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    Posted: September 20 2006 at 09:49
Funny article in this week's Onion.  You would think that the author had been to this site and found it not to their liking


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I bet this Chris guy likes both kinds of music - country... and western.
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2006 at 10:34
I wonder why people feel obliged to sl*g off kinds of music they don't like. As if any of us spent our time writing articles against rap, disco, Britney Spears or such. If I don't care for something (or someone, for the matter), I just ignore it.
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Points: 4088 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2006 at 10:37
Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

I wonder why people feel obliged to sl*g off kinds of music they don't like. As if any of us spent our time writing articles against rap, disco, Britney Spears or such. If I don't care for something (or someone, for the matter), I just ignore it.
 
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Points: 21138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2006 at 10:38
I liked the article ... it's meant to be ironic, but inadvertantly he spared most prog bands: He forgot #11:

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This article wasn't funny, just plain idiotic.
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I'm a musician and I play some of these instruments (guitar, piano, keyboards) ... I didn't feel offended in the least.
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Points: 6419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2006 at 10:51
I am apparently one of the few who actually found this article entertaining. Don't take everything so seriously, it will kill you. Wink


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Originally posted by Melomaniac Melomaniac wrote:

Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

I wonder why people feel obliged to sl*g off kinds of music they don't like. As if any of us spent our time writing articles against rap, disco, Britney Spears or such. If I don't care for something (or someone, for the matter), I just ignore it.
 

Or you could say like comedian Bob Newhart once said: I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. LOL

 

Seriously, though, life is way too short. Time spent criticising other people’s tastes is best spent listening to our favourite music.


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I guess pretentious is in the eye of the beholder.  The more I read it, the more I thought it should of been the Top 10 Pretentious PROG instruments. 
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Originally posted by johnobvious johnobvious wrote:

I guess pretentious is in the eye of the beholder.  The more I read it, the more I thought it should of been the Top 10 Pretentious PROG instruments. 
 
Had read this "thing" in the PE forum.
 
But Bagpipes have never been prog. Only Stewart and Maca used them (to my knowledge anyway) although it is possible that some modern prog band would've used them in some double disc concept >> I did like Paul's Mull Of Kintyre, though.
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I could have thought of a lot much more pretentious instruments. The flute is not pretentious at all, but how about the harp? Or the cello? Or the sitar? Among keyboards I would have chosen a harpsichord as pretentious. The examples chosen don't convince me at all.


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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by johnobvious johnobvious wrote:

I guess pretentious is in the eye of the beholder.  The more I read it, the more I thought it should of been the Top 10 Pretentious PROG instruments. 
 
Had read this "thing" in the PE forum.
 
But Bagpipes have never been prog. Only Stewart and Maca used them (to my knowledge anyway) although it is possible that some modern prog band would've used them in some double disc concept >> I did like Paul's Mull Of Kintyre, though.

Mother Gong use Uilleann pipes (the Irish variation of the bagpipe) on their album "Fairy Tales".


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I'm not sure, but I bet all of them are used on Pain of Salvation's BE. Wink
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Points: 20239 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:14
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

 
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by johnobvious johnobvious wrote:

I guess pretentious is in the eye of the beholder.  The more I read it, the more I thought it should of been the Top 10 Pretentious PROG instruments. 
 
Had read this "thing" in the PE forum.
 
But Bagpipes have never been prog. Only Stewart and Maca used them (to my knowledge anyway) although it is possible that some modern prog band would've used them in some double disc concept >> I did like Paul's Mull Of Kintyre, though.
 

Mother Gong use Uilleann pipes (the Irish variation of the bagpipe) on their album "Fairy Tales".

 
Ulleann pipes sound so much better than bagpipes, IMHO (sorry for my Scott friends)
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Points: 234 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:22

Originally posted by erlenst erlenst wrote:

This article wasn't funny, just plain idiotic.

    

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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

I could have thought of a lot much more pretentious instruments. The flute is not pretentious at all, but how about the harp? Or the cello? Or the sitar? Among keyboards I would have chosen a harpsichord as pretentious. The examples chosen don't convince me at all.

Omar Rodrigues-Lopez plays a sitar. Wink
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pretensiousness would be owning these instruments but not being able to play them, surely?
 
 
 
 
 
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Points: 40 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2006 at 12:05
I can understand what this article is about but punk has already come and gone ...

and I totally agree on Malmsteen... I mean TOTALLY!
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Points: 967 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2006 at 12:50
Listen to any of Runrig's or Wolfstone's (not prog, Celtic rock and highly recommended) albums and hear why bagpipes are not pretentious: they are Scots Gaels and play their own traditional instrument! In Malcolm Jones' or Stevie Saint's hands, pipes are a thing of beauty.

Personally, I think he's talking out of his a**e but he's entitled to his own boorish view, i guess.
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