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    Posted: September 23 2009 at 07:00
See article below:
 
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Points: 19643 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2009 at 07:10

Great article
The more self-indulgent we became, the more people liked it. It gave us this confidence to do something even more absurdly ambitious.


Seems semi-true, really!
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2009 at 07:11
Thats great news, thatb their album charted sop high!
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Score one for progressive rock!

Congratulations to them.
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Always nice to see a link for PA in the BBC's website.
Bigger on the inside.
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Points: 1043 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2009 at 08:53
Great news, and like Mr Wilson says it's nice to see that ambition is not a dirty word any more. Hopefully lots of UK kids are now forming prog bands instead of just wanting to get on bloody Pop Idol.

Prog Idol - now there's an idea for a show!
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2009 at 09:41
Encouraging to see the BBC call Japan "Art Rockers" rather than "Synth Poppers". Approve
What?
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Points: 10841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2009 at 09:50
I fear something terrible for Porcu: they plan to play the whole "Incident" piece on stage? A 55 minutes piece?
I just hope they won't suffer the same fate as a famous 70's band which name starts with "Y" and ends with "S".
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Points: 4252 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2009 at 10:42
years ago a large part of the attraction of seeing live Prog bands was improvisation, long solos and surprise novelties not heard on their lp's. I hope, if bands start reciting their album in their entirety on stage, people won't be sitting there thinking "why have i paid for a ticket,  travelled here to hear the album - i could be listening to it at home"..Ermm
 
anyway good luck PT it is a very good album! Clap
 
 


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Thanks for forwarding that!  How very nice to see.
Whether we are really in a period of popular new prog remains to be seen.  I'm also quite curious to see, as time moves on, if Wilson is right that a desire for the big, brave and bold is rising against downloadable culture.  I'm still feeling a tad more skeptical about that these days, watching the album fade with the dusk.  But I would very much like to be wrong.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2009 at 11:07
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Encouraging to see the BBC call Japan "Art Rockers" rather than "Synth Poppers". Approve


Exactly what I thought Dean

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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 23 2009 at 11:44
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Encouraging to see the BBC call Japan "Art Rockers" rather than "Synth Poppers". Approve


Exactly what I thought Dean


Me too. That surpised me actually...

Congrats to Porcupine Tree, and of course to Muse. Great to know that there are still enough people listening to excellent creative music, to push it high into the charts.

Up yours Simon Cowell!!
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Points: 17647 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 17:24
Interesting read on BBC News from last month referring to Porcupine Tree's new album 'The Incident'

It's back... Prog rock assaults album charts




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Whoopty doo Basil, prog is back!
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Points: 7024 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 17:48
It's never actually been away, but I wouldn't expect the Beeb to have noticed, since they only seem to feature rap/hip hop, girl/boy bands and Britpop bands.

Planet Rock seems to feature lots of the new stuff - a great listen!

(Incidentally - wasn't Snakes and Ladders in the top 3 for a while? They clearly haven't twigged that Rush are prog!)


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Thumbs Up Thumbs Up Thumbs Up Way to go, Mr. Wilson!

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Points: 3196 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 18:36

I wonder where Prog will be in 10 years, as far as it's popularity goes?

Predictions?
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same as now?
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Points: 1335 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 19:45
I'm not a fan of Porcupine Tree or Muse but I'm ecstatic prog is getting some recognition.

Hopefully I won't hijack this thread too much but I have a question stemming from the article. How are things like ambition and being good musicians looked down upon? Why would mediocrity ever be seen as a good thing?
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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Points: 2779 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 23:56
Originally posted by TheCaptain TheCaptain wrote:

I'm not a fan of Porcupine Tree or Muse but I'm ecstatic prog is getting some recognition.

Hopefully I won't hijack this thread too much but I have a question stemming from the article. How are things like ambition and being good musicians looked down upon? Why would mediocrity ever be seen as a good thing?
Haha, I know, right! I've never gotten how this was ever a viewpoint... and an accepted one at that... I guess that's just how far the "punk disease" spread. I'm so glad I was born after all of it... so I can look back at the rock era with more objectivity and see what the good stuff really is.
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