Prog As Substitute For Life

The Block wrote: angelmk wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: angelmk wrote: Textbook wrote: Hey everybody, Block dislikes rap music. This means he has superior taste and is on the cutting edge of life itself. Does that get it out of your system? We don't care man. I can't stand Magma but you don't find me running around Magma threads telling people that. Not only Block dislikes rap, but the majority of PA members.. and You are just running around PA and praising Rap..on many different threads you glorify rap..I don't get it..are you a prog lover or rap fan ?? and remember this is PROG archives..for Rap archives go somewhere else..  Somebody can like both rap and prog! :O Yeah right    I find that hard to believe too.

jampa17 wrote: The Block wrote: angelmk wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: angelmk wrote: Textbook wrote: Hey everybody, Block dislikes rap music. This means he has superior taste and is on the cutting edge of life itself. Does that get it out of your system? We don't care man. I can't stand Magma but you don't find me running around Magma threads telling people that. Not only Block dislikes rap, but the majority of PA members.. and You are just running around PA and praising Rap..on many different threads you glorify rap..I don't get it..are you a prog lover or rap fan ?? and remember this is PROG archives..for Rap archives go somewhere else..  Somebody can like both rap and prog! :O Yeah right    I find that hard to believe too.   I seconded you back...

Henry Plainview wrote: jampa17 wrote: The Block wrote: angelmk wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: angelmk wrote: Textbook wrote: Hey everybody, Block dislikes rap music. This means he has superior taste and is on the cutting edge of life itself. Does that get it out of your system? We don't care man. I can't stand Magma but you don't find me running around Magma threads telling people that. Not only Block dislikes rap, but the majority of PA members.. and You are just running around PA and praising Rap..on many different threads you glorify rap..I don't get it..are you a prog lover or rap fan ?? and remember this is PROG archives..for Rap archives go somewhere else..  Somebody can like both rap and prog! :O Yeah right     I find that hard to believe too. I seconded you back... Oh for f**k's sake. I expect random PA members to sometimes say stupid things, but I didn't think a collab could have such terrible opinions.

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Hmmm - back to the original topic. I think it is possible for someone to be "obsessive" about prog music, but I think the majority of PA ers are dedicated fans who have a life outside prog music. It is the rare individual who locks themself away and excludes all else for the love of music. True they might be happy and not interfering in some nefarious way in the lives of others, but as so many posters before me have said or infered, prog music should not supercede all else in life. There is so much to discover outside the music speakers. I for one play prog or any other music as the mood takes me. I have other things to get on with, so prog is a pleasurable side hobby, but not the only thing in my life.

Edited by valravennz - November 03 2009 at 20:23

Edited by Slartibartfast - November 04 2009 at 11:41

The Block wrote: Though my one friend says he likes prog and rap, but I think rap is taking over his life. I no longer conseder him a prog fan.

Because heaven forbid someone isn't you and doesn't listen to exactly what you like, can think for himself and decides he likes hip hop *rolls eyes*
Grow up, seriously.
It's exactly these kind of posts that are partly the reason I hardly post anymore and the reason why many people don't take this site seriously.
I've been listening to hip hop for about 10 or so years now and yet I'm a collaborator at this site.
Are you offended? Do you "no longer conseder" me "a prog fan"? Should I be banned from this site for liking hip hop?
In fact, pretty much all my friends who are into prog are also avid fans of hip hop.
Are they wrong?

jampa17 wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: Oh for f**k's sake. I expect random PA members to sometimes say stupid things, but I didn't think a collab could have such terrible opinions.   Lets see how stupid we are... shall we... Prog is about strange time signatures, rare use of all kind of instruments, experimentation in a musical matter and merging different styles in rock... rap or hip hop is just... some guy talking funny to a microphone while he's holding his chunk and move the hands on the air trying to be mean... and repeating "Joe... Joe... Joe..." every time he can... and have a computer percussion repetitive to mark the tempo... so... mmm... maybe is difficult to like prog and rap at the same time... so that's why is hard to believe it... don't you think mr. Plainview...??? but then is just individual tastes... so... we believe is weird to like both... that's it...

For starters, you are not Micky, stop using ellipses so much.
Secondly, the sheer ignorance of your post just further proves Henry's point about random PA members saying stupid things.
Can you honestly not be able to re read your post and realize how silly it is?
" have a computer percussion repetitive to mark the tempo". That sentence doesn't even make sense, can you not read this back to yourself and laugh yourself silly? Because I know I can.

^No all types of music are about putting 4987349837 notes in your mucis or dealing with 3984729 layers of harmony or playing in 54/59 signature or playing a dissonance so dissonant that it could break the crystals in your celing-mirror... Other styles of music are about something else, try to accomplish something different, and are enjoyed by people in different circumstances. Not everybody listens to music only to try to find the "next big mind-blowing musical experiment" band...

Prog helps me get through my life.  I live in interesting times and need no substitutes.

@ jampa:
Instead of making broad generalizations about things, perhaps you can do the research yourself and find out the truths of things.
In case you are in fact, too lazy to go out of your way to do this, I can answer it for you and yes, there are HEAPS of hip hop records with real musicians playing on them.

@The Block : I cannot tell if you are a troll, if you are having us on or what, but the fact ANYONE takes prog rock this seriously is sad beyond words.
Do you know what I was doing on Halloween night?
I was out at a party, that was playing various crappy dance and pop music, having fun and enjoying life and meeting new people.

OMG THE HORROR OF IT ALL, I CHOOSE TO BE SOCIAL AND WANTED TO DO SOMETHING ELSE OTHER THAN LISTENING TO MY CHOICE OF MY MUSIC ON A SATURDAY NIGHT STUCK AT THE COMPUTER.

I must have made the wrong decision right, The Block?
I should have just stayed home, because prog rock is SOOOOOOOOOOOO important *rolls eyes*