it was --with so much future potential too bad Anderson and record companies messed it all up.)

I do love some ABWH songs, too bad the ones on Union are suposedly mostly played by session musicians. I wish they would recover, polish, and release the original recordings with the real Yes (or ABWH) people playing their parts (if such a thing exists)... perhaps for a reissue of the album as bonus tracks?

Heart of The Sunrise.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021

Drumming, Best acoustic break ever.... challenged only by the one in the Remembering.

I have always thought HotS was repetitive even if a great tune. ST doesn't have that problem. Hence...

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

Poll Question: Which do you prefer?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Heart of the Sunrise	47	[49.47%]
Starship Trooper	32	[33.68%]
Both Equally	13	[13.68%]
Neither	3	[3.16%]
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