The Who vs Rush song clash
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Topic: The Who vs Rush song clash
Posted By: TexasKing
Subject: The Who vs Rush song clash
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 15:00
| I would pick Xanadu by a hair. I absolutely admire Baba o'Riley, my favorite The Who song by far! |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 15:04
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I love both from first hearing, but Xanadu is in my top 10 of prog songs, so... ------------- 
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Posted By: DeadSouls
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 15:13
| Who |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 15:50
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easily not Rush ------------- 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: Libor10
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 16:33
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This time it's Rush song who gets my vote. Xanadu. ------------- 
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 16:57
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The glorious Baba O'Reilly. Can't argue with that gypsy violin! (Well, sure, of course, you can, but I mean, why would you want to?) A great song all around. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 17:03
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The Who. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 17:14
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Xanadu |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 19:28
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Xanadu wins in my mind. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 20:45
| I find this one difficult. I know very little The Who, and even less that I actually like a lot... but the few songs that I do like are monumental, and Baba O'Riley is one of them. However, Xanadu is also one of Rush's standout tracks too. I guess I'll give it to The Who because the song is strong all along, while for me Xanadu drags a little (of course the difference of length has got a lot to do with this). |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 20:53
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Non-Rush entrant for me this time. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 25 2016 at 23:50
| Rush this time |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 00:11
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This is tough!! I'll vote for Rush after some deliberation.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Forzelius
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 02:22
| how is baba o riley prog. if you want prog from the who, should've put "the rock" or something |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 05:10
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Xanadu by a nose. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 05:24
| Xanadu by a honey dew |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 07:56
| Xanadu, but not by much. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 12:53
Baba O'Riley is Prog-Related to my ears. Ideally this poll should be in the Proto-Prog/ Prog Related forum, but poll-making was disabled there. Anyway, I voted Baba O'Riley based on my preference, great track I think, and as it has strong sentimental value for me. I would vote for "The Rock" over it, though -- I love that track and used to get goosebumps when listening to Quadrophenia and "Doctor Jimmy" would be transitioning into "The Rock". While I like Rush's Xanadu, I'm not kidding when I say that I prefer the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWeJ9p42ufg" rel="nofollow - ELO/ Olivia Newton-John "Xanadu". ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Forzelius wrote:Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 13:54
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boo to the OP.. as a general rule The Who are lightyears above and beyond the prebubescent rawk of Rush....you would have picked the ONE Who song of note that I don't think was all that man... voting Xanadu ..though I that is high up on the hit parade of character assignations of Peart's lyrical abilities.. errgggg... at least the music is still pretty cool.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 14:49
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^I thought this a Who vs Rush vs The Clash poll. Never mind. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: The Necromancer
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 14:56
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Xanadu. Definitely strikes me as a more epic and mystical song, not only because of the lyrics but also on how the music progresses and changes throughout the song. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 15:14
I'm glad that this forum still holds surprises, or maybe it's just because I'm getting stupider and more forgetful as I age.... I was expecting you to vote for the Who in this poll. I personally love the instrumental in Baba O'Reilly. If I thought we had too few few Rush polls already, I might think an 1982 The Who vs. Rush poll might be interesting (It's Hard being the first album I bought on cassette). I'd choose "I've Known No War" as my favourite track off It's Hard and "Subdivisions" from Rush's Signals. But if I wanted the poll to be closer since Rush would wallop the Who I think, then I'd choose, say "Chemistry" from Signals. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 16:27
You should know me after all these years Greg  ... if you can count on anything.. you can count on me surprising you. Usually it is Bad Micky rearing his ugly head as only he can.. other times it is when thoughtful Micky makes a rare appearance.yeah.. Baba O' Reily and that whole damn album are classic.. but you know what it wasn't. It wasn't ..'The Who'. Imagine someone taking Hendrix into the studio and telling him just to play root chords... telling Squire to just play a backing rhythm... telling Emerson to let a guitarist take the leads. While one can't argue with the results with Who's Next. many consider it not only the Who's best album.. but one of Rock's greatest albums... it might have been a great rock album.. and Baba O a great song yadda yadda yadda.. what it wasn't was a great WHO song. What made that group was not Townsend going arty... expanding the sonic range of the group... at its heart it was about Moon being Moon and doing things drummers did not do....along with him the Ox trying to keep up with him. sure it was a great song... but as I said.. this one was probably the least of the greats of what the Who ever did. At least 'Won't get fooled again' was saved by the almighty saving grace of rock and roll.. the power chord. I never thought much of that album.. especially compared to earlier albums.. but much of that centered around this song specifically. While Glyn Johns made a name of himself by being the one that could get manacles on Moon.. it really did the music NO good. For everything great about the Who.. there was one.. and only thing thing that made them what they were... Keith f**king Moon. There have been great song writers.. great bassists... there simply has never been a drummer like Keith Moon. This album was what happened if you have put a lesser drummer.. like.. say... Peart... on it to deliver traditional by the numbers drumming. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 26 2016 at 18:32
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Funny how people don't know Rush.......even they would pick Baba O'Riley over their own Xanadu. Probably their biggest influence by far, and why Rush are so great! Period -------------   
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: October 27 2016 at 17:54
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Let's see, an epic song from one of the greatest rock albums of all time, or a Rush Song? ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 28 2016 at 11:05
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 28 2016 at 11:06
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Baba O'Riley ------------- |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 28 2016 at 21:51
 ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: May 08 2018 at 02:40
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Xanadu ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |