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Topic: Favourites.
Posted By: The Hemulen
Subject: Favourites.
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:20
A fun quick one for you all! Fill out this wee form with your own responses!
Favourite Band:
Favourite Album From Favourite Band:
Favourite Song From Favourite Album:
Favourite Member of Favourite Band:
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band:
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band:
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band:
Phew! Well, once you've done that if you have ideas for other
categories to add then do so! I hope this thread runs for a while and
it might introduce new bands to people. 
All right then, here's my own responses:
Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: In a Glass House
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Experience
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Kerry Minnear (Keys, vibes, cello and others)
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Excerpts From Octopus
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Vibes solo from any live version of Funny Ways
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
See me, what I am, what I was, what I'll be,
Hear me, understand that I'm not what you see
Take this, take the man, middle term, common me
Don't you see that I'm just doing what I want to do
Nothing more and nothing less than you
Read no thoughts I didn't think myself
Just the same as anybody else
Make me someone else, put me up on a stand.
Something that I don't really want on my hands
Use me, idolise all you can understand
Don't you see that I'm just doing what I want to do
Nothing more and nothing less than you
Read no thoughts I didn't think myself
Just the same as anybody else
Change it, what you think, what you thought, what you say
Look for something more than you sought yesterday.
I don't want to be part of your life to-day.
Don't you see that I'm just doing what I want to do
Nothing more and nothing less than you
Read no thoughts I didn't think myself
Just the same as anybody else
Favourite Reasons For Loving Favourite Band: Sheer mind-blowing originality, inventiveness and skill.
Your turn!
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Replies:
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:26
Favourite Band: Marillion
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Misplaced Childhood
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Heart of Lothian
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Steve Rothery
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Incubus
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Sugar Mice
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
"It's six o clock in the tower blocks
the stalagmites of culture shock
and the trippers of the light fantastic
bow down, hoe down
Spray the pheremones on
this perfume uniform"
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Kick ass vocals.
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:38
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Good call on the lyrics, there are so many there could be on that album though. I might do it later, but it couldn't be my favourite band, I'd have to choose one that's up there...
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Posted By: Retrovertigo
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:43
Favourite Band: Well, person, Frank Vincent Zappa.
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Oh geez, uh... um... Roxy & Elsewhere.
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Echidna's Arf (Of You)
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Vinnie Colaiuta
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: 
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Village of the Sun/Echidna's Arf (Of You)/Don't You Ever Wash That Thing suite.
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Inca Roads guitar solo by Frank.
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Absolutely Free
Suzy: I don't do publicity balling for you anymore
FZ: The first word in this song is discorporate.
It means to leave your body
Discorporate & come with me
Shifting; drifting
Cloudless; starless
VELVET VALLEYS & A SAPPHIRE
SEA: Wah Wah
Unbind your mind
There is no time
To lick your stamps
And paste them in
DISCORPORATE
And we will begin . . .WAH WAH!
(Flower Power Sucks)
Diamonds on velvets on goldens on vixen
On comet & cupid on donner & blitzen
On up & away & afar & a go-go
Escape from the weight of your corporate logo!
UNBIND YOUR MIND
THERE IS NO TIME
Boin-n-n-n-n-n-g
TO LICK YOUR STAMPS
AND PASTE THEM IN
DISCORPORATE
AND WE'LL BEGIN
FREEDOM! FREEDOM!
KINDLY LOVING!
YOU'LL BE ABSOLUTELY FREE
ONLY IF YOU WANT TO BE
Dreaming on cushions of velvet & satin
To music by magic by people that happen
To enter the world of a strange purple Jello
The dreams as they live them are all mellow yellow
UNBIND YOUR MIND
THERE IS NO TIME
Boin-n-n-n-n-n-g
TO LICK YOUR STAMPS
AND PASTE THEM IN
DISCORPORATE
AND WE'LL BEGIN
FREEDOM! FREEDOM!
KINDLY LOVING!
YOU'LL BE ABSOLUTELY FREE
ONLY IF YOU WANT TO BE
YOU'LL BE ABSOLUTELY FREE
ONLY IF YOU WANT TO BE
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: The originality, the Ripley's Believe It Or Not playing, the innovation, the sheer genius.
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Posted By: Retrovertigo
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 18:54
I'm going again, deal with it.
Favourite Band: The Residents
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Not Available
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Part One: Edweena
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: 
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: 
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: God's Magic Finger
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Snakefinger's guitar solo in Moisture.
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
Fingertips
Something faintly emanating
Perfume and decay
Whispered lightly in the wind
That she had got away
Longing for the touch of something
Soft upon my face
I thought about her fingertips
And not her lack of grace
Sorry about those lyrics if they seem too serious for you, they're of sentimental value.
