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Points: 8806 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2010 at 00:44
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by MaxerJ MaxerJ wrote:

You don't get Relayer. You listen to Relayer again. You don't get Relayer. You listen to Relayer again. You don't get Relayer. You listen to Relayer again.


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Relayer was my first Yes album. I've had it for years, don't know how many times I've listened to it and still can't stand it. AND I went out and bought Close to the Edge and Tales from Topographic Oceans despite not liking the only Yes album I knew. Confused

(I do like those two, though)



Relayer was my second Yes album (first was 90125). I didn't get it, but I still knew I loved it. I distinctly remember thinking, the first time I listened to it, "this album was made by geniuses."
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Listening to Relayer in those days, was like you listening to Achilles' Last Stand by Led Zeppelin. You were so used to hearing something else, like another song for radio, that all of a sudden ... something totally different that left rock'n'roll mentality in the dust ... just left you there hanging.  In general, I like that because it tells me that the artist is trying to be himself ... and sometimes it is an internal storm, and then ... the softness ... long ago, so clear ... you know, in my book, Yes died with that piece of music! After that I heard Olias of Sunhillow and realized what Yes might have been if they had been able to get Vangelis to replace Rick Wakeman ... and I kinda think the problem might be that Vangelis was already too well known, to be going back and playing rock'n'roll with kids. You listen to Olias of Sunhillow, and you wonder ... how the heck could Vangelis ever play Roundabout or TfTo. I don't think he could. But any new music? ... ohhh yeah, baby ... ohh yeah ... and the couple of albums he did with Jon were excellent and exactly what YES was missing!
 
By that time I was done with the addiction part ... I was too busy with school at UCSB and directing at night and working 40 hours a week to pay rent and survive!
 
But again, prog was never an addiction. The good music was! And 30 years later I have Amon Duul 2 ... but no Emerson Lake and Palmer! Why? ... sorry ELP's only worthwhile albums are the first 4 and it's over and they became nothing but an electrical idiocy instead of concentrating in the music. That was not "prog" ... that was pretentious!
 
Why the heck would I have stayed with that kinda stupid stuff when there was better out there? A LOT better!
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Originally posted by topographicbroadways topographicbroadways wrote:

i once listened too the lamb lies down on broadway 3 times in a day then when i fell asleep dreampt the entire storyline and i was Rael. 


That's the single coolest thing I've ever heard.


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I have a minor OCD when if the album is a concept album, all of the songs have to have equal play counts, I also hesitate to buy an album if it has no tracks that are 7+ minutes
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Points: 2619 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2010 at 06:10
Originally posted by Rabid Rabid wrote:

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So you have'nt got any Rush albums, then?????
Hi. Are you say "Rush" haven't keyboard Rabid?!!
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Points: 5575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2010 at 07:52
Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

I have a minor OCD when if the album is a concept album, all of the songs have to have equal play counts

i have that and sometimes spend a good hour listening to odd tracks from an album to get them to the right play count
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You don't get Relayer. You listen to Philip Glass - Music in Twelve Parts. Halfway through the second track, you frantically scramble for Relayer
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There's probably an alarming (to the uninitiated, anyway) ratio regarding time joined PA and the number of posts therein. 
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Points: 2619 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2010 at 05:16
When You cant work without Prog Music and buy everyday prog albums. When your younger brother die, you go to your room and listen "In the cage". When Progressive be your savior..........
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Points: 3904 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2010 at 10:35
When I download music onto an IPod it has to be an entire album...not just 1 or 2 songs from it. Also I have downladed all my albums into it or plan to anyway, which means I currently have from A-G on one IPod.
 
When I leave my car, I will always restart the song I left off on getting back in.
 
I NEVER buy greatest hit albums or compilations.
 
I hate shortened single versions to songs..i.e... Cinderella Search, or In A Gadda Da Vida for example.
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Points: 3904 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2010 at 10:38
Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

I have a minor OCD when if the album is a concept album, all of the songs have to have equal play counts, I also hesitate to buy an album if it has no tracks that are 7+ minutes
   
That I can relate to.LOL
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Points: 3904 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2010 at 10:41
Originally posted by LastDaysofParadise LastDaysofParadise wrote:

Originally posted by drmfreek drmfreek wrote:

When you see iPod (or other mp3 players) advertisements that list their capacity based on number of songs and just laugh.

This is too funny. LOL
      
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Points: 13 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2010 at 11:13

When you start to lose sanity if you haven't heard or found an original-sounding band in over 7 days...

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Points: 124 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2010 at 14:09

Woah!  Thats terrible.  Very sorry for your loss.

This discussion is a great forum for us progressive fans to discuss the importance of music beyond "simple listening pleasure".  It can have healing qualities to it. 
 
One of my life mantra's has been that "music never lets me down".   No matter what I've gone through in my life, I've always had the music there with me.  To mourn, to celebrate, to help me work, and even to write about and collect and keep lists and provide some backbone structure to my life.  
 
Hell, I manage a large company, and I attribute Rock n Roll (Prog being my favorite) as being a big part of that.  I call myself a R&R Manager, and I've always got music blasting in my office.   I find the whole attitude helps me focus and be creative in certain ways that I can see non-music people don't get.  I'll often kick up the discussion in a meeting because its not working, and I think "this certainly is not Rock n Roll, lets get some R&R infusion in here."    Clap
 
My brother on the other hand has very little music in his life.  I often wonder how he goes through his day with all that silence.
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Points: 279 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 10:33
Originally posted by daria daria wrote:

When you start to lose sanity if you haven't heard or found an original-sounding band in over 7 days...



Haha, I'm the same way
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Points: 12794 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2010 at 10:53
I will almost never buy remastered CDs unless I have the original edition without the bonus tracks
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Points: 1303 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2010 at 18:57
You know you're a prog fan when you can headbang in 9\8. 
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Points: 194 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2010 at 06:36
when you start visting PA too often
when your 8 gb mp3 is small to put the entire discography of the bands you love and the ones you´re still trying to get into
when none of you friends listen the same that you do
when you can´t listen to radio on you car
 
"when routine bites hard and ambitions are low,
and resentment rides high but emotions won´t grow
And we´re changing our ways, taking different roads..
Then love, love will tear us apart again.."
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Points: 1433 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2010 at 12:38
I know I'm a prog addict because I defend the genre passionately whenever somebody insults it; I don't do it with any other types of music I like. It's seems silly, but if we all counted the percentage of our lives spent listening to prog music, we would realise just how significant it is- becoming part of our personalities.

I also do the obsessive play-count thing where every song must have even number of plays......
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