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a King Crimson song vs a Kansas song
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Poll Question: Which song do you prefer?
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    Posted: March 12 2025 at 09:14
Two songs by two different progressive rock bands, both soft ballads from their debut albums that not only contain similar themes, but Kansas's "Lonely Wind" even begins with the lyric "When I'm needin' a friend I can talk to the wind".
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King Crimson Smile
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Both.
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I Talk to the Wind. The wind usually rolls its eyes.
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KC gets the nod.
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King Crimson's song
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A slight preference for Kansas.
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Big Kansas fan here, but I admit they are beaten in this poll Cry i'm sure Steve Walsh will forgive me as King Crimson were such a huge influence on early Kansas work.

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I'll go ''both''. 
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The Crimson one is a classic, it gets my vote.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

I'll go ''both''. 

me too...  Smile
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I love Kansas, but is their first album really prog...? TCOTKC on the other hand is the definition of prog.
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I love the first Kansas album but that song has to be my least favourite on it by far LOL


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I figured King Crimson's song would win by a landslide, comparing a prog classic to a rather obscure commercial pop song. How do I close polls?

Originally posted by Nergdnur Ddot Nergdnur Ddot wrote:

I love Kansas, but is their first album really prog...? TCOTKC on the other hand is the definition of prog.

Not as much as Song for America but the some songs are definitely prog and Apercu/DOMNS is the closest thing they've done to an epic.
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We don't close polls (sometimes I have to lock topics and then I often hide them). They usually just fall off the page and die natural deaths, or they get revived later by someone. That said, if a contest (I tend not to like to treat polls as contests), one can offer a deadline and then post the results after the deadline has been reached. After that votes don't officially matter. KC talking this was a foregone conclusion. I had to look up the Kansas track. Kansas, by the way, is a more divisive band in Prog circles than KC and KC's debut is its least divisive album. I voted for KC just now.

I Talk to the Wind - King Crimson (1969): 24 votes
Lonely Wind - Kansas (1974): 3 votes
Both: 3 votes
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