The Infinite Shred: XLVI

they have really colorfull coverart as well :)

JJLehto wrote: I also grew to hate "sell out" even though I used to say it a lot.

It's a somewhat useful term though for saying a band has turned towards a more marketable direction. The only thing that annoys me about it is that if you use it you're assuming you know why a band changed their sound, even though it was probably money. 

yeah and some finds it hard to get that musicians also get older, and probably softens during their aging, and when age creeps in fantasy and imagination creeps out, which in the end will couse stale ideas and calmer albums,

their is a ton of difference between Roxy Music debute and Avalon, it is also a 10 year gab between the albums, the same can be said about Gentle Giant and Giant for a Day and to lesser extent Civilian,

nobody knows of Gentle Giant , i feal people are missing out when they don't know of them, i keep saying to myself "the are the best rock band", like not only a good prog band but a really good rock band cause they both play prog and they rock like hell, they don't sugarcoat their music they play it straight forward with all the quirk and technicality they pull into it but they never suggercoat for the reason to coat things with suggar, if you know what i mean, don't take wrong i like when bands like Genesis and Yes even KC suggercaots things, but i really like the way GG compose music straight forward but very technicaly and complex, they don't fool around, every section is played economicaly then changed, then altered then something else and then back to main motif, like the song Giant,

JJLehto wrote: Yeah, I did notice while it's in our nature as proggers to loathe the mainstream and selling out, I believe GG, Genesis, Yes (others Im sure) "sold out" at some point. Also that a lot of these bands were "big" in the 70s. My parents who don't know a lick of prog rock know of Genesis and Rush

it is becouse Genesis started to wright songs (to be blunt), and Rush is other then being known as a prog band in prog circuts, but also a famous arena rock band in the real world were real people live and breath ,  progers are not real but surreal or cerrial  depends on what you like

"Guitartrics" sounds like a mash-up of "guitars" and "geriartric".

I like Rush.

I think my computer might be infected with a virus.

I've never thought Rush were the most amazing, but I've always liked them. They got a ton of plays when I first got into prog because I could actually find their CDs. My favorites were 2112 and A Farewell to Kings. Surprisingly, Hemispheres did almost nothing for me at all.

TheGazzardian wrote: I've never thought Rush were the most amazing, but I've always liked them. They got a ton of plays when I first got into prog because I could actually find their CDs. My favorites were 2112 and A Farewell to Kings. Surprisingly, Hemispheres did almost nothing for me at all.

Perty much, they are a good rock band. A good, moderately prog rock band.
Its OK Alan mine has some kind of virus on there.
People thought I was on drugs but I'm tellin ya I see random words that are underlined that become links.

Like if I see car...it may be underlined and I click on it, taking me to a place selling car parts. Just scrolling over said words causes a small pop up. Annoying as f**k and real intrusive, I ran everything I have and it's still here.
This thing is worse than the usual online STD...this is like the digisyphilis, advanced to final stage