Prog in unexpected public places.

That symbol didn't originate with King Crimson.....did her shirt say King Crimson,

Edited by brainstormer - May 11 2013 at 21:00

I heard an old Genesis cut in Whole Foods a week or so ago--  Battle of Epping or something like that, pretty cool.

When I was back in secondary-school (more precisely, during 1986 - grade 9) - for Geography we were studying the cause and effects of erosion along the coastlines - now this may be some BBC thing, but we watched a doco on this subject , and on a scene where the waves were crashing into a craggy cliff there was this music behind it - some wailing guitar chords and a mellow feel.  Now, I said to myself, "this music sounds like Pink Floyd" - upon reading the end credits, sure enough.......

progbethyname wrote: Unexpectedly heard prog on my tv screen while I watched the Sopranos. Main character TONY. S enjoys the likes of PINK FLOYD, JETHRO TULL, RUSH and prog related BOSTON. I just found it very funny and strange that a neanderthal like Tony Soprano listens to music like that. Also, he plays METALLICA at his strip joint establishment.

His daughter has prog taste too. I saw a poster of Nattens Madrigal by Ulver on her bedroom wall!
(episode 3, season 1)

Imagine a girl like that listening to Norwegian black metal.


Edited by Siloportem - May 13 2013 at 11:53

just today, i was walking through a mall and an electronics store was blasting some of the Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon.

Slartibartfast wrote: So I'm shopping at the local Kroger with my wife and I mostly ignore the music played on the store sound system but then I heard something familiar: Sylvia by Focus.  It got me thinking, somewhere out there there's a guy picking music for the Kroger sound system that likes prog and he must have snuck that one in. So, anyone else have this sort of thing happen to them?Sylvia is one of those songs that works really well in that sort of context.  It's a great little tune and I don't think you'd find any prog ignorant shoppers that would be bothered by it.  Still I wonder how many shoppers heard what I heard liked it and didn't think any further about it. It did give me a bit of a rush hearing Sylvia there and I think it may have caused me to buy things. Great story! 'Sylvia' is a great tune.

I escorted my'due to deliver' daughter to the hairdresser in fashionable Montreal and i overheard a 20 something girl being permed, telling the stylist (both females may I add) ,how much she was into old Pink Floyd, Genesis and Jethro Tull, she was literally drooling over the Lamb lies Down ....It was amazing because the stylist actually knew what she was talking about. 

A classic rock station we listen to fairly often samples TAAB for its 'don't drink and drive' commercials.

Caught a little bit of FM radio on an errand last night and the deejay spoke the words "progressive rock and roll, all that good stuff" after Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" finished. Before that, I guess he'd played "Lamb" and "Solsbury Hill." Then I realized that I'd never heard the words "progressive rock" spoken so proudly (if at all) on non-terrestrial radio. In the 80s and 90s, deejays treated the term like a four-letter word.