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Topic: What did Santa bring
Posted By: Topographic Oce
Subject: What did Santa bring
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 05:06
Not bothered about the socks,shirts after shave etc but what CD's did you get off Santa
Mine were

Proto Kaw - Before Became After
Cream - Live at the Albert Hall  (I know its not prog but there were so good]
Faust - The Faust Tapes





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Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 05:08

I've to go out and buy mine!

I got the new 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' DVD and the 'Star Wars boxset'!! (the good ones)



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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 05:16
ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition DVD
Schulze t-shirt



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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 05:17
Nothing that I need, Nothing that I want, but some stuff that I can use


Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 05:20

Here's some albums that I bought for my christmas money ... all used, and at an average price of 4 EUR:

  • Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
  • Elegy - Manifestation of Fear
  • Gnidrolog - In Spite of Harry's Toenail
  • Lemur Voice - Insights
  • Leviathan - Riddles, Questions, Poetry & Outrage
  • Nightingale - The Closing Chronicles
  • Poverty's No Crime - Slave to the Mind
  • Michael Romeo - The Dark Chapter
  • Savatage - Streets
  • Superior - Behind
  • Weird Al Yankovic - Alapalooza
  • John Zorn - The Big Gundown


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Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 05:26
A tribute to Pink Floyd-Backs to The Wall


Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 05:29
If I get any money i'll buy looooooads of cds!! I want to get more VDGG! And maybe some new prog! 

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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 05:52

My list of Xmas era goodies includes:

  • Mastermind: III
  • Mastermind: IV
  • Satellite: Evening Games
  • Opeth: Ghost Reveries
  • ACT: Imaginary Friends
  • Riverside: Second Life Syndrome

which should keep me busy for a while (although not quite as busy as MikeEnregalia is going to be by the looks of things!!)



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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 06:08
i got an iPod - i'm happy

over 3000 prog classics on there already - have a great time guys

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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 06:41
GYBE! - F# A# infinity


Posted By: Tiresias
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 11:35

From my parents, I got:

Liquid Scarlet-Liquid Scarlet

Eloy- Ocean

Porcupine Tree- The Sky Moves Sideways (2-disc)



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Posted By: Erpland316
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 12:22

This Christmas I recieved some amazing albums:

Amon Duul II- Yeti

Soft Machine- Third

Nektar- Recycled

Ozric Tentacles- Waterfall Cities

Steve Hillage- Fish Rising

Gong- Angel's Egg

Camel- Mirage

Pink Floyd- 1966/67 Live



Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 12:25
Originally posted by Erpland316 Erpland316 wrote:

This Christmas I recieved some amazing albums:

Amon Duul II- Yeti

Soft Machine- Third

Nektar- Recycled

Ozric Tentacles- Waterfall Cities

Steve Hillage- Fish Rising

Gong- Angel's Egg

Camel- Mirage

Pink Floyd- 1966/67 Live

'Third' is a fantastic album you can really lose yourself in that. Wish I had a Gong album



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Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 12:30
I got the Frank Zappa DVD:  The Dub Room Special  along with the Procol  Harum DVD:  Live.


Posted By: Someo Therguy
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 12:57

I got the Jonas Hellborg and Shawn Lane DVD "Paris". Wow! It's amazing.



Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 13:04

Frances the Mute and Scenes form a memory

I was a good boy!



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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 14:14

CD's:

  • Arena "Immortal?"
  • Dream Theater "Live Scenes from N.Y.
  • Glass Hammer "The Inconsolable Secret"
  • Jethro Tull "Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die"
  • Jethro Tull "Warchild"
  • King Crimson "Lizard"
  • King Crimson: Starless and Bible Black"
  • Pallas "The Sentinel"
  • Pendragon "Believe"

Books:

Inside Out: A Personal Biography of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason

Other:

Boss Metal Zone guitar pedal, pajamas, wallet



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Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 14:17
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

CD's:

