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Blacksword 
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Joined: June 22 2004
Location: England
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Points: 16130
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 Posted: February 24 2006 at 05:26 |
Strangely Zappa is one prog artist that my non progs freinds do have some time for. I think they appreciate with his humour, and afew have remarked on what good musicans his band sound. This from guys who mostly like Hip Hop and techno..
Yes - 'They're making it up as they go a long' 'Hideous racket!' 'The singer sounds like a f***ing fairy'
Genesis - 'Gabriel was a real d!ck wasn't he! Dressing up as a flower, what a pretentious tw&t!' ' I wont listen to anything that involves Phil Collins. F**k that!' 'When does it end?'
VDGG - 'Do we really have to listen to heavy metal?'  
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Cygnus X-1
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Joined: July 06 2005
Location: United Kingdom
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Points: 653
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Posted: February 24 2006 at 05:17 |
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I played someone Close To The Edge and the person who shall not be named said that
"It sounds like this was made on Quebase (Midi program) by an idiot."
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Marwin
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Joined: December 13 2005
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Points: 166
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Posted: February 24 2006 at 04:17 |
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while watching DT - live at budokan :
"That singer must be gay" (i hate that comment about DT,YES, Rush etc.)
"They arent rock n roll enough"
While listening to Mars Volta "This sucks!!"
My friend who likes Marillion commented that Fish is totaly gay after watching Recital of The Script.
"why are the songs so long" used to be a normal statement from a friend
of mine but now he likes Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull but he says they
are not real prog.
I once had to drive a girl i know to a bar and she started talking the
moment she entered the car but then suddenly Opeth - The Lepper
Affinity starts playing and she got a really scared look and stayed
quiet for the whole trip.
A friend of mine also once said something like "invisible touch is much
better than this" when i showed him Dancing with the moonlit knight.
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http://myspace.com/toxicmindfin
http://myspace.com/porcelainprog
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Norbert
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 20 2005
Location: Hungary
Status: Offline
Points: 2506
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Posted: February 24 2006 at 03:32 |
 chopper wrote:
nimrodel wrote:
" why are you listening beegees? " (some song by yes)
" thats kinda gay " (yes again)
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People should be shot for saying things like that. |
... or hanged.  
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zbida
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 16 2006
Location: Poland
Status: Offline
Points: 748
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Posted: February 24 2006 at 03:11 |
"The most fantastic fragments of your music are the moments of silence between tracks" - my friend at work.
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soundsweird
Prog Reviewer
Joined: December 08 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 408
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Posted: February 24 2006 at 02:12 |
"That's no good, you can't dance to it."
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Violenza
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 02 2005
Location: Canada
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Points: 381
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 22:19 |
On Gentle Giant..."I like it...I think."
On Mike Oldfield..."Why are we listening to classical?"
On Kayo Dot..."Ok, the music is starting to creep me out."
On Tool..."You listen to some weird music dude." (wtf, they're a very popular alt rock band!?)
On the Residents..."The keyboards are driving me crazy!"
On Fantomas..."These aren't really songs you can sing along to, are they?"
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Rust
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 14 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 1148
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 21:08 |
Church Organ solo during CTTE - My mom askes, "Did somebody die?" 
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We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
from the heart
Its astart
What we need is awareness we cant get careless
Mental self defensive fitness
Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be
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agaric
Forum Newbie
Joined: February 23 2006
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 12
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:47 |
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Well, after about a year of lurking, I step out of the shadows. Hello, all!
My Mom, on hearing some Genesis, I can't remember:
"This sounds like exorcism music!"
And, after 'Free Hand'
"This is really wierd. It sounds like Indian shamans on peyote." I'm sure she has never heard that before.
If anyone gets Discover magazine, a while ago there was an article
about applications that learn and the evolving vocabulary of
electronics, and the author used the example of Aqualung to say if one
doesn't like the song being played on a media player that 'learned' by
what one says they don't like, you press the 'never again' button and
the 'horrible' flute solo would be gone forever.
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Flying Dutchman
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Joined: January 29 2006
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Points: 67
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:36 |
Ugh...
My one friend only listens to music that "rocks" which means (for him) Korn, System of a Down, Linkin Park and other terrible new bands that can only play semi-heavy crappy halfway metal rap. He asked me one time if I ever wanted to kill myself because the music I listened to was so bad.
Another time he said some RHCP song was good. I said it probably wasn't as good as A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, which I heard for the first time the day before. He said that if it was by one of my "60 minute song bands" it probably sucked.
He also says that the only good bands are the ones on the radio, because they are the only ones that people like, therefore they are the only good ones. WRONG.
Let's see.
Another friend of mine claims to like prog, but he only listens to Pink Floyd and even then its only Dark Side, WYWH and the Wall, which are their most commercial releases.
