2nd Round Moderns: In Absentia v. Divine Wings
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Topic: 2nd Round Moderns: In Absentia v. Divine Wings
Posted By: micky
Subject: 2nd Round Moderns: In Absentia v. Divine Wings
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 09:48
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next up... crushing defeat... in one corner.. the king of modern prog.. and master musical flim-flam artist.. SWILSON and a couple of sidemen masquerading as a group... and in the other corner..this rounds sacrificial offering to .. bah.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 09:49
can I close this one now  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 09:50
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Ugh. Don't like either but I'll give it to the X since Porky's Tree will win this. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 10:02
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Your going to hate me micky but I hate that Symphony X album and that's my favorite PT album. ------------- 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: August 01 2015 at 10:04
 *whispers to you* no problem there man.. actually.. I like that P.T album..  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 10:56
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PT ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 11:04
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The Divine Wings of Tragedy. Excellent album, almost a masterpiece ------------- 
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Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 11:34
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We're going to the Symphony. -------------  
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 11:36
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Porcupine Tree hands down. Symphony X is a bit too cheesy for my tastes. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 14:24
------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: August 01 2015 at 14:56
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I actually really like that PT album (and ONLY that PT album) but I really like Divine Wings as well, even if it's not their best. SX since they'll need the votes more. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005  |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 02:51
| In Absentia (2002) - Porcupine Tree |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 04:05
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Any PT ambum over any Symphony X album. ------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 05:33
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PT quite easily. -------------  
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 05:38
| If it were only about the vocals, then Allen easily crushes Wilson. Allen is probably the closest any heavy metal singer has got to matching Dio's tonal purity as well as fiery intensity. Unfortunately, even In Absentia sounds like Octopus or something like that compared to the strictly by the numbers Divine Wings. In Absentia it is. |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 06:27
^^ PT over "cheese metal" anyday. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 07:33
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bah.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 07:40
Welcome to the "Annoy Micky thread" Best keep out of this thread until Saturday, Micky, if I were you  Many bah moments will follow for you, I'm afraid.Don't know which of the two I will vote for BTW. Need to do some more listening. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 07:44
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oh I didn't need a poll to know which way the forum blew on this one... I'm like the nagging wife that just is looking for an excuse to get pissed no matter what you do ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 07:48
Deep psychology here  I feel like the forum hippie here myself, saying everything's groovy and let's all have peace with another and why don't we all shake hands?
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 07:53
and I'm the forum terrorist.. I suppose I've always been. Instead of targeting the forum leadership as I did in Mick v.1.. now I'm into going after the gen. pop. McThought of the day from music arises passion...from passion arises conflict... boring forums suck... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 07:59
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Well, I didn't see much yawning anymore the last few months on the forum. The polls adrenalize us all. Right, music is all about passion. Even rationalizing, reasonable, considerate, structure loving people like me, suddenly turn out to have a heart after all. Hurray for Mick version 2. I have more trust in you than in Windows version 10 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 08:05
yeah...I'll be packing my Desert Eagle for the Supertramp-Le Orme poll next weekend.. in that one blood will flow Le Orme will go down but in a blaze of glory..I get to be William Holden here... who wants to be Borgnine??? by god this movie sounds even better than a Judas Priest album on the stereo system at full blast ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 09:18
| Even some of the words on that PT album aren't bad. It's a great little crossover album and even The Sound of Muzak doesn't plumb the depths of self-pity that Fear of a Blank Planet does. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 09:31
funny enough.. it was SWilson's voice that drew me to this album.. my first exposure to PT. Seems I got onto the PT wagon just as the wheels were falling off.. Raff likes Deadwing.. I thought it was.. ehhh... just OK.. but both of us think...quite the less.. of the final PT albums. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 09:37
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The creator had a Symphony X tape, but he left it in a cab. |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 09:55
