Prog as a lifestyle.
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Topic: Prog as a lifestyle.
Posted By: selling_echoes
Subject: Prog as a lifestyle.
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:00
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The question may sound stupid as you read it, but I was thinking about how music is usually the start of labelling - people who listen to rap being rappers and/or gangstas, and heavy metal guys being Satanists, progheads being undeniable freaks (kidding  ) -- I was just wondering, do you guys consider prog a lifestyle in some way? |
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:05
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That's an interesting question but for me prog is just music that I listen to and a basis for choosing some of the bands I see in concert. And er...obsessing about it in web forums. How dull was that answer???? ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:23
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Not at all.Most of the forum members here like other genres of music; from Ian Dury to Messiaen it's all here. Mind you, with the possible exception of Jim Garten and Asuma,WE DONT DANCE!
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:27
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:30
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It is the youngsters i worry about. Hey EDDy:
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:31
Well BEAR is not good for young people  ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: selling_echoes
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 12:07
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I'm curious though, do many of you listen to hip-hop? The thought crossed my mind that I
have never met one person with a mixture of prog and rap. Metal and rap
maybe. But never progressive as we call it today. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 12:33
I would rather stick wasps up my a*** ------------- 
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selling_echoes wrote:Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 12:40
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 12:54
A little, mainly those using jazz samples, or similar. I like A Tribe Called Quest, Ozomatli, Heiruspecs. Not much though, and I do try to find some musicians I like in every style. Why? Why not? PS the vast majority of "prog" metal listeners are vehemently anti hip hop (and often anti progressive music too, but that's another story!) |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 13:24
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A lot of rap becomes quite boring after the first couple of times you hear it, although some rappers are undeniably good lyricists. A lot of my favourite contemporary acts incorporate elements of rap into their music, often to great effect - Ozomatli have already been mentioned, also some trip hop acts like Massive Attack. The only purely hip hop/rap album I ever really went for was De La Soul's 3 Feet High And Rising. Mind you, if we're talking about rappers, what about Gil Scott-Heron, or the Last Poets - that's what I call rap. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 13:29
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I have a female friend who loves prog and rap.... ------------- THIS IS ELP 
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Posted By: Azrael2112
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 13:44
I do....sometimes, but only in the car. I give prog my full attention at home 
I have a few rap cd's, mostly Public Enemy. And the music of my youth - Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" and some Snoop Dogg.  ------------- http://www.flywithjet.com"> 
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Posted By: Captain Fudge
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 13:59
You know, the only three kids that listen to prog in my class are the ones with top grades ,the ones you can talk to about something more than football and stiffies , the kids whose parents were the best in college and who are, if not highly sucessful in life, then at least are happy with what they have achieved. I think that sums it up.------------- 
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Posted By: Captain Fudge
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 14:01
Oh yeah, Echoes, how would you define grungies? I'm a grunmgie and I go to church, have no sucidal tendenciesd, and don't feel an urge to wear ripped jeans. -------------
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: January 07 2005 at 14:11
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Almost exactly my hip-hop tastes. Though I also got into Boogie Down Productions, Urban Dance Squad and of course the Beasties. I was always a big fan of the cut-and-paste production techniques (when it didn't involve simply sampling whole passages from other songs), and I'm sure that had something to do with my appreciation for bands like Portishead, Propellerheads, etc... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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