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Poll Question: Which one u prefer and why? Remember its not 'Pink Floyd' Vs 'Genesis'
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As good a song as Comfortably Numb is, and as good as Gilmour is on it, it's hard to understand how can a progger prefer it to Firth Of Fifth. If you told me my neighbour prefers it I'd understand, but a prog lover? Confused
With my friends' amateur band we played a cover of Comfortably, surely sh*tty but without too much trouble, I wish we could even think of trying to play FoF.
The hardest part of FoF has to be the piano intro. Once one of you guys nailed it, the rest should seem easier.


And the piano introduction isn't particularly difficult (I can play it proficiently Embarrassed).

Great, now play Banks' solo from The Cinema Show. Big smile


I haven't learned them, but don't see the need.  Synth solos tend to be easier to play.

But you felt the need to learn the intro piano solo to Firth of Fifth? I don't get it.
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Originally posted by Mirror Image Mirror Image wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

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As good a song as Comfortably Numb is, and as good as Gilmour is on it, it's hard to understand how can a progger prefer it to Firth Of Fifth. If you told me my neighbour prefers it I'd understand, but a prog lover? Confused
With my friends' amateur band we played a cover of Comfortably, surely sh*tty but without too much trouble, I wish we could even think of trying to play FoF.
The hardest part of FoF has to be the piano intro. Once one of you guys nailed it, the rest should seem easier.


And the piano introduction isn't particularly difficult (I can play it proficiently Embarrassed).

Great, now play Banks' solo from The Cinema Show. Big smile


I haven't learned them, but don't see the need.  Synth solos tend to be easier to play.
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

As good a song as Comfortably Numb is, and as good as Gilmour is on it, it's hard to understand how can a progger prefer it to Firth Of Fifth. If you told me my neighbour prefers it I'd understand, but a prog lover? Confused
With my friends' amateur band we played a cover of Comfortably, surely sh*tty but without too much trouble, I wish we could even think of trying to play FoF.
The hardest part of FoF has to be the piano intro. Once one of you guys nailed it, the rest should seem easier.


And the piano introduction isn't particularly difficult (I can play it proficiently Embarrassed).

Great, now play Banks' solo from The Cinema Show. Big smile


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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

As good a song as Comfortably Numb is, and as good as Gilmour is on it, it's hard to understand how can a progger prefer it to Firth Of Fifth. If you told me my neighbour prefers it I'd understand, but a prog lover? Confused
With my friends' amateur band we played a cover of Comfortably, surely sh*tty but without too much trouble, I wish we could even think of trying to play FoF.
The hardest part of FoF has to be the piano intro. Once one of you guys nailed it, the rest should seem easier.


And the piano introduction isn't particularly difficult (I can play it proficiently Embarrassed).
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Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

As good a song as Comfortably Numb is, and as good as Gilmour is on it, it's hard to understand how can a progger prefer it to Firth Of Fifth. If you told me my neighbour prefers it I'd understand, but a prog lover? Confused
With my friends' amateur band we played a cover of Comfortably, surely sh*tty but without too much trouble, I wish we could even think of trying to play FoF.
The hardest part of FoF has to be the piano intro. Once one of you guys nailed it, the rest should seem easier.

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Gilmour's guitar solo > Hackett's guitar solo

"Firth of Fifth" overall > "Comfortably Numb" overall
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As good a song as Comfortably Numb is, and as good as Gilmour is on it, it's hard to understand how can a progger prefer it to Firth Of Fifth. If you told me my neighbour prefers it I'd understand, but a prog lover? Confused
With my friends' amateur band we played a cover of Comfortably, surely sh*tty but without too much trouble, I wish we could even think of trying to play FoF.
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Firth is my winner without any doubt. One of the best Genesis songs (say it's in my top 5). Fantastic piano intro and the Hacket's solo on the same level... And yes, CN is great song with extraordinary good Gilmour's solo. But... frankly, for me it's not on par with FoF. In fact PF have many better compositions (One Of These Days, Echoes, Shine On You Crazy Diamond to name a few). On the other side my vote wouldn't be different with any other song (eh, probably...). But it'd be harder choice. This one wasn't.

And I'm rather surprised too the votes are relatively close.
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Comfortably voted for Firth.  I like Floyd overall more than Genesis but  Comfortably Numb is not one of my favourites of the band.
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I'm a huge Floyd fan and it's very rare I'd vote against them, however......

Comfortably Numb is an excellent song with a fantastic pair of guitar solos from Dave Gilmour but Firth of Fifth is one of the best prog tracks ever.  I'm surprised the vote is this close to be honest.
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Originally posted by genbanks genbanks wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Firth of Fifth, one of my favorite Genesis songs,.....but Numb is the best thing from The Wall, an overrated album imho.


100% agree

I agree 100% with the latter statement. Firth of Fifth has DWTTMK and The Cinema Show to compete with for best track on Selling England.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Firth of Fifth, one of my favorite Genesis songs,.....but Numb is the best thing from The Wall, an overrated album imho.

Firth gets my vote, and I completely agree with the second thing you said.
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Firth of Fifth +1 :-)
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Comfortably Numb. I do like Selling England, but I find it to be very flawed.
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Comfortably Numb is spellbinding. Firth of Fifth is very, very good, but it's a bit too intellectual compared to the sheer emotion of Numb.
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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Firth of Fifth.


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Love both but I will vote for PF because this needs to be closer Big smile
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Two absolute classics!

Has to be Floyd's effort - Gilmour's guitar solo at the end is sublime...
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