  • Arena "Immortal?"
  • Dream Theater "Live Scenes from N.Y.
  • Glass Hammer "The Inconsolable Secret"
  • Jethro Tull "Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die"
  • Jethro Tull "Warchild"
  • King Crimson "Lizard"
  • King Crimson: Starless and Bible Black"
  • Pallas "The Sentinel"
  • Pendragon "Believe"

Those King Crimson albums are really great



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Posted By: GPFR
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 14:33
Pink Floyd 1966/67 live
A signed copy of an original production of Dark Side of the Moon!!!!!! (Signed by each of them!)
A CD Version of Wish You Were Here (Had to stick with Vinal before)
Porcupine Tree- Stupid Dream




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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 14:35
Originally posted by Winter Wine Winter Wine wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

CD's:

  • Arena "Immortal?"
  • Dream Theater "Live Scenes from N.Y.
  • Glass Hammer "The Inconsolable Secret"
  • Jethro Tull "Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die"
  • Jethro Tull "Warchild"
  • King Crimson "Lizard"
  • King Crimson: Starless and Bible Black"
  • Pallas "The Sentinel"
  • Pendragon "Believe"

Those King Crimson albums are really great

I've heard. Now I have all KC albums from 1969-1981.



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Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 14:41

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Those King Crimson albums are really great

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I've heard. Now I have all KC albums from 1969-1981.

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I have most of them, I'm happy with them all too!!  Must get more from the later periods



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Posted By: Kid-A
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 14:59

genesis - selling england by the pound

            - the lamb dies down...

mahavishnu orchestra- birds of fire

king crimson - red

yes - relayer

     - yessongs

marillion - clutching at straws

rush r30 deluxe edition



Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 15:26

From friends and family:

  • Gentle Giant - Free Hand
  • Genesis - Foxtrot
  • Isis - Panopticon
  • ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
  • King Crimson - Red
  • Rush - A Farewell to Kings
  • Radiohead - Amnesiac
  • Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell...
  • Paatos - Timeloss
  • Neal Morse - Testimony
  • The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
  • IQ - Subterranea
  • The Flower Kings - Back in the World of Adventures
  • Tortoise - TNT
  • Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
  • Niacin - Organik
  • Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
  • Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet
  • Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour

I scored big time with CDs this year. Plus I also got some gift cards and such to boost that list even more. What a blessing.



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Posted By: Arnold Layne
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 15:30

not really any prog cd's (even though thats what i asked for)

  • david bowie - ziggy stardust
  • the who - tommy

but the one that will help with listening to prog is my favorite

Ipod nano - its so friken small now i can take all my prog with me



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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 17:06

check this out, I got these for Christmas:
Peter Gabriel- So
Gentle Giant- Octopus
Neal Morse-?
Jethro Tull-Minstrel In the Gallery
Yes- Going for the One
Gentle Giant- The Power and The Glory
Rush- R30 double DVD/double CD
Rush In Rio DVD
The Who- Tommy

And the full series of Firefly.



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Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 17:12
Originally posted by Arnold Layne Arnold Layne wrote:

not really any prog cd's (even though thats what i asked for)

  • david bowie - ziggy stardust
  • the who - tommy

but the one that will help with listening to prog is my favorite

Ipod nano - its so friken small now i can take all my prog with me

Two classic albums none the less



Posted By: Gentle Tull
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 17:15

lets see...

Dream Theater- Scenes from a memory and Change of Seasons
ELP- Pics at an Exhibition and Trilogy
Frank Zappa- Hot Rats
Gentle Giant- Aquiring the taste
Jethro Tull- J-Tull Dot Com
PFM- Photos of Ghosts
Rush- Caress of Steel, Hemispheres, and Permanent Waves

And an iPOD!!!!!!!



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Posted By: The-Bullet
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:00
Socks and slippers
But I did have the good fortune of talking the missus into buying me a new cd player

Who says Chritmas is just for kids

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Posted By: ChadFromCanada
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:03
Paul "Sequence" Ferguson - Change
Van Der Graaf Generator - Maida Vale (BBC Sessions)
King Crimson - In The Wake of Poseidon
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Jethro Tull - This Was
John Coltrane - (The Ultimate) Blue Train
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Alex Keack - For Surfer's Only (vinyl)


Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:05
Santa didn't bring me anything.


Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:07
For the first night of Hannukah

King Crimson ~  Lizard 35th Anniversary Edition



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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:19

Originally posted by tardis tardis wrote:

Santa didn't bring me anything.

have you been bad this year?



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Posted By: Cygnus X-1
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:25
erm i didn't really get any cds. I got a mp3 player.
The closest thing to a prog related item would be the Bill Baley DVD i got. Cosmic Jam.  very funny

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Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:26
Originally posted by video vertigo video vertigo wrote:

Originally posted by tardis tardis wrote:

Santa didn't bring me anything.

have you been bad this year?

No.



Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:30

MONEY! if i hade asked him for a prog record he whuld proboly have given me a backstreet boys CD, i know allready hapend one time, so i buy my stuff my self... so i dont need to get embarrassed  

And realy guy did your familys and frieands realy go out and buy you all thos CDs or did you do it yorself? I find it very hard to belive...  my whuldent have found any of thos cds if they looked for a year...



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Posted By: Arnold Layne
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:33
Originally posted by Progger Progger wrote:

Originally posted by Arnold Layne Arnold Layne wrote:

not really any prog cd's (even though thats what i asked for)

  • david bowie - ziggy stardust
  • the who - tommy

but the one that will help with listening to prog is my favorite

Ipod nano - its so friken small now i can take all my prog with me

Two classic albums none the less

oh yeah, there great. but i was maybe hopeing for a jethro tull cd(maybe roots to branches)



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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:56
I got:

Peter Hammill - In Camera
Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal
Traffic - Far From Home
Soft Machine - Six
Steve Hillage - Live Herald
Curved Air - Phantasmagoria
Rory Callagher - Etched In Blue

Curved Air was the most expensive one 8,95 €, the others were 5,95 € each


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Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:59
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
Genesis - Foxtrot
Pain of Salvation - Be
Radiohead - Kid A

All fantastic so far .


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Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:59

I got some good stuff this year.

CDs:
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
The Complete Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis (my aunt said they didn't have the one I wanted and I can trade it later, probably for Bitches Brew or On The Corner)

DVDs:
Peter Gabriel - Growing Up Live
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus

Clothes:
Dark Side of the Moon pants and sandals
gloves
this shirt:

I also got $25, so I'll definately be getting some more CDs (probably Mr Bungle, Primus, or Frank Zappa)



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Posted By: Figglesnout
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 19:24

hmmm...i got the following (don't judge whether or not i like the following...it's just what i recieved):

1) The Police DVD

2) Dune (miniseries) 3 disc directors cut

3) Ben FOlds Five Live

4) Led Zeppelin Live

5) Pink Floyd The Wall

6) $800 on which to buy whatever the hell i want

...plus clothes, etc

Santa was pretty good this year.



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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 19:33
Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach
Aphrodite's Child - 666
White Willow - Storm Season

Plus I will be getting pretty much all the back catalogue of Opeth soon.

Very bad Christmas for me this year, oh well!


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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 19:57

VDGG-The least we can do is wave to each other

Genesis-The Lamb

Pink Floyd-Atom Heart Mother (finally on CD!)

Creative Zen Mp3 player

Saucerful of Secrets-The Pink Floyd Odyseey

Thats everything music related.



