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richardh wrote: ELP= 'sex'

I can think of at least one person who will second that

The Large Bowl wrote: It seems to me that some of you play right into the hands of those that would sneer at prog rock.

Simply, I can't care less of what SOME people thinks about my tastes and opinions, even if they believe it's just "nonsense".

I am sure enough of what I like, so I don't care if people laugh at my taste.

This po-faced attitude just makes you sound like nerds.

Why do you react like this when you don't agree with someone? Again I don't take offense because I have the greatest of respect for so called nerds, I used to bother them at school, but most nerds are people who know what they are talking about.

I have been listening to prog develop since 1971, some of the albums I have derided used to be big favourites but sound almost ridiculous now. Rick Wakeman is my hero, his Yes stuff still exhilerates me now, but the King Arthur, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth stuff is almost cringe-inducing to listen to.

What, have King Arthur or Journey to the Centre of the Earth changed through the years?

I believe the notes of Journey to the Centre of the Earth are exactly the same today than in the 70's, quality remains, perspective of the listener and fashion is what changes. To be honest I haven't changed my perspective and never cared for musical fashion.

I have seen ELP live umpteen times in the 70's and they were awesome.

I only saw ELP once in 1999 and still they were awesome. 15,000 souls who were at the same show (record for a small city as Lima) thought like me, maybe the nerds bought all the tickets.

That nonesense about Mussorgsky is just patronising, and makes you sound like a character in "Spinal Tap"! No doubt if ELP released a skiffle version of Beethoven's 5th you'd blame that on Beethoven

Won't answer your "nonesesnce" quote, it's not worth

If you take your time and read a bit of history you'll notice that  Pictures at an Exhibition was considered pompous in all Europe when released and it's still pompous.

Please read my whole quote about Pictures:

2. ELP is a pompous band (though they can be lyrical and romantic sometimes), and that's probably what I like most of them.
3. Prog' Rock is a pompous genre.

Numbers 2 and 3 clearly express that I accept ELP and in general Prog' Rock are pompous.

I'm not afraid of the word pompous, at least for some of us pompous music is much better than plain and simple commercial music, that's a matter of personal taste.

The funny thing is that you are criticizing prog' music with exactly the same arguments magazines as Rolling Stones use, they call pompous and self indulgent to describe everything that's not mainstream.

and yes clever clogs we all know Mussorgsky was an inveterate drunk

What's your point?

Iván

James Lee wrote: richardh wrote: ELP= 'sex' I can think of at least one person who will second that

I SECOND THAT !!!!!

Dick Heath wrote: richardh wrote: Pink Floyd = 'brain'   Strange I always thought of the best period Floyd as being brains heavily under the influence of LSD* , and the latter period as musicians filling bank accounts with LSD+.   BTW here,  LSD* doesn't =  LSD+

But Waters is on record as saying that the band were aware of this - they'd struggled many a (Dark Sided) Moon to make the latter LSD, and suddenly they hit the jackpot - ironically breaking through in the US thanks to a single which was lyrically against the very stuff!.

Did they keep it and be everything they were against, or enjoy the riches they'd worked so hard to achieve? The follow-up album was so obviously a message to their former colleage who did have too much of the former LSD.

The answer was (as far as my research has shown, but someone else probably knows better!) that Floyd threw the majority of their LSD into the amazing shows they put on - I understand that "The Wall" nearly wiped them out (although it probably reaped a huge Harvest, so we needn't feel too sorry!).

Anyway, by the time Dark Side of the Moon was released, Britain had gone decimal

I had some surreal moments with Pink Floyd on the stereo.. whether DSOTM minus Money... or The Division Bell... ELP's Trilogy is another favorite.. except sometimes it makes me cry.. and that can be a mood stopper..

There is also a few non-prog albums I like for this purpose... Sting's Brand New Day with "A Thousand Years" and "Desert Rose"... great!

Loreena McKennitt's Book of Secrets.. thats very nice also as well as Hooverphonic's Blue Wonder Power Milk...

richardh wrote: James Lee wrote: richardh wrote: Anybody else care to confess what music they bonk to.............................(but please no photographs)? Now that's a fine idea for a thread! I'll start the ball rolling (er...we can expect many more of these double entendres if the topic takes off...) with the 2nd side of King Crimson's "Starless and Bible Black"; I'll always remember an extremely sweaty, nasty, and almost transcendental experience that accompanied "Fracture". Just don't mention it to my wife- it was slightly before her time I never wrote that!

Whoops, that was Dick Heath

and the moral is: never edit your quotes

wait, how do we know that "richardh" and "Dick Heath" aren't the same person- Dick being a nickname for richard, and H could stand for Heath...I'm on to you!

Dick Heath wrote: threefates wrote: Oh Dick.. you know me better than that.... of course I was...  I was getting the wrong end of the stick then...............

Play Tarkus a little more, and you will start to get the better end of the stick...