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LegacySpecial 
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Joined: July 07 2009
Location: Quebec
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 Posted: October 07 2009 at 11:09 |
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I guess I must be lucky, most of my friends (male) like Prog, must be something with my generation, we all grew up listening to Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, PFM, Camel, Gentle Giant, Zappa, Rush, Dixie Dregg ... then came the Neo with Marillion, and progressive metal with Iron Maiden and Dream Theater, ... we have all the same taste, well we can listen to almost anything, except for my wife, and other female friends, they like it but only as a background, not too loud, they all prefer dance music. Is it mainly a man thing ?
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OneOrangeLight
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Posted: October 07 2009 at 10:23 |
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Well, clearly we are elitists, no? I've always felt that way, even if it's pig-headed and it means removing oneself from pop culture. I listen to both prog and Irish trad the same way - loud and proud. At work, in the car, in public, it suits me fine. :)
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One Orange Light
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TODDLER
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Location: Vineland, N.J.
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Posted: October 07 2009 at 10:18 |
[QUOTE=JROCHA]I was playing Gentle Giant one time in my garage and my friend said what is this Christmas music? And another time I playing some Weather Report and they made fun of it and called it porno music. Many people I know do not understand it or call it elevator music. [/QUOTE
I have had the same situations with people for many years. I am not a psychologist but it would appear that these types of people come in groups. So that can mean only one thing, that their motive is questionable. Everyone on this site is aware of the fact that many times, personal musical taste and or fear to except different musical art forms derives from upbringing. The unfortunate experience is with their rudeness. The ignorance that is displayed by these types of people has become as one with themselves. My analogy is that their decisions to place a wall between themselves and prog is something that has been re-enforced by parents since childhood. Ultimately, the environment one grows up in hovers like a black cloud over a child. Their decision to listen to the Beatles at the age of 6 could cause a parent to be overly concerned about their overall outcome.
For example, the Beatles are not socially excepted in our school district because of how Lennon was quoted in his Christ statement. This is one out of many mentalities that has been cemented into the communities life style. They are afraid to like Weather Report so they make fun of it. I have surpassed the emotionally charged state of mind that these people brought me to long ago. I just can't believe to this day how many will use their intelligence collectively in relaying hostile feelings towards prog. But I suppose that comes with the territory.
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friso
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Joined: October 24 2007
Location: Netherlands
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Posted: October 07 2009 at 06:28 |
 The Block wrote:
Same with Edge of Sanity. They were like, " A 40 minute song, who listens for that long?" |
People who listen to prog tend to forget what they've learned so far. For a normal person a 40 minute song will be a couplet/refrein song that keeps on going and repeating itself. They don't have a clue, concerning intelligent composition forms.
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ColonelClaypool
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Joined: October 22 2005
Location: Bergen, Norway
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Posted: October 07 2009 at 03:05 |
I only tend to have mates over during our weekly RPG sessions, and I usually stay away from prog during those times. One of the guys is a die-hard power metal fan (a genre which I absolutely cannot stand), another listens predominantly to indie (although he does like Zappa's Apostrophe. He also liked TAAB when I gave it to him) and the rest of the guys I'm not sure if they're into music at all. The playlist during those sessions usually consist of Classic Rock in an attempt to find something that should suit most people. Stuff like AC/DC, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Allman Brothers, The Who etc., but also bands like Metallica, Monster Magnet, Devin Townsend, QOTSA, Kyuss and so forth. Would be an interesting experiment to expose them to Gong or ELP at some point 
Edited by ColonelClaypool - October 07 2009 at 03:09
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With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince.
With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with.
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topofsm
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Location: Arizona, USA
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Posted: October 07 2009 at 02:00 |
The Quiet One wrote:
The Block wrote:
Hate most of those songs. It makes it hard to listen to awesome songs when people are singing their songs aloud. This one girl on my bus doesn't have an Ipod so she plays music out of her phone through the speakers. Very annoying. |
Despite huge country differences, we all seem to live the exact same things...
That happens a lot here too, whenever I get a cell phone with MP3(though not planning to) I'll play my stuff aloud to see what they think of it, what do you think of that? 
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I have a friend who blasts his music from his headphones while wearing it around his neck. Despite the fact that he's a metalcore/deathcore fan (not a fan personally), I really don't think any music should be played in that manner. Not even good music....