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: The most original band I've ever heard, and very intelligent people.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:06
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Band: King Crimson
Album: Discipline
Song From Album: Indiscipline (but that is tied with everything eles)
Member: Fripp
Cover: ITCOTCK, The Power To Believe
Live Song: Too many to name
Solo: Fripp's On The Worlds My Oyster....(at least at this moment)
Lyrics: Elephant Talk, The World's My Oyster..., Happy Family
Reason: Kick-assness and IMO the begining of prog.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:07
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Favourite Band: Van der Graaf Generator
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Tough, but I'll go with "Godbluff", since it was my first.
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Tough again. Arrow.
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Peter Hammill
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Oh my. Still Life.
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Van der Graaf Generator is not really about solos, but for weirdness sake the guitar-"solo" of Peter Hammill at the end of "Meurglys III - the Songwriters Guild".
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Difficult again. Currently "Nutter Alert". Here the lyrics:
It might come in a letter,
darkness falls in a telephone call;
I await the unexpected
with one ear to the party wall.
Is it the pricking of the conscience,
is it the itching of hair shirt,
is it the dictionary definition
of a precipice to skirt?
It's the nutter alert.
Though this face is familiar
something in it has bred contempt;
I never asked for your opinion
or your back-handed compliments.
Oh, but here comes that special nonsense
all the words out in a spurt,
the unhinging of the trolley
as the mouth begins to blurt...
it's the nutter alert
I can see we're in trouble
from that glint in the eye you've got;
there's no sense to the story,
comprehensively lost, the plot.
And how contorted is that logic
you so forcefully exert:
you're a car crash in the making,
head-on, that's a racing cert.
It's the nutter alert,
this is the nutter alert.
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: The unique voice of Peter Hammill. Also this is a band which is more than just a sum of its parts. There are certainly bands with greater virtuosos on their instruments (except Peter Hammill as a singer), but once again: This is not what Van der Graaf Generator is all about. Van der Graaf Generator are a band full of energy.
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:11
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:12
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Favourite Band:
Rush
Favourite Album From Favourite Band:
Moving Pictures
Favourite Song From Favourite Album:
Tom Sawyer
Favourite Member of Favourite Band:
Alex Lifeson,far better than many people realise.
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band:
ByTor & The Snow Dog (From ATWAS)
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band:
Guitar Solo in La Villa Strangiato.
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
The Camera Eye:
I
Grim-faced and forbidding,
Their faces closed tight,
An angular mass of New Yorkers
Pacing in rhythm,
Race the oncoming night,
They chase through the streets of Manhattan.
Head-first humanity,
Pause at a light,
Then flow through the streets of the city.
They seem oblivious
To a soft spring rain,
Like an English rain
So light, yet endless
From a leaden sky.
The buildings are lost
In their limitless rise.
My feet catch the pulse
And the purposeful stride.
I feel the sense of possibilities,
I feel the wrench of hard realities.
The focus is sharp in the city.
II
Wide-angle watcher
On life's ancient tales,
Steeped in the history of London.
Green and grey washes
In a wispy white veil
Mist in the streets of Westminster.
Wistful and weathered,
The pride still prevails,
Alive in the streets of the city.
Are they oblivious
To this quality?
A quality
Of light unique to
Every city's streets.
Pavements may teem
With intense energy,
But the city is calm
In this violent sea.
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band:
You wanna try and stop me?
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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:13
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cool game!
trouser you won't like this but....
- Favourite Band: Genesis
- Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Foxtrot / Selling England by the Pound (Virtual Tie)
- Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Can Utility / Cinema Show
- Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Tony Banks (Keyboards)
- Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
A Trick of the Tail (1976)
- Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Supper's Ready ( on Genesis Archive Vol. 1)
- Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Steve Hackett at the end of "Los Endos"
- Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
Carpet Crawlers (1974)
There is lambswool under my naked feet.
The wool is soft and warm,
Gives off some kind of heat.
A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed.
Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid.
The fleas cling to the golden fleece,
Hoping theyll find peace.
Each thought and gesture are caught in celluloid.
Theres no hiding in my memory.
Theres no room to void.
The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor.
For my second sight of people, theyve more lifeblood than before.
Theyre moving. Theyre moving in time to a heavy wooden door,
Where the needles eye is winking, closing in on the poor.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
Weve got to get in to get out
Weve got to get in to get out.
Theres only one direction in the faces that I see;
Its upward to the ceiling, where the chambers said to be.
Like the forest fight for sunlight, that takes root in every tree.
They are pulled up by the magnet, believing that theyre free.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
Weve got to get in to get out
Weve got to get in to get out.
Mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite,
And the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright.
Through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlight;
Its the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
Weve got to get in to get out
Weve got to get in to get out.
The porcelain mannikin with shattered skin fears attack.
