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    Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:02
Spinal Tap being one of the most accurate parodies and satires on the egotistic
beast which is the 70's-80's Rock Band culture draws much of its inspiration
from the Prog-Rock genre. The albums released by the "band" are not only clever
satires of some Prog-Rock but offer insight into  some of the 'heavy' thought processes
which many bands felt the need to pursue in order to feel relevant.
The music is thoroughly enjoyable as well!

I vote Yes!!
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I vote yes, purely because if there was one band who SHOULDN'T be on this site it'd be Spinal Tap, But since we're clearly going in that direction anyway, Sure why not?
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Well, Stonehenge is definitely prog. "Where the banshees dwell, and they do
live well....and oh how they danced, the little children of Stonehenge..."

Uncomfortably close to some of our real prog faves, methinks...
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Points: 4659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:27
I say 'Yes' just so we can read the funny album reviews...
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Originally posted by Heptade Heptade wrote:

Well, Stonehenge is definitely prog. "Where the banshees dwell, and they do
live well....and oh how they danced, the little children of Stonehenge..."

Uncomfortably close to some of our real prog faves, methinks...

And we can't forget Nigel Tufnel's three part Mach* piece in D minor (the saddest of all keys), "Lick My Lovepump"

(*Mozart + Bach influenced = Mach)
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Don't forget creative epics like Stonehenge and more importantly, the progginess of Big Bottom:
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Well they have a crazy keyboard player so they have the prog format goin on.  Big bottom was revolutionary in its utilization of the "triple bass sound."  And who can forget their wonderfully awful experimental jazz phase they went through for the better half of about an hour?  They also took a conceptual approach to their lyric writing, an example is taking a complicated and sophisticated idea like sex and putting it in a farm context.  pure genious!


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Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Don't forget creative epics like Stonehenge and more importantly, the progginess of Big Bottom:

hhhmmm, a red x, interesting choice of pictur cyg.

Anyway, dont know them so no comment. 
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My favorite album is Shark Sandwich.
I knew I had to have it after I read the two word review that said 'sh*t Sandwich'.
They really were a band of 'Deep Thinkers'.
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Um, no. Awesome movie but no.

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^??????

 

Can you hear the sustain???
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Originally posted by dooshbaggins dooshbaggins wrote:

^??????

 

Can you hear the sustain???
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"No, dont even look at it"



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Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

"No, dont even look at it"

 Oh God I love when people talk about Spinal Tap
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whats a good quote about the black album- "it can't get more blacker?" - something funny like that



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Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

whats a good quote about the black album- "it can't get more blacker?" - something funny like that

'I mean how much more black could it get? None, None more black'
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"It's like how much blacker could this album cover get? and the answer is none, none more black"

another good related black quote is

A salesman, like maybe in a, uh, haberdasher, or maybe like a, uh, um... a chapeau shop or something. You know, like, "Would you... what size do you wear, sir?" And then you answer me.
Marti: Uh... seven and a quarter.
Nigel: "I think we have that." See, something like that I could do.
Marti: Yeah... you think you'd be happy doing something like-...
Nigel: "No; we're all out. Do you wear black?" See, that sort of thing I think I could probably... muster up.
Marty: Do you think you'd be happy doing that?
 Nigel Well, I don't know - wh-wh-... what're the hours?

"The Review you had on Shark Sandwich which was merely a two word review, just said sh*t sandwich."
Where did they print that?
Derek Smalls: That's not real, is it?
Nigel Tufnel: Now that's nit picking isn't it

David: They said the album cover is a bit sexist.
Nigel: Well, so what? What's wrong with being sexy?
David: Sexist, Nigel.

'The Gospel According to Spinal Tap': This pretentious, ponderous group of rock psalms prompts the question "On what day did God create Spinal Tap?" and couldn't he have rested on that day too?

Those are the best lines as far as I'm concerned.


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Originally posted by robertplantowns robertplantowns wrote:



"It's like how much blacker could this album cover get? and the answer is none, none more black"

another good related black quote is

A salesman, like maybe in a, uh, haberdasher, or maybe like a, uh, um... a chapeau shop or something. You know, like, "Would you... what size do you wear, sir?" And then you answer me.
Marti: Uh... seven and a quarter.
Nigel: "I think we have that." See, something like that I could do.
Marti: Yeah... you think you'd be happy doing something like-...
Nigel: "No; we're all out. Do you wear black?" See, that sort of thing I think I could probably... muster up.
Marty: Do you think you'd be happy doing that?
 Nigel Well, I don't know - wh-wh-... what're the hours?

"The Review you had on Shark Sandwich which was merely a two word review, just said sh*t sandwich."
Where did they print that?
Derek Smalls: That's not real, is it?
Nigel Tufnel: Now that's nit picking isn't it

David: They said the album cover is a bit sexist.
Nigel: Well, so what? What's wrong with being sexy?
David: Sexist, Nigel.

'The Gospel According to Spinal Tap': This pretentious, ponderous group of rock psalms prompts the question "On what day did God create Spinal Tap?" and couldn't he have rested on that day too?

Those are the best lines as far as I'm concerned.

 Oh God you're killing me here, Especially with the first one, cause It's such an awkward situation! The way he interrupts the guy, Classic.
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So nice to see proggers have a great sense of humor.


Well, I'd love to hang around and chat but I have to sit down in the (prog) lounge
 and wait for my limo.Wink
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