Rd 1 Portland Bracket: Pink Floyd v. Mike Oldfield
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Topic: Rd 1 Portland Bracket: Pink Floyd v. Mike Oldfield
Posted By: micky
Subject: Rd 1 Portland Bracket: Pink Floyd v. Mike Oldfield
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 08:51
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From the space rock conference we have a band that needs no introduction one nearly left out of the contest for having the greatness to have transcended the label and be seen as far more than a simple prog band. From England. PINK FLOYD!! From the crossdressing conference we have one of the most creative and famous artists of the prog rock movement. From England MIKE OLDFIELD!!!! for Ian  Vegas oddmakers have Floyd as a prohibitive 30 vote favorite but can Oldfield pull the upset.. ahhh.. no but can he keep it close. We shall see!! ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 08:56
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I wouldn't remove one from the turntable to put the other on, but The Piper is enough to make e vote the Floyds. Two of my faves, anyway. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 08:58
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PF have always been one of my favourite bands, at least when Waters was with them. Oldfield, on the other hand, has always left me rather cold. So, no contest here. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 09:05
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This is brutal, these are literally two of the primary artists that got me into this stuff in my teens. Floyd were my favorite band for 2 decades, they could literally do no wrong until the dreadful The Final Cut and the collapse of the band dynamic. Oldfield has produced three of my favorite albums in Tubular Bells, Ommadawn & Hergest Ridge. There's also a smattering of great releases across the discography (as well as a fair share of dogs). Given he's going to probably going to get pummeled anyway I'll throw some love to Oldfield. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 09:07
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hell yeah. Showing Oldfield the love as well. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 09:14
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I find Oldfield boring, like a guy whose brother-in-law owned a studio and Mike didn't get charged hourly rates for dicking around with the 16 track. Floyd all the way. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 09:16
Voted for Floyd. Sorry Mike  |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 09:17
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No contest. Floyd rules. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 09:27
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Floyd. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005  |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 09:36
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Oldfield leaves me cold. Floyd all the way. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 09:49
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Sorry Mike ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 10:13
Bye bye Mike Oldfield ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 10:28
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I never liked Oldfield. Floyd it is. ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 10:28
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Oh Dear poor old Mike. No luck in the draw. Sorry but PF. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: tboyd1802
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 10:47
| One more for Floyd - tough draw for Mike... |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 11:12
| I die for Both. I can't choose one of them. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 11:15
then choose Oldfield. He won't win. He deserves better than Death  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 11:17
| You right micky. I choose oldfield . |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 11:19
| Noe he reach to 20%. |
Posted By: chrijom
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 11:53
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"I find Oldfield boring, like a guy whose brother-in-law owned a studio and Mike didn't get charged hourly rates for dicking around with the 16 track." Kettle, teapot, black comes to mind!
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Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 12:36
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Mike Oldfield! ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Daysbetween
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 12:37
| Love the first three MO albums but Floyd have so much more so another easy vote for me. |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 13:48
My 24th vote just confirms it... -------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
HolyMoly wrote:Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 14:03
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Oldfield. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 14:09
------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 14:10
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Yay, I have some Oldfield friends. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 14:19
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I really like Mike Oldfield, especially his middle years (QE2, Discovery, Five Miles Out, Crises), but Pink Floyd are too awesome from Meddle to Animals to vote against. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 16:35
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Pink Floyd. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 18:10
Hercules, you never cease to amaze me, even when we agree on a band we can't agree on the albums. Love you man, keep on rocking. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 18:26
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Pink Floyd especially for the Geesin collaboration, the Atom Heart Mother suite. I like all the Floyd albums up to and including The Wall, though I play the ones up to Meddle the most. Like Oldfield too, and should explore his discography more (only heard a few of his albums, and none for years, so voting would not be that fair, I feel). |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 18:45
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where's the Floyd when you need them?!?! (i'm voting for them by the way) ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 18:58
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Floyd ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 20:20
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Pink Floldfield ------------- |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 20:31
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Oldfield my faves seem to be getting matched up against juggernauts
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 22:03
| Oh, this is difficult. Pink Floyd was my first favourite band... and to this day I guess it remains so. However, I then found Yes... and Rick Wakeman... and Dream Theater... and those bands have become very close to my top... and then came Mike Oldfield, and indeed he has joined those of my very favourite artists. He released music so beautiful in the 70's... and then some more on later albums, that I can get about the same enjoyment from him as from the very Pink Floyd. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 22:09
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Two giants, but one is more the mightier and it will take this poll hands down. We all know who that will be. I myself am voting for the other one simply because I am more moved by his music. We all know who that is. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 22:56
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To put it politely: out of 25-30 studio albums that Oldfield churned out I could make a 90-minute long, 3.5-star compilation that I would occasionally enjoy listening to. To put it rudely: IMO, Mike Oldfield made 10 times more albums than he should have :) Off the top of my head PF have made at least 7 albums that I rate 4 stars or better.