He also said that Peter Gabriel sounds exactly like Phil Collins. Like their solo music. He said that they both play poppy crap, which is true as far as Phil goes. However, as poppy as Gabriel gets, he is nowhere near as poppy as Phil is... at his least poppy.
Another time before school I was passing the headphones around which were blaring out A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, and one said, "How can you like this?" and I said "You just don't like it because it's not commercial and innaccessible." Another friend said, "No, it's probably just because it's crappy." 
I have another friend who claims to be open minded, because he listens to like every genre (Rap, rock, metal, punk, blues, reggae, jazz, etc) However, I told him that with all of those, you know what you're getting and it's more or less accessible. (The deepest he will wade into prog is some Rush, PF, Schizoid Man, and some Tull.) He said that he hated Storm by GY!BE as soon as he heard it, and as far as post rock goes, that's one of the most likeable and accessible songs.
Another one- I was playing Gates of Delirium as part of some in class project, and one kid said that we couldn't listen to metal for 20 minutes straight. That was dumb.
My friends are morons when it comes to music, especially since they have a gnat's attention span and expect the goodness of songs to be present from the first second you here it. Luckily I have one friend who likes prog, he comes to this site. Posts here too, I think.
Edited by Flying Dutchman
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VERS
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Joined: February 12 2006
Location: United States
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Points: 53
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:29 |
I've had alot of "WTF?"s and weird looking faces after THEY asked to hear what I was listening to.
But its all good, most of my friends also like prog rock, along with my dad, and also stepdad.
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progaeopteryx
Prog Reviewer
Joined: June 03 2005
Location: Refrigerator
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Points: 3613
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:24 |
"It's so depressing and it all sounds the same" "It's nothing but noise!" "It's nothing but sound effects!" "Why can't they keep it under three minutes?" "If they can't do it in three minutes, then it's not worth listening to." "It sounds like druggie music." "That's weird!" "I'm not sure where you're going with this." "Makes me want to jump off a bridge." Of course, watching people with their mouthes wide open unable to make a comment is amusing to me.
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MrHiccup
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 02 2005
Location: Argentina
Status: Offline
Points: 167
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:17 |
When listening to Focus - "Hocus Pocus":
"Where are the lyrics?"
Chris_Kemp wrote:
This geezer I worked with said "Toccata" sounded like a video game...AND TURNED THE CD OFF!! Rude. |
Very, very rude. What's the problem if it sounds like a videogame?
I don't understand people who thinks videogame music is not real music...
Videogame music can be very complex...
Edited by MrHiccup
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...
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hamham
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Joined: February 05 2006
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Points: 184
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:21 |
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"do i have to be patient to like this?"
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Chris_Kemp
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Joined: September 02 2005
Location: United States
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Points: 113
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:18 |
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This geezer I worked with said "Toccata" sounded like a video game...AND TURNED THE CD OFF!! Rude.
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"That's not your face...it's mine! IT'S MINE!!
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Mharo
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Joined: June 04 2005
Location: Argentina
Status: Offline
Points: 75
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:17 |
Two of my best friends had very similar tastes to me in regular rock (Led Zeppelin, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica). I decided to push them a little further, and started talking about Gentle Giant and how they squeezed a xylophone solo in Knots. After making them listen to it (twice!) I got (aprox. translation): "Seriously, you've gone mad." "I'm pretty sure this is the worst song I've heard in all my life. I don't know how they had the nerve to release it" I realised then my proggin' would be more lonely than I hoped.
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Suritis: The Remembering.
Hopefully we should appreciate that given points in time are not so significant as the nature of what is impressed on the mind, and how it is retained and used.
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Meddler
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Joined: September 29 2005
Location: Massillon
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Points: 881
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:14 |
I hate letting my friends listen to my prog, because of the comments.
I usually got like,
"ABITW Pt2 is there only good song." - Pink Floyd This has got to be my most hated comment ever! But the only bad thing is I.. used to think it to until I really listened to Floyd.
"When are they going to start the song?" - Echoes
And my dad, he likes Pink Floyd, but he doesnt listen to any other prog because, "they all sound the same."
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Manunkind
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Joined: February 02 2005
Location: Poland
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Points: 2373
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:46 |
Manunkind wrote:
A very intelligent (no irony intended) friend of mine about any kind of more avant-garde music (a lot of prog included) and art in general - "I call stuff like this sh*t sculptures". |
She likes some prog, though, and she isn't the only of one my friends who do - and those who don't like prog in general are still quite respectful towards it .
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"In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun
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stan the man
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Joined: January 24 2006
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 504
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:30 |
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during the wind screaming part in echoes my mom said
"geez this song was actually good but now it just sounds like bad halloween music"
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true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants.
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Viajero Astral
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 16 2006
Location: Mexico
Status: Offline
Points: 3118
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:22 |
my brother always says "you cannot play something like real music?"
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