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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 23 2006 at 16:13

My brothers a speed garage/hip hop fan and absolutely hates my music. As for my freinds I have only had one or two bad coments like "have you got anything good like 2pac"  and "WTF is this" (listening to Easter, Marillion)

Most symphonic prog goes down well with my flat mates here (If I get to the kitchen first I will put on a CD and so far Genesis, Floyd, Spocks Beard, Transatlantic, Dream Theater, The Flower Kings and IQ have gone down well).

Most of my friends back home like Modern Symphonic/prog metal at least a bit too (one of them got me ino prog).

 
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Often when I put on a CD, peole read the song list and they say someting like :
Hey I don't know any of these songs. Why did you say it was good?

That's frustrating! They don't even give the music a chance.

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Comments from my wife range usually include "pretentious" and "over the top"; in particular she finds some of the groups who employ a lot of time changes to be obnoxious.  But among her favorite things to listen to are Broadway musicals!    Talk about pretentious and over the top!  She even admits it, but claims they are her kind of "over the top".   Another complaint is the length of the songs, that's probably a popular complaint of "non-proggers".

Basically she recognizes the talent of the musicians of the various things I listen to, but just can't get into the music.  A lot of my prog metal is also just too heavy for her - totally understandable.
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Friend of mine who's a drummer:

Yes's Close To The Edge Organ Solo:"Wtf is this??"

The drums right after the organ part: "Why is he drumming so fast, he could use 8's instead of 16's"

Friend of mine who doesn't listen to music anyway:

Focus' Hocus Pocus: "Wtf is he yodeling?"

To anything that has a man with a high voice: "Is he gay or something?"

Usually I just get "this sucks" or "it's repietitve"


A lot of my "friends" say they dislike commercial music. They listen to, amongst others:
Greenday, HIM and Blink 182.

My father dislikes King Crimson, he thinks the music's too "nervous".


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I tried exposing my punk, rock and 80s music-loving friend (who's now in an EMO band) to prog but maybe I went harsh on him at first by cutting straight to the chase with some Gentle Giant.  He said he liked Dream Theater's Metropolis Part II. (but I think the reason was because he "studied" it to get new drumming ideas from Portnoy)  When I decided that the time was right, I played him some Gentle Giant and he simply said that he "respected" the band for its musicianship, meaning he thought the music was crap.  When i repeatedly asked him whether he liked it he merely said the same thing that they are great musicians ....and then silence.  Now whenever I'm at his house and tell him to download an album that I think he might be interested in, he doesn't trust me and simply ignores me!  Well... at least he was courteous about it.  
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I had bunch of friends at my place last weekend and one of them told me:  "the only thing which sucks in spending the evening here is that we have to listen to your music".


What really bugs me, is that most people almost like the music until a certain part of a song starts which they do not like immediately and then tell me that the band is crap


Once I decided to build a playlist of songs from most of the bands I have in my IPod, some which I knew my friends liked. It was something like 60 songs and contained bands from sixties to modern, from really mellow to the heviest (Death, Meshuggah, Strapping Young Lad) and from most styles of "prog".... Later in the evening my friends (almost collectively) started complaining that I should change the music and stop playing the same sounding crap . From that point onwards I stopped ignoring their comments about music in general


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I once put on Gate of Delurium for my class whist we were cleaning the set. 

It was just general confusion and 'wtf' all around.
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Frank Zappa/Steve Vai "Voodoo Acid"
"That's a little too pyscho for my taste"

Dream Theater - Live at Budokahn Instrumental
"Sure they're great musicians but it all looks like muscle memory at that point."
I reply "blah blah"
"OH well too bad they're not a popular genre of music"
*laughs to self*

Any music i like
Sister "You listen to weird music/what the hella re you listening to."  (pop / rap listener)

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"That guy must have the smallest dick in the world"
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man! looks like a long drive shaft!
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Mine is:

"You've been playing intros all day long!!!!!!!!!"

"Why dont you play that new song so we can dance"
The World is a Big Ball!!!
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Back in the '70s, when all that stuff was new and most of my
teenage peers were into Led Zeppelin and (gag) Peter
Frampton, we'd always try to play Yessongs at parties, since for
us that really rocked. Invariably, during the slow organ section
of Close to the Edge, someone would come along snarling,
"What's this f**kin' CHURCH music, man?!?", and
commandeer the turntable with AC/DC or something...still
muttering, "f**kin' CHURCH music!".
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  1. My aunt  last week in my car (trying to sound intelligent) while I was listening Gothic Impressions by Par Lindh: "Oh God, how I love Bach"
  2. Mi girlfriend at 3:00 am trying to throw away people after a party had ended: "Please Iván put your King Crimson loud so everybody leaves"
  3. An ex girlfriend's father (shrink) after listening Battle for the Epping Forest: "Darling, watch out with that kid, nobody normal can listen this music".
  4. Another ex-girlfriend in the ELP concert after a fabulous performance of Karn Evil 9: "Hey Iván this is crap, when are they going to play Lucky Man so we can leave"
  5. My father's reaction when I played Pictures at an exhibition by ELP for him: "Hey, you're playing Mussorgsky, you're improving your taste....(1 minute later): This guys change everything.....(A couple minutes later): Take away that crap"

Iván

 



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oh yah i showed my friend Van Der Graff Generator (Lemmings) he said it was like funky shaft music
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My Friend on yes: A little bit too much on the fag side for me

then

sucks for him

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Originally posted by eduardossc eduardossc wrote:

Once, I has listening to "Apocalypse in 9/8", my mother crossed outside my room, looked at me and started moving like an african in a ritual......OH COME ON
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Originally posted by Useful_Idiot Useful_Idiot wrote:

Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Originally posted by Hemispheres Hemispheres wrote:

My conformist friend who thinks Pink Floyd rock but Yes are Garbage

Surely if he/she is that conformist, then they would know that Yes aren't Garbage - they're too old, and don't have a female vocalist for a start...



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Originally posted by parrymason parrymason wrote:


"Are they, like, playing backwards?" (friend about the beginning of Close To The Edge)

 

hahahahha  the best one...
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Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Originally posted by Hemispheres Hemispheres wrote:

My conformist friend who thinks Pink Floyd rock but Yes are Garbage

Surely if he/she is that conformist, then they would know that Yes aren't Garbage - they're too old, and don't have a female vocalist for a start...



Ha. ha. ha. ha. ha.

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Originally posted by Hemispheres Hemispheres wrote:

My conformist friend who thinks Pink Floyd rock but Yes are Garbage

Surely if he/she is that conformist, then they would know that Yes aren't Garbage - they're too old, and don't have a female vocalist for a start... although many popsters might disagree that Yes don't have a female vocalist...
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my friends dad said (He liked Frank Zappa But not his music)

My friend calls me a crazy Prog Freak now (i like that name)

my conformist friend who thinks Pink Floyd rock but Yes are Garbage

 

 
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