ELP vs Yes battle
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Topic: ELP vs Yes battle
Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Subject: ELP vs Yes battle
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 20:49
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Two side long epics that deal in their own way with the futility of war. Which one wins the fight. ------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 21 2021 at 20:58
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Gates ------------- 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: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 01:37
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War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing else makes a lasting peacetime possible. I like both tracks but voted for the one with the armed armadillo. ------------- 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 02:02
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Tough choice, but I'll go with Tarkus. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 02:05
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why such a bad thread title when you have two songs in the poll? Why is this under "general polls"? Tarkus gets the vote today.
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 03:13
Indeed, this is about as prog polly as polls get... Interesting pairing though, both pretty much the best what these bands did. I think I go for Yes, just about, but it can be different on another day.
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Cristi wrote:Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 03:26
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Tarkus. ;-) ------------- |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 03:55
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------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 04:01
I think, it would be good to tell from which albums they are. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 05:00
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Tarkus ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 05:04
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Aallriight, JD! ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 05:27
| Tarkus |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 05:47
| This is a hard one for me, since I’m love both very much. I’ll have to think a lot before I can vote. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 06:40
If I remember it right that's lyrics from the song War by Frankie Goes to Hollywood ? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Argentinfonico
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 07:13
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The Gates Of Delirium easily. Even it can be considered the best composition of Yes. ------------- -Will I see you tonight? -I never make plans that far ahead. Casablanca (1942) |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 07:19
That's an 80's cover. It was written by Norman Whitfield and Barret Strong for the Motown label in 1969. Good song from a musical perspective with 'right on' anti Vietnam war sentiments but from the vantage point of several thousands of years of history, complete hippie bollocks.
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 07:25
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Yes (today, at least). ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 07:30
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The Gates of Delirium. ------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 07:37
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Two beasts, but Gates takes it. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 08:32
Thank you, good to know. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 08:47
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This is the version I think we all grew up with. Classic ! ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 09:05
^ Absolutely nothing!  By the way, Edwin Starr was a local Northern Soul legend in the nightclubs of my home town of Nottingham after moving to England from The States in the 1970's.
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 11:26
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Gates is my favorite epic. Tarkus is probably second. ------------- 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: Argo2112
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 11:31
| Went with Tarkus here. Don't love Gates as much as some people do. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 11:45
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Tarkus for me,,,,I also think Gates is less pleasing to my ears. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 11:56
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Delirium, but this is very close. ------------- 
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 12:58
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The armadillo.... -------------   
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Posted By: Progfan1958
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 13:19
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I love both of these band and tracks. My choice goes to 'Gates" though. Is war futile ? I think war is utter failure, and nothing less. Men go to war because they've let all other options fail. ------------- Progfan1958 "Peace to you all" "La paix est avec vous" "Pax vobiscum" "Al salaam a'alaykum" "Vrede zij met u allen" "Shalom aleichem" |
Posted By: felonafan
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:18
| Gates! |
Posted By: Chaser
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:28
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Relayers marchers easily outflank the Tarkus hedgehog tank thing, storming through the gates of delirium, chasing the Tarkus mass from the battlefield. ------------- Songs cast a light on you |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 14:53
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I cast my vote for Tarkus. ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 15:01
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Gates McFadden ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 15:31
^Oooo, I'll second that !  ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 22 2021 at 22:25
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Tarkus. Yes have done better things than Gates ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 00:18
| The Gates of Delirium for me. I can't stand the Mass section on Tarkus. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 00:52
| Gates flows very nicely. In my opinion it's the best prog epic followed by Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers, Suppers Ready and Karn Evil 9. |
Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 17:43
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"Clear the battlefield and let me see All the profit from our victory""Tarkus" came out charging and was on a roll until its hairy snout ran into "The Gates...". "The Gates..." held firm and now "Tarkus" is on its armored back with its tracks in the air. "... there will be no sorrow Be no pain."------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: December 23 2021 at 18:49
| Tarkus easily. Great epic. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 06:27
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The Gates of Delirium for me, but it's a very close call. ------------- '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 |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 07:13
Actually, "War, what is it good for?" was the original title for War And Peace ------------- We all live in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 13:06
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Both are great, but my vote goes to Tarkus. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 16:01
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 26 2024 at 07:50
tiny bump! 
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: January 26 2024 at 08:11
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Tarkus ------------- 'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.' |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 26 2024 at 08:28
Delirium by a short head... both premier league prog masterpieces....  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: January 26 2024 at 08:29
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Tarkus.
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Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: January 26 2024 at 09:51
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The Gates of Delirium gets my vote only because it contains "Soon." |
Posted By: Hector Enrique
Date Posted: January 26 2024 at 17:07
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Tarkus for very little ------------- Héctor Enrique |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: January 26 2024 at 17:16
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Tarkus ------------- We all live in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Moonshake
Date Posted: January 26 2024 at 17:24
| Gates of Delirium |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: January 26 2024 at 19:32
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Surely Gates. ------------- "Happiness is real only when shared" |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 26 2024 at 22:01
| I voted Gates 2 years ago and would not change that despite being a massive Keith Emerson/ELP fan. Interesting to see that ELP is not that far behind, maybe getting some belated respect and also recognition that Tarkus is an important piece coming out in 1971 when bands were not often tackling side long epics as much and maybe Tarkus helped encourage that more after the album went to NO1 in the UK album charts. Greg Lake had his reservations but sensibly wasn't prepared to split the band up over it. |
Posted By: Boi_da_boi_124
Date Posted: January 28 2024 at 08:53
| I picked Tarkus and am shocked so many agree. |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: January 28 2024 at 11:43
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Tarkus I like "The Gates of Delirium". When it comes to ELP vs. YES, I'll go with ELP because of the vocals, which have been more of a factor nowadays. I don't even pay attention to lyrics anymore.
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 28 2024 at 11:55
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Tarkus. ------------- ...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: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 28 2024 at 18:57
| Gates for sure. Tarkus seems to have at least one section that goes on too long. It's still great but I much prefer GoD. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: February 25 2024 at 06:11
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How can the best ELP epic be losing vs the worst Yes epic? My own opinion of course. I absolutely love both the bands. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: February 25 2024 at 11:40
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almost a draw, obvious :-) ------------- "Mellotron is to progrock what watercolor is to painting. Diaphanous and mesmerizing" |
Posted By: MitchwithDasticks
Date Posted: March 23 2024 at 18:09
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Tarkus- even though it is mildly overrated.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: March 24 2024 at 17:40
| Gates and it's not even close. |
Posted By: TenYearsAfter
Date Posted: March 24 2024 at 18:34
| What a tough choice, both are symphonic rock masterpieces, dynamic with lots of exciting moments, I love the Hammond work in Tarkus but in the end I consider The Gates Of Delirium as a more original and adventurous composition, Moraz fueled Howe to unexplored territories! |