The Knife or Knife Edge
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Topic: The Knife or Knife Edge
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Subject: The Knife or Knife Edge
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 08:33
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Sorry but for me this is the best I can do in providing the songs. However, most of you already know these anyway. ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YKc7jlgKM8" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YKc7jlgKM8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v719eZmXRdE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v719eZmXRdE |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 08:39
| Genesis - The Knife |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 09:32
| You know I kind of had a feeling it would lean this way. I like both songs quite a bit though. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 09:33
3 votes with no comments. Not cool... 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 09:59
4 votes. Don't you count yourself? 
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Cristi wrote:Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 10:02
I stated my choice. 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 10:10
| Genesis - a cut above ELP. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 10:26
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Well, I'm an ELP fanboy. It's one of their best songs. There is not one thing I'd change about it. Unfortunately, playback on external sites is disabled for the upload of the 1970 Beat Club performance; watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQdYokbp4E" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQdYokbp4E Emerson unfolding a scrap with the Bach tab on it, hot-patching on the fly, and for the trifecta, w**king the ribbon controller were all instructions printed millennia ago on the papyrus scroll unearthed in the Temple of Prog. My favorite live clip of the song! 2012 Stereo Mix with Extended Outro ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 10:27
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Genesis ------------- "You must not talk to idiots, it instructs them" (Michel Audiard) " Je ne parle pas aux idiots , cela les instruit" |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 10:32
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Knife Edge for me. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 13:31
| Knife Edge |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 14:01
One is proto prog metal and the other one rips off classical composers. 
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Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 14:15
| Knife Edge. Big fan of both songs, however. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 22:52
The Knife > Knife Edge. Side Two of ELP's debut album is perfection but Side One has a lot of 'filler' excepting The Barbarian. BTW ELP did credit Janacek on Knife Edge who was not exactly a top line classical composer like a Bach or Mozart (not that my knowledge of classical music is very deep). It's like all the indignation when they 'ripped off' Ginestera for the Toccata track like anyone knew who the actual hell Ginestara was 
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: July 23 2025 at 23:16
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I prefer The Knife over Knife Edge, but I consider the latter a fine song. Both convey very different messages. ------------- 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: Octopus II
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 01:47
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ELP - Knife Edge
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 02:45
-voted for The Knife btw. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 04:51
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Easy - The Knife. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 04:58
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Genesis. ------------- ---------- 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: Neu!mann
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 06:49
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Both, but unequally...apples and oranges. ------------- "we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 15:54
Good move ! ------------- "You must not talk to idiots, it instructs them" (Michel Audiard) " Je ne parle pas aux idiots , cela les instruit" |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: July 24 2025 at 17:26
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Knife Edge Interesting note...Banks was inspired to write The Knife after seeing Emerson perform with The Nice in concert, so there's kind of a connection with these two songs... |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 25 2025 at 00:29
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The Knife just over Knife Edge. ------------- 
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 25 2025 at 00:48
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Genesis ------------- 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 |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 25 2025 at 05:40
As I understand that was not competely how it happened but Rutherford was a fan and brought his copy of the Emerlist Davjack album to Tony Banks attention who was inspired to write The Knife as a result. Banks admitted he didn't like ELP so he hadn't paid that much attention to The Nice but he liked the early Nice stuff as it was more 'compact' in his words. Emerson was actually a Genesis fan early days and occasionally would write reviews for them and other bands he saw around that time. He was confident they would become big and forecast it. |