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The Mars Volta = noise!!!
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^ Prolly best if we just stick to saying what we don't like rather than making uncomplimentary comments about them. Smile
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Marillion, Kansas, IQ, Big Big Train, Glass Hammer, Genesis post Gabriel, Yes post Drama
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The Who (I can already hear a bunch of angry citizens with peasant forks behind my door)
Rush (still)
Kraftwerk (sue me)
all things pure jazz (i.e., non-fusion stuff, ... still)
all things punk and punk rock (post-punk is the only deal from that area that I enjoy)
Deep Purple (and if you sue me now, I'll probably be put in jail)
The Grateful Dead
The JHExperience (I'm in hell now, right?)

* Edited cause I've just remembered that it has to be something prog fans generally like.


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Renaissance. I sorta dig Prologue, but their more well-known albums are just far too sugary and velvety, I feel like swimming in a huge pool of oysters. A lot of that is down to Annie Haslam's vocals. I can't deny this woman's skills, but they do sound awful to me. Too........ yeah well something........ they're just too over-the-top, which can be a good thing, though not with Annie. She reminds me of a gay person loudly advertising her sexuality in the fruit and veg part of the supermarket. With Annie it's just that she magically turns every little sentence into a caricature of itself. An explosion of melodrama. Well, I guess a lot of that is probably why most folks dig her too
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ Prolly best if we just stick to saying what we don't like rather than making uncomplimentary comments about them. Smile


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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Renaissance. I sorta dig Prologue, but their more well-known albums are just far too sugary and velvety, I feel like swimming in a huge pool of oysters. A lot of that is down to Annie Haslam's vocals. I can't deny this woman's skills, but they do sound awful to me. Too........ yeah well something........ they're just too over-the-top, which can be a good thing, though not with Annie. She reminds me of a gay person loudly advertising her sexuality in the fruit and veg part of the supermarket. With Annie it's just that she magically turns every little sentence into a caricature of itself. An explosion of melodrama. Well, I guess a lot of that is probably why most folks dig her too
LOL ... well, ... sorry that you feel that way about them. Smile

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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:



Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Renaissance. I sorta dig Prologue, but their more well-known albums are just far too sugary and velvety, I feel like swimming in a huge pool of oysters. A lot of that is down to Annie Haslam's vocals. I can't deny this woman's skills, but they do sound awful to me. Too........ yeah well something........ they're just too over-the-top, which can be a good thing, though not with Annie. She reminds me of a gay person loudly advertising her sexuality in the fruit and veg part of the supermarket. With Annie it's just that she magically turns every little sentence into a caricature of itself. An explosion of melodrama. Well, I guess a lot of that is probably why most folks dig her too
LOL ... well, ... sorry that you feel that way about them. Smile



We can't all run around eating the same gummy bears now can we. It's good that we are different methinks, even if I will be sending you a horses head for the end of your bed - due to you putting Jimi and Kraftwerk in your list
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'fraid I'm not a fan of Kraftwerk either. 
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I can't think of anything I really hate (except for maybe ACDC's vocalist, seriously I feel like he's sawing my brain!)
I don't like most of the prog electronic stuff I heard, or heavy psych stuff that nothing but simply nothing is going on. I really hope that will change someday because I know it's all in my head.
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Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

'fraid I'm not a fan of Kraftwerk either. 



Go sit in the corner Gabe.

Seriously though, I would think you'd find lots to love on their first 4 or 5 albums. They have next to nothing of the latter day electronic pop, no this is krautrock with a good deal of avant thrown in for good measure(especially the first orange cone record).
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Good Heavens, I am swimming against the tide here, at least 50% of the time. Just looking at the PA's Top 10 ratings ... my enthusiastic agreement is color-coded with green, and my harsh disagreement - with red. 

1. Close To The Edge - Perfect, 5/5.  
2. Thick As A Brick - 3-4 stars, on a dark night :) - an OK album by a 2nd tier band ... sorry 
3. Selling England By The Pound -  4 stars
4. Wish You Were Here -  Perfect, 5/5.
5. Foxtrot - 4 stars  
6. In The Court Of The Crimson King -   3, maybe 3.5 stars  (how could this be above Red???
7, Dark Side Of The Moon - Perfect, 5/5.
8. Animals  -  Perfect, 5/5.
9. Red -  Perfect, 5/5.
10. Godbluff -   2/5 stars. Our house has been officially declared a Hammill-free zone 

Next Q: How did Hybris end up @ #11, while the equal or better Viljans Öga is stuck a dozen or two notches lower? Any why the wonderful Fragile is so much  lower than the equally wonderful, but maybe only marginally superior CTTE?

Those are just rhetoric Q's, of course. 

 




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Originally posted by dwill123 dwill123 wrote:

The Mars Volta = noise!!!

And Dream Theater for the most part :) -- 
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Originally posted by sagichim sagichim wrote:

I can't think of anything I really hate (except for maybe ACDC's vocalist, seriously I feel like he's sawing my brain!)I don't like most of the prog electronic stuff I heard, or heavy psych stuff that nothing but simply nothing is going on. I really hope that will change someday because I know it's all in my head.
Which vocalist? Johnson, I presume ... ?
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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by sagichim sagichim wrote:

I can't think of anything I really hate (except for maybe ACDC's vocalist, seriously I feel like he's sawing my brain!)I don't like most of the prog electronic stuff I heard, or heavy psych stuff that nothing but simply nothing is going on. I really hope that will change someday because I know it's all in my head.
Which vocalist? Johnson, I presume ... ?

I don't know their names but I think it's their second one ( the Highway To Hell dude).
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^ That'll be their first singer, Bon Scott then.
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^ Thanks. So it's their first one I can't stand.I don't know if I ever heard the second one.
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Anglagard, Tool, Marillion, ELP, Jethro Tull, Mike Oldfield, Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, Kraftwerk
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

'fraid I'm not a fan of Kraftwerk either. 



Go sit in the corner Gabe.

Seriously though, I would think you'd find lots to love on their first 4 or 5 albums. They have next to nothing of the latter day electronic pop, no this is krautrock with a good deal of avant thrown in for good measure(especially the first orange cone record).

Sounds like I might not have given them a proper go. I'll try a bit of the early stuff out sometime then David. Smile
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