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My best of prog for a girl...

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Topic: My best of prog for a girl...
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Subject: My best of prog for a girl...
Date Posted: November 07 2005 at 14:34

Ok she likes umm Nickelback, Creed, Toto, Coldplay, Some bluesey and funky stuff so this is what i ended up with:

1. At the end of the day-Spocks beard 16:28
2. Roundabout-Yes 8:34
3. Firth Of Filth-Genesis 9:37
4. Rhayader-Camel 3:01
5. The sound of muzak-Porcupine tree 5:00
6. Olsen Olsen-Sigur Ros 8:03
7. Day Eighteen: Realization 4:31
8. Cutting the cards-Arena 4:57
9. Breathing Again-Stream of passion 3:38
10.Hours of wealth-Opeth 5:20
11. Merlin-Kayak 7:51

Around 77 minutes all in all i have included some old prog classics but have tried to steer clear of them old 70's stuff as they might be a bit um strange with the keyboards and stuff...and not everything is exactly prog either but have tried adding something cool anyways....well what ya think? Do you think it will be any good



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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: November 07 2005 at 14:55
Just put on Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye and Lets Get It On by same

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Originally posted by darkshade:

Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.


Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: November 07 2005 at 14:59

I'm slowly working with my GF round prog 2... I stared with some sad, emotional stuff

Me thinks She might get pissed off cuz of the old production... Hope most of 'em are ballads

OR else You might be going a bit 2 far...

I made a list of Songs like:

1.Opeth - Windowpane
2.Opeth - Hope Leaves
3.PoS - 2nd Love
4.PoS - Morning on Earth
5.Anathema - Forgotten Hopes
6.Anathema - One Last Goodbye
7.Dream Theater - Hollow Years
8.Dream Theater - Another Day
9.Shadow Gallery - Hope for us?
10.Shadow Gallery - Comfort Me

I know this is hardly representative but for the 1st time its best... get the harder and more prog stuff next...



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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: November 07 2005 at 15:02
You guys are trying too hard- they will hear the stuff you like and hopefully pick up on it - failing that just accept that people should celebrate DIFFERENCES in people    

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Originally posted by darkshade:

Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.


Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: November 07 2005 at 15:06

^I will not! I wanna make her a better person! If She won't like prog, I'll have 2 kill her & dump her body in a river!!!

*Evil, slightly idiotic laughter*



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Posted By: Cinema
Date Posted: November 07 2005 at 15:08
Glass Hammer has great prog that girls like. Ditto with the following bands:

-- Mostly Autumn

-- White Willow

-- California Guitar Trio

DISCLAIMER: That's the extent of my prog collection that my wife will
tolerate. Your mileage may vary.


Posted By: horza
Date Posted: November 07 2005 at 15:16
Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

^I will not! I wanna make her a better person! If She won't like prog, I'll have 2 kill her & dump her body in a river!!!


*Evil, slightly idiotic laughter*




Yes Officer,I'm calling to report a murder,well its not happened yet.....well its hard to explain.....this guy on a website I visit.....yeah a website.....thats W-E-B-S-I-T-E......oh forget it!!!



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Originally posted by darkshade:

Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.


Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: November 07 2005 at 15:18

Well yeah i though about adding some more accoustic/folky stuff...i thought about Spocks beard-Wind at my back but then i looked at the lyrics and well....

i think perhaps i am in love with her  but i dont want to make it THAT obvious



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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: November 07 2005 at 15:25
Originally posted by horza horza wrote:

Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

^I will not! I wanna make her a better person! If She won't like prog, I'll have 2 kill her & dump her body in a river!!!


*Evil, slightly idiotic laughter*




Yes Officer,I'm calling to report a murder,well its not happened yet.....well its hard to explain.....this guy on a website I visit.....yeah a website.....thats W-E-B-S-I-T-E......oh forget it!!!

watch the evening news!

Whole Europe will be speaking of the bestiality of A Polish Youngster!!!

*Even more evil, slightly idiotic laughter*



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Posted By: anael
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 00:33

hey!
where's Oh Caroline of Matching Mole?

