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TheSkyMovesSideways 
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Mikael Akerfeldt
Matthew Chalk
MJ Keenan
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SgtPepper67
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Location: Argentina
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Posted: January 10 2009 at 09:01 |
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Roger Waters
John Lennon
Peter Gabriel
Bob Dylan
Neil Peart
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In the end the love you take is equal to the love you made...
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Altair
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Joined: December 31 2008
Location: Chicago, IL
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Posted: January 15 2009 at 00:46 |
Mikael Åkerfeldt
Peter Gabriel
Steven Wilson
MJ Keenan
Tomas Haake
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Abrawang
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Joined: November 29 2007
Location: Canada
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Points: 112
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Posted: January 15 2009 at 21:26 |
Dylan
Leonard Cohen
Roger Waters
Paul Simon
Jim Morrison
John Lennon
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Casting doubt on all I have to say...
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tamijo
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Joined: January 06 2009
Location: Denmark
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Posted: January 16 2009 at 04:20 |
Peter Gabriel
Matt Johnson
(from The The, maby you would not call that prog. im not strong in those definitaions, but great lyric)
After those a lot of lyrics that i cant put in any order like David Bowie, Roger Waters, Pete Sinf., John Lennon, the Tool writer , ect ect.
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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ghost_of_morphy
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Joined: March 08 2007
Location: United States
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Posted: January 17 2009 at 03:03 |
I'll give you a top 2.
Syd Barrett
Fish
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Prospero
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Joined: June 06 2008
Location: Quebec
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Points: 91
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Posted: January 19 2009 at 18:46 |
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Frank Zappa for when it's time to be in the real world and Peter Sinfield for when it's time to be a baby octopus.
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refugee
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Posted: January 20 2009 at 11:41 |
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Prog:
Hammill, Gabriel, Waters
Not prog:
Dylan, Cohen, Waits
Not rock:
C. M. Bellman, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Alf Prøysen
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He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Hawkwise
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Joined: May 31 2008
Location: Ontairo
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Posted: January 20 2009 at 11:50 |
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Roy Harper
Robert Calvert
Alan Hull
Ian Anderson
Edited by Hawkwise - January 20 2009 at 11:53
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Roj
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Joined: July 02 2008
Location: Manchester, UK
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Points: 3126
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Posted: January 21 2009 at 07:02 |
My top 3, off the cuff:-
Roger Waters
Andy Tillson
Pete Sinfield
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Proggy Pogo
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Joined: January 16 2009
Location: Manchester, UK
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Points: 198
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Posted: January 21 2009 at 07:34 |
My faves are Roger Waters and Ian Kilmister (aka Lemmy)  .
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Equality 7-2521
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Joined: August 11 2005
Location: Philly
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Posted: January 21 2009 at 15:19 |
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Have to add Joanna Newsom to this discussion.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Eapo_q42
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Joined: January 15 2009
Location: Australia
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Points: 148
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Posted: January 22 2009 at 16:55 |
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There have been many brilliant lyricists in our time, but for my money, it's Roger Waters.
I should point out though...not just any roger waters. He had a period from around Meddle to probably The Wall where he couldn't write a meaningless, banal lyric if he spent all day trying.
It's like he had a magic pen filled with poignancy.
Unfortunately....for some reason when he went solo, he also seemed to lose his lyrical touch.
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Toaster Mantis
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Joined: April 12 2008
Location: Denmark
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Points: 5898
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Posted: January 25 2009 at 04:05 |
I suddenly thought... how the hell could I have forgotten Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame? Freedom of choice is what you've got, freedom from choice is what you want! 
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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Carlos
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Posted: January 28 2009 at 08:51 |
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Peter Hammill (far the best lyricist IMHO, very emotional singer. no wonder he writes those lyrics)
Roger Waters
Peter Gabriel
Neil Peart
Pete Seinfield
Syd Barrett
FIsh
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Democracy=A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people...
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toolis
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Posted: January 28 2009 at 08:55 |
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most of the guys mentioned above plus Jim Matheos (Fates Warning, OSI)
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-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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J-Man
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Joined: August 07 2008
Location: Philadelphia,PA
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Points: 7826
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Posted: January 28 2009 at 12:27 |
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I never care much for lyrics, but Peter Gabriel, Neil Peart, and Dream theater as a whole are good.
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Moogtron III
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Joined: April 26 2005
Location: Belgium
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Points: 10616
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Posted: January 28 2009 at 14:38 |
Prog:
1. Greg Lake
2. John Wetton
3. Roger Waters
Non - prog:
1. Sting
2. Paul Simon
3. Stevie Wonder
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idiotPrayer
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Joined: November 06 2009
Location: Finland
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Points: 324
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Posted: November 12 2009 at 10:39 |
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Tomas Haake.
Here's an excerpt from Closed Eye Visuals:
"Unbound to the pale and lifeless day by the multicolored, multiform
A spinning antidream unthought--Exceeding the obsolete reality
Overheated inner shape generator. Blowing every cerebral fuse
Insanity filtered and systematized. Feeding the tools of mind abuse.
Mind-signal transmissions peaked, distorted, bent, unrestrained
Neuroreceivers short circuit. System parameters overgained
Neverthreads decoding the stream of the reality--inverting revolution
The patterned untruth of nondream. The closed eye visual delusion"
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Icarium
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Location: Tigerstaden
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Points: 34086
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Posted: November 12 2009 at 10:56 |
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Bernie Taupin
Roger Hodgson
Peter Sinfeldt
Richard Palmer James (Starless have wonderfull lyricks and Wetton sing them perfectly)
Tim Rice
Lol/Creme
Roger Waters
Denis Wilson/Brian Wilson
Robert Lamb
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