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THE_POLE

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Posted: June 04 2007 at 02:33

Just a few of my favourite non-prog bands:

Moonsorrow(Although with their latest album i would consider prog-metal)
Bathory
Ensiferum
Dark Tranquility
Old Man's Child
Amon Amarth
Slayer
Blind Guardian
Sonata Arctica
My Dying Bride
Katatonia
Strapping Young Lad
Nine Inch Nails
Muse
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Hammerfall
Celtic Frost

and of course: Moby

melvins

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Posted: June 04 2007 at 05:41

THE_POLE wrote:

Just a few of my favourite non-prog bands:

Moonsorrow(Although with their latest album i would consider prog-metal)

Muse

I've always thought Muse progressive rock, or at least progressive related.

Edited by melvins - June 04 2007 at 05:41

Pekka

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Posted: June 04 2007 at 14:59

Guilty pleasures is a term I'm not familiar with when it comes to music. Most of the stuff I nowadays listen to is prog, but I'm also a big punk rock fan (going to see NOFX this coming autumn Clap

), I love a lot of metal bands (Maiden, Metallica, System of a Down, Swallow the Sun, Mokoma and so on...) and even straight pop (Michael Jackson is a genius). I've also shocked many people by confessing the ownership of both t.A.T.u albums. Love their stuff. Thumbs%20Up

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Posted: June 06 2007 at 16:14

My concious is clean.

ish.

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Posted: June 06 2007 at 16:17

THE_POLE wrote:

Just a few of my favourite non-prog bands:

Moonsorrow(Although with their latest album i would consider prog-metal)
Bathory
Ensiferum
Dark Tranquility
Old Man's Child
Amon Amarth
Slayer
Blind Guardian
Sonata Arctica
My Dying Bride
Katatonia
Strapping Young Lad
Nine Inch Nails
Muse
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Hammerfall
Celtic Frost

and of course: Moby

Not really something I would call 'guilty pleasures'...

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Posted: June 07 2007 at 05:47

Erasure
Bananarama
The Communards
Scissor Sisters
Bronski Beat
The Village People
Dream Theater

Sexy

tardis

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Posted: June 07 2007 at 16:21

verslibre wrote:

Hey, if you like the old Moroder instrumentals, track down a copy of Brian Bennett's Voyage–A Journey Into Discoid Funk (1979) on vinyl, or remastered on CD (as a two-fer with Rock Dreams) ...with Francis Monkman (Curved Air) on synths, it's pretty cool!

http://www.briansdrums.com/music_review4.htm

Thanks...I'll have a look for it!

Losendos

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Posted: June 08 2007 at 06:50

I actually liked From Genesis to Revelation

I also Liked the track Turn it On Again

How wonderful to be so profound

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Posted: January 24 2008 at 15:45

Snow Dog wrote:

Sugarbabes.

I like them too but they haven't been the same since Mutley left.

"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."

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Posted: January 24 2008 at 17:09

Chameleon wrote:

Weird Al Yankovic...

Dude, Weird Al's awesome.

Mine would be Tupac, Black Flag, and The Mars Volta.

Edited by King Crimson776 - January 24 2008 at 17:13

Exodizer

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Posted: January 24 2008 at 17:10

Symphony X and Black Flag and Kamelot. I think that's it.

This is a Harmonic arpeggios decending down the phyrigian mode in tectonic halfsteps and I get to say stuff like that because I have a BA in Music Theory - Micheal Angelo Batio

Peter

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Posted: January 24 2008 at 18:40

Looked into the future -- there was nothing to reveal

For we were just a product of the ever-spinning wheel

Round and round we go, round and round and round we go....

All that's old is new again? Yawn.

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=653&KW=guilty

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28835&KW=guilty

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41116&KW=guilty

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21415&KW=guilty

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2514&KW=guilty

I was first!

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Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
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Posted: January 24 2008 at 20:31

I still listen to and enjoy large amounts of metal - mostly the heavier, more intricate varieties - and I'm 40 years old, which means I'm not supposed to like the stuff anymore.

My biggest guilty pleasure band, however, is the White Stripes. Hey, what can I say - I think Jack's a good songwriter, and they're just offbeat enough that they fit my criteria.

I suppose I should also consider the Trans-Siberian Orchestra a guilty pleasure. Christmas Eve And Other Stories puts me in the right frame of mind at Christmas time.

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Posted: January 26 2008 at 09:13

Oh, everything I listen to is brilliant and none of it embarasses me or can be called a guilty pleasure.

JayDee

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Posted: January 26 2008 at 09:29

Yo Yo Ma is brilliant!!!!

I do enjoy some Breathe and Go West.

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Posted: January 26 2008 at 21:28

Let me see:

Gov't Mule - I've seen them twice in concert and they're fantastic

Apart from that, it's mostly individual songs I like, such as:

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression that I Get
Sublime - Date Rape
Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Disturbed - Down with the Sickness
SOiL - Halo
The Sultans of Ping - Where's Me Jumper
The Colorblind James Experience - Considering a Move to Memphis

Plus I like some Rage Against the Machine sometimes.

Edited by Geck0 - January 26 2008 at 21:30

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Posted: January 26 2008 at 23:22

Music outside of Prog that's a bit of a guilty pleasure includes classic adult film soundtracks. Quietly listening to samples from Inside Deep Note: Music of 1970's Adult Cinema now. The Deep Throat Anthology Pts. 1 and 2 is pretty good if one's into that sort of thing.

Duos for fave acts

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Posted: January 27 2008 at 01:47

Geck0 wrote:

Let me see:

Gov't Mule - I've seen them twice in concert and they're fantastic

Apart from that, it's mostly individual songs I like, such as:

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression that I Get
Sublime - Date Rape(Good one mate, goes better with beer)
Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Disturbed - Down with the Sickness
SOiL - Halo
The Sultans of Ping - Where's Me Jumper
The Colorblind James Experience - Considering a Move to Memphis

Plus I like some Rage Against the Machine sometimes.