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viperjr98 
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 Topic: Best Prog Rock Lyricist
Posted: December 16 2005 at 18:57 |
From the list, I'd pick Peart.
All time I'd have to go with Daniel Gildenlow.
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Gentle Tull
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 18:37 |
PETER GABRIEL.
IAN ANDERSON.
JON ANDERSON.
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W.Chuck
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 18:07 |
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My favourite is Markus Steffen (Sieges Even)!
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Heraclea
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 17:53 |
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I like both
Roger Waters and Peter Gabriel, but my vote goes to Gabriel, with
hardly any doubt. Stagnation, The Return of the Giant Hogweed,
Can-Utility and the Coastliners, Supper's Ready, Dancing With the
Moonlit Knight, The Battle of Epping Forest, almost everything on The
Lamb, Twilight Alehouse, etc. So many wonderful songs which such great
lyrics.
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Destrio
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 17:17 |
Out of those, Peart, althought I love Ian Anderson's lyrics
Fripp has cool lyrics too
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Publius84
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 16:06 |
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Mr. Roger Waters
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I know what I like and I like what I know...
Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul...
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Moogtron III
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 15:59 |
From the list: Greg Lake.
But Geoff Mann is unequaled in prog  .
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Rockin' Chair
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 15:36 |
The 2 Peters...Gabriel and Sinfield
...and Hammil too
Daniel Gildenlow the best in prog-metal.
about Greg Lake...I'm sorry, He is a great singer and a great musician but IMO he's not a good lyricist
Edited by Rockin' Chair
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shyman
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 14:26 |
My favourite one is not here. He is Steve Kilbey.
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Korova
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 14:20 |
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My vote goes to Rog...anyway a lot of lyricist are missing in this poll...and robert fripp never wrote a single verse...
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La Speranza della coscienza è forza
La Speranza del sentimento è schiavitù
La Speranza del corpo è malattia
(G.I. Gurdjieff)
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matti meikäläin
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 13:05 |
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where is peter hammil ( one of the best all time) but the best is of course legendary IAN CURTIS ( joy division)
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TheLamb
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 12:12 |
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Fish is a great lyricist even though I don't really like Marilon... But out of this list, I'd say Greg Lake... Just because his lyrics are ussualy more simple and you don't need a dictionary from the 18th century to understand what the hell he is talking about.
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White Duck
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Posted: December 16 2005 at 04:37 |
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Ian Anderson and from the list Gabriel.
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Cluster One
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Joined: February 03 2005
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Posted: February 09 2005 at 22:25 |
 gdub411 wrote:
Roger Waters is SO over-rated.
Wish You Were Here...Oh wah...I miss Syd
The Wall...Oh wah...my daddy died and I still miss Syd
<>The Final Cut...oh wah...let me tell you some more about my daddy dieing. |
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Marmalade...I like marmalade.
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aqualung28
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Posted: February 09 2005 at 22:06 |
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I say Ian Anderson but of the ones on the poll I'd say Mr. Waters
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"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
'n you should have us all
O' you should have us fall"
"Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: February 09 2005 at 22:04 |
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Sorry if I forgot anybody's favorites, I was in a hurry when I made it and just took a few names from the top of my head. I didn't realize I forgot Fish until about an hour later. Same with Jon and Ian Anderson.
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Posted: February 09 2005 at 20:54 |
Pete Sinfield.
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: February 09 2005 at 18:59 |
frosty wrote:
Fish of course should've been there, but what about Geoff Mann of Twelfth Night.
Sequences, We Are Sane, Creepshow, The Collector... the list goes on.
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You're right! Geoff Mann was another great lyricist.
Even the candorous simplicity of his lyrics to 'Love Son' is moving and compelling. The final lines " When you think that your open heart has led you into pain, take a tip from the Carpenter 'Forgive and love again and again...' " are simply beautiful!!
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threefates
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Posted: February 09 2005 at 18:47 |
Well I love Pete Sinfield's lyrics... but I love Greg's even more:
Just take a pebble, and cast it to the sea.
Then watch the ripples that unfold into me.
My face spills so gently into your eyes,
Disturbing the waters of our lives.
Shreds of our memories are lying on the grass.
Wounded words of laughter are graveyards of the past.
Photographs are gray and torn, scattered in your fields,
Letters of your memories are not real.
With sadness on your shoulders like a worn-out overcoat.
In pockets, creased and tattered, hang the rags of your hopes.
The daybreak is your midnight, the colors have all died,
Disturbing the waters of our lives
Of our lives, lives.... lives........
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THIS IS ELP
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Manunkind
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Posted: February 09 2005 at 18:32 |
frosty wrote:
Fish of course should've been there, but what about Geoff Mann of Twelfth Night.
Sequences, We Are Sane, Creepshow, The Collector... the list goes on.
Very sadly missed.
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Haunting lyrics, telling many an uncomfortable truth about ourselves, and therefore invaluable.
R. I. P. Geoff Mann
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