The eager pack lift up their pitchers- the carry all they lack.
The liquid has congealed, which has seeped out through the crack,
And the tickler takes his stickleback.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
Weve got to get in to get out
Weve got to get in to get out.
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Elegant, symphonic prog, with wonderful melodies, intense lyrics, a prog giant without constant soloing
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:14
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Favorite Band: Genesis
Favorite Album: Foxtrot
Favorite Song from Favorite Album: Supper's Ready
Favorite Member: Tony Banks
Favorite Album Cover: Foxtrot
Favorite Live Song: Medley - In the Cage/Cinema Show/Slippermen/Afterglow
Favorite Solo: Firth of Fifth
Favorite Lyric: Ripples
Ripples...
Bluegirls come in every size
Some are wise and some otherwise,
They got pretty blue eyes.
For an hour a man may change
For an hour her face looks strange -
Looks strange, looks strange.
Marching to the promised land
Where the honey flows and takes you by the hand,
Pulls you down on your knees,
While you're down a pool appears.
The face in the water looks up,
And she shakes her head as if to say
That it's the last time you'll look like today.
Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
Gone to the other side.
Sail away, away.
The face that launched a thousand ships
Is sinking fast, that happens you know,
The water gets below.
Seems not very long ago
Lovelier she was than any that I know.
Angels never know it's time
To close the book and gracefully decline,
The song has found a tale.
My, what a jealous pool is she.
The face in the water looks up
She shakes her head as if to say
That the bluegirls have all gone away.
Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
They've gone to the other side.
Look into the pool,
Ripples never come back,
Dive to the bottom and go to the top
To see where they have gone
Oh, they've gone to the other side...
Sail away, away
Ripples never come back.
Gone to the other side.
Look into the pool,
The ripples never come back, come back,
Dive to the bottom and go to the top
To see where they have gone
They've gone to the other side
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Posted By: Semprini
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:17
Favourite Band: Van der Graaf Generator
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: probably Godbluff, if I
had to choose.
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Undercover Man
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Peter Hammill
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: Vital
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Still Life
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: VdGG wasn't about solos,
I'd have to go with Meruglyss III like BaldJean
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Humn, I'd say Lost I
guess
So here we are, or rather, here am I, quite alone;
I'm seeing things that were shared before, long ago;
my memory stretches and I am dazed.
You know I know
how good the time was and how I laughed.
Times have changed, now you're far away, I can't complain -
I had all my chances but they slipped right through my hands
like so much sand;
I know I'll never dance like I used to.
I'll just wait till day breaks upon the land and the sea,
hoping that I can catch all of the memories;
then I must crawl off upon my way,
all of me listening hard for the final words.
But there are none, the sunrise calls, I've lingered on
too close for comfort and I don't know quite why
I feel like crying -
I know we'll never dance like we used to.
I look up, I'm almost blinded
by the warmth of what's inside me
and the taste that's in my soul,
but I'm dead inside as I stand alone.
(The Dance in Frost)
I wore my moods like different sets of clothes
but the right one was never around
and as you left I heard my body ring
and my mind began to howl.
It was far to late to contemplate the meaning of it all;
You know that I need you, but somehow
I don't think you see my love at all.
At some point I lost you, I don't know quite how that was.
The wonderland lay in a coat of white, chilling frost;
I looked around and I found I was truly lost...
without your hand in mine I am dead.
Reality is unreal and games I've tried just aren't the same:
without your smile there's nowhere to hide
and deep inside
I know I've never cried as I'm about to ...
If I could just frame the words
that would make your fire burn
all this water now around me could be the love
that should surround me.
Looking out through the tears that blind me
my heart bleeds that you may find me
or at least that I can
forget and be numb,
but I can't stop, the words still come:
I love you.
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: This is an odd
question. The greatest vocalist the worrld has ever known "The
Jim iHendrix of the voice", the unique combination of
instruments and instantly recognizable sound. The fact that
with all their albums and all of Hammill's solo album sthere
hasn't been a bad track yet, I could go on...
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:27
Since Jean took VdGG from me I'll go for Gong.
Favourite Band: Gong
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: You
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Master Builder
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Pierre Moerlen
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: "Radio Gnome" in the version on "Gong Live etc."
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: The sax solo of Didier Malherbe in the studio version of "Master Builder".
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
#top" name="thoughts - Thoughts For Naught
If you want to fly,
if you want to become a star
a superhero
You could try the ascension of the great pyramid of life
Counting again and again from one to nine
Approaching and pushing away infinity - O sweet absurdity!
But if you prefer that old silly number zero
You'll become a master of doing nothing - being nothing.
Favourite Reason For Loving
Favourite Band: Has the best instrumentalists in prog on two positions:
Pierre Moerlen on drums and Didier Malherbe on woodwinds. And Steve
Hillage and Mike Howlett on guitar and bass are by no means slouches!
