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Rottenhat 
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 Posted: October 10 2009 at 14:11 |
 questionsneverknown wrote:
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I have found that the best way to clear a room is to put on The Residents. 
[...] the misssus likes pretty much anything I listen to, except The Residents. Oh well, you can't win 'em all.  |
Yes, the Residents are annoyingly wonderful :)
I think Cardiacs could be another candidate for annoying the wife. Try it :)
good example:
Edited by Rottenhat - October 10 2009 at 14:17
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ozzy_tom
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Posted: October 13 2009 at 02:10 |
Textbook wrote:
I'm married to a Chinese woman. Now the Chinese are often maligned for their taste in music but I have to say... oh f**k it, it's true. My Heart Will Go On is their anthem by proxy. But that she tolerates f**k Buttons and other things I play shows the depth of her love. |
Hehe, what a coincidence! My wife is also a Chinese And my impressions are quite similar. Chinese like pure platic-sounding pop . But she also can bare my crazy staff...real love hehe  . But as she said "all of your music sounds the same" 
BTW sometimes it's funny that some really weird music has completely no good or bad impact on her. For example Jacula wasn't scary for her at all...because pipe organ & latin language don't sound "sinister/dark" for Chinese at all...they just don't know it should scare them  (different life experiences).
According to other people only 2 of my friends listen to prog. One of them got me into prog but now he's more a jazz fanatic.
My second (and the best one!) friend likes listening to some prog but he's more into Deep Purple/Black Sabbath/Rainbow hard rock and listen to prog rock more ocasssionaly (but if he listen to prog it's usually the most freaky one I can share with him, like Jacula, Arzachel, Egg, Brainticket).
I could always listen to prog with my ... mother too. She probably used to my music. No other choice if somebody listen to it in your house almost all the time  ... The rest of my family (especially my father) and friends know that prog-rock exists only becasue I've shown/told them. And they don't like it at all (typical sentence: "What is it?" and without waiting for answer: "Turn it off!"  ). In fact people even don't listen what I'm just playin' to them and they call everything: "As always HIS prog-rock" even if I play....Dio or Black Sabbath  . Anyway now I don't live in my country anymore so I have no chance to listen to prog-rock with anybody else than my wife.
P.S. One question: Textbook, are you also living in China right now?
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The Block
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Posted: October 13 2009 at 07:53 |
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Some of my friends listen to prog but don't enjoy it as much. They just listen to listen
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jampa17
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Location: Guatemala
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Posted: October 13 2009 at 09:39 |
I was introduce to Prog rock by my older brother... for me was the fact that change my life... but what a surprise... my brother do not like prog rock... he only plays the soft songs of Dream Theater... he even have a couple of albums and he don't listen to them... he just put "Silent Man" and "Through her Eyes"... something that I really don't understand... and he's a musician but well... he's more into John Mayer, Clapton, Toto and stuff very very easy... my other brother is not a musician -the black sheep I guess- and he's not an addicted but he always come around when I'm playing a DVD of prog and admire them... not that he likes it... but at list has respect for prog... but always is claiming that my music is too crazy... I'm glad that he recognized a lot of songs of DT and he was very pleased with the symphonic arrangement of Metropolis Pt_1 in the Score DVD... so... at least can bear it... my parents on the other hand are always asking me to turn down the volume... but I cannot hear to prog metal with low volume... It have to be loud..!!!! jejeje... but always is the alternative of headphones...!!! jejeje...
Edited by jampa17 - October 13 2009 at 09:42
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Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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martinprog77
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Posted: October 13 2009 at 15:07 |
my wife like some prog[ thanks to me ... ] like spocks beards , genesis , yes , the flower kings or camel. my mom [ who introduce me to prog ]= is a huge fan of queen,rush and deep purple .i only have one friend that likes prog. my friends from work hate it. a couple of weeks ago we went to this cuban bar to celebrate a coworker birthday so i went to the jukebox and put some music [they were playing gloria estefan at the time ] so i choose just 3 song [ yes the gates of deliriun rush ,the trees and oink floyd shine on you ......] .everybody was in shook by the music ...excepts me 
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martinprog77
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Posted: October 13 2009 at 15:08 |
my wife like some prog[ thanks to me ... ] like spocks beards , genesis , yes , the flower kings or camel. my mom [ who introduce me to prog ]= is a huge fan of queen,rush and deep purple .i only have one friend that likes prog. my friends from work hate it. a couple of weeks ago we went to this cuban bar to celebrate a coworker birthday so i went to the jukebox and put some music [they were playing gloria estefan at the time ] so i choose just 3 song [ yes the gates of deliriun rush ,the trees and oink floyd shine on you ......] .everybody was in shook by the music ...excepts me
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Nothing can last
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Never give a day away.
Always live for today.
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DJPuffyLemon
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Posted: October 13 2009 at 19:02 |
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martinprog77
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Posted: October 13 2009 at 23:34 |
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Nothing can last
there are no second chances.
Never give a day away.
Always live for today.
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The Block
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 19:00 |
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Most people in parties can't stand a song longer than three minutes.
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Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
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J-Man
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 19:01 |
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The way home from school today my friend was shocked that I had a 6 minute song on. I swear to god.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 19:05 |
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I played the alternate version of Sky Moves Sideways yesterday during a riveting game of Mario Party with some of my friends...when I told them we had been listening to the same track for the last 34 or so minutes, the most common response was disbelief.
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The Block
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 19:06 |
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6 minutes, thats all? Wow, the world as we know it is ending.
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Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
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NecronCommander
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 19:33 |
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None of my friends listen to prog. In fact, I don't think any of them know what I mean when I say progressive rock. Almost all of them listen to popular alternative or alternative metal, some listen to classic rock, and some listen to hip-hop. That, and they're all suckers for Guitar Hero. I have a few friends that are into a lot of really modern screamo/death metal that I can find some crossover interest with in bands like Gojira, Mastodon, and Opeth, but none of them like any of the other prog metal or lighter prog that I listen to.
Being somewhat of a prog elitist, I sit back and chuckle when my friends argue about music, or who's a better guitarist, and similar stuff, when they really don't know a darn thing about music in general, least of all prog.
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Textbook
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 19:36 |
Ozzy Tom: I lived in China for years but am back in New Zealand now.
Nin hui bu hui shuo pu tong hua?
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The Block
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 19:37 |
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It's great listening to people argue whether the Black Eyed Peas or Beyonce is the best ever. They sure don't know a thing.
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Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
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jampa17
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 20:38 |
Whaaat...??? Beyonce is no doubt better than the Black Eyed Peas..!!! there's no such a discussion...
NOT...!!!
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Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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ozzy_tom
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Location: China/Poland
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 20:56 |
Textbook wrote:
Ozzy Tom: I lived in China for years but am back in New Zealand now.
Nin hui bu hui shuo pu tong hua? |
Wo hui shuo yi dian dian han yu. Wo zhu zai zhong guo ban nian.
If you will come back China some day we will have to meet. No prog-lovers here . Nobody to chat about good music...
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Textbook
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 14:27 |
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There's a big underground metal/punk scene, but yeah I didn't come across any natives who had a clue what prog was.
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HeroOfYesterday
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 17:01 |
J-Man wrote:
The way home from school today my friend was shocked that I had a 6 minute song on. I swear to god.
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haha Introduce them to Transatlantic
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http://www.last.fm/user/HeroOfYesterday
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The Block
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 19:20 |
HeroOfYesterday wrote:
J-Man wrote:
The way home from school today my friend was shocked that I had a 6 minute song on. I swear to god. |
haha Introduce them to Transatlantic |
That would be interesting
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Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
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