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JayDee

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Posted: May 18 2006 at 20:10

Ha, ha, ha, ha, satyin alive, stayin alive...

Oh i love that!

wolf0621

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Posted: May 18 2006 at 18:45

chopper wrote:

prog-chick wrote:

Chicapah wrote:

Don't be dissin' the Bee Gees. Their work pre-fever is top notch. As pop songwriters they are in an elite group of artists.

Thanks guys...........I am SO glad you feel that way.........in case I need to unburden darker secrets at a later date!

Sorry Snowie..................

But the BeeGee's really are something very special in prog-chick world!

P-C

Don't worry, it's not too late to get help. Bring all your BeeGee albums to the Pendragon gig next month and me and Blacksword will perform an exorcism by use of a ritual bonfire of the said albums. LOL

OK, I will also confess to once getting a Bucks Fizz album for Xmas.

One rather delicate question for prog-chick & Ghost Rider and since, ummm..., I'm not sure how to phrase it delicately I'll just come out with it: Are either of you 15 year old girls? If not, then we may have a problem...

But seriously, I like Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (especially Track #3) & that doesn't make me a deaf person, so liking the Bee Gees doesn't automatically make you bad people. I do have a bone to pick with them, though...When the Gibbs' decided to participate in the Sgt Pepper's "film" in the late 70's (presumably as an homage to their original prog roots - see my prior post in this thread for details), I was led to believe that this would be worth seeing & so I did...In a theater...Where they charge admission...Somebody owes me four bucks (not including pop corn & soda)! I'm waiting...

fogwalker

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Posted: May 18 2006 at 16:17

I think "Tragedy" is a brilliant song. So there.

Visitor13

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Posted: May 18 2006 at 16:08

...Bee Gees

....arrrrrrrrrrrghhhhh...........

(since beating women is out of the question, V13 proceeds to pummel Snow Dog instead, since his post directy follows the original one)

Edited by Visitor13 - May 18 2006 at 16:10

chopper

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Posted: May 18 2006 at 15:29

prog-chick wrote:

Chicapah wrote:

Don't be dissin' the Bee Gees. Their work pre-fever is top notch. As pop songwriters they are in an elite group of artists.

P-C

OK, I will also confess to once getting a Bucks Fizz album for Xmas.

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Posted: May 18 2006 at 13:48

Ghost Rider wrote:

I think it's perfectly OK to have our guilty musical secrets...

I don't like The Bee Gees myself, but there are some '80s hits which I rather like (though I would never dream of buying a record by those bands), such as some songs by Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran. Shall I get expelled from PA, or will my female status protect me too?

My God, what's wrong with liking Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet? I personaly like them very much.

About the Bee Gee's, they early and later works are not that bad. It's the part in the middle that is the problem.

Just because you like PROG you don't have to hate POP.

Bigger on the inside.

Empathy

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Posted: May 18 2006 at 13:28

Ghost Rider wrote:

I think it's perfectly OK to have our guilty musical secrets...

My wife is a "Duran-ie", so I'm all too familiar with that phenomenon.

Spandau Ballet, eh? Wink

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Posted: May 18 2006 at 12:30

The Bee Gees made a lot of great, well crafted popsongs up to ca. 1970. And listen to the title track on the '69 album Odessa. 7 and a half minutes long, quite complex and heavily orchestrated. Protoprog indeed.

Just remember that prog is also a guilty pleasure.

Edited by Rocktopus - May 18 2006 at 12:31

Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me

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Posted: May 18 2006 at 12:07

I think it's perfectly OK to have our guilty musical secrets...

wolf0621

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Posted: May 17 2006 at 18:19

prog-chick wrote:

Look, I have been around here for ......what 8 or 9 months now.

Thee is something I need to let you know. I do love prog. I also love other types of music.
It's is time to unburden myself.

I ADORE the BEEGEE's!

I have been readiing the ranting room, and I just felt overpoweringly the need to just let you know.

P-C

Hopefully you're referring to their early "prog" work (with Syd Barrett & Captain Beefheart I believe, mid 60's)...Actually, I wonder what that would've sounded like...Maybe a cross between Man With A Woman Head, Massachusetts & Atom Heart Mother...? I'm all tingly just thinking about it...

Check out the cover of their first lp: http://www.philcoradio.com/beegees/singplay.htm...Love the teeth! Somebody just released the beavers back into the wild. They are standing next to a tree...

Empathy

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Posted: May 17 2006 at 14:33

Do you get Saturday Night Live over there across the pond?

They did a skit about a fictional Barry Gibb Talk Show that was pretty good. Smile

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Posted: May 17 2006 at 14:14

Chicapah wrote:

Don't be dissin' the Bee Gees. Their work pre-fever is top notch. As pop songwriters they are in an elite group of artists.

P-C

Chicapah

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Posted: May 17 2006 at 14:08

Don't be dissin' the Bee Gees. Their work pre-fever is top notch. As pop songwriters they are in an elite group of artists.

"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain

Empathy

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Posted: May 17 2006 at 14:02

It's OK, we still love you.

You're also one of the very few females on this site, so we'll give you a pass... Wink

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Posted: May 17 2006 at 13:59

Oh dear God................. Ouch

Edited by Snow Dog - May 17 2006 at 14:06

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Posted: May 17 2006 at 13:57

Look, I have been around here for ......what 8 or 9 months now.

Thee is something I need to let you know. I do love prog. I also love other types of music.
It's is time to unburden myself.

I ADORE the BEEGEE's!

I have been readiing the ranting room, and I just felt overpoweringly the need to just let you know.

P-C