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    Posted: January 08 2005 at 07:55
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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2005 at 05:44
Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

There surely comes a point at which too many complexities all blur into a kind of white noise, and writing for the sake of complexity loses musicality.



Yes, but it doesn't stop me listening to it
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Oh dear, I got lost in the last few posts but Absolution has to be prog!

Its pretentious, grandiose and down right pompous!

Matt Bellamy is one of the most talented modern musicians around, Stockholm Syndrome is almost

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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2005 at 16:56
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Prog is generally not hard to play, or particularly complex when compared to a vast amount of classical music. Almost any piece by Rakhmaninov, for example, beats most of the prog catalogue hands down for complexit

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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2005 at 16:35
Originally posted by JrKASperov JrKASperov wrote:

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Maybe you're not into prog at all - just complex music?

Just a thought




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Points: 904 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2005 at 13:53
Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Maybe you're not into prog at all - just complex music?

Just a thought




You are right at this point of course, but I feel the necessity to fu
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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:04
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Prog is generally not hard to play, or particularly complex when compared to a vast amount of classical music. Almost any piece by Rakhmaninov, for example, beats most of the prog catalogue hands down for complexity.

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[QUOTE=JrKASperov]Absolution prog? No. Have ye guys ever listened to the musical simplicity on songs as time is running out and the 11th song? 

Now if you were

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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2005 at 15:05
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[QUOTE=JrKASperov]Absolution prog? No. Have ye guys ever listened to the musical simplicity on songs as time is running out and the 11th song? 

Now if you were hitting us with O

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What's the deal with complex?

Complex does not equal prog, people!!!
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Points: 21 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2005 at 18:26
Erm...okay

Muse i would class as poppy prog ... little less progressive than say apc ..for example

songs.. little more complex than most rock bands about

so in conclusion ... undecided
I too once thought the radio played, Let's act like children while we sleep paralyzed
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[QUOTE=JrKASperov]Absolution prog? No. Have ye guys ever listened to the musical simplicity on songs as time is running out and the 11th song? 

Now if you were hitting us with Origin of Symmetry, th

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Long live progression.
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Absolution prog? No. Have ye guys ever listened to the musical simplicity on songs as time is running out and the 11th song? 

Now if you were hitting us with Origin of Symmetry, there's another st
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2005 at 01:24
I never said it was COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE 

The singer himself has said he wants to sound just like him, so I'm not off base with my comment.
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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2005 at 18:27
Originally posted by Root Pepper Root Pepper wrote:

I want to like them but their singer is just a rip off of the Radiohead singer. It's annoying.


It's not like it's impossible to tell the difference between them; he's not a total clone.
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2005 at 09:52
Matt B does imitate Thom Yorke to some extent - (like soooo many these days: Travis, Coldplay, Keane, Marillion, Porcupine Tree, etc.) but get over the similarities and the differences, especially on "Absolution" are inspired
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2005 at 20:43
I want to like them but their singer is just a rip off of the Radiohead singer. It's annoying.
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2005 at 09:42
Originally posted by nancyrowina nancyrowina wrote:

Hard to genre-ize, but I'd say prog rock.

Anyone heard it and got an opinion?

Yep.

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