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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2010 at 07:43
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

BOC were my favorite band when I was a teenager. I am now rather embarrassed of that fact, but I listened to Agents of Fortune and their debut a couple of days ago and they are better than I remember them being. Maybe it comes in cycles...


So, I suppose I should be embarrassed that, at the age of 49, BOC are still one of my all-time favourite bands - as if we were talking about the Jonas BrothersWink?
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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2010 at 09:50
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What about the metalheads who will still listen to Marduk and Cannibal Corpse in their fifties ?
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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2010 at 09:58
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

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What about the metalheads who will still listen to Marduk and Cannibal Corpse in their fifties ?


what about metalheads in their 40's who love Barbara Streisand.   Should they be embarrassed...  or just enjoy what they enjoy and don't give a piss if others think they should be embarrassed haha?
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Points: 8543 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2010 at 10:19
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

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What about the metalheads who will still listen to Marduk and Cannibal Corpse in their fifties ?


what about metalheads in their 40's who love Barbara Streisand.   Should they be embarrassed...  or just enjoy what they enjoy and don't give a piss if others think they should be embarrassed haha?
 
No.  No.  They should be embarrassed.  WinkTongue
 
I've never felt embarrassed because I love BOC.  I can think of many more embarrassing bands to like. 
I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Points: 8138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2010 at 10:21
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

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What about the metalheads who will still listen to Marduk and Cannibal Corpse in their fifties ?


what about metalheads in their 40's who love Barbara Streisand.   Should they be embarrassed...  or just enjoy what they enjoy and don't give a piss if others think they should be embarrassed haha?
 
We have to go beyond clichés and not associate age with a certain kind of music : for example extreme metal/punk/hardcore : 15-25 y.o., classical music and jazz : 50 y.o. onwards, rap : 5-10 y.o. (LOL)...
and beyond cultural influences : for example, you live in Nashville so you can't play anything different from country, you live in Salzburg, so you have to be a fantic of Mozart, you live in Lagos so you can't listen to anything else than afrobeat...religious beliefs : you're a die-hard christian so you can't listen to black-metal or any extreme metal praising Satan...or worse : you're into prog so you can't listen to anything that's not complex or simply not prog...
 
 
 
 
 
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Points: 9226 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 17:13
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

might not appeal to most people because of the many AOr elements but it has some killer riffs and the musicianship is excellent.




two things in life that escape my comprehension....  pfff... does God exist?  Yeah..  got that one..  heaven..hell?  yeah.. got that one. The meaning of life?... *yawn*

1) why in God's green Earth anyone who makes less than 6 figures a year would vote Republican..

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2)  what the hell is wrong with AoR...  what the hell do people listen to music for if not for killer riffs and good/excellent musicianship.  AoR is chock full of it.. yet to some... it is something to embarassed about.


go figure?


no idea about your first point LOL

for your second point, I am certainly not embarassed for liking some elements of AOR - I just think that some prog fans avoid it like the plague... Wink
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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 17:32
that is what I have never understood about prog 'fans' for fans of 'open-minded' music.. it's fans can sometimes be the most closed minded. That.. is what I've never understood.  AoR was best described by Macan as the style purveyed by ...Kansas, Boston, Styx, Rush, Toto and a host of other bands and combined the musical forms of progressive rock, heavy rock/metal and enjoyed enormous popularity as it commercialized the two genres and initiated a fragmentation of the progressive rock style which continues to this day since so much of what is considered prog today bears little resemblence to 'classic' prog. Which is a good thing...  since the heart of what prog is ...is progression.. mutation.   AoR is not some anti-prog... as some like to call punk. Yet the two.. punk and AoR ARE seen as some plague.  
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I'm just a rock fan. Prog, psychedelia, blues rock, thrash, grunge, glam, AOR... love 'em all, there's nothing wrong with any of them as long as it has a bit of soul. Thumbs Up
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Points: 10841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2010 at 15:09
Back to the topic: are the nowadays shows of the BÖC good? Since the musicians are now in their 60's, I wonder if they still can rock good and hard as in the 70's.
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Points: 9226 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2010 at 13:17
I saw them summer 2008 in Athens and they were pretty good - not perfect but still rocking. They concentrated more on the very early stuff and generally their 70's records. It was a shame they did not play Astronomy as the whole audience was waiting for it
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Points: 3449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2010 at 22:09

I don't know but I been told, Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity.  Good enough for me.
Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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Points: 933 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2010 at 15:12
Great thread.
It has inspired me to order the following CDs from Amazon (just 10 minutes ago!)
1. Secret Treaties
2. Fire of  Unknown Origin
3. Imaginos
 
I used to have 'Tyranny and Mutation' and 'Agents of Fortune' years ago on Vinyl, but for some reason I never explored beyond these.


Edited by Green Shield Stamp - April 14 2010 at 12:26
Haiku

Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....
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