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frenchie
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Joined: July 30 2004
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Topic: What else do you like? Posted: May 04 2005 at 16:31 |
i am a huge grunge fan... i could live without nirvana tho. I love alt rock and metal too and dancey/ambient stuff like daft punk, air, royksopp
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The Worthless Recluse
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 09:20 |
Progger wrote:
I hope it's OK to start a discussion on other musical tastes and bands we like outside of prog? Maybe we have some 'sleletons in our cupboard' that we prefer to keep to ourselves in fear of being ridiculed by fellow prog lovers.
Well I'm going to be brave & name some of mine
Human League-'Dare'. The classic 'electronic disco' album. Seen 'em on tour too!
Simple Minds-'Good News From The Next World' & 'Glittering Prize'-Seen these live too. A great band!
Tears For Fears-I like all their albums.
Temptations-'Masterpiece.' I call this 'progressive' soul!
Neil Diamond-'Jonathon Livingstone Seagull'. A brilliant soundtrack but havn't seen the movie!
The Sweet-Call 'em bubblegum rock or pop but I grew up listening to this band!
OK, I can hear the word 'blasphemy' being yelled in my ears already so I'm gonna stop
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Snow Dog
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Joined: March 23 2005
Location: Caerdydd
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Points: 32995
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 08:01 |
- The Jam
- The Stranglers
- Steeleye Span
- The Sweet
- Wings
- XTC
- Kate Bush
- Blur
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Bowie
- Bay City Rollers.......just kidding
and loads more I cant even think of at the moment
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Valarius
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Joined: January 08 2005
Location: Germany
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Points: 1480
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 03:42 |
I pretty much into everything... although my fave non-prog bands include:
Metallica, Megadeth, Iced Earth, Axel Rudi Pell, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Stratovarius and Fozzy.
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Mategra
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Joined: August 23 2004
Location: Sweden
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Points: 592
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 02:26 |
Thommy Rock wrote:
- Laurie Anderson (Adrian Belew and Burroughs on 'Mr Heartbreak' anyone?)
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...Peter Gabriel is another guest on Mr. Heartbreak. An alternative version of the song "This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)" is a bonus track on Gabriel's So.
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Thommy Rock
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Joined: April 22 2005
Location: United Kingdom
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Points: 54
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 22:02 |
Just for the 'more-wonderful-and-weird-bands-you-never-knew-never-will-kn ow-but-should-know' list title tag, here we go:
- Palais Schaumburg (1981 Debut album only, so simply weird, they might even be some kind of prog)
- Kowalski ('Schlagende Wetter' 1982, dark, experimental and teutonic, the first post-prog metal album ever?)
- Der Plan (much like a German copy of The Residents with added German twist)
- Tuxedomoon (post-punk-new wave-prog, who should be included here really)
- Legendary Pink Dots (post-punk-new wave-prog, who should be included here really)
- The Residents (see all above)
- The Tea Party (copy of Led Zep, The Doors, King Crimson and Fairport Convention, all rolled into one, which could qualify)
- Einstürzende Neubauten (some might guess my country of origion by now, but these guys are simply ingenious...)
- Laurie Anderson (Adrian Belew and Burroughs on 'Mr Heartbreak' anyone?)
- Centipede (Fripp produced, Keith Jarrett leading wondersome one-off jazzrock fusion project)
- Bark Psychosis (anyone? - they actually made two great albums, which should be include here)
- Nurse With Wound (lots of industrial noise, but they made a wonderfully twisted a-capella version of an female-sung Italian oddity melody)
- Eyeless In Gaza (first few albums, should be in here)
- Chrome (weird and twisted post-punk-new wave-metal, even prog in certain moments, could be included)
- Holger Hiller (see Palais Schaumburg)
- Renaldo & The Loaf ('Arabic Yodelling' is 'Close to the Edge' played on a hand-held casio keyboard)
- John Cale (he has his prog moments, more often than not)
- Little Feat (everybody knows, underrated, underhyped, godlike)
- Steely Dan (everybody knows, underrated, underhyped, godlike)
I could go on and on...
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"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible" FZ
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radiognome3
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Joined: March 26 2005
Location: United States
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Points: 92
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 20:54 |
In no particular order: Mile Davis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, William S. Burroughs, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messanger Service, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Freddy King, Albert King, The Byrds, Eric Dolphy, Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Eric Satie, lots of other blues, jazz, and classical. Plus LOTS more.
