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yesman72 
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 Topic: I Heart My Local Library
Posted: September 28 2005 at 22:13 |
Do you guys mean like a library with books? Cause I like the library for books and I fondly remember going to my local library when I was younger but I had no idea they had like music there. That's awesome!
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kingofbizzare
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 22:00 |
Here's what I currently have checked out from my library:
Genesis - ABACAB
Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
ELP - Best of
Steely Dan - Cant Buy a Thrill
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Frank Zappa - You Can't do that On Stage Anymore vol. 1
Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Fantomas - Suspended Animation
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Jeff Beck - Best of Beck
Brian Wilson - Smile
Phil Collins Big Band - A Hot Night in Paris
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Pere Ubu - Ray Gun Suitcase
Eric Clapton - Crossroads
Rush - Rush in Rio
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxters
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Moody Blues - Days of Future Past
Also, here's what I have on hold, but isn't available yet:
David Bowie - Best of Bowie
King Crimson - The Night Watch
The Residents - Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses
Syd Barrett - Barrett
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
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horza
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 18:15 |
 Syzygy wrote:
Croydon Clock Tower library has a surprisingly good prog selection of the predictable classic variety - Genesis, Yes, Tull and Floyd are all well represented. In my experience UK public libraries aren't that great for prog, or any other rock genre for that matter, because they're criminally under budgeted despite our ever rising council tax bills. A good CD selection is nice, but I'd rather they spent the money on books if cash is tight. |
hmmm the prog archive book club.....it COULD catch on 
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Originally posted by darkshade:
Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Syzygy
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 18:11 |
Croydon Clock Tower library has a surprisingly good prog selection of the predictable classic variety - Genesis, Yes, Tull and Floyd are all well represented. In my experience UK public libraries aren't that great for prog, or any other rock genre for that matter, because they're criminally under budgeted despite our ever rising council tax bills. A good CD selection is nice, but I'd rather they spent the money on books if cash is tight.
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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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horza
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 18:01 |
BePinkTheater wrote:
The Miracle wrote:
My library music is mostly crap and no prog at all
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Thats cause you live in antartica |
Two books out there "Types of Snow" and "Snow Dogs:Myth or Reality?"
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Originally posted by darkshade:
Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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BePinkTheater
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 17:59 |
The Miracle wrote:
My library music is mostly crap and no prog at all
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Thats cause you live in antartica
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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.
-Stone Beard
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horza
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 17:58 |
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Originally posted by darkshade:
Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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MoodsWings
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 17:54 |
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The main library branch in my city decided to get rid of the whole Rock
section because they were tired of people stealing the cds.
Yeah, like no one ever steals Jazz or Classical. *rolls eyes*
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horza
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 13:25 |
Limewire is a universal library
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Originally posted by darkshade:
Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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ProgRockDock
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 13:18 |
I agree wholeheartedly!!!
My local library had the following:
Spock's Beard - Octane
Dream Theater - Octavarium, Train of Thought, Six degrees..., Live at Budokan
Flower Kings - Adam and Eve
Stratovarius - Elements Pt.1
Yes - Ultimate Anthology
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother, Delicate Sound of Thunder, Wish You Were Here, Collection of Great Dance Songs, Momentary Lapse of Reason
Rush - Different Stages (Box Set Live)
Genesis - Lamb Lies down on Broadway, Live - The Longs and Shorts, Archive #2 Box Set, Genesis (mama album), Invisible Touch,
Peter Gabriel - Pretty much all the main studio albums plus Passion soundtrack and Plays Live
Iced Earth - Glorious Burden
Cocteau Twins - BBC collection
Tool - Lateralus
Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Muse - Absolution (was Dream Theater influenced by the vocal style of this band on a few songs on Octavarium?)
...anyway, I know that I've missed some, but yes it is worth it to check your local library to see what they have. It's free!!!
Sebastian
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~ All for one and one for the vine!!!
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Gentle Ronnie
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 12:26 |
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Nope, nothing in mine.
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glass house
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 11:52 |
Through the library I go to I can borrow cd's from a sort of library in Rotterdam ( Holland ).
They have some amazing stuff, f.e. Comus, T2 and loads more early seventies stuff. Great !!
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chopper
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 11:28 |
stonebeard wrote:
at my library: i've found every Genesis cd from Trespass onwards (that's all but one), nearly every DT cd, many Yes cds, a few ELP, GG, all Pink Floyd, and 10 or so King Crimson cd. i all, i've burned 50+ cds from my library, 25+ are prog. |
Tut tut, I'd never ever consider doing that. You must have a pretty cool library btw.
Edited by chopper
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 10:09 |
Matti wrote:
The united libraries in Helsinki area (including Eetu's Vantaa) have always something to be reserved (to be picked up from a libary you choose) when I visit Helsinki. |
Yep! It's a great service, that you can order something from the other libraries of the area with out costs. When I got interested about RENAISSANCE f.ex., I just ordered all of their records, and I got them for my listening within the following month.
There's also great collection of VdGG records in Vantaa. Most of their studioalbums are found on both CD's and LP's, and they bought their "The Box" for loaning on the same week as it was released in Finland! 
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chopper
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 07:33 |
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My library has 2 copies of Yes' 35th Anniversary compilation, a Yes live Keys compilation and the ELP remix box set. That's about it as far as prog goes. Oh, it does have a couple of Zappa CDs.
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Matti
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 07:31 |
Library has always been more important to me than record shops. The united libraries in Helsinki area (including Eetu's Vantaa) have always something to be reserved (to be picked up from a libary you choose) when I visit Helsinki. My town Lahti is not as good, especially in prog - though it has almost each King Crimson release, stupidly!
 and  to libraries!!!!
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 06:00 |
There's a great music section in Vantaa's library, here in Finland. They have even ANEKDOTEN's "From Within" there! I founded the whole band 'cause of this! WHEEE!!!
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Nipsey88
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 23:36 |
When I was about 9 or 10 years old by dad got me Heavy Horses at our
library cuz he heard a Tull song on the radio and liked it. Didn't
think too much of it then, but 10 years later I was buying it on CD.
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stonebeard
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 23:09 |
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at my library: i've found every Genesis cd from Trespass onwards (that's all but one), nearly every DT cd, many Yes cds, a few ELP, GG, all Pink Floyd, and 10 or so King Crimson cd. i all, i've burned 50+ cds from my library, 25+ are prog.
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little_neutrino
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 22:04 |
Friend of mine found KC's Red as well. She's now addicted to KC and comes to me for her fix
All my local branch has is Mike Oldfield's Voyager. But maybe it's a societal thing (my neighbourhood has a lot of New Age-listeners!) and I should head into the main branch (the city has, like, twenty local branches of the same library, not including the bookmobiles).
Thanks for the suggestion, Tiresias! if my library has even half of what yours has, I'll be ecstatic.
Edited by little_neutrino
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