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crimhead 
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 Posted: March 22 2011 at 13:50 |
 Sean Trane wrote:
Vibrationbaby wrote:
Dean wrote:
I'd rather dip my ears in custard and treacle than listen to AOR. |
I'd rather shovel out a cesspit with my bare hands.
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I'd rather become deaf rather than listen to AOR  |
I agree. AOR had it's place at one time. Thankfully there is not a Classic Rock presents DISCO magazine. 
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Sean Trane
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Posted: March 22 2011 at 10:50 |
Vibrationbaby wrote:
Dean wrote:
I'd rather dip my ears in custard and treacle than listen to AOR. |
I'd rather shovel out a cesspit with my bare hands.
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I'd rather become deaf rather than listen to AOR
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Dean
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Posted: March 22 2011 at 10:28 |
Vibrationbaby wrote:
Dean wrote:
I'd rather dip my ears in custard and treacle than listen to AOR. |
I'd rather shovel out a cesspit with my bare hands.
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Each to his own. 
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: March 22 2011 at 10:24 |
Dean wrote:
I'd rather dip my ears in custard and treacle than listen to AOR. |
I'd rather shovel out a cesspit with my bare hands.
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: March 22 2011 at 07:42 |
Australia just received the Genesis issue this week
Pretty good tho the CD is not up to standard overall.
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ProgBob
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 14:47 |
AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:
Sorry to bring this up but my newsagent kept it for me thinking I would want it
I dont...
it costs the same as Prog and has the same format, jacket, CD etc
i didnt bother
has anyone got this?
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Seems like a weird concept for a magazine. I'm not saying there is no one out there but I have never met anyone who is into AOR as a genre. It might be my personal bias against it but to me AOR is mainly aimed at people who can take or leave music.
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 06:51 |
I have to put these on my must get list now!
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Dean
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 06:46 |
AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:
^^^ hence the avatar! blocking the ears
btw i love Toyah, wish she was prog as I would review all her albums...
Changeling and Anthem are masterpeices |
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 06:41 |
^^^ hence the avatar! blocking the ears
btw i love Toyah, wish she was prog as I would review all her albums...
Changeling and Anthem are masterpeices
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Dean
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 03:31 |
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I'd rather dip my ears in custard and treacle than listen to AOR.
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What?
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 03:26 |
Sorry to bring this up but my newsagent kept it for me thinking I would want it
I dont...
it costs the same as Prog and has the same format, jacket, CD etc
i didnt bother
has anyone got this?
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 09 2010 at 06:24 |
Well the latest mag issue 10 came to Australia last week and I must say I am annoyed the price went up mysteriously by $5. It was already 20 dollars now its going up. I cant understand why its the most expensive music mag on the planet!
Having said that, I still love the mag, and the CD is a real drawcard giving proggers a great guide to the latest music. Discovering new bands to get into is my main reason for buying it now. I enjoyed the issue still now so hopefully the quality will be consistent for the price.
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: July 20 2010 at 23:25 |
Latest cover of Prog mag
PlaYLIST OF cd
Cover of CD
Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - July 20 2010 at 23:28
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Necronity
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Posted: June 14 2010 at 11:09 |
Well, I subscribed to the magazine. It is quite good. As with every mainstream magazine they will have to put well knows artists on the cover as that will help sell the magazine. Anyhow you can't please everyone as no matter who is featured someone will have a gripe about it.
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JemJem714
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Posted: May 26 2010 at 07:28 |
Even though they are expensive, I will continue to buy them. My favourite part of the mag BY FAR is Rick Wakeman's column. I think he should have his own mag.
Also, I agree with ^^ above, there's no harm in writing to the editors if there's content you would rather see. We're the customers, so I'm sure they would listen!
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Cactus Choir
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Posted: May 25 2010 at 08:44 |
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I've enjoyed all five issues I've bought so far. It's definitely towards the mainstream side of prog (oxymoron?) but then they presumably have to appeal to as wide an audience as possible to stay in business. To me the fact that there's a mag out there covering the historical prog bands plus the likes of Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Mars Volta et al can only be a good thing.
If people have beefs with the editorial content why not write to them with suggestions to improve it?
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Blacksword
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Posted: May 25 2010 at 04:55 |
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I've bought the last 3 of these mags. They are pricey, but a good read, and I've enjoyed the CD's. I'll definitely be getting the latest edition.
Prog must have a higher profile these days, than say ten or fifteen years ago. I dont remember any dedicated publications like this, in the 90's.
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The Monodrone
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 18:41 |
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I currently have the Peter Gabriel issue... I enjoyed most of it as its the only prog magazine out there.. but I felt that a lot it was just a buch of filler articles... I didn't enjoy the CD very much either... a bunch of neo-sympho-prog that I'm not very fond of. I definitely will not be getting the ELP issue.
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lazland
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 14:01 |
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I got mine last Friday. I found the Asia article interesting, ELP less so, good reviews as ever.
It's expensive, but I do find it worth it. It really is the only decent dedicated prog magazine around.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: May 22 2010 at 04:23 |
Aside the price issue (in Continental Europe, just across the channel, the price gets almost doubled), there are a few other consideration issues that are definitely drawing me back.... and the full page adverts are not it... they're a necessary evil....
No, the writer are simply not u to wgat I'd expect. Not just are they scratching the surface ; but they lack sujects to talk about. In the previous issue, they had devoted a third of the featured pages (the central pages, where the meat is supposed to be), but in the latest issue, they fill up some 3 orv 4 more pages about ELP artwork, plus a one-page opiçcture for eacdh of the three ELP members.... talk about filling empty space
Another issue of mine, (but this is spreading to the mother mag of Classic Rock as well) is that carboard protection wallet >> aside the positive fact that it protects the mag from degradation and eventually the freebies protection, this "wallet" is sealed so you can't leaf the mag in the stores in order to avoid seeing how empty of valid articles it is >> not working for me >> i delicately open a wallet and do my deed >>> it's allowed me to pass on #7 & #8, and I'm NOT feeling guilty.
As I said, it has now contaminated the CR mag, there with even more solid reasons to exist, since they keep writing about the same hair metal ba,ns, Zep and Aerosmith in every second issue
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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