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    Posted: July 20 2009 at 07:48
Originally posted by SilverEclipse SilverEclipse wrote:

...c'mon, you know that every prog band has had that moment where they either delved to far into pop or went way too excessive with a idea.   And to most it sounded horrible but you know you like some of them...

I would have to pick "Arriving UFO" by Yes. 

Every time I hear it I cannot get over how cheesy and awful it is (considering that the same band had done Awaken a year earlier), but I still listen to it on a regular basis and can't help but smile. 
That one, but even worse the Circus thing from the same album.
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Originally posted by SilverEclipse SilverEclipse wrote:

...c'mon, you know that every prog band has had that moment where they either delved to far into pop or went way too excessive with a idea.   And to most it sounded horrible but you know you like some of them...

I would have to pick "Arriving UFO" by Yes. 

Every time I hear it I cannot get over how cheesy and awful it is (considering that the same band had done Awaken a year earlier), but I still listen to it on a regular basis and can't help but smile. 
 
cool song. Nothing cheesy about it apart from the synth sound
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Who dunnit? is one of Abacab's highlights for me.
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Well  one of my favorite songs is Another Day by Dream Theater ..
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

Also Rainbow. I have an odd suspicion that anything with Dio would be considered a guilty pleasure.



indeed, for an unattractive dwarf with an ego the size of Utah, the man can sing


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Originally posted by The Whistler The Whistler wrote:

Also Rainbow. I have an odd suspicion that anything with Dio would be considered a guilty pleasure.



indeed, for an unattractive dwarf with an ego the size of Utah, the man can sing
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Um...Jeff Wayne I guess. Oh, and, Angra's cover of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights."

Also Rainbow. I have an odd suspicion that anything with Dio would be considered a guilty pleasure.
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Any of the tracks off Octavarium

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Have any of you seen the music video for Don't Kill the Whale? It's freaking hilarious.
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For me, these 3 bands represent my idea of a "guilty pleasure" in that they don't readily come to me as prog, per se, but are in the prog camp for sure. They are, The Allan Parson's Project, Supertramp and Ambrosia. I unabashedly love these bands, but would shudder to share that fact at a KC convention or Opeth backstage get-together... But there it is...
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Who Dunnit? - Genesis (Wos it choo or wos it me? or Wos it it 'e or she?)
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight - Genesis
Vapor Trails (Yes, the whole album) - Rush

There are more which I know I shouldn't like but I still do.


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What can save mankind from man, when the blind, the blind overran, from the scene of unknown devestaaaaaaaaaaaaatioooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon, came the great spontaneousssssssssssssss apple creaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaation!
 
 
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Genesis- "Whodunnit?"
Genesis- "Illegal Alien"
Yes- "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
Emerson, Lake & Palmer- "Tiger in the Spotlight"


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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by Evolutionary_Sleeper Evolutionary_Sleeper wrote:

I don't really have any "guilty" pleasures per say. But I'm a man that enjoys his Kate Bush. :3 (not prog, I know :D)


Kate Bush is in Prog-Related, and as far as I am concerned she could very well be placed in a fully prog category. As to the notion of 'guilty pleasures', it's something I don't buy into at all. I like what I like, and if someone doesn't agree with that, they can turn the other way (and this is an understatement, just to be politeWink).


Ah, I didn't know that, don't delve into that category very often. I agree that she could fall into the prog category. Wink
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I like an album that even non-prog-lovers say its bad, but hey, it was my first album LOL

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Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

As to the notion of 'guilty pleasures', it's something I don't buy into at all.
 
I thought Micky was your guilty pleasure...Embarrassed
 
after all, he's usually guilty of something or other...LOL
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Originally posted by Evolutionary_Sleeper Evolutionary_Sleeper wrote:

I don't really have any "guilty" pleasures per say. But I'm a man that enjoys his Kate Bush. :3 (not prog, I know :D)


Kate Bush is in Prog-Related, and as far as I am concerned she could very well be placed in a fully prog category. As to the notion of 'guilty pleasures', it's something I don't buy into at all. I like what I like, and if someone doesn't agree with that, they can turn the other way (and this is an understatement, just to be politeWink).
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