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England vs Italy, European Nations Final
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    Posted: July 09 2021 at 02:45
I could have chosen many different combinations but I wanted it to be a 'level playing field' as far as possible...
Italian flair versus English passion - choose!  Let's see who wins on Sunday!
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Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

I could have chosen many different combinations but I wanted it to be a 'level playing field' as far as possible...
Italian flair versus English passion - choose!  Let's see who wins on Sunday!

there's a lot of passion in RPI, more than flair. 

I can't choose here because I enjoy both albums a lot. Ouch
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Gentle Giant and Italy!
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Gentle Giant - Octopus.
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Love both albums but with Gentle Giant being formed by three Scottish brothers they're hardly English now are they? it's gotta be Forza Azzurri!
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Love both albums but with Gentle Giant being formed by three Scottish brothers they're hardly English now are they? it's gotta be Forza Azzurri!

Eeek!!  Abandon poll!!
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Level playing field, and yet you have an English album from the Italians? 😜

I would have voted for PFM if it were any of their first three Italian sung albums, but given this choice instead, I go for Gentle Giant. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

Level playing field, and yet you have an English album from the Italians? 😜

I would have voted for PFM if it were any of their first three Italian sung albums, but given this choice instead, I go for Gentle Giant. 🤷🏻‍♂️


it's mostly Per un Amico reworked with English lyrics. 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

Level playing field, and yet you have an English album from the Italians? 😜

I would have voted for PFM if it were any of their first three Italian sung albums, but given this choice instead, I go for Gentle Giant. 🤷🏻‍♂️


it's mostly Per un Amico reworked with English lyrics. 

It is, and it’s a load of bollocks compared to the Italian sung albums it’s reworked from. The same goes for Banco and Maxophone. The Italian sung albums are fantastic. The English versions decidedly less so.
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Both are great albums, so it's a hard choice. I'll have to wait a little before I can vote.
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my Italian heritage wants to vote for Italy---and my fav bands are British---including GG---sooooooo
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I'm not going to tell you how to make your polls....

but if you had used the original Italian language version of that album, Per Un Amico, rather than its English counterpart, I would vote for it in a heartbeat. As it is I'm afraid Gentle Giant is what I would rather listen to.
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Originally posted by Sacro_Porgo Sacro_Porgo wrote:

I'm not going to tell you how to make your polls....

but if you had used the original Italian language version of that album, Per Un Amico, rather than its English counterpart, I would vote for it in a heartbeat. As it is I'm afraid Gentle Giant is what I would rather listen to.


That's the album that introduced PFM to us Brits...
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Originally posted by Sacro_Porgo Sacro_Porgo wrote:

I'm not going to tell you how to make your polls....

but if you had used the original Italian language version of that album, Per Un Amico, rather than its English counterpart, I would vote for it in a heartbeat. As it is I'm afraid Gentle Giant is what I would rather listen to.

So that makes two of us who have stated this outright, and I do honestly wonder how many others might feel the same way, but have not been so overt about expressing it.

I don’t really have a problem with this album being chosen - apart from suggesting it is a level playing field. A level playing field would have been the Italian band singing in Italian.

My vote, like yours, would have gone to Italy, but ended up going to England by default.
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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

Originally posted by Sacro_Porgo Sacro_Porgo wrote:

I'm not going to tell you how to make your polls....

but if you had used the original Italian language version of that album, Per Un Amico, rather than its English counterpart, I would vote for it in a heartbeat. As it is I'm afraid Gentle Giant is what I would rather listen to.


So that makes two of us who have stated this outright, and I do honestly wonder how many others might feel the same way, but have not been so overt about expressing it.

I don’t really have a problem with this album being chosen - apart from suggesting it is a level playing field. A level playing field would have been the Italian band singing in Italian.

My vote, like yours, would have gone to Italy, but ended up going to England by default.



Ffs!! Photos introduced PFM to us Brits.
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I would have voted for PFM if I could choose any of their two first albums (sung in italian of course), but PFM in english and Photos of Ghosts is kinda pointless.
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My apologies for owning Photos of Ghosts rather than Per Un Amico. Hang on, Per Un Amico it wasn't released in the UK originally...
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