a King Crimson song vs a Kansas song
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Topic: a King Crimson song vs a Kansas song
Posted By: BasedProgger
Subject: a King Crimson song vs a Kansas song
Date 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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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: March 12 2025 at 09:55
King Crimson 
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 12 2025 at 10:25
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Both. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 12 2025 at 10:37
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I Talk to the Wind. The wind usually rolls its eyes. ------------- ---------- 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: Mormegil
Date Posted: March 12 2025 at 10:46
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KC gets the nod. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: March 12 2025 at 11:27
| ITTTW...Greg Lake had a wonderful voice... |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 12 2025 at 11:50
| King Crimson's song |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: March 12 2025 at 14:51
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KC ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 12 2025 at 15:30
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A slight preference for Kansas. ------------- 
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Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: March 12 2025 at 20:42
Big Kansas fan here, but I admit they are beaten in this poll  i'm sure Steve Walsh will forgive me as King Crimson were such a huge influence on early Kansas work.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 12 2025 at 23:27
| I'll go ''both''. |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: March 13 2025 at 02:48
| The Crimson one is a classic, it gets my vote. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: March 13 2025 at 03:02
me too... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
richardh wrote:Posted By: Nergdnur Ddot
Date Posted: March 13 2025 at 14:43
| I love Kansas, but is their first album really prog...? TCOTKC on the other hand is the definition of prog. |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: March 15 2025 at 06:07
I love the first Kansas album but that song has to be my least favourite on it by far  ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: BasedProgger
Date Posted: March 20 2025 at 09:38
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?
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. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 20 2025 at 10:32
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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 ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |