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The Block

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:17

Thanks!

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:29

Gees guys, it was just a silly joke........ I even insterted a 'wink' emoticon......

sorry for the confusion and misleading the thread...

J-Man

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:31

No problem Pablo Smile

Sorry, I completely took it the wrong way.

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The Block

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:32

Sorry.

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:33

The Block

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:37

Any way I always see people who I don't know looking at me wierd when I am listening to it. They just don't understand.

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J-Man

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:40

I sit next to some awesome dude on the bus who is a huge prog metal head! I was listening to The Morningside and he was listening to Isis on the way to school this morning Approve

Now before I sat to him, I constantly got asked "why are you listening to a 20 minute song!!"

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:43

J-Man wrote:

I sit next to some awesome dude on the bus who is a huge prog metal head! I was listening to The Morningside and he was listening to Isis on the way to school this morning Approve

Now before I sat to him, I constantly got asked "why are you listening to a 20 minute song!!"

A girl used to do that to me. Every time she sat near me she would say "What are you listening to?" and then I would show her the screen of my mp3 player and she would be like "You're weird."

The Block

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:44

Same with Edge of Sanity. They were like, " A 40 minute song, who listens for that long?"

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:46

Most of my friends know I listen to weird music but I was driving a few around one day and had Mike Oldfield's Amarok on. On of my friends looked at the dash and asked if it was really at 53 minutes of one song.

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.

The Block

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:47

First time I saw Eckolyns mei I just said wow, and I like long songs.

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:49

A Person wrote:

J-Man wrote:

I sit next to some awesome dude on the bus who is a huge prog metal head! I was listening to The Morningside and he was listening to Isis on the way to school this morning Approve

Now before I sat to him, I constantly got asked "why are you listening to a 20 minute song!!"

A girl used to do that to me. Every time she sat near me she would say "What are you listening to?" and then I would show her the screen of my mp3 player and she would be like "You're weird."

You're not alone, though my school is 'only' boys, so no girl to be ashamed of in my case Wink

However I always answered them that it's like 3 or more seperated parts(songs) stuck together into one long one, and then they say "oh, cool, may I listen?" and when they do they go all "hmm...yeah...nice" and rapidly turns on their iPod with a 2 minute samey popular song everyone in the class knows about and start singing all together....

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:50

TheCaptain wrote:

Most of my friends know I listen to weird music but I was driving a few around one day and had Mike Oldfield's Amarok on. On of my friends looked at the dash and asked if it was really at 53 minutes of one song.

EPIC!! Haha, that far I haven't gone, but stuff like 30 minutes or listening one song before the bell goes while my friends have already heard to 10 songs hahaha.

The Block

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:53

Hate most of those songs. It makes it hard to listen to awesome songs when people are singing their songs aloud. This one girl on my bus doesn't have an Ipod so she plays music out of her phone through the speakers. Very annoying.

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:56

The Block wrote:

Hate most of those songs. It makes it hard to listen to awesome songs when people are singing their songs aloud. This one girl on my bus doesn't have an Ipod so she plays music out of her phone through the speakers. Very annoying.

Despite huge country differences, we all seem to live the exact same things...

That happens a lot here too, whenever I get a cell phone with MP3(though not planning to) I'll play my stuff aloud to see what they think of it, what do you think of that? LOL

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 20:07

I have some friends who also like prog, and there is my girlfriend whose tastes are pretty similar to mines, with that little group of people i can enjoy listening to prog music. But in the other hand, I have most of my friends who are not really into prog, so I prefer listening to other kind of music, such as Alternative or mainstream rock pop bands, with them, I actually don't like playing prog.

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Posted: October 06 2009 at 20:40

I have some friends in my class room..well sometimes I was telling them about Progressive Rock but they don't really care..TheY only care about Hanah Montana, The Jonas Brothers and other POp teen bands and some mainstream bands that sucks here in the Philippines (I'm not saying all).. .. And we had our field trip and the bus that we rode have speakers.,,, but the songs were all POP,so all day I was listening to it and even though I brought my Mp4 with me It's just so loud that I can barely hear the instruments..Then all was singing and enjoying the music except me ... I was really tortured that day Dead

but I prefer to be tortured by that songs than to enjoy them. LOL

..Sadly I don't have any friends that shares the same age with me that is a progfan too Cry

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Posted: October 07 2009 at 00:52

moshkito wrote:

Hi,

I listen to advanced/progrressive/experimental music all the time ... and it is funny how sometimes people come around ... I was blasting my roomate with Porcupine Tree 9 years ago ... today he is blasting the new album! He was blaring Dream Theater ... and I could handle it fairly well since the musicianship in the band was obviously above par ... so he had some taste ...

You're sh*t don't stink , congratulations.
I guess I'm "under par" for enjoying some pop music and some fairly straight forward rock too :rolleyes:

topofsm

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Posted: October 07 2009 at 02:00

The Quiet One wrote:

I have a friend who blasts his music from his headphones while wearing it around his neck. Despite the fact that he's a metalcore/deathcore fan (not a fan personally), I really don't think any music should be played in that manner. Not even good music....

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Posted: October 07 2009 at 03:05

I only tend to have mates over during our weekly RPG sessions, and I usually stay away from prog during those times. One of the guys is a die-hard power metal fan (a genre which I absolutely cannot stand), another listens predominantly to indie (although he does like Zappa's Apostrophe. He also liked TAAB when I gave it to him) and the rest of the guys I'm not sure if they're into music at all.
The playlist during those sessions usually consist of Classic Rock in an attempt to find something that should suit most people. Stuff like AC/DC, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Allman Brothers, The Who etc., but also bands like Metallica, Monster Magnet, Devin Townsend, QOTSA, Kyuss and so forth.

Would be an interesting experiment to expose them to Gong or ELP at some point Smile

Edited by ColonelClaypool - October 07 2009 at 03:09

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