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topofsm 
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 Posted: March 06 2009 at 22:34 |
I started a last.fm profile a few months ago, and recently DT and Tool have been battling out for the number one spot on my list. Now Tool is by far my favorite band ever, but I have far more DT material and I haven't listened to my latest purchases of them as much. So I've been intentionally playing Tool more so it would appear that to me they're far better. However, I've listened to tons of Tool before, so I know what all the songs sound like, there are considerably fewer surprises in the music, and the only things I still haven't gotten used to are the polyrhythms in "Rosetta Stoned". So a couple weeks ago, I really got sick of Tool. Then I realized it doesn't really matter.
After a couple of weeks of not listening to them constantly, I can still say I love them. They're awesome.
Moral: Listen to whatever. Set up a Britney Spears station on pandora radio and get out your pink scarves and high heels and unleash your inner female. 
Edited by topofsm - March 06 2009 at 22:36
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rogerthat
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Posted: March 06 2009 at 22:59 |
 HughesJB4 wrote:
crimson87 wrote:
Actually.... F*CK PROG!! I am listening to Live at the Fillmore East by the Allman Bros. and it's amazing stuff |
This guy has the right spirit.
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Indeed. I went through what E Dub seems to be going through right now with metal. I discovered all the classics too soon and ran some genres like death metal and thrash metal to the ground and at some stage lost interest in discovering more artists. It's not like I began to dislike the genres as such, but just that I was already spoilt for choice for masterpieces whenever I felt in the mood for either. I keep my antennae open for any real gems but I am wary and choose carefully, because the average metal fan is more easily satisfied than I am and what may be f***ing awesome for him may well be, God forbid, f***ing awful for me.  So when I got interested in prog again, I consciously decided to mix it up with jazz, fusion jazz, blues, hard rock, even some good pop - not because I get bored of prog but because I don't want to exhaust good bands too soon. And once you take that approach, you find yourself enjoying music from all sorts of genres just as much prog or metal, the idea that one needs to listen to a specific genre to enjoy himself is fundamentally flawed.
Edited by rogerthat - March 06 2009 at 23:00
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Drew
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Posted: March 06 2009 at 23:23 |
I'm with you E- I have been listening to a lot of different stuff lately, or should I say non-prog- indie rock, adult alternative, classical, heavy and death metal. I also listen to a lot of sports radio, because I am a sports dork, SOmetimes prog music just seems so....well, I don't really know, but.....maybe you do 
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Failcore
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Posted: March 09 2009 at 00:50 |
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I'm still confused as to how you can make blanket statements about prog music. Hth do Captain Beefheart and Gourishankar have anything in common?! I think you guys really need to diversify. To me saying I'm tired of prog would be like saying I find the milky way galaxy is a bad place to live.
Edited by Deathrabbit - March 09 2009 at 00:59
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: March 09 2009 at 01:19 |
Deathrabbit wrote:
I'm still confused as to how you can make blanket statements about prog music. Hth do Captain Beefheart and Gourishankar have anything in common?! I think you guys really need to diversify. To me saying I'm tired of prog would be like saying I find the milky way galaxy is a bad place to live.
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This. I never get tired of 'prog' per se, because there is zillions and zillions of bands in heaps of different genres. Within the main genres, there is another 20-30 sub genres within. If then, it still bores you, then christ you must have like, 100 000 songs on your computer that you've heard over and over.
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Pekka
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Posted: March 09 2009 at 02:00 |
E-Dub wrote:
Anybody else going through bouts of just not wanting to listen to progressive music? |
All the time. I'm always going through some phases in my listening habits, sometimes I'm all about punk rock, sometimes indie, metal, pop or anything. Right now I've been having the longest prog phase in a long long time, enjoying the old favourites and discovering some gems from my collection that never really hit me that well before (Locanda Delle Fate, Harmonium and Ange come to mind first). When this prog phase ends some day and I'll start listening to grunge for example, I won't be worried because I know prog always comes back.
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proghog
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Posted: March 10 2009 at 05:48 |
Breaks are good but seriously stay away from Rush! (not the band). That is way too dark. 
Try The Source to bring you back into the fold.
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Manuel
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Posted: March 10 2009 at 09:52 |
Not that I'm tired of prog, but many of the modern bands don't really get to me. Old school prog, I'm for it, maybe because I grew up with it, but lately, very few bands get me going and lately, I've been listening to Jazz a lot, like Michel Petrucciani, Charles Lloyd, etc.
If bands were a little more inventive, and not so yes/genesis/gentle giant influenced, I probably would enjoy them more, and prog metal is so repetitive, the Dream Theatre sound, that it gets boring after a while, so I look for other options, some world music or sometimes new age artists for example.
