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cmidkiff 
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:28 |
I think I would have to go with Porcupine Tree.
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:34 |
Why is Soft Machine a choice  ?????
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:37 |
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Kingkay
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:44 |
mike oldfield and soft machine aren't that simple, or am i missing something?
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King of Loss
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:50 |
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Porcupine Tree are simple, but not that simple. I really don't know what bands are the "simplest" prog band, probably a Prog Power Metal band.
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pepolo
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 17:55 |
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I don't think that any of the bands/artists mentioned above play really simple music.But if I had to choose one of those options, I would go for Hawkwind (which is one of my favorite bands).
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Ytse Jam
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 18:06 |
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What you mean "simple"?
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progadicto
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 19:42 |
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I don't think that Oldfield or Tangerine are repetitive. They have minimalist inffluences just like Michael Nyman and Philip Glass. It's simply a different music style...
I don't agree that PT are repetitive. In fact, their songs are really different and unique. Hawkwind it's very psychedelic and maybe their style sometimes sounds a little bit bored just like some early 70's Pink Floyd LP's. Stanley C. plays fusion and fusion is repetitive in essence. And Soft Machine... please, man! Are U really listen the Soft Machine LP's??
If you really want a repetitive band, listen Asia or Queen...
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BePinkTheater
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Posted: November 02 2005 at 19:45 |
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I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
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Legoman
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 02:15 |
 BePinkTheater wrote:
Pink floyd.....
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... you don't know what you're talking about, do you?
Anyway. Technically... Mike Oldfield had the simplist technique
but... he is just too good for me to say that he truely is the
simpliest. My vote goes for Hawkwind.
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Syndromet
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 02:56 |
Ohh, I just wish there was a STYX-option here!! 
Out of this list I chose Porcupine Three, but I don't think I know them good enough to judge them.
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greenback
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 03:02 |
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i vote for NEU too!
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 03:13 |
Out of the bands I know and like, I'd have to say Hawkwind is by far the most repetitive ... no way are Soft Machine or Queen repetitive bands ... sure they may have two or three songs in similar styles, but any body with a handful of albums will no that these two bands are very diverse ...
I'd actually say Kraftwerk is also very simple ... almost like a bad synth-pop band (for the majority of its career) ... not a prog one ...
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 05:55 |
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Opeth is atleast the most repetative
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robertplantowns
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 06:10 |
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how about CAN? they're pretty damn repetitive and not too
complex. You can look at this many ways. In other
ways, I don't think CAN is a very "simple" band at all. This poll
is retarded.
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cmidkiff
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 08:50 |
Ytse Jam wrote:
What you mean "simple"? |
Simple as in repeating the same couple of chords over and over again. Or simple as in repeating the same drum and base line over and over again while maybe a solo or sound effect is thrown on top. Or maybe simple as in the use of elementry instrument parts.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 08:58 |
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Hawkwind are occasionally repetitive, but so are Can, for example. And that repetitiveness is nothing negative for me; it is just their style.
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King of Loss
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 08:59 |
[QUOTE=maidenrulez] Opeth is atleast the most repetative[/
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Because they have DOOM METAL elements. What is a Doom
Metal band without repeating itself? 
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DEzerov
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 10:34 |
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Stanley Clarke? Mike Oldfield? sorry no vote from me on this one...
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Space Dimentia
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Posted: November 03 2005 at 10:50 |
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Hawkwind by far are the most simplist, Iv listened to porcupine tree and they can be very complex, but Hawkwind were just simple 12 bar blues with strange fx and a synth over the top. Why is Mike Oldfield there? His stuff is serioiously complex, very classically minded/oriantated.
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