Battle of the Prog Bands R2D16: Tool vs. GY!BE

I like Godspeed, and haven't liked any Tool I've heard yet (that said, I have never heard a full album of Tool, and am open to track recommendations if they're on youtube).

Originally posted by Chris H If GY!BE loses a battle of prog to Tool, I'm afraid the world might spin out of orbit.

Not a Tool fan at all. I do really love F# A# Infinity and Skinny Fists though. Easy vote for me.

I gotta hear more of GYBE.

Edited by crimhead - September 12 2010 at 01:54

Originally posted by Deleuze GYBE, unfortunately tool's winning...btw, there's no musical superiority...it's only a matter of taste, you can have a talent superiority based on techniques but the music in itself is a subjective absolute.

This is true, but only if you think that nothing in reality is beautiful!

For a long time I've thought that the phrase "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is an extremely pessimistic one. For the sake of my will to live, I have to believe that the world itself is beautiful, but it's up to the beholder to understand this beauty. Realizing the beauty in some things may require, for example, a change in the beholder's perspective, attitude or even personal knowledge, but I think it's rather egotistical to insinuate that it's the beholder who in a way "created" that beauty. Because of this, it actually could be argued that some music is more beautiful than some other IMHO.

If you think that GY!BE's music isn't really beautiful, you probably won't mind if I say that their music is complete bullsh*t (which YOU happen to find pretty)!

Originally posted by 40footwolf Originally posted by UndercoverBoy Originally posted by rpe9p Originally posted by Chris H If GY!BE loses a battle of prog to Tool, I'm afraid the world might spin out of orbit. And the sun will fall down, and the buildings tumble in on themselves "Do you think the end of the world is coming because GY!BE is losing?"   "Chris H says it's the end of time.  He says that America's rivers are going dry.  The interest is up, the stock market's down.  You guys have to be careful walking around here at night.  This, this is the perfect place to get jumped."   "But do you think the end of the world is coming?"   "No.  So says Chris H, but, I don't believe what he says."

Godspeed! 

Attention,mon ami, mon ami...falalalalalalaa

Originally posted by GY!BE Attention,mon ami, mon ami...falalalalalalaa

Le bon roi...
Le roi dagobert a...
Le roi dagobert a mis ses culotte à l'envers mais comme c'était qu'un idiot.
Cococo le petit singe, hier au tôt, au tôt dans sa petite cage, il m'a dit, si tu veux on va jouer, attention, mon ami, mon ami...falalalalalala

*These are actually Antenna's to heaven's lyrics which mean:


Good king...
King dagobert has...
King dagobert put his panties back to front but as it was that an idiot.
Cococonut the small monkey, yesterday in early, in early in his small cage, he said to me, if you want we are going to play, be careful, my friend, my friend falalalalalala

u gotta search for the second meaning...

Originally posted by TheClosing Not sure how Godspeed is "prog" in any way. Not only that but there are literally a million "post" bands that sound just like them. There was nothing quite like ÆNIMA or Lateralus when they were released and still isn't. Love them or hate them there is no denying they have a distinct sound.  Besides all that the actual musical traits are actually associated with prog. I.E. structure, time signatures, musicianship, etc. Every album (besides the last perhaps) has seen a huge progression and change in sound.  Sad to see them go, but we all know King Crimson is the golden boy of the forum. Only one way this will all end.

If you don't perceive a unique and very distingued sonority and structure in Godspeed, it's because you didn't listen carefully...