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kniprekcor View Drop Down

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 20:01

i just hate this band and i don't know why

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 20:05

kniprekcor wrote:

i just hate this band and i don't know why

Hey dude,do you like The Bangles? Wink

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 20:06

I like ELP... I wouldn't say I love them. The biggest turnoff is the utterly terrible lyrics. Someone get me a ladder??? Blow your head apart??

Not to mention the tendencies to release songs such as Bennie the Bouncer and Are You Ready, Eddy?

"Mister Fripp, your music is quite different than everything else out there. In one word, how would you describe it?"

"Progressive.... yeah, that's it..."

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 20:13

Reed Lover wrote:

kniprekcor wrote:

i just hate this band and i don't know why

Hey dude,do you like The Bangles? Wink

Thanks reed. You've given me a headache trying to find the Taj Mahal

"Why say it cannot be done.....they'd be better doing pop songs?"

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 20:37

kniprekcori

just hate this band and i don't know why

Too much sand in you ears..

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 20:40

Vegetableman wrote:

I like ELP... I wouldn't say I love them. The biggest turnoff is the utterly terrible lyrics. Someone get me a ladder??? Blow your head apart?? Not to mention the tendencies to release songs such as Bennie the Bouncer and Are You Ready, Eddy?

Hows about Floyd track with a dog howling.

come on.look in the mirror

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 21:01

Fragile wrote:

Welcome Happy the Man to a great prog site.Rob the Plant your a big Zeppelin fan and have the gaul to allude to the great Jon Anderson's singing to a dying pig!!! The anvils and stirrups in your head must be smashed to a pulp listening to one of the over rated bands of our time

Oh burn on Robert Plant! I think I'm going to leave the forums now because you don't share my opinion!

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 21:03

Rob The Plant wrote:

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Oh burn on Robert Plant! I think I'm going to leave the forums now because you don't share my opinion!

Ive always been curious about the fact you hate jon anderson and love robert plant... I mean they both have an almost annoying pitch, but robert plants voice is a little less high, and Jon has the superior technical capabilites.

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 21:03

Oh and I do like elp, just dont love them.

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 21:08

I'd just like to say that all the overreacting over ELP lately because of Karni boy has been extremely ammusing, and unlike so many, I've managed not to get Tomato Faced over this silly crap. Haha, talking to my homie over the phone, I've been branded one of "those ELP fans."

Personally I like ELP more than Yes. Tell me is there some unspoken rule in music that you have to "earn your stripes" as a great musician before you go out and make arrogant bombastic showoff albums? And did Yes do this before they made their albums of this sort, and ELP not? Umm, well thank god this post is over, now I'm out of the evil "666 posts" mark

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 21:11

Oh yes throughout the many Amsuing PMs I had between Karni I had a suspicion it was a troll all along, a very elaborate one at that. If so, then bravo.

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 21:24

Hangedman wrote:

Rob The Plant wrote:

Fragile wrote:

Oh burn on Robert Plant! I think I'm going to leave the forums now because you don't share my opinion!

I honestly don't hate Jon Anderson's voice, I just exaggerate my opinions to create good ol fun arguments and such, with the humorless Yes fans

. his voice is similar with Plants in the pitch, but I find it choppy, and it seems to have some strange distant feel. It's definately and interesting voice, but Robert Plant has a beutiful long voice, with much range, as opposed to Anderson, who seems to never change his bloody pitch. Plant does have range, it's just that his voice may seem overblown for some with all the "BABIEs", and "MOMMAs", but that's often when the music is most energized.

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Posted: March 01 2005 at 22:50

Karnevil9 wrote:

Vegetableman wrote:

Hows about Floyd track with a dog howling.

come on.look in the mirror

The dog sings better lyrics than Lake

"Mister Fripp, your music is quite different than everything else out there. In one word, how would you describe it?"

"Progressive.... yeah, that's it..."

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Posted: March 02 2005 at 00:36

Vegetableman wrote:

The dog sings better lyrics than Lake

wuff wuff OOOOooooooouuuuuWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

translate that.

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Posted: March 02 2005 at 02:03

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kniprekcor wrote:

i just hate this band and i don't know why

Hey dude,do you like The Bangles? Wink

What do an ankh and eyethingy have to with with all?

Epic.

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Posted: March 02 2005 at 02:51

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One of the biggest problems I have is this "Virtuosic keyboards" thing - Keith may play as if he's a virtuoso, but I've heard real virtuosi - and Keith is not one. He's about Grade 6-7 - and I state that as someone who has done all the keyboard grade exams and the teaching diploma, then studied music with piano as my main instrument, but also played church and concert hall organs - so I'm familiar with technique.

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Wow... that was actually quite an enlightening post, Certif1ed. It had never occured to me that Keith wasn't amongst the best pianists ever and his improvisations weren't all that good. For some reason he was always automatically a piano god to me because a) He was better than me and b) He played in a band where piano/keyboard was so central. Hmmm... I guess he's not so untouchable after all :)

You're obviously not a die-hard ELP fan then...

karnevil9 wrote:

How does any of this answer the question "why don't people like ELP?"

Look i'm following onto to the section quoted by myself above ok!

F**k the original question man were making progress arn't we?

Oooh!

Temper, temper!

You obviously ARE a die-hard ELP fan then...

Fragile wrote:

Couldn't get a hold of any of them Certified so this will have to wait.But as the man with the wooden leg said.'That's a matter of opinion'

Awww...

Bring on the big guns... Lemme attem!

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Posted: March 02 2005 at 05:38

Matt0001 wrote:

I also impishly love to hate Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. For some silly reason, I enjoy criticizing them. They're an easy target--like Kevin Smith movies, egg McMuffins, and the San Fernando Valley. And their fans look so cute when they're fuming.

I Love egg McMuffins.

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Posted: March 15 2005 at 18:20

I just can't take them seriously. Pictures At An Exhibition is typically indulgent fare, a perversion of Mussorgsky's original. Of course it's sillier than it has to be, with a caricature of classical rock on the closer, Nutrocker. And therein lies the problem. Almost every album has indulgent fare and silly presentations such as Benny the Bouncer, Are You Ready, Eddy? Sloppy filler on each album and it just gets worse until the overindulgent Works, Vols 1 and Vol 2. Closer To Believing is precious. Nobody Loves You Like I Do. Puh-leese! And the wanna-Beegees cover of Love Beach? I rest my case.

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Posted: March 15 2005 at 18:26

kniprekcor wrote:

i just hate this band and i don't know why

Did'nt know you had sound machines out there.lol