PariahDog

Very close between Close Encounters and Raiders, but I had to go with Raiders.

For me, Raiders ranks right up there with SW and ESB. But Close Encounters is not far behind.

This is pretty cool:

Star Wars "Cantina Band" on Chapman Stick

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One big happy family!

Necro is a wrestling fan?

Okay, now I can put all his comments and opinions into context.

On Yes's studio albums, I would say Bill Bruford.

But for live Yes, I would probably say Alan White. He is the glue that holds them together through the twists and turns of the music. On Yes Symphonic, he seemed to navigate the band and orchestra through Gates of Delerium through sheer force of will.

Of course, I've only seen Yes live with Bruford once, on the Union tour. I remember being very impressed, but it was many years ago.

Jeez, another Star Wars pissing contest?

I couldn't decide between SW and LOTR, so I voted for SW just because of all the recent bashing.

That was great!

Here's one (original series spoof) with even more Tom Sawyer:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/76fab067d...iler?rel=player

I like both, but voted for Col. Potter.

My favorite era was probably right around seasons 4-5, when they had Potter, Hawkeye, BJ, Frank, Margaret, Radar, Klinger, and Fr. Mulcahy.

The writing around this time was just right for me, starting to get more serious but not as serious as the last couple of seasons. (Though generally I do prefer the later seasons to the first couple.)

Great poll idea, but how can you forget Tears?

I liked all the prequels when they first came out, but *jeez* Phantom Menace has really not aged well. My main problem with Menace is that large parts of it come across as Saturday-morning cartoonish, because of the digital characters and the way they speak: Jar Jar (obviously), the other Gungans, the Nemoidians, the junk dealer on Tatooine, etc. To me, all these chartacters are so over-the-top in the way they look and speak, they come across as Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, rather then "real" SW characters like Chewie and ESB Yoda. Seems like whenever Menace is just about to get rolling, some annoying digital character with another sing-songy voice comes in and derails the momentum.

But I liked the prequels a lot more than most, and think Lucas really redeemed the prequels with Sith. For me, Sith almost edges out Jedi if I were to rank the films, and that's saying a lot. If Lucas had started the prequels with a film like Sith and built from there, he probably could have met those insanely high expectations.

New Hope

Empire

Jedi

Sith

Clones

Menace (dead last by a mile)

I love COS and Necromancer, but don't love the narration. Neil's voice sounds weird when slowed down like that.

But it's not just the narration, it's the song structure of Necromancer. The narration just serves to emphasize how the song keeps starting and stopping. They'll be jamming along in one section, then everything S-T-O-P-S... And there's a pause... And then the narration for the next section comes in. And then the sequence repeats.

Of course, this was one of Rush's first attempts at a long-form song. Necromancer has some really cool riffs and sections, and I'd love to hear what they could have done with this same material around the time of 2112 or AFTK. I always thought the fast 12/8 riff would be a cool way to start Necromancer, before the first slow section, although that would make it sound a lot like Heart of the Sunrise. Someone mentioned the Yes influence?

This THREAD really drags!

I need to take my ADHD meds and listen to my "improved" edit of Hemispheres:

Hemispheres (2:16)

Circumstances (1:06)

The Trees (1:02)

La Villa Strangiato (1:25)