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BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Posted By: Retrovertigo
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:39
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WHY WAS THIS MOVED TO JUST FOR FUN?
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 19:43
 Retrovertigo wrote:
WHY WAS THIS MOVED TO JUST FOR FUN?
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Because, apparently, talking about your favourite bands isn't a serious issue in a music forum.
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Posted By: trailrunner
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 20:30
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Favourite Band: Genesis
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Selling England By The Pound
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Peter Gabriel
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: A Trick Of The Tail
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Supper’s Ready
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Steve Hackett in Firth Of Fifth
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Get ‘Em Out By Friday
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Song structures like Firth of Fifth where complex instrumental parts wind their way back to the original theme.
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Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: July 06 2005 at 15:06
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Favourite Band: TOOL
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Lateralus
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Lateralus
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Danny Carey
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Part of Me
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Push*t
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
If when I say I might fade like a sigh if I stay
You minimize my movement anyway
I must persuade you another waaaaaaayy.
Staring down the hole again
Hands are on my back again
survival is my only friend
Terrified of what may come.
Remember I'll always love you
as a tear your f**king throat away
There will be no other way.
...There's no love in fear.
--Push*t
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: I am not a Tool fan. Tool fans are pretentious.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 06 2005 at 16:02
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Favourite Band: YES
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: GOING FOR THE ONE
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: AWAKEN
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: JON ANDERSON
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: SIBERIAN KHATRU
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: RICK WAKEMAN'S EXCERPTS FROM THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY 8TH (maybe over the top for some, but oh so wonderful)
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: (from Awaken:)
High vibration go on
to the sun, oh let my heart dreaming
past a mortal as me.
Where can I be?
Wish the sun to stand still.
Reaching out to touch our own being
Past a mortal as we
Here we can be
We can be here.
Like the time I ran away
and turned around
and you were standing close to me.
Like the time I ran away
and turned around
and you were standing close to me.
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY MIND-BOGGLING AND NEVER GET BORING. GREAT COMPOSITIONS, SIMPLE AS WELL AS COMPLEX, SOULFUL, GREAT PRODUCTION, ADVENTUROUS, GREAT HARMONIES, INNOVATIVE!
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Posted By: Hammill
Date Posted: July 06 2005 at 17:53
FAVOURITE BAND: VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
FAVOURITE ALBUM: PFF WELL ALL OF THEM MEAN THE SAME TO ME BUT I CHOOSE PAWN HEARTS
FAVOURITE SONG FROM FAVORITE ALBUM: A PLAGUE OF LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS
FAVOURITE MEMBER FROM FAVORITE BAND: PETER HAMMILL
FAVOURITE COVER ART FROM FAVORITE BAND:
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FAVOURITE LIVE SONG FROM FAVORITE BAND: STILL LIFE AND PIONEERS OVER C
FAVOURITE SOLO FROM FAVORITE BAND: AS BALDJEAN MENTIONED VDDG IS NOT
THE BAND OF VIRTUOSOS MUSICIANS AND I LOVE EVERY SECOND OF THEIR MUSIC
SO I CAN'T REALLY DECIDE.
FAVOURITE LYRICS FROM FAVORITE BAND: ANOTHER DIFFICULT DECISION, PFFF I
CHOOSE MAN-ERG ONLY BECAUSE I HAVE TO (I LOVE ALL THEIR LYRICS)
FAVOURITE REASON FOR LOVING FAVOURITE BAND: PETER HAMMILL'S VOICE AND
HIS SPECIAL TALENT IN WRITING LYRICS AND MUSIC. VDGG WAS(AND STILL IS)
THE GROUP THAT GAVE (AND STILL DOES) ME COURAGE THROUGH ITS MUSIC IN
DIFFICULT TIMES OF MY LIFE......ETERNALLY GRATEFUL.
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Posted By: Syntharachnid
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 14:09
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Favorite Band: Yes
Favorite Album: Tales from Topographic Oceans
Favorite Song: The Revealing Science of God (Well, actually I prefer both CTTE and Gates, but Revealing is my favorite from Topo.)
Favorite Member: Jon Anderson or Rick Wakeman (Jon because he's the biggest creative force in the band, and Rick because he amuses me.  )
Favorite Cover Art:
Favorite Live Song: Oh, don't do this to me. I'm going to have to say the Yessongs version of Perpetual Change because it is so different from (and so much better than) the original.
Favorite Solo: The pipe organ/Minimoog/Hammond solo in CTTE.
Favorite Lyrics: Oh man. Once you figure out at least something of what the lyrics to CTTE mean they are quite clever, but for now I'll have to go with Gates of Delerium.
