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chamberry 
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 19:11 |
Well.. I feel cool when someone tells me what am I listening and I say
Genesis or Camel and they don't know what am I talking about. And its
true that being uncool makes you cool, I say it on tv 
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 11:15 |
 Snow Dog wrote:
sleeper wrote:
It all depends on your perspective. I find music for the masses, the stuff on MTV, to be uncool yet nothing is cooler to me than a good pro album. |
Its ok, its actually "cool" to be "uncool"!
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Haha I guess it also depends on what the word cool means to people.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:13 |
sleeper wrote:
It all depends on your perspective. I find music for the masses, the stuff on MTV, to be uncool yet nothing is cooler to me than a good pro album. |
Its ok, its actually "cool" to be "uncool"!
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:12 |
s1ipp3ry wrote:
Votes have been counted ... so far it look as though prog isn`t cool  |
Cool!
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TheLamb
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 09:35 |
It really depends:
If a cool person likes prog, then it's cool. Think of some cool hippie chick that likes prog - thats cool.
If a "not cool" person likes prog, then its not cool. Think of some fat annoying geek that likes prog - thats not cool.
ha!
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 06:11 |
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It all depends on your perspective. I find music for the masses, the stuff on MTV, to be uncool yet nothing is cooler to me than a good pro album.
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 05:12 |
Votes have been counted ... so far it look as though prog isn`t cool
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 23:57 |
Cool isn`t what others think of you ... its more about how you see yourself
As Genesis once said ... I Know what I like and I like what I know ... now to me this is cool 
the question was asked what do you think ? not what others think ...
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 23:45 |
Of course it is cool! When I wear my "Fragile" shirt, I can't keep the hot babes away!
Seriously though, I never hear people describe prog as uncool, because most of the people I know don't know enough about prog to decide if it is cool or uncool.
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 23:44 |
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 22:13 |
Maybe the word Prog isn`t cool ? maybe we should call it Gangster Prog how bad is that !
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Snow Dog
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 20:35 |
AngleofRepose wrote:
It certainly isn't cool. But I'm more curious as to why it isn't well
respected either. Most musical genres that are more complex than
many listeners prefer (i.e. classical and jazz) are at least well
respected, whereas prog is frequently met with sarcasm and mild
scorn.
But hey, it used to be cool! That is back before people called it
'prog.' Jethro Tull and ELP used to be party music. Only back then it
was 'rock with some crazy flute guy' not the well-categorized 'prog-
folk' we call it. |
You are absolutely correct in your summarisation!
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AngleofRepose
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 20:25 |
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It certainly isn't cool. But I'm more curious as to why it isn't well
respected either. Most musical genres that are more complex than
many listeners prefer (i.e. classical and jazz) are at least well
respected, whereas prog is frequently met with sarcasm and mild
scorn.
But hey, it used to be cool! That is back before people called it
'prog.' Jethro Tull and ELP used to be party music. Only back then it
was 'rock with some crazy flute guy' not the well-categorized 'prog-
folk' we call it.
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 20:25 |
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 20:17 |
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 20:03 |
The Thing is I think Dream Theater are cool and the coolest muso I can think of is Geddy Lee from Rush ... as I said at the start of this topic ... isn`t it weird how what isn`t Cool is Cool for not trying to be Cool ? I believe its true ... trying to be cool like most rap and hip hop artists do ruins the validity of just what is cool (cool to me is being natural and being who you are not trying to be somebody else or acting a part). So I think most of you are wrong about this subject ... Sorry ... I can`t think of anything more uncool than to live my life and express my feelings how others want me to be, thats what mainstream people do and its fake. fake = uncool 
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The Miracle
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 19:46 |
Snow Dog wrote:
Prog =  , not 
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Yep Dream Theater or Magma, we're nerds.... and proud of it
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Bj-1
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 16:36 |
Depends on what prog! Dream Theater or Magma
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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salmacis
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 15:45 |
I'd say it definitely wasn't cool at the minute; cool right now is sickeningly bad rap music, that's so overwrought in its depicition of heterosexuality that it's high camp, stupefyingly dull indie like Coldplay, Snow Patrol and punk rip offs like Franz Ferdinand. With rubbish like that around, I'm proud to be uncool...
Indeed, friends of mine get very agitated when I suggest bands like Radiohead and Muse utilise prog influences , which is an indicator of how much of an Aunt Sally it's become really, as it's been purged from history in a move that would make Stalin proud!
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Genesisprog
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Posted: November 26 2005 at 14:35 |
It depends how a person thinks.Some say prog is cool .Some say hip-hop is uncool
Or contrary. Try to define -word cool What is it realy anyway?
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Frank Zappa,Pink Floyd,Yes,Genesis,Rush,King Crimson,Jethro Tull,E.L.P,Rick Wakeman -They have one similarity- I Love Them all !
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