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Points: 659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 06:02
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You must be joking.....Take a running jump......
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Dont listen to lyric that hard - but there is something in Gabriels voice that makes me listen to the words.
Same goes for Zappa, the standup artist of Prog.
Jim Morrisons American Preyer is great stuff too. 
 
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Points: 180 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 14:36
1. Peter Hammil
2. Roger Waters
3. Ian Anderson
4. Peter Sinfield
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
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I am really surprised no-one has mentioned Peter Blegvad so far. Ok, so his solo albums are probably prog-related only, but he was a member of Henry Cow and Slap Happy too. And the lyrics on his solo albums are truly excellent.

Here a few examples of his songs:


BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Okay my turn -
1. Ian Anderson.
2. Peter Gabriel.
3. Roger Waters.
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For Petes' sake. All three of them.
three dot, a trinity, a way to map the universe,
three dot
four dot, is what will make a square, a bed to build on, it's all there,
four dot
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Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks wrote some of my favourite lyrics together on Trick of the Tail and W&W 
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William D. Drake has some really good lyrics...
But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don't bear the glow
They did so long ago
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Fish.  Early Marillion's lyrics are poetry.
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Kevin Moore
Neil Peart
Steve Wilson
Jon Anderson
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Points: 5575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2011 at 13:54
Originally posted by andyman1125 andyman1125 wrote:

Kevin Moore
Neil Peart
Steve Wilson
Jon Anderson

Kevin Moore? i never knew he even wrote lyrics Shocked
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Maynard James Keenan
Jim Matheos
Roger Waters
-music is like pornography...

sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...



-sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue...
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Tough one. Oh wait, not

For me, surely, Gabriel with mind blowing genesis works (especially the entire lamb and supper's ready), Zappa (no comments), and also Peter Sinfield, who provided In the Court of the Crimson King with amazing lyrics.
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surely not Roger Waters, for his amazing amount of songs, consisting of enumerations
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Ian Anderson and Peter Gabriel   Cool
The play with words was inspired. 
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Roger Waters, definitly ;)
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Roger Waters
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Roy Harper   

Robert Calvert


Tony T.S.  Mcphee


Daevid Allen


John Lees


Roger Waters


Ian Anderson


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