Stand and fight we do consider
Reminded of an inner pact between us
That’s seen as we go
And ride there
In motion
To fields in debts of honour defending
Stand the marchers soaring talons
Peaceful lives will not deliver freedom
Fighting we know,
Destroy oppression
The point to reaction
As leaders look to you attacking
Choose and renounce throwing chains to the floor
Kill or be killing faster sins correct the flow
Casting giant shadows off vast
Penetrating force
To alter via the war that seen
As frictions spans the spirits’ wrath ascending to redeem
Wars that shout in screams of anguish
Power spent passion bespoils our soul receiver
Surely we know.
In glory we rise to offer,
Create our freedom, a word, we utter a word.
Words cause our banner, victorious our day
Will silence be promised as violence display
The curse increased we fight the pow’r and live by it by day
Our gods awake in thunderous roars and guide
The leader’s hands in paths of glory to the cause
Listen should we fight forever
Knowing as we do know
Fear destroys?
Listen should we leave our children?
Listen our lives stare in silence
Help us now
Listen your friends have been broken
They tell us of your poison
Now we know
Kill them give them as they give us
Slay them burn their children’s laughter
On to hell
The fist will run
Grasp metal to gun
The spirit sings in crashing tones we gain the battle drum
Our cries will shrill the air will moan and crash into the dawn
The pen won’t stay the demon’s wings, the hour approaches
Pounding out the devil’s sermon
Soon oh soon the light
Pass within and soothe this endless night
And wait here for you
Our reason to be here
Soon oh soon the time
All we move to gain will reach and calm
Our heart is open
Our reason to be here
Long ago, set into rhyme
Soon oh soon the light
Ours to shape for all time, ours the right
The sun will lead us
Our reason to be here
Soon oh soon the light
Ours to shape for all time, ours the right
The sun will lead us
Our reason to be here
These step away from Jon's usual Andersonian mumbo jumbo, and make thier point very well.
Farovite Reason: They sound like Genesis but with more tasteless, self-indulgent soloing!
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Posted By: Syntharachnid
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 18:19
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I had so much fun with that first one that I'm going to do another for one of my second favorite bands: Genesis.
Favorite album: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Favorite song: In the Cage (Once again, I prefer a few songs over this, notably Supper's Ready and Firth of Fifth, but this is my favorite from Lamb.)
Favorite member: Peter Gabriel (duh)
Favorite cover art:
Favorite live song: The live version of Musical Box, because it's a brilliant song, and is more listenable than the terribly mixed studio version.
Favorite solo: Tony in Firth of Fifth
Favorite Lyrics: Supper's Ready, but they're too long to post here. I like these, too:
Echoes of the broadway everglades,
With her mythical madonnas still walking in their shades:
Lenny bruce, declares a truce and plays his other hand.
Marshall mcluhan, casual viewin’, head buried in the sand.
Sirens on the rooftops wailing, but there’s no ship sailing.
Groucho, with his movies trailing, stands alone with his punchline
Failing.
Klu klux klan serve hot soul food and the band plays ’in the mood’
The cheerleader waves her cyanide wand, there’s a smell of
Peach blossom and bitter almonde.
Caryl chessman sniffs the air and leads the parade, he knows
In a scent, you can bottle all you made.
There’s howard hughes in blue suede shoes, smiling at the
Majorettes smoking winston cigarettes.
And as the song and dance begins, the children play at home
With needles; needles and pins.
Brilliantly clever!
Favorite reason: They sound like Yes, but with less tasteless, self-indulgent soloing!
Oh yeah, and they have both the best frontman and best concept album to their name.
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: August 13 2005 at 21:04
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Since Supertramp is art rock, I'll choose my favorite symphonic prog band:
- Fav. Band: Genesis
- Fav. Album: Foxtrot
- Fav. Song: All of them
- Fav. Member: Phil Collins (before 1981)
- Fav. Cover: Nursery Cryme
- Fav. Live song: Many!!
- Fav. Solo: can't decide
- Fav. Lyrics: many (again)!!
- Reason: Genesis was one of the first "real" prog bands i heard, and their music is truly mind blowing!
Since im bored at this moment, I'll write a little bit more.
- Snd. Fav. band: Gentle Giant
- Fav. Album: Octopus
- Fav. song: The five first on the album
- Fav. Member: All of them!
- Fav. Cover: Gentle Giant, Octopus
- Fav. Live song: MANY!!
- Fav. solo: AGAIN, Many!!
- Fav. Lyrics: Don't know.
- Reason: GG was one of the few prog. bands I really loved from the first second I heard them, and their music is brilliant and complex!