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lucas
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Joined: February 06 2004
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 18:47 |
Thrash metal : Metallica (the first four albums), Slayer, Suicidal tendencies, Kreator, Sepultura, Overkill
Death metal : Death, Obituary, Morbid angel
NWOBHM : Iron Maiden, Def Leppard
Classical music : Gorecki, Paderewski, Zarebski, Bach, Enescu, Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, Preisner
Soul : earlier Randy Crawford
World : Milton Nascimento, Pedro Aznar
Pop/Rock : Police, Toto, Queen
Psychedelic : Jimi Hendrix, Vanilla fudge
Jazz : Krzysztof Komeda, John Coltrane, Esbjorn Svensson Trio
Jazz-world : Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek, Richard Bona
Folk : Fairport convention, Richie Havens, maddy Prior, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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richardh
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Joined: February 18 2004
Location: United Kingdom
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Points: 29697
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 18:01 |
Singles:
The Monkees - I'm A Believer
The Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash
The Rah Band - The Crunch
The Adverts - Gary Gilmours Eyes
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
PIL - Public Image Ltd
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With?
Sham 69 - Hersham Boys
Abba - Knowing me Knowing You
Michael Zagger Band - Lets All Chant
Silver Convention - Get Up And Boogie
Korgis - Everyone's Got To Learn Sometime
Orchestral Manouvers In The Dark - Enola Gay,Maid Of Orleons
White Town - Your Woman
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
Crash Test Dummies - MMM MMM MMM
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffanies
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Albums:
Tubeway Army - Same
Love- Forever Changes
All Kate Bush albums
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
All Placebo albums
All Mansun albums
Suzanne Vega - Same
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Al Stewart - Last Days Of The Century/other selected tracks
Enya - almost anything
Franz Ferdinand - Same
Be Bop Deluxe - selected tracks
The White Stripes - Elephant
The Tubes - selected tracks
Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain
Bryan Ferry - In Your Mind
Darkness - Permission To Land
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valravennz
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Joined: March 20 2005
Location: New Zealand
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Points: 2546
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 17:32 |
Some of the music I listen to other than Prog:
Smashing Pumpkins, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Cold Play, Annie Lennox, Faithless, Dido and many others, including 80's New Wave and Punk and 90's first wave Grunge - Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, I Mother Earth etc
Also Classical music - Bach, Brahms, Shostakovich, Grieg, Stravinsky, Mozart, Vivaldi etc
Jazz/Blues - Sarah Vaughn, Peggy Lee, Nina Simone, Billy Holliday, Dave Brubeck, Jaques Loussier etc.
I have a very eclectic taste in music and the above barely touches on my preferences and huge collection of music and styles. However, Prog has always been a firm favourite - cheers 
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"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence"
- Robert Fripp
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Fishy
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Joined: November 26 2004
Location: Belgium
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Points: 257
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 17:12 |
anathema, Toyah, Fleetwood Mac, The Waterboys, Talktalk, Bruce Dickinson, Yola tengo, Dream Syndicate, Stephen Duffy, Led Zeppelin, Air, Monster Magnet, Smashing pumpkins, The Byrds, Neil Young, some Bob Dylan, The Nits, Clannad, Heart, early Roxy music, Manzanera, the Berlin period of Bowie, Reed and Iggy Pop, the island years of Jon Cale, Rolling Stones, Simple Minds, Springsteen, the Pogues and Shane Mcgowan, Japan and some David Sylvian, Steve Winwood, REM, The Doves, Blur, Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt and so on
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goose
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Joined: June 20 2004
Location: United Kingdom
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Points: 4097
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 16:24 |
20th century composers, art metal, zeuhl, art punk, avant-garde music, 19th century composers, RIO, jazz, technical metal, stoner metal/rock, experimental techno, post rock, fusion metal, doom metal, neo folk, livetronica, classic pop, technical death metal, grindcore
berg, ginastera, messaien, schoenberg, shostakovitch, stravinsky, stockhausen, webern arcturus, angizia, devil doll, hammers of misfortune, faith no more, fantomas, freak kitchen, mr bungle, oxiplegatz, thought industry magma, ruins biblical proof of ufos, early humans, humanfly, kill yourself, the mars volta estradasphere, frank zappa, mike patton berlioz, brahms, mahler, mussorgsky, schubert, tchaikovsky, wagner art bears, henry cow allan holdsworth, cannonball adderly, john coltrane, miles davis behold... the arctopus, canvas solaris, mattias eklundh, orthrelm, sadus, spastic ink camel of doom, kyuss, sleep sonic youth, godspeed you black emperor atheist, cynic anathema, my dying bride, opeth agalloch, empyrium, forseti, todesbonden ozric tentacles, sound tribe sector 9 alan parsons project, al stewart, the beach boys, the beatles cryptopsy, death, demilich, necrophagist, wormed brutal truth, napalm death, soilent green
Is a brief summary.
