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    Posted: July 28 2009 at 19:44
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

1) To crush your ennemies.
2) To see driven before you.
3) To hear the lamentation of their women.


No, wait, I think I'm in the wrong thread.


Black Metal Archives is that way >>>

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Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

1) To crush your ennemies.
2) To see driven before you.
3) To hear the lamentation of their women.


No, wait, I think I'm in the wrong thread.


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1) To crush your ennemies.
2) To see driven before you.
3) To hear the lamentation of their women.


No, wait, I think I'm in the wrong thread.
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1. Due to the sometimes quite complex time signatures it is much better to dance to than those bloody 4/4 songs you always hear on the radio. Anyone who has ever been to a concert of Embryo and saw the whole audience dance to these REALLY complicated time signatures will know what I am speaking of. Just so you have something for comparison: 13/8 would be considered to be a very simple time signature by Embryo; they are trained in the tala tarangini, the Indian school of percussion, and those rhythms are EXTREMELY complicated and take years to study. Those rhythms are a lot more than just the basic time signature which they are in; there are certain highly complex rules of how to variate them, which is what makes them so complicated. Take it from a drummer.

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1. I can look at perplexed faces when I name bands I like.
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It's cheaper than going to the movies.
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To enjoy 25 minutes and above songs.Smile
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Some more

1. Appreciation of John Petrucci's hairstyles
2. Electric Violin is a legitimate rock instrument
3. Black Metal is Too Kvlt
4. The amps go up to 19.6
5. Prog Archives
6. Devin Townsend taught you the benefit of recycling
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I have but one:

1. You can listen to horrible music, and when others don't like it, you can say they don't get it and they'll believe you.

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1. Because its the best
2. Its retro
3. Babes dig guys who listen to music which is often based on fantasy
4. It was cool 30 years ago
5. You can sound like a total badass by telling people you listen to prog... Example "Chyeah, I listen to prog "
6. Because you can act like you're better than everyone else
7. You can mean reason 6
8. The Jazz-fusion solos
9. A somewhat inventive way of wasting 20 minutes is to listen to an epic
10. Babes dig obscure nerds with very few friends who like Dream Theater

And I'm out of ideas



(BTW, great post idea!)
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Points: 12294 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2009 at 01:08
It's a pretty simple task. This is supposed to be a satire of progressive rock and its fans, simply add as many points as you wish. But please, keep it clean. (Kudos for the most inventive responses)

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1. All the Girls
2. Flute Solos
3. It just keeps on going... and going
4. Painfully Complex Time Signatures
5. Pretension
6. You have a reason not to like Phil Collins
7. Because 80 minute albums aren't going to listen to themselves
8. You know J.R.R. Tolkien would approve
9. All the Dream Theater Polls
10. Pink Floyd made you appreciate dogs on vocals
11. Because how many Gentle Giant fanboys do you see?
12. Steven Wilson told you so
13. Nostalgic 70's clothing
14. Incomprehensible lyrical themes
15. Drugs, and plenty of them
16. Sweet band names
17. Someone has to listen to Jazz Fusion
18. Frank Zappa's salient advice
19. Bass is the new lead guitar
20. Paying extortionately high prices for rare LP's
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