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 00:29
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Favourite Band: Rush
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: A Farewell To Kings
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Xanadu
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Neil Peart- great lyrics, insane drumming
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: That's hard....Grace Under Pressure
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: By-Tor And The Snowdog from Different Stages- Disc 3
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: The Necromancer Part II: Under The Shadow
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
A Farewell To Kings
When they turn the pages of history
When these days have passed long ago
Will they read of us with sadness
For the seeds that we let grow
We turned our gaze
From the castles in the distance
Eyes cast down
On the path of least resistance
Cities full of hatred
Fear and lies
Withered hearts
And cruel, tormented eyes
Scheming demons
Dressed in kingly guise
Beating down the multitude
And scoffing at the wise
The hypocrites are slandering
The sacred halls of Truth
Ancient nobles showering
Their bitterness on youth
Can't we find
The minds that made us strong
Can't we learn
To feel what's right and wrong
Cities full of hatred
Fear and lies
Withered hearts
And cruel, tormented eyes
Scheming demons
Dressed in kingly guise
Beating down the multitude
And scoffing at the wise
Can't we raise our eyes
And make a start
Can't we find the minds
To lead us closer to the Heart
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Dude....it's Rush!!
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Posted By: Laurent
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 01:20
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Favourite Band: Yes
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Close To The Edge
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Close To The Edge
Favourite Member of Favourite Band:I can't choose
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band:Roudabout from Yessongs
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band:Steve Howe -Awaken
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: "A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace,
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace"
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Their music is orgasmic, passionate and majestic.
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:16
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I'll leave my mainstream preferences (Genesis, Peter Gabriel Pink Floyd) to pitch another fave of mine:
Favourite Band: 
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Merlin, Bard of the Unseen
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Niniane
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Cindy Oudshoorn (guest vocals)
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Chance for a life time
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: the street barrel organ in Mammoth
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
The fight is over
The war is lost and I see
A lifeless soldier, staring at me
Fear and despair drawing his face
Left in this godforsaken place
Who cares for the nameless so far from home.
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: to my taste they made more 10/10 songs than any other band.
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Posted By: Vegetable_Man
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 14:44
Favourite Band: Pink Floyd
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Animals
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Dogs
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: David Gilmour
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: Atom heart Mother
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: One of These Days
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Shine On You Crazy Diamond Solos
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Dogs- "You
have to be trusted, by the people that you lied to, so that when they
turn their backs on you, you'll get the chance to put the knife in!"
(solo)
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Amazing lyrics, amazing music, amazing live performance, they're f*cking amazing.
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Posted By: MustShaveBeard
Date Posted: August 14 2005 at 19:02
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Damn you TP, you stole my first four! Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: In a Glass House
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Experience
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Kerry Minnear
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: 
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: I'll have to wait until Aug. 23rd to be able to answer that (the release of the remastered Playing the Fool)
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: organ solo from "Working All Day"
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: There coming over Charaton Bridge
Look do you see the man who is poor
but rich.
What do you wish; and where do you go;
Who are you; where are you from:
will you tell me your name?
Rest awhile; call me your friend.
Please stay with me I'd like to help.
Then he said,
How can I speak when I'm dry and my
throat is burning. So bring me aid
and I'll answer your doubts.
Friend in need I'd like your help
Please take me home I'll stay with you.
Then said he fair Pantagruel
My name is Panurge and I have come
from Hell.
Look at my friend
Look all around you
Look at my friend
Take all round you.
Hey, Friend
(Improvised foreign words in middle
section)
So brotherhood was made as their bond
Carried him home and provide for his
needs
and his shelter; this day was done
as no other the like.
Faithfully their vow was made and from
that day they were as one.
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Absolutely no one else sounds like them; brilliant, complex but completely unpretentious
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Posted By: little_neutrino
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 22:56
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Because it's a little hard to do Mike Oldfield (not having much good material live, and, being only one person, question 4 becomes a bit redundant  ) and everyone else has already done Yes, Genesis, and Gentle Giant, I shall do another band which, although not my all-time desert-island favourite, is pretty dang good nonetheless:
Favourite Band: Jethro Tull
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Heavy Horses (but there are close seconds, thirds, fourths and fifths)
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Weathercock. Or Rover.
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: (Obviously) Ian Anderson.
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Because there's so much to look at and read on the original LP (which folds out like a newspaper) that it really was worth hunting down.
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: I think they did a neat re-do of Beethoven's 9th sometime in the 70's - it was the second movement, and one of my favourite parts therein, and it was Tull redoing a classical thing, so I was like, "holy crap! This is clearly beyond awesome!" Then I discovered ELP and Steve Vai and realised that this 'borrowing-from-classical-music' sort of thing wasn't rare. But all the same.
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Flute Solo from Locomotive Breath (from Aqualung). That right there is what took me in.
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Several! But I think The Story of the Hare who Lost His Spectacles (from A Passion Play) wins out of its sheer pointlessness (and thus its necessity):
This is the story of the hare who lost his spectacles.
