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Poll Question: Which of the following groups have the best song lyrics?
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    Posted: November 08 2004 at 20:37
I'm a personal fan of Neil Peart's writing, but what does everybody else think?
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Out of the bands listed above.....Marillion without a doubt!!
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Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2004 at 21:07
Ian Anderson's lyrics on Thick and Aqualung have always been high on my fav lists. PF's are right up there as well. King Crimson went through so many phases, it would be hard to choose them overall. Now, if you break them down into eras.....?
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pink floyd, did anyone have to guess that id chose this :-/
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I like peter gabriel's songwriting. It's "the bomb".
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Points: 4215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2004 at 21:35
I doubt I even have to say!
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Difficult to choose between (Fish) Marillion and Pink Floyd - the styles are both so different, and so utterly brilliant.

I chose Marillion...

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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2004 at 04:02

Originally posted by Sweetnighter Sweetnighter wrote:

I'm a personal fan of Neil Peart's writing, but what does everybody else think?

I voted Genesis. Peter Gabriel just about beats Peart for me, although Rush are my overall favourite band.
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The Flower Kings get my vote, for this passage:

Say a prayer for the human race
when looking down from a wheel in space
Can we put an end to the mindless war
Do they still remember what they're fighting for
With the blood of Jesus on the nail
we turn the balance on a scale
In pain and fearless suffering
lies a message from the King of Kings
See the mindless masses so dangerous
saying "you don't belong here-you are not one of us"
soon the cities crawl, living under the gun
and they feed on hate for the different one

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Did someone pray for the long lost souls
or the tired ones who lost their goal
When the seventh angel rise his sword
Can you hear the one voice of the Lord

 

...can ANYONE make sense of that?  I LOVE it! 

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NOPE  But then again " I'm just a clown in the eyes of the world "
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Seriously, I ADORE that passage.  He sings it with such conviction that you just KNOW that it's got some deep, personal meaning to him...  it's even better on the live DVD...

I shed a tear when Daniel Gildenlow belted out "Even when you're far from home...  like strangers in a waiting room!"

I'm serious. 

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Points: 8548 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2004 at 06:55
Well I don´t understand half of what Roine writes, guess he´s got a Cosmic Mind
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ta

 

He and Daniel show that prog can be manly. 

 

...lucky Roine... 

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Points: 8548 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2004 at 07:00
Well it doesn´t look like a Pain In The Butt
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Points: 3830 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2004 at 07:01
Can we get a Caption Contest for that pic? 
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Good Idea.......................hmmmmmmmmmm
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By any chance, have you ever read the now-defunct Glitzy Cape prog site?
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Neal Morse : Hey Mike we´ve gotta change our name from Transatlantic to Transvestite !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nope.
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Mike:  " Do you think Roine really meant it when he said he'd never listened to Dream Theater prior to the Transatlantic project?  And why do I talk so formally?"
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