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friso 
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 Posted: March 20 2009 at 04:59 |
Progressive rock is both beautifull and interesting, but there's a lot music around that's just beautifull. Sometimes I listen to Simon and Garfunkel or perhaps some jazz.
This 'you have to listen it progressive thing' could be of influence of bands being added on PA that aren't really progressive.
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MrEdifus
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 19:42 |
 Epignosis wrote:
If it's music, and you like it, listen!
Hell, we're not married to prog, are we?
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That'd be kinda weird I think. Especially since you can't get intimate with prog.
Edited by MrEdifus - March 13 2009 at 19:44
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Leningrad
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:58 |
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Listen to whatever you want, as long as you're not under the impression that one genre is inherently 'better' than all the others, which happens far too often.
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Raff
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:38 |
I'm already married, and don't practice bigamy, so   ....
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Epignosis
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:36 |
If it's music, and you like it, listen!
Hell, we're not married to prog, are we?
Are we?
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MrEdifus
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:21 |
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Sometimes I have phases where I'll want to listen to power metal, straight classic rock, some Soundgarden, stuff that isn't necessarily prog. (Yes, I've even partaken in the guiilty pleasure that is The Black Parade.)
I'm never ashamed of anything I decide to listen to though, and I often find something new that I enjoy.
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jplanet
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 15:02 |
E-Dub wrote:
For the first time in a LONG time, I have hardly any interest in listening to progressive music. I've dusted off CD's housed in another section of my cabinet and become reacquainted with them. I normally listen to progressive music at work, but haven't even come close to dialing them up on iTunes. I even spent 3 hours listening to Rush...but not the band.
Anybody else going through bouts of just not wanting to listen to progressive music?
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Eric, this is highly disturbing news. As one of the 8 people who listen to my band, you MUST continue to listen to prog!
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lazland
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 14:23 |
E-Dub wrote:
I'm having a healthy mix, which is probably the way to go. I did listen to the magnificent Blomljud by Moon Safari today. My goodness, that disc gives me the warmies!
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The new Wishing Tree album will make you feel a whole lot better - got it yet?
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E-Dub
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Posted: March 12 2009 at 17:48 |
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I'm having a healthy mix, which is probably the way to go. I did listen to the magnificent Blomljud by Moon Safari today. My goodness, that disc gives me the warmies!
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TN
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Posted: March 12 2009 at 16:39 |
Deathrabbit wrote:
I can't get tired of prog cuz to me it's not a genre, but an approach to making/listening to music. Genre-wise, tho, I do switch it quite a bit. Primus to GG to Cynic to Beefheart to Beardfish to Neal Morse to Mahavishnu Orchestra. So I never get tired of one particular type of progressive music. The progressive mindset, however, I'd have to be a different person than I am to get tired of that. I will always hold orginality and creativity to be the defining characteristics of good music. Just my two cents.
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Rocktopus
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Posted: March 11 2009 at 05:36 |
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These threads pops once in a while, and I just don't get them. How is it possible to worry about growing tired of something? Its a gift, not a problem. Just explore music, genres and artists you don't know yet. Here's your chance to grow.
Did you worry when reading comics about superheroes or playing in the sandbox stopped give you the same enjoyment as it used to?
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Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Dean
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Posted: March 11 2009 at 05:14 |
el dingo wrote:
Oh and The Black Parade by MCR - must be the emo in me. I hate their image but am wierdly addicted to this album. |
It's a damn fine album - and the live version, The Black Parade is Dead, is good too.
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el dingo
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Posted: March 11 2009 at 04:16 |
Keppa4v wrote:
E-Dub wrote:
Anybody else going through bouts of just not wanting to listen to progressive music? |
All the time. I'm always going through some phases in my listening habits, sometimes I'm all about punk rock, sometimes indie, metal, pop or anything. Right now I've been having the longest prog phase in a long long time, enjoying the old favourites and discovering some gems from my collection that never really hit me that well before (Locanda Delle Fate, Harmonium and Ange come to mind first). When this prog phase ends some day and I'll start listening to grunge for example, I won't be worried because I know prog always comes back.