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Posted By: erlenst
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 01:42
I guess Harmonium should be a winner, unless she has no musical taste and is completely closedmind, for which you should dump her anyway.


Posted By: SirPsycho388
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 02:00

My GF is into stuff like Dave Matthews, Sublime, Rap, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Radiohead (thank god)... so i got her into this stuff

Yes - Heart of the Sunrise, I've Seen All Good People

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing, Lazarus

Dream Theater (i force her to listen to everything!)

The Beatles

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (we watched Dark Side of Oz & she loved it)

Rush - 2112, Xanadu, The Trees

*** I think chill/nice songs from prog bands usually work as good segues - my sis started like some Dream Theater when she heard Solitary Shell, now she's borrowed Octavarium and will slowly work her way into the genre (hopefully)



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Posted By: ShW1
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 13:48

Hello all of you.

I think that the question "why girls dont like prog" is important question.

I'm a female, not "girl" anymore.

My taste is not a usual "girl" taste, but steal i dont like prog-metal in general.

I assume that: when the prog just developed, weman where still not enough express themselves in music. while males yell their sexuality to death (like Robert Planet, for example), weman in music where still a "good girls" with "quite and nice" music - Jony Mitchel, Keroll King, etc.

It was not until the late 70' when Kate Bush came around. She gave much better presentation of "woman world" including sexuality of course, and many weman emotions...

But - this was not prog anymore.

After that came Bjork, and expanded the woman possibilites to express themselves... she quite close to prog i think, but it's defenitly not prog.

Then came PJ Harvey -WOW What a woman... what a presentation of weman world... just listen to "little fish big fish swimming in the water, come right here and give me my daughter"... but - not prog at all. blues stuff.

MABY IN THE FUTURE, if there will be a band, with weman singer like these singers, that could express herself, in prog band - maby than.

I dont consider here prog bands with "nice" woman singer.

IF someone know about such a band - let me know.

CHEERS !!!

 

 



Posted By: Persona
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 15:02

Originally posted by ShW1 ShW1 wrote:

I dont consider here prog bands with "nice" woman singer.

Carol Grimes & Delivery



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Posted By: Gianthogweed
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 15:25

Most girls I know liked Renaissance when I played it for them.  Probably because the music is beautiful and there's a female vocalist they could identify with.

My girlfriend loves Peter Gabriel, but doesn't like a lot of early Genesis, especially The Musical Box (my favorite of their songs), because it scares her.  But she kind of likes The Lamb.  She also doesn't like Yes for some reason, except for some of the eighties stuff :(.

She sort of likes Opeth though, although she has to be in the mood for it.  Actually that's how she is with all my music.  She has to be in the mood for it to like it.



Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 15:31
well i will try to give her the cd and see what she thinks...wish me good luck

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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 15:39
Why not play her Afraid 2 Shoot Strangers? Smiths guitar work brings everyone 2 tears!

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Posted By: 19tissuecoins
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 15:44
Guess I'm lucky with this- most of my close friends love prog, and my girlfriend has exactly the same taste in music as I do.


Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 17:39
Put some Barry White when you're with her. Put prog for the times that you're alone at the bathroom... 

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Posted By: Borealis
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 17:51
Find a music girl... don't try to make a normal girl like you stuff, she never will!

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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 18:26
Run Lisette by Glass Hammer is very accesible.
Misplaced Childhood by Marillion is also might work

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Posted By: Rust
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 18:35
Gong always struck me as a group that a girl would dig. Thats not implying anything by me, I love them to death.

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from the heart
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Mental self defensive fitness
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Posted By: lunaticviolist
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 18:54
Originally posted by maidenrulez maidenrulez wrote:

Ok she likes umm Nickelback, Creed, Toto, Coldplay, Some bluesey and funky stuff so this is what i ended up with:

I know you don't want to scare her, but if she likes funky stuff, you've got to give her some Gentle Giant (they're the funkiest prog band).  But obviously, do so with CAUTION!



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