Rihanna or Yes
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Topic: Rihanna or Yes
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Subject: Rihanna or Yes
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 22:46
I have answered someone's request I forgot who requested it but here it is  The poll is simple Rihanna or Yes. Who's better? ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 22:51
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Yes. Also you're a lot braver than I am. ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 22:52
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^ What do you mean? ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 23:40
| Rihanna of course although I prefer Destiny's Child. |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 23:46
Dumbing down the archives.... ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 00:07
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Of course Rihanna. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 00:19
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I heard a Rihanna lyric the other day that went soething like "I want you to love me like a hot pie"
Yes never wrote lyrics that good so inevitiably Rihanna gets the vote.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 00:21
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This isn't the proper part of the forum for such nonsense. ------------- 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: Mirror Image
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 00:36
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This thread is rubbish. ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 01:02
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I have never listened to any Rihanna so I don't have an opinion or anything funny to say (no change there). ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 02:25
 Anderson's lyrics never made that much sense. I hope it was Steak and Kidney. Or even Chicken and Mushroom.
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Blacksword wrote:Posted By: The Mystical
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 03:38
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I love this idea. Prog fans need to harden up and accept pop music as a legitimate art form. ------------- I am currently digging: Hawkwind, Rare Bird, Gong, Tangerine Dream, Khan, Iron Butterfly, and all things canterbury and hard-psych. I also love jazz! Please drop me a message with album suggestions. |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 04:23
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What a silly idea for a thread.
------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 04:29
Rihanna for cosmetic reasons  - and because this thread is pure poppycock that belongs in the JfF section.------------- 
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Posted By: Kazza3
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 04:32
| Anyone who doesn't vote for Rihanna is clearly a fool, it's about time this forum learned a little something about real music. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 04:45
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Rihanna for Avant Prog! ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 06:23
| I'm surprised that many people found it just hilarious to ironically vote for Rihanna. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 06:34
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^ I don't think I even cracked a smile. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 07:53
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I didn't know Yes was an English band....I thought they were from Canada -------------   
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Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 08:05
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The poll is very simple and requires little thought or debate. Although quality pop music is always appreciated which is why prog archives exists. It is all POP music. Popular culture music, yes? Apparently they are as good as one another now. Proven facts. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 08:06
You better you bet. An even more simple poll would have asked: Punch ProgMetaller2112 into paralysis, yes or no? ------------- 
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 08:45
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I don't like Yes, Rihanna rules! ------------- |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 08:52
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The fact that Rihanna and Yes are tied (only because I voted for Yes) on a prog rock site fills me with dread for the future of our civilization. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 08:53
I'm surprised people are taking this seriously and are actually voting for Yes. |
Posted By: Carcharodon
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 10:08
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Sacrilege!
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Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 10:19
| Rihanna might be bad, but at least she's perfectly good at it. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 10:21
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S Club 7 ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 10:32
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i have got nothing to say except... what...thE...f**k!!!!! besides, this ain't ProgMetaller2112's fault, that belongs to the guy/girl who requested this goddamn thread in the first place. another joke taken seriously i guess if that makes sense. and i don't care if Yes' lyrics make sense, isn't that a part of the prog spectrum? and hell, i can handle more than some stupid pop song that always talks about love, sex, or positive (AND negative) messages. i'd rather prog it up to make it much better if you know what i mean. and as of today, i turn 15 while Sir Paul turns 72 (yes, we have the same birthday). hell, HE writes better songs than today's pieces of sh*t, and he did this since the early 60's i mean sheesh! ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 10:39
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Rihanna's lyrics excerpt: "Cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake (Yeah) Uh baby I like it, It's so excited." Yes' lyrics: Read "Tales from Topographic Oceans" Thus, Rihanna > Yes ------------- 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 10:42
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Rihanna is more attractive than Chris Squire by a bit so i voted Rihanna. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Kirillov
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 10:45
| Rihanna makes more interesting videos |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 11:02
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Where's the choice for Abe Vigoda? ------------- ---------- 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: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 12:27
To be fair she didnt specify, but you know me I love a good pie! Besides I know who I'd rather wake up next to.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 12:32
Does that means she wants to be cut into pieces and eaten?  That's taking the whole BDSM thing to a scary level. Too freaky for me. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 13:04
I think she just wants someone to eat her... 
I'll leave that hanging like a bad fart, although I suspect she just loves pie. Who doesn't? From pumpkin to steak and ale you can't beat a pie.. Just not in the bedroom. Crumbs etc...  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 13:10
That's what I anticipated. ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 13:19
Yep! How can you not vote for someone who estolls the virtues of 'cake' . Better than anything Yes ever wrote? Unless they wrote a song about sausage and chips any time? ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 13:20
------------- Someone please move this to "Just For Fun". |
Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 13:33
what ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 13:44
i really don't f**kin know what i said, im just saying. guess that's hate for ya lol. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 13:48
 
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 13:50
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Rihanna's more fun to look at nekid. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 14:10
| Forget it! I'm too old for this one! |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 14:13
Have you ever seen the guys from Yes nekid? ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 14:28
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Everybody's has seen everyone nekid nowadays...even the Yes guys.
Go Rihanna!!!! ------------- |
Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 14:39
Yes that is, Rihanna for all except for the music.
