I Heart My Local Library
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Topic: I Heart My Local Library
Posted By: Tiresias
Subject: I Heart My Local Library
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 20:16
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Wow, gems I found at my library (I didn't order them) Triumvirat-Illusions on a double dimple & Spartacus Hawkwind- In The Hall of the Mountain Grill It's A Beautiful Day- (self-titled) Uriah Heap - Demons & Wizards They have ordered for me The Flower Kings Univers Zero Van Der Graff Gentle Giant Yes Amon Duul II King Crimson Trey Gunn Band PFM Deus Ex Machina Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Anekdoten Anglagard
My library is a prog treasure trove ------------- Wh'ghal ng'fth mglw'y Ry'leh, Cthulhu fhtagn... 
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 20:20
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Your library orders stuff for you? Lucky! The coolest thing I've ever found at a library was "Hold Your Fire" by Rush.
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 20:24
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Why is the library ordering Prog???? Why can't you just buy them instead??? Anyways, All my Jazz, half of my classical, Dark Side of the Moon, Some the Who, Some Vai and some Satriani comes from the library too! |
Posted By: The Minstrel
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 21:25
| Damn I got to start going to my library. Haven't been there since I was a little kid. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 21:29
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My library music is mostly crap ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
and no prog at allPosted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 21:36
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If I want to order something they bring it...in dollars!...For thouse who dont know one dollar is 2,9 pesos...so do the math...yep, pretty expensive! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: MANTICORE
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 21:45
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wow congratulations very very good stuff.!!
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 21:45
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My library has a book of sheet music for the top 100 hits of the 80's!
But also found a KC - Red there once. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: little_neutrino
Date Posted: September 27 2005 at 22:04
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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. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date 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. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Nipsey88
Date 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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Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 06:00
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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!!! |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 07:31
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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! |
to libraries!!!!Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 07:33
| 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. |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 10:09
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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! |
Matti wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 11:28
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Tut tut, I'd never ever consider doing that. |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 11:52
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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 !! |
Posted By: Gentle Ronnie
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 12:26
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Nope, nothing in mine. ------------- 
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Posted By: ProgRockDock
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 13:18
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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 ------------- ~ All for one and one for the vine!!! 
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 13:25
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Limewire is a universal library ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: MoodsWings
Date 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* |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 17:58
Libraries where i live have a proto-prog section and a prog-related section  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 17:59
Thats cause you live in antartica ------------- 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 |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 18:01
Two books out there "Types of Snow" and "Snow Dogs:Myth or Reality?" ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 18:11
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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. ------------- '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 |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 18:15
hmmm the prog archive book club.....it COULD catch on  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 22:00
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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
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 ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingofbizzare/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: yesman72
Date Posted: September 28 2005 at 22:13
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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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