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Location: Ukraine
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Posted: October 07 2009 at 00:52 |
moshkito wrote:
Hi,
I listen to advanced/progrressive/experimental music all the time ... and it is funny how sometimes people come around ... I was blasting my roomate with Porcupine Tree 9 years ago ... today he is blasting the new album! He was blaring Dream Theater ... and I could handle it fairly well since the musicianship in the band was obviously above par ... so he had some taste ...
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You're sh*t don't stink , congratulations. I guess I'm "under par" for enjoying some pop music and some fairly straight forward rock too 
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camilleanne
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Joined: June 29 2009
Location: Philippines
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 20:40 |
I have some friends in my class room..well sometimes I was telling them about Progressive Rock but they don't really care..TheY only care about Hanah Montana, The Jonas Brothers and other POp teen bands and some mainstream bands that sucks here in the Philippines (I'm not saying all).. .. And we had our field trip and the bus that we rode have speakers.,,, but the songs were all POP,so all day I was listening to it and even though I brought my Mp4 with me It's just so loud that I can barely hear the instruments..Then all was singing and enjoying the music except me ... I was really tortured that day  but I prefer to be tortured by that songs than to enjoy them. ..Sadly I don't have any friends that shares the same age with me that is a progfan too 
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The planet is fine the people are f**ked.
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memowakeman
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Joined: May 19 2005
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 20:07 |
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I have some friends who also like prog, and there is my girlfriend whose tastes are pretty similar to mines, with that little group of people i can enjoy listening to prog music. But in the other hand, I have most of my friends who are not really into prog, so I prefer listening to other kind of music, such as Alternative or mainstream rock pop bands, with them, I actually don't like playing prog.
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The Quiet One
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Joined: January 16 2008
Location: Argentina
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:56 |
The Block wrote:
Hate most of those songs. It makes it hard to listen to awesome songs when people are singing their songs aloud. This one girl on my bus doesn't have an Ipod so she plays music out of her phone through the speakers. Very annoying. |
Despite huge country differences, we all seem to live the exact same things... That happens a lot here too, whenever I get a cell phone with MP3(though not planning to) I'll play my stuff aloud to see what they think of it, what do you think of that?
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The Block
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:53 |
Hate most of those songs. It makes it hard to listen to awesome songs when people are singing their songs aloud. This one girl on my bus doesn't have an Ipod so she plays music out of her phone through the speakers. Very annoying.
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The Quiet One
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Joined: January 16 2008
Location: Argentina
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:50 |
TheCaptain wrote:
Most of my friends know I listen to weird music but I was driving a few around one day and had Mike Oldfield's Amarok on. On of my friends looked at the dash and asked if it was really at 53 minutes of one song.
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EPIC!! Haha, that far I haven't gone, but stuff like 30 minutes or listening one song before the bell goes while my friends have already heard to 10 songs hahaha.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:49 |
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The Block
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:47 |
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First time I saw Eckolyns mei I just said wow, and I like long songs.
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Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
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TheCaptain
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:46 |
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Most of my friends know I listen to weird music but I was driving a few around one day and had Mike Oldfield's Amarok on. On of my friends looked at the dash and asked if it was really at 53 minutes of one song.
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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The Block
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:44 |
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Same with Edge of Sanity. They were like, " A 40 minute song, who listens for that long?"
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Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
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A Person
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:43 |
J-Man wrote:
I sit next to some awesome dude on the bus who is a huge prog metal head! I was listening to The Morningside and he was listening to Isis on the way to school this morning Now before I sat to him, I constantly got asked "why are you listening to a 20 minute song!!"
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A girl used to do that to me. Every time she sat near me she would say "What are you listening to?" and then I would show her the screen of my mp3 player and she would be like "You're weird."
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J-Man
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:40 |
I sit next to some awesome dude on the bus who is a huge prog metal head! I was listening to The Morningside and he was listening to Isis on the way to school this morning Now before I sat to him, I constantly got asked "why are you listening to a 20 minute song!!"
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The Block
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:37 |
Any way I always see people who I don't know looking at me wierd when I am listening to it. They just don't understand. 
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Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
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The Quiet One
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 19:33 |
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