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Posted By: silverpot
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 17:13
| Rihanna is definately the better fashionista. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 17:17
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Riyhessana. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 17:30
| Rihanna of course. Didn't she sing on "Tales from Topographic Oceans"??? |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 00:15
The only reason why this f poll is not in Just for Fun is because I thought The T was serious. Damn it T!! See this is what I hate about things that aren't live and in person------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 00:18
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You should make a Rihanna vs Peter Gabriel thread to see who wins. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 00:21
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Rihanna is overrated in terms of attractiveness. However, if we were talking about Shaki that would be something else!! ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 00:22
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I think Rihanna is underrated in attractiveness!!! ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 00:29
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Oooh no! OK, who do you prefer. Shakira or Rihanna? ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 00:39
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Shakira for sure. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 00:40
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^ I prefer Angelina Jolie over all of them (Yes included)........
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 01:02
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Honorary Dame Angelina now
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 01:41
^ Another purveyor of fine taste, I see........ 
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 02:38
I'd still go with Shakira. You know her hips don't lie  ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 02:57
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 03:02
 ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 03:08
| I don't understand that poll. Of course, rihanna was the sixth wife of Rick Wakeman and had left him in 1976 to marry Patrick Moraz . But is it the good place to discuss of family affairs ? |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 19:52
I say, "Burn the heretic!" Who is with me?... And, until I just voted for Yes, the vote was a 19-to-19 tie...WTF?
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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 20:55
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The first tune I heard from Rihanna was pretty bad, basically the music from Soft Cell's rendition of Tainted Love spliced up a bit with her singing over it. Really bottom of the barrel creativity-wise. Haven't followed her since unless I heard some song of hers but didn't realize it. Yes has had some clunkers too, so no vote. |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 21:42
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I don't recall what Rihanna sounds like, so no vote.
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Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: June 20 2014 at 13:02
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Yes makes better pop music than Rihanna.
------------- 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: Prog 74
Date Posted: June 21 2014 at 08:38
| Yes at their peak was better than Rihanna will ever be |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: June 21 2014 at 14:24
| I might actually be tempted to say that Yes at their worst was better than Rhianna will ever be. Though I actually don't know about anything from her to support that claim. I guess I might have heard one or two songs from her somewhere, but didn't even know who it was. |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: June 21 2014 at 23:04
I have a thing for Rihanna, so I voted for her... ;-) Check out the track Diamonds; it's me fave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWA2pjMjpBs" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWA2pjMjpBs Or Umbrella: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvBfHwUxHIk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvBfHwUxHIk
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Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: June 22 2014 at 14:17
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Now this is my kind of poll
My vote goes to Deafheaven ------------- 
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: June 22 2014 at 18:12
Oh yeah, I've heard Diamonds all right. Not sure about the other one. Diamonds is OK, I guess. |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: June 22 2014 at 18:39
Of course I prefer Yes, and I'm not sure I could make it through an entire Rihanna album (I've never even tried), but I like a number of her tracks, and in certain situations (say, with mates at a club, a good mix from a DJ), I'd much rather hear a banging Rihanna track come on than, say, Heart of the Sunrise (or, yikes!: Owner of a Lonely Heart) - neither would work in that situation. ;-)
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Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: June 22 2014 at 20:16
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If a duck can drop bombs, than a parrot can write a best-selling novel -------------
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Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: June 22 2014 at 21:09
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The funny thing is, I tried to imagine Jon Anderson singing Rihanna's "Diamonds," and not only can I imagine it being a Yes song (sure, the instrumentation and dance beat would be altered, but with the basic melody), I could also *easily* imagine it being considered by most in here as among the very greatest Yes songs ever made, especially if it were the beautiful ending melody on an epic track like Close to the Edge, Delirium and Awaken. Even the lyrics suits Jon Anderson perfectly. Strip away the modern production and dance beat: I can honestly imagine this as a Yes track, haha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOGBIbqXwYE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOGBIbqXwYE
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: June 22 2014 at 21:47
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22 people who actually like Rhianna better than Yes....on a prog forum..?
Seriously...?
They should be rounded up and booted off the forum and then this thread deleted and the forum fumigated just for good measure.
 ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: June 22 2014 at 22:01
Even though I admitted earlier to liking Yes more, the reason why I voted for Rihanna was because I found it funny to consider how some white middle-aged males (I'm in this demographic too) would react to a young black r&b female singer from Barbados, whose audience consists mainly of young ethnically-diverse females and teenagers, getting lots of votes in a poll against Yes.
(And also, as I said, there are times when I want to hear some Rihanna tracks, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. :-) |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 23:23
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The great Aussie composer Sia is responsible for making Rhianna sound good----
But of course I voted for YES
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Posted By: kingesis2
Date Posted: July 05 2014 at 11:04
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Rhianna made monsters like Close to the Edge, Relayer and Fragile, Yes only makes duets with Eminem and Shakira and makes terrible pop albums... Oh wait, they really did Now seriously, if we are looking it in a retrospective way Yes beats up Rhianna and I don´t need to explain because we all know who is Yes, but in the present Yes is making mediocre music (listen to the new album) still with the "prog" name, is it really "prog"?, Rhianna at least is making good music at her genre... ------------- "Cranberry sauce" The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: July 05 2014 at 17:39
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Rihanna - 22 Yes - 28 NOW we're getting somewhere!! ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: giselle
Date Posted: July 08 2014 at 02:40
| I can't see how you can compare two so vastly different acts, it's purely personal taste (but then, most so-called critiques are!). On that basis alone, it has to be Yes for me. |