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: November 30 2014 at 23:35
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 01 2014 at 02:54
| OLdfield |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 01 2014 at 04:24
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Floyd, easy choice. The best Oldfield stuff I've heard is the first three albums, which are excellent especially Ommadawn. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 01 2014 at 06:11
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I was going to write that Mike Oldfield leaves me cold too, but its not true. His contribution to Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road (on Robert Wyatts Rock Bottom) certainly doesn't. More often it leaves me in tears. I also really like Mike's distinct sound/playing but for some reason I seem unable to enjoy listening to his albums. ------------- 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 01 2014 at 06:33
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I'll say one thing about Oldfield, I love his lead guitar sound. So pure and very distinctive. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: December 01 2014 at 10:21
| No need to stop and look at the carnage. PF by a wide margin |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: December 01 2014 at 12:31
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Why did you do this to poor Mike? :( I love his music, but well, Pink Floyd is my favorite band. That's it. ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: December 01 2014 at 13:06
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Tough to go against Mr. Oldfield I count 3 different 5 star albums but I can't vote against Floyd ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: December 01 2014 at 13:32
Nothing Mike Oldfield did compares to Ummagumma in that regard. I prefer Mike Oldfield overall. ------------- Want to play mafia? Visit http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com" rel="nofollow - here . |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 01 2014 at 14:27
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Hey, this poll is different: it's already two giants against each other in the first round. But then again... I follow the crowd in an extra vote for Oldfield. I love his first three albums, though...
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Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 06:40
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The Endless Pink Floyd! ------------- 
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Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:22
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How easy is that...to vote for a band that introduced me and countless other to the world of prog...every single album is worth gold up until "The Wall". As for Mike Oldfield... "Tubular Bells" & "Ommadawn" are beautiful.."Hergest Ridge" & "Amorak" are very gud too... But that aint enough against the mighty "Floyd". |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:26
| The "Echoes" of Pink Floyd wud rule forever...even at a place called "Dark Side Of The Moon". |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:28
 it was a shame Oldfield had to draw Floyd... but someone had to I suppose. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Walton Street
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:29
i'd say that a good percentage of the bands pulled against Floyd will meet the same fate. ------------- "I know one thing: that I know nothing" - SpongeBob Socrates |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:34
indeed. which is why we did the Portland bracket alteration.Everyone knows the Portland bracket will go down to Floyd and G.G. It made no sense for a 'fun' tournament to have Camel go out against Floyd and ELP out against G.G as they were originally drawn for 2nd round matchups. So we tweeked it. Left G.G opposite Floyd and made Floyd the de facto one seed and moved Camel against ELP in the 2nd round. A bit of fun and glory to the winner before the winner of that goes out in the 3rd round against G.G. ELP would have no chance and doubt even Camel will knock off G.G. Though with Camel nothing short of knocking off anyone outside of the (Yes, Genesis, K.C.,Floyd) power group would surprise me. Those bobbleheads are quite something ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Walton Street
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:36
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unless the sympathy votes carry the day :) ------------- "I know one thing: that I know nothing" - SpongeBob Socrates |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:39
Oh yes sympathy angle. One already played by Rush fans in the Rush-Le Orme thread. Well played! I plan on trying to milk any I can get with the sweet little underdog ELP against the behemoth that is Camel ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Walton Street
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:41
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until now I've lived in a world where everyone knows of and loves ELP and no one's heard of Camel. (I was the flip side of that - no offense) ------------- "I know one thing: that I know nothing" - SpongeBob Socrates |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:42
let me then welcome you to the alternative reality that is Prog Archives ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Walton Street
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:45
thus my signature :) ------------- "I know one thing: that I know nothing" - SpongeBob Socrates |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:50
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I saw that from an earlier post you had made. Nice!! ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Walton Street
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:51
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it occurred to me that when you get down to the big 4 or 5 a lot of people wont be able to vote. It's going to get all Sophie's Choice in here ------------- "I know one thing: that I know nothing" - SpongeBob Socrates |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 08:56
hard choices .. but part of what I like about many of these early rounds are we are getting those hard choices from the get go with a few exceptions. Besides even when we get down to the final 4 or even final 8. We all respect the biggies... but we are still have our favorites. We do identify ourselves as 'Genesis Fan' 'Yes Fan' 'K.C. fan' doesn't mean we don't like the others (for the most part ) but most know who they are going to vote for when it comes down to the heavies. This tournament will likely be just the big dance. The real fun is the early rounds, looking for the Cinderellas and possible upsets but as in all tournament.. the cream will rise above the chaos and we will likely have heavies winning all 4 regions and facing off against each other. Just like the big dance. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Walton Street
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 09:03
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I like seeing the differences in the musicians here, and the non playing fans .. very different approaches to the music. I can eat a good meal and not care less how it got that tasty - but a chef will sit down to that meal and crap all over it for various reasons. that's my approach to music - I have no musical talent so I can really only appreciate the end product - clueless as to how it got that way. I'm completely unable to intellectualize music and i'm in awe of the knowledge on this forum .. ------------- "I know one thing: that I know nothing" - SpongeBob Socrates |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 09:12
I can really dig what you are saying. My wife and myself are perfect examples. My wife has zero knowledge of music theory and never once picked up an instrument while I've played for many years and have a solid knowledge base of music theory.Yet who really is the better reviewer, a much better person to discuss music with, much more able to get at the heart of a band, an album, a particular musical nuance? My wife. To me, and I do agree completely with you, it is ONLY the end product that counts and all that matters. It may be prog but it still just music. Music is meant to be felt, to be experienced..to touch and stimulate not to be dissected and studied like a cadaver. Cheers Walton and welcome to the forum. The key to a forum are the people and yes, this forum has some of the neatest, friendliest and smartest people you'd ever meet. We have met many live and in person and have found all to be even more so in real life ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Walton Street
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 09:15
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thanks, I appreciate it .. I used to belong to movie forums but for some reason they attracted unpleasant people like moths to a flame. I like the laid back - but intelligent vibe here .. but seriously - you guys are already costing me money :) ------------- "I know one thing: that I know nothing" - SpongeBob Socrates |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 13:17
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It's not often I vote for Floyd in these polls, but I'm not a big fan of Mr. Oldfield's music either, so I will this time. -------------  
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