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    Posted: October 07 2010 at 16:03
Welcome to Round 3 Division 5 of Battle of the Prog Bands!  This time, our two contenders are Frank Zappa and Magma.  Vote for your favorite, and the band with the most votes will move onto Round 4.  Please do not vote unless you have listened to at least one album by both bands.
 
Here is the tournament thus far:
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Schedule for Upcoming Matches
Round 3 Division 6: October 11
Round 3 Division 7: October 14
Round 3 Division 8: October 18
Round 4 Division 1: October 22
 
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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.
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Magma takes a flying start here!
Please nobody wakes them old Zappa fans!
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I went with Magma -- a long time favourite band which I have more than twenty albums from, but I really like Frank Zappa albums too.  Good poll, and they are comparable (especially the JRF oriented works).

This is one of my favourites from Zappa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoJLMUBSMkc
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.
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Zappa for me
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Sorry Zappa!
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Ok guys. Come the hell on, now. Yes, Magma is insanely awesome. But Zappa is clearly the superior choice here. He's pretty much the greatest and most influential composer of the 20th century. He was one of the most influential musicians of all time, and was a genius in pretty much every way. Of course, knowing the people on this site, Magma will win this. Only on this site. Cry
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No vote for me this time...these two are one of my favorite bands/artists and I will be happy to see either win same as I'll be disapointed to see one of these two loose...
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Please magma lose
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ZAPPA!!!!!!!!!
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I think I am going to sit this one out. I have Magma's MDK, but have only listened to it twice, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. Plus I am starting to develop a bias against Zappa.
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I love, love, love Magma (and with Emehnteht-Re they've really made, for me, their best album), but, still, my vote has to go to Zappa because I love, love, love, love, love Zappa.  You see that's two extra packets of love and by gosh that's gotta mean something.
Seriously, as deeply impressed as I am by Magma (and I really am), there can be a sameness to their body of work as opposed to the astonishing diversity and variety of Zappa's massive body of work.
 
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The damage that we do just goes on and on and on but not long enough.

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Easiest round yet. Magma!
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Originally posted by questionsneverknown questionsneverknown wrote:

I love, love, love Magma (and with Emehnteht-Re they've really made, for me, their best album), but, still, my vote has to go to Zappa because I love, love, love, love, love Zappa.  You see that's two extra packets of love and by gosh that's gotta mean something.
Seriously, as deeply impressed as I am by Magma (and I really am), there can be a sameness to their body of work as opposed to the astonishing diversity and variety of Zappa's massive body of work.
 
I think most people feel this way.  It almost seems to be a battle of quality vs. quantity, despite that being a great over-simplification.  While Zappa has no doubt had a bigger and more diverse selection of albums, Magma has churned out masterpiece after masterpiece.  I can't say I've heard a Zappa album that was five stars without hesitation although I've only heard the tip of the iceberg of his discography.  Also, his music is too humorous, so I've yet to hear anything by him as emotionally stirring as MDK, KA or E-Re.  To me, Zappa's appeal lies more in the idea of the music than the music itself.
 
(Boy, am I going to get flamed for that last statement...)
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Originally posted by UndercoverBoy UndercoverBoy wrote:

Originally posted by questionsneverknown questionsneverknown wrote:

I love, love, love Magma (and with Emehnteht-Re they've really made, for me, their best album), but, still, my vote has to go to Zappa because I love, love, love, love, love Zappa.  You see that's two extra packets of love and by gosh that's gotta mean something.
Seriously, as deeply impressed as I am by Magma (and I really am), there can be a sameness to their body of work as opposed to the astonishing diversity and variety of Zappa's massive body of work.
 
I think most people feel this way.  It almost seems to be a battle of quality vs. quantity, despite that being a great over-simplification.  While Zappa has no doubt had a bigger and more diverse selection of albums, Magma has churned out masterpiece after masterpiece.  I can't say I've heard a Zappa album that was five stars without hesitation although I've only heard the tip of the iceberg of his discography.  Also, his music is too humorous, so I've yet to hear anything by him as emotionally stirring as MDK, KA or E-Re.  To me, Zappa's appeal lies more in the idea of the music than the music itself.
 
(Boy, am I going to get flamed for that last statement...)


I find Zappa's The Yellow Shark emotionally stirring:




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Zappa for me.

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Originally posted by Anthony H. Anthony H. wrote:

Ok guys. Come the hell on, now. Yes, Magma is insanely awesome. But Zappa is clearly the superior choice here. He's pretty much the greatest and most influential composer of the 20th century. He was one of the most influential musicians of all time, and was a genius in pretty much every way. Of course, knowing the people on this site, Magma will win this. Only on this site. Cry


Your opinion is so incorrect, it's ridiculous Tongue
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