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The Hemulen 
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 Topic: Rock In Opposition
Posted: March 08 2005 at 10:08 |
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I've been a RIO
fan for a couple of years now. It didn't thrill me at first, but I was
intrigued enough to give it some time. It clicked eventually though,
and I'm so glad it did. I've recently been listening to Absolute Zero's
astonishing album "Crashing Icons" and felt compelled to make this
poll.Obviously RIO is not for everyone, but I'm sure I can't be the only fan on this forum. So tell me - d'ya love it or hate it?!
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Lark´s Vomit
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Posted: March 08 2005 at 10:10 |
In Opposition Of What ???????????? 
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mirco
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Posted: March 08 2005 at 10:14 |
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I'm on the opposition right now, so maybe it can be of my taste...
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Please forgive me for my crappy english!
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Lark´s Vomit
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Posted: March 08 2005 at 10:15 |
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Mategra
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Posted: March 08 2005 at 10:22 |
RIO/avant-prog is definitely an interesting sub-genre.
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oliverstoned
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Posted: March 08 2005 at 10:34 |
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henry cow is the most complex and virtuose band
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Sean Trane
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Posted: March 08 2005 at 11:02 |
As long as they do not overdo things and complicate for the sake of complicating. 
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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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greenback
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Posted: March 08 2005 at 12:49 |
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univers zero rules
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[HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!>
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Man Erg
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Posted: March 08 2005 at 12:54 |
 Sean Trane wrote:
As long as they do not overdo things and complicate for the sake of complicating. |
Couldn't agree more. I saw Henry Cow many moons ago.
Their perfomance that night was more like The Legs-Akimbo 'acting' troupe from The League of Gentlemen!
It took me years to appreciate them again. It was Fred Frith's solo albums that got me back on track.
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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The Hemulen
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Posted: March 08 2005 at 13:04 |
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I still need to look into Univers Zero... 5uus is another favourite of mine. Hunger's Teeth is fantastic!
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Jim Garten
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Posted: March 08 2005 at 14:00 |
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Let's see -
Current UK main opposition party = the Conservatives
Therefore, Rock In Opposition = conservative rock
Therefore, Rock In Opposition = Bryan Adams, perhaps?
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Syzygy
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Posted: March 08 2005 at 14:25 |
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Into RIO since the late 70s, still a huge fan. Henry Cow and Univers Zero are my favourites, but all of the original RIO acts were sublime and brilliant - Art Zoyd, Etron Fou Leloublan, Stormy 6 and Sammla Mammas Manna (later also Art Bears). Chris Cutler's excellent Recommended Records, initiated partly to provide some distribution for those sadly neglected European bands, introduced me to music, books and ideas I would never have encountered otherwise. This is real alternative rock, stuff they never play on the radio, and most of the key players are still going strong after decades of commercial indifference. Today's market led music industry has no place for this, which makes it all the more valuable.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Cinema
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Posted: March 09 2005 at 02:02 |
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5uu's ... if you like avant prog/RIO, check out 5uu's. Especially the Crisis
in Clay album. Absolutely fantastic.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: March 09 2005 at 02:32 |
Jim Garten wrote:
Let's see -
Current UK main opposition party = the Conservatives
Therefore, Rock In Opposition = conservative rock
Therefore, Rock In Opposition = Bryan Adams, perhaps? |
Ya Lookin' fo' Trouble, Man?
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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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Spartacus
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Posted: March 09 2005 at 13:52 |
The RIO genre should be more widely accepted in the prog community, since it embraces the spirit of musical adventurism the prog genre once beheld.
Two of the most interesting and forgoten aboutmodern RIO bands are Present and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Both give hope to the spirit of going where no musicians have gone before. The Present is recommended to anyone who enjoys adventerous dark prog.
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Hiwatter
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Posted: March 26 2005 at 13:29 |
Spartacus wrote:
The RIO genre should be more widely accepted in the prog community, since it embraces the spirit of musical adventurism the prog genre once beheld.
Two of the most interesting and forgoten aboutmodern RIO bands are Present and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Both give hope to the spirit of going where no musicians have gone before. The Present is recommended to anyone who enjoys adventerous dark prog.
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Present is very adventurous listening. I own first three albums. I recommend new group Ahvak, they recorded their debut in 2004.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: March 26 2005 at 14:10 |
Great stuff 
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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terramystic
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Posted: March 27 2005 at 17:24 |
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I like RIO to some
extent but I listen to it only occasionaly. The music can
sometimes sound too academic but there are a lot of more accessible and
relaxed avant bands.
I like these: Univers Zero, Art Zoyd, Samla Mammas Manna, Isidulrs Bane
(is it avant?), Horizont (symphonic+RIO), Jono el grande (a great new
artist), Begnagrad, Zappa, French TV... Thinking Plague is also not
bad...
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terramystic
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Posted: March 27 2005 at 17:29 |
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I tend toward less
dark avant. Either more zappaesque humorus stuff or just some bright
atmospheric stuff... I forgot to mention some good Italians Picchio dal
Pozzo, Opus Avantra, Pierrot Lunaire (Gudrun album)... Haven't heard
Stormy Six yet.
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topographic2112
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Posted: March 27 2005 at 17:36 |
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Most of the time I can't even tell the difference between Canterbury and RIO music.
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