Favorite Cheesy Prog song
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Topic: Favorite Cheesy Prog song
Posted By: Alpine Jones
Subject: Favorite Cheesy Prog song
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 00:02
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Greetings Progonites, What is the lamest song by a prog band that you are ashamed to like. Mine is Burning Bridges by ELP. It just makes me warm in the heart and makes me want to hug terrorists with WMDs. Damn Terrorists. Anyhow, what is your favorite Chessy Prog song,
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Posted By: Heff
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 00:27
| I just listened to Wind and Wuthering for the first time tonight, and I really enjoyed Your Own Special Way, despite the poppy cheesiness of it. Other than that I can't think of any off the top of my head... unlesss Rush's late 80s stuff would be considered cheesy. |
Posted By: decypher
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 00:57
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Yes - Changes Magellan - Impending Ascension Dream Theater - Surrounded Gerard - Everything |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 01:12
Most of Rhapsody songs are considered cheesy, but i still like them  ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: Space_Captain
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 01:15
Time Table - GenesisWhy, why can we never be sure till we die |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 02:09
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Jon And Vangelis - I Hear You Now albumwise
Rick Wakeman - Myths And Legends of King Arthur and The Knights Of The Round Table
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 02:25
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In order to keep up with my Tuller image, I'll say the Overseer Overture. It's just so synthy and over the top. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 02:35
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Yes- Circus of Heaven Genesis - Anything she Does ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 03:34
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"My kind of lady" by Supertramp ------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
Posted By: Masque
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 03:57
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decypher wrote:Posted By: spo1977
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 04:06
| Would "Love Will Find a Way" from Yes count? |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 04:07
i don't see Surrounded by DT to be cheesy as well,but then, everyone has his own opinion i guess...  ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 06:21
Kamelot are probably my fave kind of cheese... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Paul R
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 06:48
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Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 06:59
And Changes is maybe the least cheessy of all the 80's Yes songs. |
Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 08:12
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Transatlantic are pretty damn cheesy, but I can't help but love them for it.
"Innocence and undying love will reign" is one of the cheesiest lyrics ever, but it's so powerful in the context of the song. ------------- 
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 09:28
| Lines in the Sand by Dream Theater. One of the relatively few songs by them I really like, because it isn't that cheesy. But as it is Dream Theater, it can never become completely un-cheesy, so it qualifies. |
Posted By: Lofcaudio
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 12:44
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Harry beat me to Transatlantic, but my favorite is:
We All Need Some Light
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 13:20
Yes!!! So let it be the title track: 'Whoso pulleth out this sword from this stone and anvil shall be the true-born king of all Britain' [Drum roll, on the timpani! Then main theme, played by the orchestra! Then riffy bit, with main theme elaborated on Rick's favourite Moog!] ...Riveting stuff 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 15:26
 
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 15:32
I love Rick Wakeman's 70s albums but there's a high 'cheese' content. Sometimes I think he really should have had a think for a bit, as lyrics were simply not his strong point, imo.  But there's lots of gorgeous music on the albums and some terrific melodies. 'Maker' from 'No Earthly Connection' is a bit Andrew Lloyd Webber lyrically, but the melody and Rick's keyboards are simply stunning.
I had a Magellan album, I think it was 'Impending Ascension' and I found it unbearably cheesy, I'm afraid. Pure bombast and no subtlety whatsoever, imo. Whether their other albums are like that I couldn't comment. The only Dream Theater songs I find cheesy are their ballads. 'Octavarium' was full of them, and I don't go a bundle on 'Another Day' or 'Through Her Eyes', especially the awful Whitney Houston nonsense at the start of it. WHAT were they thinking? 
Uriah Heep's 'Magician's Birthday' piles on the cheese. Now I love them and they are one of my fave bands, but I think that track was more excessive than progressive and was arguably a step too far- not a favourite of mine, doesn't have the sublime beauty of 'The Spell' or the sheer power of 'Pilgrim', their other epics bookending 'The Magician's Birthday'. |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 16:12
I think I get the idea, but my English is leaving me here. What is the proper definition of "cheesy"? ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: Minimalist777
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 16:16
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Hmm, well overdone might be another way to put it.
For me its Another Day by DT and Symphony X in general  ------------- WWOSD? What Would OliverStoned Do? |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 16:21
I think that with the beginning of "Through Her Eyes" they were trying to emulate DSOTM's Great Gig in the Sky.....there are actually quite a few Pink Floyd nods on that album hmmmm.....cheese.... Symphony X- The Odyssey (song)....it's just so overbearingly cheesy but I love it (like all their work actually) oh, and Cygnus X-1, the best cheesy Rush song ever  ------------- 
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 16:22
| Listen to Sacrificed Sons on Dream Theaters Octavarium -album and you'll know what cheesy means. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 16:28
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^Yes, I'd say Octavarium was literally full of cheesy tracks- I Walk Beside You and These Walls anyone??? The only song I liked really was the title track. Now I would personally LOVE them if they were like that every time.
Symphony X define 'cheesy' to my ears. I rather like some of 'The Divine Wings Of Tragedy' but I have a bit of a bugbear with that 'power metal' sound- the operatic choruses etc. 'The Odyssey' had more of that than any prog, imho of course. |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 16:38
What do you mean it´s cheesy? Explain please..
