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Yorkie X
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Topic: iona vs nightwish Posted: July 21 2007 at 00:08 |
this is really a tester poll to see if people vote for who they know and not so much who is better , yes it is a silly poll both these bands names shouldn`t come up in the same sentence but when I thought of it I smiled and couldn`t help myself .
Edited by Yorkie X - July 21 2007 at 00:11
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Norbert
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Posted: July 21 2007 at 04:14 |
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Iona without the shadow of doubt.
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Jared
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Posted: July 21 2007 at 07:23 |
Nightwish, certainly...
I have seen Iona, and they put on a good show, but I couldn't do a whole album....
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Posted: July 21 2007 at 13:24 |
Iona
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Posted: July 21 2007 at 13:26 |
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Iona are simply amazing. Can't get enough of their music.
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johnobvious
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Posted: July 21 2007 at 17:41 |
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When Iona can come up with something as moving as Ghost Love Score, I will vote for them.
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Dean
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Posted: July 21 2007 at 18:55 |
I like Nightwish quite a lot (except Once), but I don't know Iona at all - so I won't vote.
However, it did bother me that I didn't know (or couldn't remember) Iona - after all a UK based Celtic Prog-Folk band should have crossed my musical radar at some point in the past 18 years and I haven't exactly had my head stuck in a bucket or anything. Suitably perplexed, I thought I'd check them out...
Based upon the three tracks on Iona's PA page and the four on their MySpace, my initial reaction is - yeuch! that's not celtic prog-folk, that's just bland, uninspired, insipid mush, and to be honest only one song had any celtic vibe at all (okay that track - Wave After Wave was pretty good by comparison to the others). Capercaillie, Runrig, (or even Bluehorses) they certainly ain't, I kind of wonder if they had ever heard of Tír na Nôg or Horslips. They might be okay live in a dark and smokey club once, but not twice and never on CD. Thanks, but no thanks. 
So I guess that answers that then - I probably have heard of them before and just deleted them from memory, as I will probably do again soon.(I still won't vote in this poll though, but Nightwish ftw  )
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Posted: July 21 2007 at 23:11 |
Originally posted by johnobvious
When Iona can come up with something as moving as Ghost Love Score, I will vote for them.
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They did...twice...no, three times....no, four times! The Woven Cord, The Book Of Kells, Beyond These Shores, and The Circling Hour. Just about everything they do is emotionally charged and moving.
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Edited by E-Dub - July 21 2007 at 23:18
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Posted: July 22 2007 at 03:00 |
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nightwish
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Posted: July 22 2007 at 21:31 |
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Iona by many light years.
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Rimantas B.
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Posted: July 23 2007 at 03:24 |
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Nightwish, at least until the leaving of Tarja.
We'll have to wait and see how it turns out to be now, but I am pretty sure Mr. Holopainen knew what he was doing and Nightwish will still be better then Epica, Iona and (insert band name here).
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