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miamiscot
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Posted: October 11 2016 at 09:23 |
Best band I ever saw in concert was not a Prog band but rather it was The Clash (opening for The Who) in Orlando. Most Prog bands don't bring it live.
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1 of 9 cats
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Joined: October 11 2016
Location: Deep South
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Posted: October 11 2016 at 13:44 |
Too much Gentle Giant and Not enough Porcupine Tree in top 100
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bucka001
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Joined: November 16 2005
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Posted: October 11 2016 at 13:52 |
miamiscot wrote:
Best band I ever saw in concert was not a Prog band but rather it was The Clash (opening for The Who) in Orlando.Most Prog bands don't bring it live. |
Nothing to be ashamed of there. Two of the best shows I've ever seen were the Dead Kennedys (Chicago, mid-80s) and Buddy Guy ('90/'91 in Deerfield, IL). Either of those shows blew away the times I saw (and enjoyed) Yes, Genesis, or King Crimson.
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andreol263
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Joined: November 28 2014
Location: Terra de Cabral
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Posted: October 11 2016 at 17:40 |
I Can't stand Neo-Prog for unknow reasons  , i don't know if it is the too much electro-pop approach in the majority of albums or anything else....
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Cristi
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Joined: July 27 2006
Location: wonderland
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 00:03 |
andreol263 wrote:
I Can't stand Neo-Prog for unknow reasons , i don't know if it is the too much electro-pop approach in the majority of albums or anything else.... |
too much electro-pop? I don't know what neo-prog you've heard care to explain?
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Tom Ozric
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Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 05:27 |
I think the Yes album Heaven And Earth is quite excellent !!
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 05:39 |
Tom Ozric wrote:
I think the Yes album Heaven And Earth is quite excellent !! |
Give it another listen, that'll sort that right out!
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Tom Ozric
Prog Reviewer
Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 06:09 |
^ I did the other day. And I loved it !!
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CPicard
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Joined: October 03 2008
Location: Là, sui monti.
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 06:19 |
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Cristi
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 06:23 |
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 06:32 |
Tom Ozric wrote:
^ I did the other day. And I loved it !!  |
I had it on my Ipod a few months ago and gave it another listen out of the blue at work, and I thought `This album is drippier than someone blowing their nose on a wet pancake' and when I got home I deleted it.  Pretty sure that line was partly stolen from an old Simpsons gag  Ha, perhaps I associate it with the `delightful experience' I had of discovering that my review for `Heaven and Earth' (which WAS a positive and fair 3 stars, go read it!) got passed around dozens of Yes groups on Facebook, and to say that I was a mix of crucified, abused, ridiculed, mocked and all around bent over and dealt with would be an understatement!  And on the off chance someone agreed with what I wrote (again - POSITIVE REVIEW!!), they turned on them as well. It was two verses and a chorus of `It's a 5 star album', `He's not a fan', `He doesn't know what he's talking about', `It's their best album since...', `He hates Yes' etc etc. It was f*cking surreal, and I still laugh about it!
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Blinkyjoh
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Joined: October 10 2015
Location: Toronto
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Points: 125
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 13:44 |
prog secrets
apart from obvious 3/4 and 4/4 songs, I can't understand time signatures at all.
and dammit. I have no idea what most of these songs 'mean' I THINK i know what don't kill the whale is about...but does supper's ready really mean 'hey, soups hot'? Why is someone Watching The Skies? why is yes stuck in a roundabout for like eight minutes? is uk traffic really that bad?
i exaggerate but ...mostly...Just No Idea.
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EddieRUKiddingVarese
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Joined: February 04 2016
Location: Aust
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Points: 1802
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 15:15 |
Tom Ozric wrote:
^ I did the other day. And I loved it !!  |
I do it twice a day and more on Fridays............
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"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits!
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Terrapin Station
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Joined: July 23 2016
Location: NYC
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 15:20 |
I have a lot of unpopular opinions. I don't have any secrets. Maybe if I'd keep my unpopular opinions to myself more often, but I like to hear myself talk.
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twalsh
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Location: Vancouver, BC
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 16:20 |
Devoncir wrote:
Gutural vocal like Opeth and black metal is unlistenable and unacceptable. Completely retarded 12 year old making vocals "from hell", no more, no less. I´d rather listen to Justin Bieber -- who I've never listened to yet. Prog should be about originality, not "competition of retarded 12 year old boys to sound like 12 old boys, to check who of them sound more like a cartoon scaring devil". what comes next? jerkinf off competition?
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I like newer Opeth with the clean vocals quite a bit but saw Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries on sale for really cheap and thought I'd give them a try. I hate the gutteral vocals too. However, I like the music around the vocals a great deal. It's rather difficult trying to hear one while tuning out the other but worth it IMO.
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More heavy prog, please!
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Lewian
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Joined: August 09 2015
Location: Italy
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Points: 15151
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 17:06 |
When I was young and didn't know much English, I couldn't make sense of English lyrics. Now I live in the UK for a long time but I still don't get most lyrics unless I concentrate on getting them, and most of the time I don't, because I'm not interested.
Sometimes even some part of a song including lyrics comes into my head spontaneously, and only then I realise what the lyrics mean, but before, having listened to this song 50 times, I never had bothered.
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Devoncir
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 21:18 |
- I love ABBA, STYX and BEE GEES , I love even their bad work, every sudio leftover. - Barry Gibb is a genious. The albuns he composed for Kenny Rogers, Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and Barbra Straissand are works of genious.
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A_Flower
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Location: 2112
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 21:53 |
I don't like the Cantabury Scene. There I said it
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Devoncir
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Posted: October 12 2016 at 22:29 |
A_Flower wrote:
I don't like the Cantabury Scene. There I said it |
"In the land of gray and pink" is boring, can't understant why is so overrated but "If I could do it all over again" and "For girls who grow plump in the night" are vastly superior
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omphaloskepsis
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Joined: October 19 2011
Location: Texas
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Points: 6802
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Posted: October 13 2016 at 01:26 |
I stood by mute, as I watched my Ex-wife rip my copy of Opeth's Still Life off my phonograph and toss it like a Frisbee out our 2nd story window.
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