Prog Cup 2019 Round 8 Match 3

[never/ever]

A

Prism -Karma





B

Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly

[toomanyhatz]

A is fusion with great chops and little imagination.

I briefly thought about B myself, but declared it too obvious. Still, it's so many miles better than A that it can't be denied.

[Purgatory Brite]

B

[joels344]

I actually encountered that Prism song in my YouTube recommendations once before. It’s fine guitar driven fusion and all, but is just outclassed by a stone-cold prog masterpiece like “Shine On Brightly.” B without hesitation.

[C]

I enjoyed A but can't these youngsters come up with something that sounds different to Jaco Pastorius and Allan Holsdworth?

The lad Dave is spot on about B

I briefly thought about B myself, but declared it too obvious.

I'm going for the youngsters - clone Jacos are fine by me

oooof!

-+A+-





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[trans-chigley express]

A was competent enough but it washed over me somewhat and reminded me why the best fusion is streets ahead of the also rans.

B is an a bit of an obvious pick but it was good to hear it again as it's been a while.

[Jumper K]

The horrific circus inflected bobbins of B is wholly trumped by the Japanese Frost*.
A.

[Loki]

[Spock!]

Tough choice.


In the end the lyrics of Procul put me off enough to decide against it. Prism had just enough about them to keep me interested.






A by the width of Tim Rice's rhyming dictionary.

[never/ever]

Tough one. A is pretty good and entertaining but lacks a certain oomph.
B is Procol in flyte, just not quite hammering it down in this one....
Throwing a bone to

A

[algroth]

Man, it seems we're going full-on with Japanese prog this year! That's fine, I don't mind, but I do think you can do better than A which comes across as a rather beige slice of late fusion. B's too obvious, but it's a monster of a track - prog's first side-long epic? Not sure, but it's godly all the same. B

[Hightea]

A - nice Fusion but nothing that outstanding or memorable.

B - classic early proto prog.

B

[fange]

B

[Lord Rother]

Despite sounding like every piece of Fusion I’ve ever heard I’m sure it can’t be termed derivative because it doesn’t sound like Genesis at all - although A is well played for sure Fusion can pretty much do one as far as I’m concerned.

B

[never/ever]

Jumper K 4

Mike Boom 9

[Jumper K]

Wankers.