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Couldn't agree more. I can go a whole WEEK without prog, but I might be hitting on any form of metal, punk, grunge, even powerpop 
Then it might be my all-time faves The Faces or The Kinks, possibly a bit of Beethoven or Bach or some obscure proggy cr*p from the 70s that only I and the band own  , then that squares the circle and I think: let's make up this week's mp3 list: could contain anything from Guru Guru to Cream to Pendragon to David Bowie to Crimson to the Pink Fairies to Tangerine Dream to Roxy Music to Manic Street Preachers Orange Goblin to Spiritual Beggars - that's actually roughly what I've got on at the moment. Oh and The Black Parade by MCR - must be the emo in me. I hate their image but am wierdly addicted to this album.
Purists would disagree, but IMO man cannot live by prog alone.
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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XunknownX
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Posted: March 11 2009 at 03:03 |
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No big deal if you have realy, that's lots of good music in other styles, so don't work against progressing your taste in new directions, it only makes it worse.
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Manuel
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Posted: March 10 2009 at 09:52 |
Not that I'm tired of prog, but many of the modern bands don't really get to me. Old school prog, I'm for it, maybe because I grew up with it, but lately, very few bands get me going and lately, I've been listening to Jazz a lot, like Michel Petrucciani, Charles Lloyd, etc.
If bands were a little more inventive, and not so yes/genesis/gentle giant influenced, I probably would enjoy them more, and prog metal is so repetitive, the Dream Theatre sound, that it gets boring after a while, so I look for other options, some world music or sometimes new age artists for example.
Still, prog is my first love, and since I prefer music to listen to and not to dance, prog will always be my first option.
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proghog
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Posted: March 10 2009 at 05:48 |
Breaks are good but seriously stay away from Rush! (not the band). That is way too dark. 
Try The Source to bring you back into the fold.
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Pekka
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Posted: March 09 2009 at 02:00 |
E-Dub wrote:
Anybody else going through bouts of just not wanting to listen to progressive music? |
All the time. I'm always going through some phases in my listening habits, sometimes I'm all about punk rock, sometimes indie, metal, pop or anything. Right now I've been having the longest prog phase in a long long time, enjoying the old favourites and discovering some gems from my collection that never really hit me that well before (Locanda Delle Fate, Harmonium and Ange come to mind first). When this prog phase ends some day and I'll start listening to grunge for example, I won't be worried because I know prog always comes back.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: March 09 2009 at 01:19 |
Deathrabbit wrote:
I'm still confused as to how you can make blanket statements about prog music. Hth do Captain Beefheart and Gourishankar have anything in common?! I think you guys really need to diversify. To me saying I'm tired of prog would be like saying I find the milky way galaxy is a bad place to live.
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This. I never get tired of 'prog' per se, because there is zillions and zillions of bands in heaps of different genres. Within the main genres, there is another 20-30 sub genres within. If then, it still bores you, then christ you must have like, 100 000 songs on your computer that you've heard over and over.
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Failcore
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Posted: March 09 2009 at 00:50 |
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I'm still confused as to how you can make blanket statements about prog music. Hth do Captain Beefheart and Gourishankar have anything in common?! I think you guys really need to diversify. To me saying I'm tired of prog would be like saying I find the milky way galaxy is a bad place to live.
Edited by Deathrabbit - March 09 2009 at 00:59
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Drew
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Posted: March 06 2009 at 23:23 |
I'm with you E- I have been listening to a lot of different stuff lately, or should I say non-prog- indie rock, adult alternative, classical, heavy and death metal. I also listen to a lot of sports radio, because I am a sports dork, SOmetimes prog music just seems so....well, I don't really know, but.....maybe you do 
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