You know you listen to prog too much when
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Topic: You know you listen to prog too much when
Posted By: Man Overboard
Subject: You know you listen to prog too much when
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:37
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You're listening to a prog song and you're like "Wow, what's this time
signature? I've never heard the band explore this before, it's
really weird..." ...and you realize it's 4/4.  |
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:42
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Man Overboard wrote:
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:43
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I wouldn't recognise a time signature if it was carved in blood, and pounding me in the face.
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Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 14:58
I was listening to some Threshold song, and I started thinking
"Man... this sounds like 7/8, but there's this extra beat added
to the end... oh, wait...  "
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 15:17
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You know you listen to prog too much when... ...you go around humming in 9/8. ...you can whistle the guitar solos from every PF song. ...you know every drum fill in every Genesis song. ...you totally "understand" Gentle Giant - and it scares you... ...you forget the opening to "Whipping Post." ...you refer to Eric Clapton as "just another guitarist" ...you know what a "stick" is ...you can immediately tell a real mellotron from a sound sample ...you provide numerous answers to the statement "you know you listen to prog too much when..." Peace. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 15:30
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I keep getting weird rhythms in my head; at the minute there's one in
11/8 which I keep tapping with my hands absent-mindedly. It goes something
like: x--x--x--xx-x--x--x-x- x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x- |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 15:31
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Prog Rhythms affect your whole life........................ ...............I turned to prog when my wife said I made love in double-quick time.
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 16:37
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you know you listen to too much prog when you start thinking the lyrics to Rush's The Trees really are a very perspicacious commentary on industrial relations and the marxist dialectic you think that Peter Gabriel's shaven-headed look is actually rather fetching you agree with Robert Fripp that yes, indeed, everybody is out to get him you cheer up when you hear Roger Waters start singing about his childhood you air drum to apocalypse 9/8... perfectly you feel an overwhelming urge to listen to tales from topograhic oceans ... on repeat play you start thinking ELP were really really good and better than just about anything else on God's green earth |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 16:42
| What is this "Too Much Prog"? |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 17:24
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You've got Robert Fripp's online diary at the top of your 'favourites' list You've got 3 stars or more as a contributor to Progarchives forums ------------- '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: AngelRat
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 17:42
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You know you listen to prog too much when... ...you go to the toilet in 4 parts excluding the epilogue. -------------  |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 18:51
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Posted By: Sweetnighter
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 19:41
 ...when you're having sex and geddy lee is singing about frodo in your head (its happened to me before... really scary stuff) ...when that one missing album in your anthology causes mental anxiety ...when you own every Yes album and still have no f**king clue as to what Jon Anderson is talking about ...when other people tell you their favorite bands and you become deeply and personally offended ... ------------- I bleed coffee. When I don't drink coffee, my veins run dry, and I shrivel up and die. "Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Is that like the bank of Italian soccer death or something?" -my girlfriend |
Posted By: Wrath_of_Ninian
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 19:42
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You know you listen to prog too much when.. ...you are convinced you heard a section of Magma's Kohntarkosz sampled in a DJ Bunion 12" LA remix dance track ...you consciously went out and bought albums like 9021050234810, Black Moon, Tubular Bells III, PFM! PFM?, I Can't Dance etc. ...you start to believe that you could play any instrument better than the members of contemporary drivel such as Dream Theater/Porcupine Tree/etc.( ...you decide to spend the majority of your free time posting nonsense on internet forums instead of getting on with life/interacting with loved ones/fixing broken fences/watching meaningful French cinema/baking bread/reading Nietzsche/Hegel/Heidegger. I listen to too much prog by the way - my girlfriend thinks its 'quaint'... |
), and contemplate starting your own 'original' prog band called "The Directives Of Zangor" spawning 37-minute epics based on multi-universal crusades against the Fairy-Elven Quargs of Sector 9G.Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: January 09 2005 at 19:42
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 10 2005 at 03:36
The sad thing is, so can my wife (now that took training  ) ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: January 10 2005 at 03:42
Hey, that's me! Anyone else in? |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: January 10 2005 at 06:15
No -surely, it's when you start arguing The Trees is about Anglo-Canadian political releationships.................. |
Posted By: chorus of one
Date Posted: January 10 2005 at 06:21
For some reason I read that as 'so can my cat', I was going to say very good effort! 
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Posted By: Swinton MCR
Date Posted: January 10 2005 at 06:28
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When you always look at track lengths when determining to buy a CD...... ------------- Play me my song, here it comes again |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 10 2005 at 07:15
You've done that too, eh? -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: January 10 2005 at 07:20
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Me too - but I'm mean. |
For instance bargains of the week:- Govt. Mule: Deepest End (6 hours plus on 2 CDs and a DVD) for 13 quid locally; and Nick Mason's Pink Floyd book 15 quid at Waterstones and Ottakars Book Shops.