 I think it´s one of their best songs ever.
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Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 16:43
Same here, it's a track that actually retains the DT sound (like the title track of the same album which is amazing, one of their best).....but DT do have their share of cheesy songs.....like Innocence Faded or Another Day (both which I enjoy) -------------
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Posted By: Badabec
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 17:13
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Genesis - Mad Man Moon (A Trick Of The Tail, 1975) I like that song a lot.  ------------- Mesmo a tristeza da gente era mais bela E além disso se via da janela Um cantinho de céu e o Redentor - Antônio Carlos Jobim, Toquinho & Vinícius de Moraes - Carta ao Tom 74 |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 18:34
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Kansas - Magnum Opus
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 18:42
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Anything by Marillion or Ayreon -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: January 20 2007 at 09:26
You're right, it must be the most gorgeous Genesis melody ever. I've adored it from Day One, but I never really understood what it's about... |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 20 2007 at 09:32
Just my opinion. Don't be upset. I said I like the song by the way. |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: January 20 2007 at 09:38
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Walk Beside You: Dream Theater
Lazarus: Porcupine Tree
Shining Star: Post Morse Spock's Beard
Beautiful: Enchant ------------- 
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Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: February 21 2007 at 11:43
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Genesis - Harold the Barrel Rush - Red Lenses
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Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: February 21 2007 at 11:47
Some RTF songs are really cheesy, but I enjoy the hell outta them ------------- Jesus Gabriel |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: February 21 2007 at 12:20
| Rick Wakeman's 70s classics - cheesy !??! What could possibly be cheesy about blokes dressed up as King Arthur's knights skating round on ice??!! |
Posted By: yarstruly
Date Posted: February 21 2007 at 12:23
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OK...Here goes...
Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart & Most YesWest stuff ..I can also enjoy MOST of Open Your Eyes
Rush: I have defended Presto & Roll the Bones here so I guess that says something....
Kansas: Play The Game Tonight, Fight Fire With Fire, and dare I say it..................Perfect Lover
I like both GTR and the 1st 2 Asia albums.....
Tull...Bungle In the Jungle....
Damn...I'm going to have a Heart Attack on all this cheese.... ------------- Facebook hashtags: #100greatestprogrockchallenge #scottssongbysong #scottsspotlight |
Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: February 21 2007 at 12:34
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ELP - For You and Pirates both pile on the cheese to Gorgonzola levels, but in an enjoyable way. ------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: February 21 2007 at 12:39
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Just thought of another: Uriah Heep "Poet's Justice".. it's great but it has it's certain cheesy moments, specially in the part where the guys go "ah!" ------------- Jesus Gabriel |
Posted By: willy
Date Posted: February 21 2007 at 13:05
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Karn Evil 9, 3rd Impression. I love the keys work, but its pretty frawkin cheesy, especially with the "computer" vocals.
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: February 21 2007 at 13:13
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Don't kill the whale.. DIG IT ! ------------- 
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Posted By: yarstruly
Date Posted: February 26 2007 at 15:32
That is a "Very Brady" moment indeed...Dig IT! ------------- Facebook hashtags: #100greatestprogrockchallenge #scottssongbysong #scottsspotlight |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: May 28 2007 at 06:43
Indeed. Perhaps my favorite Gabriel-era Genesis album, and yet HtB sprinkles the 'cheese' big time...
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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: May 28 2007 at 06:49
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Spock's Beard - All On A Sunday ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: May 28 2007 at 06:58
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wait, what's cheesy about Harold the Barrel?
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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: May 28 2007 at 07:35
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Most of Mostly Autumn is delightfully cheesy... ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: May 28 2007 at 12:26
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The last part of Symphony X's "The Odyssey", I think it's called "Death of the Suitors/Champion of Ithaca", and it has the most delightfully cheesy chorus ever! "Triuuuuuumphant, champion of Ithaca!" But in general, I find the cheese factor in Symphony X to be tastefully(tasteful cheese!) balanced with the quality of their music. And oh! How can I forget.... "Dawn of Victory" by Rhapsody! Absolutely love it! ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: May 29 2007 at 08:58
Like the original post says, "What is the lamest song by a prog band that you are ashamed to like."
While I like the song for the most part, I wouldn't want my friends to know I like listening to it, no less that the mighty Progressive Genesis. I'd have trouble pleading my case of their awesomeness with HtB playing. And it really doesn't fit well with the other songs. Maybe it's the placement of the song on the album. -------------
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Posted By: MusicForSpeedin
Date Posted: May 29 2007 at 13:33
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I walk beside you - Dream Theater
this song is amazingly cheesy...and terrible
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: May 29 2007 at 14:57
But wait! What about its Deeply Sensitive Middle Section? |
Posted By: Hallogallo
Date Posted: May 29 2007 at 22:55
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Yes - Don't Kill The Whale. The video for this song is just horrid haha Gentle Giant - Giant For A Day. Total cheese rocker, but it rules! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Drekavac/?chartstyle=iTunesFIXED"> 
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