PA's Prog Haters Poll No. 1
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Topic: PA's Prog Haters Poll No. 1
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: PA's Prog Haters Poll No. 1
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 11:04
More fun negativity to enthrall the masses. Please pick the ones that you agree with and enjoy! 
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Posted By: mechanicalflattery
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 12:03
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As much as Steven Wilson is cursed to forever sound like a whiny adolescent (which is a good thing if you're making a concept album about being a whiny adolescent i.e. Fear of a Blank Planet), I have to defend banjos and accordions. Pauline Oliveros alone justifies the latter, and I'm pretty sure Sandy Bull played banjo, which would justify them as well. Every instrument has been used obnoxiously, don't knock the instrument for it. Personally, I'd love to hear an entire album of drums being thrown down stairs, perhaps occasionally punctuated by Zappa-esque fart noises. There's a decent chance it'd be more interesting than a decent amount of Steven Wilson's output
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 12:29
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Steve Wilson has probably bought his parents a very large house ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 12:34
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Avant is for Fags. ------------- |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 12:36
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I want to listen to AOR all day, all night, all my life. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 12:53
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I don't hate prog, I just don't care for most of it. |
Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 14:33
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Swilson moved out of his parents' basement recently thanks to his ill gotten gains from Hand. Cannot. Erase., and now lives in a messy studio flat with his pet snake Lars and several small potted succulents. -------------  
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Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 05 2016 at 15:58
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Liked the Zappa one (fart noises are always good and Zappa had plenty, particulary in the 80's) and Banjos and accordions are great always but had to choose Prog fans are burnouts that live in their parent's basement- because no one else had and it looked lonely............
------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 06 2016 at 03:28
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Only the last option makes some sense (note: I am not informed about SW's living circumstances and, as a matter of fact, I am not even remotely interested). When I was in my teens, I considered myself the archetype of a prog fan, but I lived in the attic back then. We had no basement, so I give the first option another vote, tentatively. I spent quite a lot of time in basements in my ...er... student years. I am saddled with a peculiar dislike against accordions. This dislike, however, does not reach out to concertinas and bandoneons. ------------- 
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: October 06 2016 at 04:15
The most famous french accordion's player : Yvette Horner. That instrument can kill  |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 06 2016 at 09:56
Yikes! How long has she been dead?  ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 07 2016 at 01:45
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I looked her up in the French section of Wikipedia. She is still alive and 94 years old. Her looks remind me of someone from my pre-prog period: Pipo the Clown.  -------------
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: October 07 2016 at 05:37
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Okay, so you never heard about Astor Piazzola? Yeah, Prog Fans really have a sh*tty musical knowledge (even more negativity in the thread!!!) |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 07 2016 at 07:03
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In the Netherlands anyone who remembers the wedding of Alex and Máxima on 2 February 2002 has heard of Astor Piazzolla. His composition Adiós Nonino was played on that occasion by bandoneonist Carel Kraayenhof and it reached #2 in the Dutch Top 40. Not easy to forget (and well worth a listen): -------------
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: October 07 2016 at 12:01
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"Funny stuff!" - Johnny Carson ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: October 07 2016 at 14:29
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Because of the cost benefit, I like to simulate the sound of drum sets thrown down the stairs with (anonymous) fart sounds ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: October 07 2016 at 14:48
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
someone_else wrote:Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 08 2016 at 08:16
just wait till the for the SWilson outtakes album.. which of course would be voted PA's album of the year banjos and accordians man... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: DeadSouls
Date Posted: October 08 2016 at 09:25
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Last option.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 08 2016 at 16:43
The years before 1972, when prog got its hooks in me. Pipo was a very well-known character in the 1960's and after. -------------
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: October 24 2016 at 16:10
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RIO ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 31 2016 at 03:08
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Music for four vacuum cleaners and cheese grater. Drums being thrown down the stairs is sooooo 90's ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 31 2016 at 08:04
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I am not a prog hater, but banjos and accordions are indeed great instruments. actually all instrument are great; it just depends on how you use them -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: October 31 2016 at 15:28
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I like- Prog fans are bunouts that live in their parent's basement. anyone got anymore?????? ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: October 31 2016 at 15:34
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: October 31 2016 at 15:38
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Any real musician will tell you, it's not about use...it's about abuse ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: May 08 2018 at 02:39
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No "it's all just noise" option? ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |