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Syzygy 
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 Posted: November 10 2011 at 16:25 |
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Cinema Show is a better stuctured song with better lyrics (somewhat heavily indebted to TS Eliot) and a better keyboard solo. Aside from that it's a close call!
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Slartibartfast
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Joined: April 29 2006
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Posted: November 10 2011 at 18:05 |
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You might be able to take a pebble and throw it in the sea, but you can't do that to a cinema show. Take a little ex-lax, with Father Tiresiass.
Edited by Slartibartfast - November 10 2011 at 18:06
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Horizons
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Joined: January 20 2011
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Posted: November 10 2011 at 18:07 |
Take a Pebble is my favorite song off of the only ELP album i enjoy.
But it still isn't as good as The Cinema Show
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Dellinger
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Posted: November 10 2011 at 18:37 |
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I go with Cinema Show. I find Take a Pebble a very beautiful piece of music indeed, but the middle instrumental section just doesn't click so well for me... I like much better the vocal parts. Cinema Show is great all the way.
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ZowieZiggy
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Joined: April 19 2005
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Posted: November 10 2011 at 19:10 |
None can be considered as epics IMHHO.
The choice between those two songs is obvious: Cinema Show of course!
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ZowieZiggy
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criticdrummer94
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Joined: June 16 2011
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Posted: November 11 2011 at 10:34 |
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I'm going with the underdog Take a Pebble
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  MY IDOLS
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Epignosis
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Joined: December 30 2007
Location: Raeford, NC
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Posted: November 11 2011 at 10:40 |
Easily "The Cinema Show" for me...there's actually something going on in that one! 
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MattGuitat
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Posted: November 17 2011 at 21:28 |
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You're kidding, right? Take a Pebble is pretty good, one of my favorite ELP songs, but comparing it to the Cinema Show? Cinema Show is one of those journeys that takes you through so many emotions, from the romantic first half, to the majestic keyboard solo, which is better than Emerson's work in Take a Pebble.
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hobocamp
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Posted: November 17 2011 at 23:50 |
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I hate that ELP always takes a drubbing on this site, but you pitted it against one of my favorite Genesis songs.
I do however like Take a Pebble far better than Supper's Ready.
Edited by hobocamp - November 19 2011 at 11:33
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The Miracle
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Posted: November 18 2011 at 00:02 |
 Syzygy wrote:
Cinema Show is a better stuctured song with better lyrics (somewhat heavily indebted to TS Eliot) and a better keyboard solo. Aside from that it's a close call! |
This. 
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 18 2011 at 00:19 |
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I adore both but Take A Pebble holds a special place as I think its one of the first prog songs I had heard.
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Joined: October 12 2011
Location: Melb, Australia
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Posted: November 18 2011 at 00:25 |
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The classic `Cinema Show' gets my vote, even though I LOVE `Take A Pebble' and all of that first ELP album. The instrumental middle section in particular of `Pebble' has always been pretty special to me.
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omphaloskepsis
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Joined: October 19 2011
Location: Texas
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Posted: November 18 2011 at 19:58 |
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ELP
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The Doctor
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Joined: June 23 2005
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Posted: November 18 2011 at 20:14 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
You might be able to take a pebble and throw it in the sea, but you can't do that to a cinema show. Take a little ex-lax, with Father Tiresiass.
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Now that's a great misheard lyric right there.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Take a Pebble Vs The Cinema Show