Still, prog is my first love, and since I prefer music to listen to and not to dance, prog will always be my first option.
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XunknownX
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Posted: March 11 2009 at 03:03 |
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No big deal if you have realy, that's lots of good music in other styles, so don't work against progressing your taste in new directions, it only makes it worse.
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el dingo
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Posted: March 11 2009 at 04:16 |
Keppa4v wrote:
E-Dub wrote:
Anybody else going through bouts of just not wanting to listen to progressive music? |
All the time. I'm always going through some phases in my listening habits, sometimes I'm all about punk rock, sometimes indie, metal, pop or anything. Right now I've been having the longest prog phase in a long long time, enjoying the old favourites and discovering some gems from my collection that never really hit me that well before (Locanda Delle Fate, Harmonium and Ange come to mind first). When this prog phase ends some day and I'll start listening to grunge for example, I won't be worried because I know prog always comes back.
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Couldn't agree more. I can go a whole WEEK without prog, but I might be hitting on any form of metal, punk, grunge, even powerpop 
Then it might be my all-time faves The Faces or The Kinks, possibly a bit of Beethoven or Bach or some obscure proggy cr*p from the 70s that only I and the band own  , then that squares the circle and I think: let's make up this week's mp3 list: could contain anything from Guru Guru to Cream to Pendragon to David Bowie to Crimson to the Pink Fairies to Tangerine Dream to Roxy Music to Manic Street Preachers Orange Goblin to Spiritual Beggars - that's actually roughly what I've got on at the moment. Oh and The Black Parade by MCR - must be the emo in me. I hate their image but am wierdly addicted to this album.
Purists would disagree, but IMO man cannot live by prog alone.
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Dean
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Posted: March 11 2009 at 05:14 |
el dingo wrote:
Oh and The Black Parade by MCR - must be the emo in me. I hate their image but am wierdly addicted to this album. |
It's a damn fine album - and the live version, The Black Parade is Dead, is good too.
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Rocktopus
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Posted: March 11 2009 at 05:36 |
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These threads pops once in a while, and I just don't get them. How is it possible to worry about growing tired of something? Its a gift, not a problem. Just explore music, genres and artists you don't know yet. Here's your chance to grow.
Did you worry when reading comics about superheroes or playing in the sandbox stopped give you the same enjoyment as it used to?
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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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TN
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Posted: March 12 2009 at 16:39 |
Deathrabbit wrote:
I can't get tired of prog cuz to me it's not a genre, but an approach to making/listening to music. Genre-wise, tho, I do switch it quite a bit. Primus to GG to Cynic to Beefheart to Beardfish to Neal Morse to Mahavishnu Orchestra. So I never get tired of one particular type of progressive music. The progressive mindset, however, I'd have to be a different person than I am to get tired of that. I will always hold orginality and creativity to be the defining characteristics of good music. Just my two cents.
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Don't wait for tomorrow because you'll never get today back.
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E-Dub
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Posted: March 12 2009 at 17:48 |
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I'm having a healthy mix, which is probably the way to go. I did listen to the magnificent Blomljud by Moon Safari today. My goodness, that disc gives me the warmies!
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lazland
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 14:23 |
E-Dub wrote:
I'm having a healthy mix, which is probably the way to go. I did listen to the magnificent Blomljud by Moon Safari today. My goodness, that disc gives me the warmies!
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The new Wishing Tree album will make you feel a whole lot better - got it yet?
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jplanet
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 15:02 |
E-Dub wrote:
For the first time in a LONG time, I have hardly any interest in listening to progressive music. I've dusted off CD's housed in another section of my cabinet and become reacquainted with them. I normally listen to progressive music at work, but haven't even come close to dialing them up on iTunes. I even spent 3 hours listening to Rush...but not the band. 
Anybody else going through bouts of just not wanting to listen to progressive music?
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Eric, this is highly disturbing news. As one of the 8 people who listen to my band, you MUST continue to listen to prog!
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MrEdifus
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:21 |
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Sometimes I have phases where I'll want to listen to power metal, straight classic rock, some Soundgarden, stuff that isn't necessarily prog. (Yes, I've even partaken in the guiilty pleasure that is The Black Parade.)
I'm never ashamed of anything I decide to listen to though, and I often find something new that I enjoy.
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Epignosis
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:36 |
If it's music, and you like it, listen!
Hell, we're not married to prog, are we?
Are we? 
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Raff
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:38 |
I'm already married, and don't practice bigamy, so ....
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Leningrad
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Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:58 |
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Listen to whatever you want, as long as you're not under the impression that one genre is inherently 'better' than all the others, which happens far too often.
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