Owl loved to rest quietly whilst no one was watching.
Sitting on a fence one day, he was surprised when suddenly a kangaroo ran close by.
Now this may not seem strange, but when Owl overheard Kangaroo whisper to no one in particular,
"The hare has lost his spectacles," well, he began to wonder.
Presently, the moon appeared from behind a cloud and there, lying on the grass was hare.
In the stream that flowed by the grass a newt.
And sitting astride a twig of a bush a bee.
Ostensibly motionless, the hare was trembling with excitement,
for without his spectacles he appeared completely helpless.
Where were his spectacles? Could someone have stolen them? Had he mislaid them? What was he to do?
Bee wanted to help, and thinking he had the answer began:
"You probably ate them thinking they were a carrot."
"No!" interrupted Owl, who was wise.
"I have good eye-sight, insight, and foresight.
How could an intelligent hare make such a silly mistake?"
But all this time, Owl had been sitting on the fence, scowling!
A Kangaroo were hopping mad at this sort of talk.
She thought herself far superior in intelligence to the others.
She was their leader, their guru. She had the answer:
"Hare, you must go in search of the optician."
But then she realized that Hare was completely helpless without his spectacles.
And so, Kangaroo loudly proclaimed, "I can't send Hare in search of anything!"
"You can, guru, you can!" shouted Newt.
"You can send him with Owl."
But Owl had gone to sleep.
Newt knew too much to be stopped by so small a problem
"You can take him in your pouch."
But alas, Hare was much too big to fit into Kangaroo's pouch.
All this time, it had been quite plain to Hare that the others knew nothing about spectacles.
As for all their tempting ideas, well Hare didn't care.
The lost spectacles were his own affair.
And after all, Hare did have a spare a-pair.
A-pair.
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: I used to listen to these guys when I was just a kid (an even smaller neutrino!). Part of it is that they're *good*, and they had a flute as a main instrument which I thought was kind of cool, but the other part is just sentimentalism. My friends grew up with New Kids on the Block - I grew up with Tull. So that's what happened to me!
Ahhh ... too much fun. Great idea, Mr. Press!! 
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Posted By: Fearless
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 14:30
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Trouserpress wrote:
A tough one....I'll hesitate, but I have to go with Genesis to be honest, even though everyone else is picking them.
Favourite Band: Genesis
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: favorite: A Trick of the Tail best: Selling England by the Pound
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: 1) Mad Man Moon/Cinema Show-Aisle of Plenty 2)Firth of Fith 3)Dancing With the Moonlight Knight, Entangled, Ripples, Los Endos, After the Ordeal, etc, etc,......they're all great.
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: all of them....but if I must pick: Steve Hackett
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
*Honorable Mention*
*Selling England by the Pound (1973) Foxtrot (1972) Tresspass (1970) A Trick of the Tail (1976)*
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Supper's Ready, Dancing With the Moonlight Knight, Cinema Show
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: 1)Tony Banks synth/keyboards on Cinema Show 2)Mellotron on Watcher of the Skies 3)just about any of Steve Hackett's guitar solos (Firth of Fifth, Dancing With the Moonlight Knight, Ikhnaton and Itsacon, end of Fountain of Salmacis, Ripples) 4) Gabriels flute at the beginning of Apocalypse in 9/8, etc etc,....there's way too many
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: mostly all of them, but oh well.....
Squonk
Like father like son
Not flesh nor fish nor bone
A red rag hangs from an open mouth.
Alive at both ends but a little dead in the middle,
A-tumbling and a-bumbling he will go.
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Could never put a smile on that face.
He's a sly one, he's a shy one
Wouldn't you be too.
Scared to be left all on his own.
Hasn't a, hasn't a friend to play with, the Ugly Duckling
The pressure on, the bubble will burst before our eyes.
All the while in perfect time
His tears are falling on the ground
BUT IF YOU DON'T STAND UP YOU DON'T STAND A CHANCE.
Go a little faster now, you might get there in time.
Mirror mirror on the wall,
His heart was broken long before he ever came to you.
Stop your tears from falling,
The trail they leave is very clear for all to see at night
all to see at night.
In season, out of season
What's the difference when you don't know the reason.
In one hand bread, the other a stone.
The Hunter enters the forest.
All are not huntsmen who can blow the huntsman's horn
By the look of this one you've not got much to fear.
Here I am, I'm very fierce and frightening
Come to match my skill to yours.
Now listen here, listen to me, don't you run away now
I am a friend, I'd really like to play with you.
Making noises my little furry friend would make
I'll trick him, then I'll kick him into my sack.
You better watch out... You better watch out.
I've got you, I've got you, you'll never get away.