I'm up for that. One hell of a film. That said, I'm kinda gonna need all my bullets for The Rotters Club vs. Rush poll. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 09:56
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I'll join you for that one.. . since it isn't Caress of Steel ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 13:37
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In Absentia by a wide margin. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 02 2015 at 17:00
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Absentia ------------- |
Posted By: twalsh
Date Posted: August 03 2015 at 13:17
I want to like Symphony X, but They don't quite work for me. Funny when all the individual components of a song seem okay but the end result doesn't quite work. In Absentia is one of my favorite recordings now. Nothing like discovering a band years after their 'hiatus'.  ------------- More heavy prog, please! |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 03 2015 at 14:44
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Okay, In Absentia it is. Not so crazy about Symphony X myself. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: August 03 2015 at 15:18
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The only PT album that I can't live without, In Absentia. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: t d wombat
Date Posted: August 03 2015 at 17:34
Not if you make me listen to any more Symphony X.  Not that they don't do what they do well but I simply do not like those, or indeed any, Dioish vocals. PT don't enthuse me greatly either. Norwegian Blue this poll. PT. ------------- Andrew B “Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Julius Henry Marx |
Posted By: Komandant Shamal
Date Posted: August 03 2015 at 18:46
| i voted for "In Absentia". |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 02:14
Right, every hippie has his break point, I suppose I don't know, Symphony X, a bit too much heavy cliches. In my humble, personal taste of course. And Dio vocals, yes... urrgh
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 11:05
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In Absentia big time...................comparing Symp X to PT is like comparing The Carpenters to Genesis. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 11:06
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^ ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: t d wombat
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 19:43
Wow ... 2nd time the Carpenters have made it onto these hallowed pages in the last 24 hours. Why only yesterday, that supposed wild man of the jungle Micky professed his hidden passion. Oh lord, what is to become of us. Barry Manilow ? ------------- Andrew B “Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Julius Henry Marx |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 04 2015 at 20:12
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PT ------------- 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: b_olariu
Date Posted: August 05 2015 at 03:11
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The Divine Wings of Tragedy (1996) - Symphony X by far and by light years for me, no competition here |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 05 2015 at 04:48
NEVER!!but always remember.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: August 05 2015 at 13:26
this is a stupid comparation  |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: August 05 2015 at 16:18
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Well, I listened to that Symphony X album... Mr. LaCheese in disguise here. That really ugly vowels all over the place style of hair metal singing. Didn't make me think much tbh. |
Posted By: t d wombat
Date Posted: August 05 2015 at 18:28
I remember once in a pub trivia game, one of those who am I questions, where the first clue was something to do with making my start writing advertising jingles. Without any concern for my own credibility I said Barry Manilow. Was a jug of beer worth it ? I fear not. Some things, it is better not to know. ------------- Andrew B “Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Julius Henry Marx |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: August 05 2015 at 19:20
Porcupine Tree, In Absentia.------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 05 2015 at 20:07
It's comparison...btw. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: August 05 2015 at 22:37
That's a curious criticism. Allen doesn't sound anything like LaBrie and I don't remember bad vowel modifications as such on that album, at least not of LaBrie level. If anything I think Allen under-expresses and sounds kind of cold and distant though not as much as Mr Roboto Wilson. LaBrie on the other hand overemotes to a degree that would make Mariah Carey blush.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 06 2015 at 18:04
hah... ok you can now drop the charade of being from Oz ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: t d wombat
Date Posted: August 06 2015 at 19:11
Even Australians have limits beneath which they'd choose not to stoop. ------------- Andrew B “Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Julius Henry Marx |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 06 2015 at 19:18
 well there goes anything and everything I ever thought of Aussies at least some Aussies have no limits.. and only they could have gaven us this cinematic tour de force that was... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: August 07 2015 at 17:59
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Symphony X may be cheesy, but I find Divine Wings much more entertaining than In Absentia - an album whose appeal I never fully understood (as my review of it makes it quite clear). |
Posted By: t d wombat
Date Posted: August 07 2015 at 19:46
I take it all back ... we are a bottomless pit .... anyone for Limbo ? ------------- Andrew B “Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Julius Henry Marx |