Focus vs. Nektar
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Topic: Focus vs. Nektar
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Subject: Focus vs. Nektar
Date Posted: April 28 2022 at 20:02
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Just curious
------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 28 2022 at 21:56
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focus ------------- 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: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 28 2022 at 21:58
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 00:40
| Nektar |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 02:11
| The lineage for Focus is clear and live they are still awesome. Their legacy also easily surpasses that of Nektar. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 02:31
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I like both, but I prefer Focus.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 03:03
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I thought we settled this in the http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=128760&KW=nektar+focus" rel="nofollow - Focus vs Nektar -poll in the beginning of April. Well, let's hope the far more awesome Nektar will do a little better this time. |
Posted By: Neu!mann
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 04:22
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Focus, because of the yodeling. ------------- "we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 04:30
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Focus ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 05:41
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Two of my favorite bands from my youth. Back then, I probably preferred Nektar. Now I'm more likely to pull a Focus song onto a playlist--though I did just recently listen to both Recycled and Remember the Future all the way through and thoroughly enjoyed both. Mega-respect for both Jan Akkerman and Roye Albrighton. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 05:46
| I enjoy both a lot, but Nektar gets my vote. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 06:17
| Focus |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 07:34
Yes, I'm not sure why we need another one unless the OP didn't like my poll format.
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Saperlipopette! wrote:Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 10:37
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And the blind man said: FOCUS! ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 11:03
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Nektar -------------   
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Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 11:20
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Didn't George Jefferson like Nektar? He might give this band a point.
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 11:25
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Focus ------------- ---------- 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: Rednight
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 12:28
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That would be Nektar. Never understood the love here for Hamburger Concerto. Gave it one listen then it was off to the used record store to unload it. Interesting poll, Sacro'. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: April 29 2022 at 18:13
I may not have done my homework... whoops. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: April 30 2022 at 02:46
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^ I just found it amusing as it was literally the exact same poll with the exact same title - only a couple of weeks ago:). Pleased to see Nektar with 2/5 of the votes so far this time around. |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: May 01 2022 at 02:11
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Focus were good Nektar were crap  ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 01 2022 at 02:50
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^ My god, you're such an ass. + deaf |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: May 01 2022 at 04:50
Relax  I played another poo in the ocean recently and lasted a good 5 minutes  ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: May 01 2022 at 06:07
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When Nektar hit that spot they really hit it and i love it.. but some of it sounds more heading towards Uriah heep territory, a bit leaden.. sorry, i do love them and the lps i play i really get into. Focus is exactly the same really in terms of when they take off they sound so tight in an incredibly 'loose' fashion; relaxed, almost effortless and i love it. But some of it (much the minority) can sound a tiny bit pedestrian and souless. Again i love them and (parts of) the Focus 3 lp is one of my desert island discs. In this case, Focus, narrowly, over Nektar ------------- |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: May 01 2022 at 11:30
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 01 2022 at 11:38
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^ His playtime with poo is much longer usually, I think, whether his poo is on land or in the sea.;) Dr Prog's Playtime with Poo sounds like it could be a winning children's TV program. I prefer Nektar's Journey to the Centre of the Eye to A Tab in the Ocean. I vote for Focus in this repeat poll, by the way. And Hamburger Concerto has a kind of crescendo/ build-up that I adore in music. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: May 01 2022 at 11:46
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^But what does HE mean by that (and let's not be coy)? I'll have to give 'Concerto another spin. Thanks. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 01 2022 at 11:56
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^ I assumed that he meant that he tried playing A Tab in the Ocean recently, but only lasted five minutes into it because he found it "crap". ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: May 02 2022 at 10:04
I assumed he meant the same as 'sending the Brown family to the Seaside'.. ------------- |
Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: May 02 2022 at 16:36
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I like both bands, but find Nektar more substantial, more lively, more rocking, more memorable. A Tab in the Ocean, Remember the Future, and Down to Earth are all more impressive than anything Focus released.
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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: July 08 2022 at 17:54
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Focus ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |