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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2009 at 20:02
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Are you trying to build some sort of animated pyramid here or something? How could you dare!!?? Shocked




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2009 at 16:45
nice to see a LOT of people fooled at Nearfest as well....  that place crawls with members from the other prog forum.  Got stopped every 10 minutes Saturday.. wearing my HoL concert T.  People wanting to share how incredible the show was.. .the album was... the group is... hmmm.  The fools are not just here it seems.


speaking of that... Raff joked earlier.. been 3 days since I've listened to a Decemberists album.   A record since this January when I really got into them.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2009 at 17:38
^ That makes you the king of fools, right? Tongue

I've been joking on this too, but just checked their last release (just to know what were all talking about Embarrassed), and was a surprisingly grateful experience for me. I must say that I was expecting something not that impressive, taking in account all of this bashing going on here.

On the while, my first thought was "who we are to say if a band is prog or not?" and even more, "how can we judge quality and musical approaches just based on stupid label?" It's just a band doing great music, surely they don't really mind if some people categorizes them as prog, bachata or dark metal, that's just a little game we play on sites like this.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2009 at 17:42
I guess that does..... I don't think anyone here would dare call our beloved Bob... KING of Fools.  He is the puppetmaster...  we... HIS fools.. just dance to his song and dance hahah.  Since I have the big yapper and no shame ...he made me the King of Fools I guess hahha.

actually Alex... that discussion came up with some old farts we were sitting next to while waiting for a set to start.  There really is too much emphasis on tags and labels.  Prog or not... they are simply a great group.  The true fools are those that write them off for not conforming to some rigid idea of what should be PROG. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2009 at 17:44
damn..... off topic... but signing off.  Picked the right day not be on the metro.  Poor people....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2009 at 17:49
Originally posted by AlexUC AlexUC wrote:

^ That makes you the king of fools, right? Tongue

I've been joking on this too, but just checked their last release (just to know what were all talking about Embarrassed), and was a surprisingly grateful experience for me. I must say that I was expecting something not that impressive, taking in account all of this bashing going on here.

On the while, my first thought was "who we are to say if a band is prog or not?" and even more, "how can we judge quality and musical approaches just based on stupid label?" It's just a band doing great music, surely they don't really mind if some people categorizes them as prog, bachata or dark metal, that's just a little game we play on sites like this.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 11:28
I did a search on the existing Decemberists topics to choose where I'd post this interesting link I found, and I remembered how hilariously idiotic this thread was, so here goes LOL The Top 25 albums and songs of the decade according to Colin Meloy (click next to see the song list):

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 12:25
I thought he'd list prog. DAMMIT
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 12:26
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 12:30
I can honestly say I have not heard any of the albums or songs on his list.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 12:31
Originally posted by Blowin Free Blowin Free wrote:

I thought he'd list prog. DAMMIT
Well he is in what is normally referred to as an indie band...

Edited by Henry Plainview - December 10 2009 at 12:41
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 12:31
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

I can honestly say I have not heard any of the albums or songs on his list.


I know of about four or so.

If you click "Next," you can see Meloy's picks for individual songs.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 12:44
I've heard of 8 of the bands, but I haven't heard any of the albums. And The Shins are really annoying.

Lol, Lars Ulrich's best album was The Arctic Monkeys.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 14:08
i like the Decemberists , i have barely heard few of the bands he listed, and Bon Iver second Shocked  i could hardly listened 2 tracks from that cd and get rid of it..it was borring as hell to me. also Lilly Allen LOL  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 22:48
Thumbs Up for including The Woods by Sleater-Kinney, but Thumbs Down for misspelling it.

A bit surprisingly Kirk Hammett had a lot of great stuff on his list, the albums top four for example being Radiohead, TMV, Sigur Rós and Muse.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 22:51
If you guys don't have Bon Iver's full length then you're missing out BIG TIME. Fleetfoxes are great too. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 22:53
Fleet Foxes is indeed great and my girlfriend's been very interested in Bon Iver lately, which make me interested. She's going to get it soon I presume, I'll hear it then.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2009 at 22:53
Originally posted by angelmk angelmk wrote:

and Bon Iver second Shocked  i could hardly listened 2 tracks from that cd and get rid of it..it was borring as hell to me.


You deserve to die.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2009 at 01:56
Originally posted by Jake Kobrin Jake Kobrin wrote:

Originally posted by angelmk angelmk wrote:

and Bon Iver second Shocked  i could hardly listened 2 tracks from that cd and get rid of it..it was borring as hell to me.


You deserve to die.
Argh, indie snobs! They are easily the worst type of snob.

Edited by Henry Plainview - December 11 2009 at 01:56
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2009 at 07:32
Originally posted by Jake Kobrin Jake Kobrin wrote:

Originally posted by angelmk angelmk wrote:

and Bon Iver second Shocked  i could hardly listened 2 tracks from that cd and get rid of it..it was borring as hell to me.


You deserve to die.
Jake, is it a crime not to like something? It's a matter of taste dude, relax ..i sometimes just don't get you guys  Confused
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