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Topic: Just for fun: Who's your favourite prog character? Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:02 |
Just a bit of fun here ... we can have fun can't we?
Lots of prog music features storylines and characters, do you have a favourite?
I think mine would be The Reverend, from "The Battle of Epping Forest" (Selling England, Genesis). The devil caught hold of his soul...
Runner-up is Mud Flanigan, the hero of "The Prince of Heaven's Eyes" album by Fruupp.
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:20 |
Hint: There is a "Just for Fun" section, the area of this site with the most posts.
My favorite character? Hmm...tell you later...
Edited by Epignosis - October 01 2009 at 20:29
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:25 |
I guess I'm going to go with anyone of Colin Meloy's deep characters...yeah, that weird guy from The Decemberists.
So many to choose from with him, yes....but if I must, I might tip my hat to that poor bloke in "Grace Cathedral Hill," or the pair of homosexual whores in "On the Bus Mall," or brave, defiant, William...
...or The Rake...
All right?
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:31 |
The Whistler (NOT Ian Anderson).
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:39 |
I'll vote for Pink.
But runner-up goes to Harold the Barrel
Edited by Tarquin Underspoon - October 01 2009 at 20:39
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"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"
-The Great Gig in the Sky
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:42 |
Also, Rael.
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:46 |
Ive been waiting here for so long And all this time has passed me by It doesnt seem to matter now You stand there with your fixed expression Casting doubt on all I have to say. Why dont you touch me, touch me, Why dont you touch me, touch me, Touch me now, now, now, now, now...
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - October 01 2009 at 20:48
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:47 |
I don't know. Perhaps Tarkus?
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:48 |
Moved to Just For Fun.
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 20:50 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
Moved to Just For Fun. | Because it is, after all, just for fun.
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 21:12 |
Epignosis wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
Moved to Just For Fun. |
Because it is, after all, just for fun.
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Does it need a Just for fun tag in front if it is in fact, just for fun?
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 21:23 |
A Person wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
Moved to Just For Fun. |
Because it is, after all, just for fun.
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Does it need a Just for fun tag in front if it is in fact, just for fun?
| Apparently disclaimers of this sort are needed nowadays.
Kids, you know.
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 21:40 |
Very hard one - Either Kezia from Protest The Hero's album of the same name, or Marillion's Torch from Clutching At Straws.
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Posted: October 01 2009 at 22:21 |
It's obviously Ziltoid. Because he doesn't give a sh*t and lives above Earth in a big rocket ship, of course!
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 00:56 |
Aqualung is my idol.
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 01:58 |
I think Robert Fripp is a pretty cool guy, eh is kind of an a****le and doesn't afraid of anything
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 08:49 |
the young man wanting to become a starfighter pilot on Robert Calvert's "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters"
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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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Posted: October 02 2009 at 09:35 |
birdwithteeth11 wrote:
It's obviously Ziltoid. Because he doesn't give a sh*t and lives above Earth in a big rocket ship, of course! |
Indeed!
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But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don't bear the glow
They did so long ago
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 09:40 |
Me.
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 09:48 |
BaldJean wrote:
the young man wanting to become a starfighter pilot on Robert Calvert's "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters"
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You beat me to it. Lockheed has great artistic dark humour which reminded me of the early Monty Python. I would pick Jack Of Shadows but for me to say it is a real character is quite an insecure guess as many of Robert Calvert's writings are way over my head.
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