Long Live the bombast!! Ys vs Brain Salad Surgery
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Topic: Long Live the bombast!! Ys vs Brain Salad Surgery
Posted By: crimson87
Subject: Long Live the bombast!! Ys vs Brain Salad Surgery
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 17:55
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After the joke let's speak the truth here , Brain Salad Surgery was an album released by Emerson Lake and Palmer , Camel........................... they just couldn't even imagine to pull that stuff off. Both are favourites of mine and often revered as love-hate albums because of the bombast. Both records have heyboard virtuosos on them... Brain Salad Surgery is my favourite album of all time but Ys may be the most agressive and haunting symphonic prog album ever recorded. So it's really a tough choice , in my opinion it's a draw.
PD: For those that don't know this italian masterpiece , picture how good it must be that me- an ELP fanboy does not vote for the best record by his favourite band.
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Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 19:15
| I prefer Ys.. great album! |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 19:16
Moonmadness ftw   !
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 19:18
^  mentioning that album is just like breaking wind in the presence of the Mona LisaYS... BSS smokes anything Camel ever tried... but YS smokes 99% of all prog albums. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 19:29
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^that 1% is a Camel album, right?
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 19:46
checkmate... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
cacho wrote:Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 19:47
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*rubs hands in glee, thinking of a nice Moonmadness review*
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 19:49
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^ just like belching in the middle of Nessun Dorma
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 19:55
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This Ys a no-Brainer for me.
------------- 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: memowakeman
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 00:20
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Ys, of course ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 00:22
What Memo said ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 00:40
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Ys's frantic keyboards, dominant and dramatic vocals and the slightly "avant-ish" sound make this album a one of a kind listening experience. I once made the mistake of listening to it while I was pissed off at something... big mistake... the vocals drove me more mad... and the music's erratic nature made me want to tear something apart... But the music is brilliant!!! just I will make sure to always listen to it when I'm calm. ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 01:18
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I've tried YS several times but I just can't digest it yet. Those spins have taken place mostly at work doing other stuff at the same time, so maybe it's just the lack of concentration. BSS also took some time, but now I love parts of it, like other parts and just can't bring myself to much enjoy some. Will not vote since I don't know YS that well. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 01:29
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Ys is undoubtedly great but I gotta go with Surgery, completely original and nothing like it before or since, whereas Ys greatness is more in a prog tradition |
Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 02:16
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Crimson87 why you keep torturing???
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 05:50
No, they wouldn't ever want to try to match ELP's level of bombast. Camel made sensitive, subtle music - far beyond anything ELP could ever do in that respect. But the level of musicianship of Camel is at least as good as ELP - Latimer is as fine a guitarist as Emerson ever was a keyboard player, ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 08:23
Man, I love BSS but Ys is just too good not to vote for it. 
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