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Posted By: Ritual
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 19:59

Jon Anderson- Olias of Sunhillow

Jon Anderson- Tour of the Universe DVD

Gentle Giant- Free Hand



Posted By: Hemispheres
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 22:33

Gentle Giant Dvd

Supper Furry Animals - Rings Around The World

Dead Kennedys - Bedtime For Democracy

Crybaby wah pedal



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Posted By: barbs
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 22:43

Gentle Giant- In a glass house (CD)
Yes - Symphonic DVD
Opeth - Damnation, Ghost Reveries
Glass Hammer - Lex Rex


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Posted By: walrus333
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 22:51

I got a bunch of stuff this year

Cd:

 Psychotic Waltz - Into The Everflow, Live `93

Genesis- Foxtrot

Yes- Close To The Edge

ELP- Pics, BSS

The Mussorgsky version of Pics

DVD:

ELP- Pics

VDGG- Live In 1975

Marillion- Recital of The Script

Ozric Tentacles- Pongmasters Ball

Also I will be going to go to Tower Records tomorow to spend my 20$ gift Card Im thinking of buyin either a CD by Hawkwind, Ozric Tentacles, Umphreys Mcgee (a jamband)  or The Human Equation by Ayreon. So Many Choices.....



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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 23:09

Music related stuff:

  • Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes (DVD)
  • Yes - Yesspeak/Yes Acoustic (DVD)

Plus 280$ to buy prog CD's for!!!

The other stuff I got was clothes and candy



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Posted By: The Green Tank
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 23:48
150$ towards a bass guitar

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Posted By: Mharo
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 00:25
I got the money I needed to buy an electric piano. I'm spending all my savings, so prog CDs will have to wait.


Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 00:29
Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

Music related stuff:

  • Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes (DVD)
  • Yes - Yesspeak/Yes Acoustic (DVD)

Plus 280$ to buy prog CD's for!!!

The other stuff I got was clothes and candy


I guess Santa didn't see all the spamming you do at this site.


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Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 00:37
As I don't think Santa knows my musical taste, I'll have to buy myself some cd's. Anyway, did you all just get gifts and not give anything to someone else?

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Posted By: Ultaigh
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 01:39
Originally posted by The Green Tank The Green Tank wrote:

150$ towards a bass guitar

I too got some money towards a Bass guitar.
As for music albums/cds I recieved Emerson, Lake & Palmers Tarkus.


Posted By: Hierophant
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 03:39
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
Zappa - Weasels Ripped my Flesh
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire / Lost Trident Sessions






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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 09:47
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome + money which I will use for buying these:
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
Marillion - Script For a Jester's Tear
An evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 09:57
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Here's some albums that I bought for my christmas money ... all used, and at an average price of 4 EUR:

  • Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
  • Elegy - Manifestation of Fear   (not a masterpiece but still its very good) 
  • Gnidrolog - In Spite of Harry's Toenail
  • Lemur Voice - Insights (masterpiece) 
  • Leviathan - Riddles, Questions, Poetry & Outrage (brilliant  CD ) 
  • Nightingale - The Closing Chronicles
  • Poverty's No Crime - Slave to the Mind
  • Michael Romeo - The Dark Chapter
  • Savatage - Streets
  • Superior - Behind
  • Weird Al Yankovic - Alapalooza
  • John Zorn - The Big Gundown


Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 15:03

With X-mas money i bought

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

Quidam - Live In Mexico 99`

The Flower Kings - Alive On Planet Earth

Deus Ex Machina - Equilibrismo Da Insofferenza

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

Banda Elastica - Ai Tencargo

Area - Caution Radiation Area

And an album of a pop rock band from Chile  Lucybell - Sesion Futura



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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 16:26

As I mentioned in the Velvy Room:

Got $250 for christmas... I like to buy my gifts myself, for I know where to find them It would be mean to make my parents try to find Magma albums for me



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Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 16:53

CD's I actually got  on Christmas Eve:

  • King Crimson - THRAK
  • Focus - Hamburger Concerto
  • Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
  • Camel - Snow Goose

CD's I got just before:
  • Genesis - Foxtrot
  • Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
CD's my parents still 'owe' me:
  • King Crimson - The Night Watch (Live)
  • Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
  • CAN - Soundtracks


Posted By: MANTICORE
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 20:40

EMERSON , LAKE & PALMER - BEYOND THE BEGINING DVD

Great Gift.!!!



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Posted By: Hemispheres
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 21:20
i found Lick My Decals Off Baby By Captain Beefheart thats a hard find

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