Walking home that night
The sack across my back, the sound of sobbing on my shoulder.
When suddenly it stopped,
I opened up the sack, all that I had
A pool of bubbles and tears - JUST A POOL OF TEARS.
All in all you are a very dying race
Placing trust upon a cruel world.
You never had the things you thought you should have had
And you'll not get them now,
And all the while in perfect time
Your tears are falling on the ground.
The Squonk is of a very retiring disposition and due to its ugliness,
weeps constantly. It is easy prey for hunters who simply
follow a tear-stained trail. When cornered it will dissolve itself into tears.
True or False?
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Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Genesis has the most identifiable sound, and combines excellent songwriting and musicianship with deep, meaningful lyrics and moving instrumental passages. The music of Genesis takes me to places where no other can.
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If you don't stand up
You don't stand a chance!
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Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 15:50
Trouserpress wrote:
A fun quick one for you all! Fill out this wee form with your own responses!
Favourite Band: Van Der Graaf Generator
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Pawn Hearts
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Plague Of Light House Keepers
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Peter Hammill
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: Still Life
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Scorched Earth Live in london 2005
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Sax Solo in "Killer"
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
But the nearness and the smell of you,
La Rossa from head to toe....
I don't know what I'm telling you,
but I think you ought to know:
soon the dam wall will break, soon the water will flow.
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite
Band: Everything about them i love, they have a sound like no other
band. Peter Hammill is one of the greatest lyricists/vocalists to walk
the earth.
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 14:25
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Since Yes and Genesis have been done many times already...
Favourite Band:Led Zeppelin
Favourite Album From Favourite Band:Physical Graffiti
Favourite Song From Favourite Album:In My Time Of Dying
Favourite Member of Favourite Band:Jimmy Page
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Whole Lotta Love from How The West Was Won
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Jimmy's solo on Since I've Been Loving You
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Achiles Last Stand
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Amazing musicianship, originality, greatest non-prog vocals ever
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Posted By: Borealis
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 17:12
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This is really tough because my band got so many good records, but I'll try...
Favourite Band: Tangerine Dream
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Uhm... That's really hard, but I'll go for Zeit, altough I could says Force Majeure, Alpha Century or Ricochet easily.
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Birth of Liquid Plejades
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Edgar Froese...
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: Stratosfear 
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Ricochet part II
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: I can't tell...
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: They have very few lyrics, so I'll says it's Bend Cold Sidewalk...
Favourite Reasons For Loving Favourite Band: They're the best ever in electronic ambiant music, they created landscape like no one else did, and were very original.
That was really hard to do...
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Vive le Québec libre!...
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Posted By: sonic wizard
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 19:33
Favourite Band: This can change hourly, but I'll go with Porcupine Tree.
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Signify
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Idiot Prayer
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Duh! Steven Wilson
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: 
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: The Sky Moves Sideways on Coma Divine
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Banjo solo on Trains
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: The Sound Of Muzak
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Steven Wilson is a genius, period. His music can be beautiful and atmosperic, yet also meaningful and hard-edged at the same time.
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 11:38
Trouserpress wrote:
Favourite Band: Dream Theater
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Train Of Thought
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: In The Name Of God
Favourite Member of Favourite Band:
This guy
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band:
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: In The Name OF God
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Goodnight Kiss
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band: Erotomania... Joke Space Dye-Vest
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Superb tehnique, virtuoso solos, many great ideas... I could go on for hours
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Posted By: Cygnus X-1
Date Posted: August 24 2005 at 11:53
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Favourite Band: (One of my favs) AC/DC
Favourite Album From Favourite Band: Powerage
Favourite Song From Favourite Album: Down Payment Blues
Favourite Member of Favourite Band: Angus Young
Favourite Cover Art From Favourite Band: 
Favourite Live Song From Favourite Band: Bad Boy Boogie
Favourite Solo From Favourite Band: Shot Down in Flames
Favourite Lyrics From Favourite Band:
Two faced woman with the two faced lies
I hope your two faced living made you satisfied
Tell me baby I was your only one
While you've been running around town with every mother's son
Told your story about the women like you
Told your story about the things you do
I used to think that you were sugar and spice
I should've listened to my mother's advice
CHORUS:
Kicked in the teeth again
Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win
Kicked in the teeth again
Ain't this misery ever gonna end?
And I've been kicked in the teeth
Kicked in the teeth again
Two faced woman, such a crying shame
Don't know nothing, you're all the same
You run around, hope you had your fun
You never know who's gonna win till the race been run
Favourite Reason For Loving Favourite Band: Angus young's energy on stage, Bon's/ Brian's vocals and the fact that it's straight up rock n roll. I love prog n all but it's nice to listen to this sort of stuff once in a while.
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(Sorry, My Love Gildenlow, not here)
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