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Moogtron III
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Joined: April 26 2005
Location: Belgium
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Points: 10616
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 16:14 |
The Beatles, to start with
Love, Forever Changes
Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends and Bridge Over Troubled Water
Roxy Music albums, Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure
Traffic, all of their '60's and '70's albums
Buffalo Springfield, Again
Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young, Deja Vu
Poco, Crazy Eyes
Tears For Fears, the 1st three albums
Bjork, the 1st three albums
Massive Attack, Blue Lines
Air, Moon Safari
and many many more. The end is listless, as Rick Wakeman once said
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Ben2112
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Points: 870
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 16:09 |
some 80's pop (Tears For Fears, The Police, and the like)
80's thrash
classic metal (Sabbath, Zep, Purple, etc.)
some classic rock (though I'm sick to death of most of it)
classical/spanish/flamenco guitar
some '70's pop (Billy Joel, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, etc.)
"first wave" grunge (Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Mudhoney)
very little newer metal (Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, some Disturbed)
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Jeremy Bender
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Joined: April 29 2005
Location: Netherlands
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Points: 531
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 16:04 |
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
Dimmu Borgir
Moby
The Nits
Ludwig von Beethoven
Modest Mussorgsky
Gustav Holst
Ennio Morricone
Danny Elfman
Jimmy Smith
Mr.Bungle
Live
Metallica
Therapy?
Nina Hagen
Enya
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Don_Frog
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Location: United States
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 15:57 |
Heavy on the Celtic rock/punk with bands like the Pogues, Whisky
Priests, the t**sers, Flogging Molly, the Mahones, Paddy Goes To
Hollyhead, the Electrics, and Enter the Haggis. Also strong on
the cd rotation: the Filthy Thieving Bastards, the Beach Boys, Mark
Knopfler, Midnight Oil, the Waterboys, REM, and The Beautiful South.
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Blacksword
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Location: England
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 08:40 |
Dick Heath wrote:
tuxon wrote:
Cliff Richard
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There's an honest man - I like his very early stuff and his reborn rock (and I don't mean the Christianity stuff).
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Are you kidding, Dick?? 
No offence old chap, but I thought only elderley women listerned to Clifford Richard. When I was a kid my dad told me not to trust any man who says he says he likes Cliff Richard. I didn't know what he meant at the time, and perhaps he shouldn't have said that, as I've grown up with an irrational fear of weddings and personal stereos..

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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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muffley_mirkin
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 08:24 |
Ooops started with a short list, but it sorta grew....
Ryan Adams
Bruce Springsteen
Ten Years After/Alvin Lee
Ben Harper
Sarah McLaclan
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Mogwai
Sigur Ros
Cinematic Orchestra
Talk Talk
Audioslave
Alice In Chains
Black Sabbath
Djam Karat
King Black Acid
The Walkabouts
Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
amongst others
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Blacksword
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 08:06 |
Soul:
Stevie Wonder Minnie Ripperton/Rotary Connection Curtis Mayfield Sly & the Family Stone
70's/80's pop/New wave:
Duran Duran OMD (1979 - 1981) Japan Depeche Mode The Cure Siouxsie & the Banshees Killing Joke The Stranglers
Ambient electronic:
The Orb Orbital Plaid Boards of Canada Autechre Aphex Twin Global Communication Future Sound of London Cinematic Orchestra 4Hero
Indie sh*t (mainly early to mid 90's):
Curve Lush Ride The Cocteau Twins The Sundays The Cranes...
Among others. Too many to mention..
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Dick Heath
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 08:03 |
tuxon wrote:
Cliff Richard
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There's an honest man - I like his very early stuff and his reborn rock (and I don't mean the Christianity stuff).
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