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Question: Favourite Discovery Track :: Total Votes:87
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To France 13  [14.94%]
Poison Arrows 11  [12.64%]
Crystal Gazing 2  [2.30%]
Saved by a bell 7  [8.05%]
Talk about your life 6  [6.90%]
The Lake 33  [37.93%]
Discovery 6  [6.90%]
Tricks of the light 9  [10.34%]
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PICTURES IN THE DARK Offline




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Posted: Jan. 16 2004, 19:35

You choose (Bet I know which one's going to win...:))
I can't choose because I've heard all of them except Discovery and The Lake. Besides, I love all of the ones I've already heard, especially Poison Arrows, Crystal Gazing and Saved by a bell.
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Posted: Jan. 16 2004, 20:25

Although I like To France and The Lake that much,I´ve voted for Poison Arrows,it´s my fav tune from the album,the music and lyrics are great,as well as Mike´s guitar hard playin´!

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Posted: Jan. 17 2004, 05:23

I voted 'The Lake'. I love that piece. But I also love 'To France', 'Discovery' and 'Poison arrows' I love this album, there is not a track on it I don't like.

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Posted: Jan. 17 2004, 17:37

Its a great album!!! And it was difficult to choose... But I chose poison arrows!!!

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Posted: Jan. 17 2004, 19:26

By now the winner is 'The Lake'. I knew it... I must be a psychic!;)
In the end I voted for 'Crystal gazing'
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Posted: Jan. 18 2004, 14:54

Poison arrows... :cool:
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Posted: Jan. 18 2004, 17:07

I like them all (Discovery is my favourite 'pop' album), but after all is said and done it has to be The Lake.
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Posted: Jan. 18 2004, 20:13

One of my favourite albums! I voted for Discovery because its wonderful guitar solo, but The Lake is also a truly briliant piece.

Anyway, I feel that Crystal Gazing, Foreign Affair and North Point are somehow "kindred" songs. I don't know why but I feel so. :)


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Posted: Jan. 24 2004, 18:25

Tough match! The songs are mostly very even, and I find it a bit unfair to compare The Lake with all the other songs. I voted for Tricks Of The Light. It's quite catchy.

Poison Arrows is cool, but I get a bad impression out of it, because the "hiding in the shadows, poison arrows" hook is almost identical to the "carried away by a moonlight shadow" hook... :/


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Posted: Jan. 27 2004, 16:25

hard to choose, my favourites in the album: the lake, saved by a bell and poison arrows.
saved by a bell was one of the songs that at school age made me keen on learning english. at first for what i could just understand, a few words further than the name of some constellations, i guessed it may be not a "typical" song with cheesy lyrics and so... and i wanted to know more cause i was curious about it.
i still like a lot this song, though i do love 'the lake'.


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Posted: Jan. 28 2004, 00:29

> You have already voted in this poll

me = idiot...  i hit discovery, but wanted the lake :)

i'm an instrumental-fan.. and the lake is one of the best instrumental-productions from oldfield/phillips..


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Posted: Mar. 04 2004, 15:16

Tricks Of The Light. Those bursts of acoustic, the male and female vocal exchanges, that ridiculously distorted electric - I find it all rather passionate.
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Posted: Mar. 04 2004, 15:51

i'd say the title track, but tricks of the light just about wins. it seems the singer has now fallen on hard times

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Posted: Mar. 25 2004, 02:49

I agee with a lot of you, The Lake has it. It is probably my favourite of all Mike's long instrumentals. However, I do like a lot of the songs: To France, Poison Arrows, Tricks of the Light and Saved by a Bell. Overall this is one of my favourite albums, but The Lake is for me what makes this album great. Mike's guitar at the end is just fabulous.

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Posted: Dec. 01 2004, 08:51

I'm with many of you: it is an outstanding album from one end to the other, but "The Lake" edges out the other tracks.

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Posted: Dec. 01 2004, 11:26

Unlike everyone here, I never grew very fond of the Discovery album. I voted for 'The Lake', but it's a long time since I played it. Maybe it's time for another listen.
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Posted: April 03 2005, 05:50

The title track! I love Barry's vocal and the guitar solo. The guitar solos really shine on this album. Discovery is a great mix of folk-pop and heavy metal. I bought it on its release in 1984 (I was 11 at the time!;), and you're allways biased about music you first heard when you were a kid. But it stands the test of time I think.

I'm not too fond of The Lake. To me it sounds like a demo song for some workstation synth with sample fascilities. Except for the guitars of course.
I'm not crazy about Saved by a Bell and Crystal Gazing either, but they're OK songs. There's no real stinker on the album.

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Posted: April 06 2005, 16:28

I figured out what is my problem with "The Lake": the piece is too goddamn cutesy! It's sweety sugary syrupy all the way through! It's the Care Bears to Tubular Bells' Woody Woodpecker. It's like the kind of thing designed to make all the animé addicts go "KAWAIIIIIIIIIIIIII" when they hear it, or something. Ehn, I dunno. It sounds like Mike was way too afraid of frightening the listeners.

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Posted: April 07 2005, 05:09

CUTESY!!! I refute that wholeheartedly. I can't hear anything that would make it any more 'cutesy' than any other long instrumental he did. "Afraid of frightening the listeners"? And how is that different to Hergest Ridge part 1? I'd like to see you call that 'cutesy'.

The Lake is one of my very favourite pieces of music, especially the ending, and I do not appreciate it being compared to the Care Bears.   :)


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Posted: April 07 2005, 09:34

Quote (Sir Mustapha @ April 06 2005, 16:28)
Tubular Bells' Woody Woodpecker.

Fan track, anyone? The Woody Woodpecker theme applied to Tubular Bells.

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