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Duddick 
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It always surprises me when people use bombastic as a positive adjective to describe prog. The dictionary defines it as “high sounding but with little meaning”. Any thoughts?
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JD
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Posted: March 23 2021 at 09:07 |
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It was an 'Opinion' used by music critics whose brains were too small to see what was being presented. Then it became a label attached to a genre of music that was excelling where R&R kinda stopped. I ignore it when it's used to describe music or musicians in the progressive genre.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Guilty as charged! I've often used words like "bombastic" and "pompous" to describe prog albums in some of my past reviews, although they were intended to be positive adjectives.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: March 23 2021 at 09:24 |
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This is the third post you've made about the same thing. Stop it.
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Posted: March 23 2021 at 09:31 |
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It's a cultural thing that Martians have.
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Posted: March 23 2021 at 09:44 |
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Let's just make it 'Bom-tastic'
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Blacksword
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Posted: March 23 2021 at 09:54 |
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You mean like Yes.. 
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Duddick
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Posted: March 23 2021 at 10:26 |
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Sorry - it told me my first two posts hadn’t worked but it appears they have
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Posted: March 23 2021 at 10:33 |
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Genesis - Domino and most of Puke=bombastic.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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wow, so you think Duke is a bad album? Then what about what they did afterwards...
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Posted: March 23 2021 at 10:51 |
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It always surprises me when people use bombastic as a positive adjective to describe prog. The dictionary defines it as “
bombastic /bɒmˈbastɪk/ Learn to pronounce adjective high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated. "bombastic rhetoric"” For example: When somebody posts the same subject over and over in multiple threads. |
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Lol Paul, try fitting in a word like rodomontade next time you review... :) ie. like It is lavish, pure rodomontade, sentimental and florid. j/k Nick
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Bombastically moved to Just For Fun.
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Bombastic means overpowering. It can refer to pompous speech, writing or music. Or it can simply mean very loud and too much for the feint of heart. I often use the term especially in reference to metal and other extreme forms of music. I love bombast.
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"Man dats some good sh*t!!" I think we all know that means, it's not sh*t.
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bombs are fun when you put them in your stomach
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^followed by antacids for the ultimate battle that will only end in the bathroom.
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