Prog in unexpected public places.

Prog cropped up again in Billions, this time a character quoting lyrics from Thick As Brick in response to another character who was quoting Jerusalem. (in a much earlier episode they had a argument about Rush's best album)

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Maybe this doesn't count but in my case the unexpected place was in my dream. I had a dream last night where I heard "leap of faith" by IQ in a chinese restaurant (or maybe it was more like a chinese take out place). In the dream the world was more open to prog in public.

Cool!

I get to bring in 'Thick as a Brick' to a creative Writing class, and Happy the Man's Crafty Hands to a Pre-Calc class

A very unexpected appearance of Heart of the Sunrise in a shіtpost video
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/909853

There have been a few prog references in the Netflix series Loudermilk - about an ex-music critic, now an addiction support group leader. Quite a few scenes take place in a record shop so it's kinda fun to look around to see what's on display. There's been a couple of Jethro Tull jokes. One was directed at Ben, who wrote a kids' song about a lion in the forest but Loudermilk, being a pedantic jerk, points out that lions don't live in the forest, they live in the savannah. "What about the Wizard of Oz?" "They just used forest because nothing rhymes with jungle". "What about "Bungle". Loudermilk: "Jethro Tull tried that and it didn't work out very well". "Hey I love that song". Loudermilk: (eye-roll).

stegor wrote: There have been a few prog references in the Netflix series Loudermilk - about an ex-music critic, now an addiction support group leader. Quite a few scenes take place in a record shop so it's kinda fun to look around to see what's on display. There's been a couple of Jethro Tull jokes. One was directed at Ben, who wrote a kids' song about a lion in the forest but Loudermilk, being a pedantic jerk, points out that lions don't live in the forest, they live in the savannah. "What about the Wizard of Oz?" "They just used forest because nothing rhymes with jungle". "What about "Bungle". Loudermilk: "Jethro Tull tried that and it didn't work out very well". "Hey I love that song". Loudermilk: (eye-roll).

RockHound wrote: I was watching Mystery Science Theater the other day and the bots were discussing ELP and Tull. Lots of prog references on that show!

I used to hang out with Trace (Crow / Dr. Clayton Forester). In fact he was my boss for a while, back when he had an ordinary job. He was a blast.

I love the constant prog references in Mystery Science Theatre 3000. I just saw an episode where a military officer was walking down the hall of a research building, and Crow quipped “Hey, he just walked past Robert Fripp’s room!” In another episode, Crow and Tom Servo were lamenting that Gypsy doesn’t like ELP. They just couldn’t figure out why. In another they were rambling on about Jethro Tull and started mimicking the opening riff from Aqualung.

I’ve been catching some surprises on Netflix lately. On Baby Reindeer, a series dealing with mental illness, i heard I Talk to the Wind, not from ITCOTCK, but one of the more obscure versions like the Judy Dyble one I think. Then there was a snippet of an Eno song from Another Green World, I think it was I’ll Come Running, but it went by pretty fast. Then they used Jethro Tull’s Teacher pretty predominantly.

In the silly movie Unfrosted there was an Aqualung album cover suck on a ‘60s teenager’s bedroom door. The timeline was off a bit, but I appreciated it anyway.

American chain restaurant, Denny's.....must have been using Sirius Xm satellite radio!  It was nice to hear John Wetton's voice on the first Asia LP!   I rarely hear that, even on American radio.  "Only Time Will Tell."  

Edited by cstack3 - May 04 2024 at 23:20