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Posted: May 05 2009 at 18:59

Mikerinos wrote:

plantain chips > ELP

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:00

James wrote:

The Decemberists > Animal Collective

Easily.

I honestly can't comment on that, as I'm not really that familiar with the Decemberists (yet--that should change soon though).

But I doubt it.

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:01

Padraic wrote:

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Not in my case as I've never heard a GG album. LOL

You are missing out on some really good music.

Seriously.

infinite QFT

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:03

I have their first two albums on CD, I just need to find time to listen to them. I keep revisiting familiar stuff at the moment.

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:03

Padraic wrote:

Mikerinos wrote:

plantain chips > ELP

pita chips + hummus > almost everything

Agreed. I absolutely love hummus.

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:06

James wrote:

I have their first two albums on CD, I just need to find time to listen to them. I keep revisiting familiar stuff at the moment.

they were a different band then, actually you may prefer that early work to the later stuff which is more pompous and masturbatory ..and my favorite Big smile

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:10

James wrote:

I have their first two albums on CD, I just need to find time to listen to them. I keep revisiting familiar stuff at the moment.

Their debut is my least favorite out of their first 8 albums, but it's still good--just not at the level of the rest.

Acquiring the Taste is amazing though.

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:13

I hope to return a bit later. I'm going gaming.

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:14

Take care, James!

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:21

I've tried to listen to GG, but it doesn't do much for me. Maybe I'm biased in favor of actual classical music...

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MovingPictures07 wrote:

Coltrane is a better topic anyway.

I recommend Om and Interstellar Space to you, Henry, if you don't have them already. Great post-Ascension free jazz from him.

I unfortunately haven't gotten to them yet, but I sense a rage impulse buying session coming, so I might have them soon.

God damn it, I am trying to write this and nothing is coming. I don't want to fail two classes for no reason, one is enough to prove that I am emo and lame.

What's the writing for?

English. I managed to sh*t something out though, so at least I should be passing that class once I finish the other stupid paper.

Edited by Henry Plainview - May 05 2009 at 19:23

if you own a sodastream i hate you

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:24

Henry Plainview wrote:

I've tried to listen to GG, but it doesn't do much for me. Maybe I'm biased in favor of actual classical music...

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Henry Plainview wrote:

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Coltrane is a better topic anyway.

I recommend Om and Interstellar Space to you, Henry, if you don't have them already. Great post-Ascension free jazz from him.

I unfortunately haven't gotten to them yet, but I sense a rage impulse buying session coming, so I might have them soon.

God damn it, I am trying to write this and nothing is coming. I don't want to fail two classes for no reason, one is enough to prove that I am emo and lame.

What's the writing for?

English. I managed to sh*t something out though, so at least I should be passing that class once I finish the other stupid paper.

Oh, that's good.

And which GG songs/albums did you try?

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:34

I don't remember, it was stuff on Youtube, and I heard part of some album while I still had Ruckus but I never got around to really listening to it. The problem I had was that it's so silly it's distracting. I don't know about anyone else, but I couldn't stop laughing the first time I heard Knots. So I'd rather find the source they are basing their harmonies on--but I feel that way about a lot of symphonic prog these days. ELP didn't make rock better, they made Mussorgsky worse!

Edited by Henry Plainview - May 05 2009 at 19:36

if you own a sodastream i hate you

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Posted: May 05 2009 at 19:37

Henry Plainview wrote:

I don't remember, it was stuff on Youtube, and I heard part of some album while I still had Ruckus but I never got around to really listening to it. The problem I had was that it's so silly it's distracting. I don't know about anyone else, but I couldn't stop laughing the first time I heard Knots. So I'd rather find the source they are basing their harmonies on--but I feel that way about a lot of symphonic prog these days. ELP didn't make rock better, they made Mussorgsky worse!

I personally love GG, but they took me a little bit to get into... that was because they were one of the first prog bands I had heard though, and easily the most mentally challenging thing I had heard at the time.