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Sacred 22 
Forum Senior Member 
Joined: March 24 2006 Status: Offline Points: 1509 |
 Posted: March 23 2009 at 17:04 |
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There must be a favourite of yours that is not getting the ink that they so deserve. I wonder who that might be????
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Equality 7-2521
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 11 2005 Location: Philly Status: Offline Points: 15784 |
Posted: March 24 2009 at 09:14 |
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He likes all prog-metal equally.
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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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Ivan_Melgar_M
Special Collaborator 
Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19557 |
Posted: March 24 2009 at 11:01 |
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Werll, Yes is not on my top 10, maybe not even in my top 20, but if they are something is underrated.
While The Jonas Brothers have fame and fortune at very young age with mediocre music, Yes had to fight all their life to get some security.
Iván
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nahnite
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 24 2008 Status: Offline Points: 159 |
Posted: March 24 2009 at 11:36 |
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I'm gonna have to go with ELP. I've listenened to their records from ELP to Welcome Back, and can't find a single thing that warrants their appeal. Call me false, but I think they're waaaaaaay overrated.
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Raff
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
Posted: March 24 2009 at 14:30 |
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Overrated by whom? Certainly not here, since none of their albums are in the Top 100  ... Anyway, the fact you don't like them doesn't mean they are overrated - just that your tastes are different . |
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crimson87
Prog Reviewer 
Joined: January 03 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 1818 |
Posted: March 24 2009 at 15:21 |
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I thought they were an ordinary band at first , but if you keep listening you'll proably end up liking them. Although it's symphonic prog , ELP is no easy listening stuff and quite demanding.
I remember the day ELP clicked on me , I first listened to Keith Jarret's Koln Bremme and Lausanne concerts and then Welcome Back. From that day on I am a fanboy.
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mr.cub
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Joined: March 06 2009 Location: Lexington, VA Status: Offline Points: 971 |
Posted: March 24 2009 at 15:29 |
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I respectfully call you false. If anything, people stereotype them and never give them the time of day
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el dingo
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 08 2008 Location: Norwich UK Status: Offline Points: 7053 |
Posted: March 25 2009 at 02:36 |
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I can take or leave ELP (I've only got Tarkus and Trilogy) but what really worries me about them is that their "biggest fan" in the UK is the right-wing comedian Jim Davidson
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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cronholm
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Joined: March 26 2009 Location: Northern Wastes Status: Offline Points: 105 |
Posted: March 27 2009 at 15:08 |
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Well, for a band that get's a lot of attention, compared to most other progressive acts anyway, I´d have to say that Dream Theatre seem a tad shy in the actual song writing department. And their individual soloing just seems ... more technically skilled than actually good, if that makes any sense.
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ghost_of_morphy
Prog Reviewer
Joined: March 08 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2755 |
Posted: March 28 2009 at 02:06 |
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I hate to disprove Ivan so completely, but who the heck are The Jonas Brothers?
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ghost_of_morphy
Prog Reviewer
Joined: March 08 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2755 |
Posted: March 28 2009 at 02:07 |
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And BSS at least deserves that honor.
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el dingo
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 08 2008 Location: Norwich UK Status: Offline Points: 7053 |
Posted: March 28 2009 at 02:15 |
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A clean-living American act who appeal to very young fans and sell shedloads of units - unless Ivan's referring to the two guys who run my local kebab house, of course.
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Alitare
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 08 2008 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 3595 |
Posted: March 28 2009 at 03:49 |
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Ack, I absolutely cannot see what is so amazing about The Beatles. I just... argh. I can tolerate revolver. But...
Other bands I feel are overrated..wait let me rephrase that. I don't believe in things being overrated or underrated. I feel they are all rated as they are to be. It is neither right nor wrong. And all subjective opinion. Now that my pseudo intellectual pretentious bilge has been taken care of, let me talk about bands who's rabid fanbase I wish were cast off into the ethereal abyss for the mass heaps of praise given to said bands. Genesis (never really got into them) Yes (eh...) Rush (I like them, but Moving Pictures could have been better) Dream Theater (Hahahaha) Pink Floyd (One of my favorite bands..top 5 at least.) Jethro Tull (Again, top 5 or t 10 favorite bands of all time, still can't see this godly praise) *looks at top 100 albums list* King Crimson (Another one of my favorite groups) Gentle Giant (Come on....) Symphonic prog in general (I await my ProgArchives Golgotha) |
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Toaster Mantis
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 12 2008 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 5898 |
Posted: March 28 2009 at 03:56 |
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I'm not sure about the rest of you, but the thing I have with the Beatles is that even though I can understand how much they did for music and how good they were I've been so overexposed to their music that I'm completely desentisized to it. |
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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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BAD ALCHEMY
Forum Newbie 
Joined: March 26 2009 Location: UNITED KINGDOM Status: Offline Points: 10 |
Posted: March 31 2009 at 09:40 |
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Dream Theater
Mars Volta
Muse
ELP
all crimes against prog!
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Obed Marsh
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hermosotrozo
Forum Newbie
Joined: December 04 2008 Status: Offline Points: 22 |
Posted: April 03 2009 at 00:03 |
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Slayer is overrated??? then you should try Reign in Blood. What i dont
understand is, why is this hailed as brilliant? To me its just two
awesome songs, with filler inbetween. And i have heard some of their
other CD's also. I borrowed South of Heaven, what a piece of sh*t. lousy lyrics an awful sound! It
basically proves slayer cant handle anything slow, Araya's vocals are
horrible. And as always Kerry King's leads are sh*t
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Keeping a good attitude is like Kudzu- It grows!
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BaldJean
Prog Reviewer
Joined: May 28 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10387 |
Posted: April 03 2009 at 01:23 |
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you can't see anything amazing about the Beatles? you must be joking! put yourself 45 years back in time; do you have any idea what kind of songs were around back then? compared to those songs the Beatles were light years ahead. true, they started out with simple rock'n roll, but on "Rubber Soul" they slightly started changing their approach, if only with the song "Norwegian Wood", and from "Revolver" on they began experimenting more and more. you are like a man who says "I see nothing special about Newton; Einstein completely overhauled his world view" |
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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cobb2
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 25 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 415 |
Posted: April 03 2009 at 01:30 |
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Well said Jean- oh to be young and naive again
oops- I'm still naive...
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Alitare
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 08 2008 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 3595 |
Posted: April 03 2009 at 01:56 |
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Well, I never said they weren't influential. I just greatly dislike them. I don't have to like them, do I? |
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Alitare
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 08 2008 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 3595 |
Posted: April 03 2009 at 02:28 |
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Bah. God damn myself for using such pejorative language in relation to the Beatles. "Ack, I absolutely cannot see what is so amazing about The Beatles" what an ignorant and blind opinion. On such a subjective matter!
Music is so subjective. I didn't think clearly before I typed. No, I am not saying I like the Beatles. but, I effectively said that liking the Beatles was a fallacy. This is simply not true. I absolutely cannot stand them, but there is nothing "wrong" with liking them. They were highly influential musicians. Pardon my brusque nature. |
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