What did Santa bring
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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) ![](smileys/smiley2.gif)
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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
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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
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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! ![](smileys/smiley2.gif)
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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!!![](smileys/smiley36.gif) )
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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
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
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Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 12:25
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
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'Third' is a fantastic album you can really lose yourself in that. Wish I had a Gong album ![](smileys/smiley19.gif)
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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.
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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.
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 13:04
Frances the Mute and Scenes form a memory ![](smileys/smiley4.gif)
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
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"
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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
Winter Wine wrote:
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"
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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. ![](smileys/smiley1.gif)
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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. ![](smileys/smiley1.gif)
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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
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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
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
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Two classic albums none the less![](smileys/smiley32.gif)
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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)
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Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:05
Santa didn't bring me anything.
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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
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
video vertigo wrote:
tardis wrote:
Santa didn't bring me anything. |
have you been bad this year?
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No.
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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... ![](smileys/smiley36.gif)
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Posted By: Arnold Layne
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 18:33
Progger wrote:
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
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Two classic albums none the less![](smileys/smiley32.gif)
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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 ![](smileys/smiley4.gif)
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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:
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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) $800 on which to buy whatever the hell i want
...plus clothes, etc
Santa was pretty good this year. ![](smileys/smiley4.gif)
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 19:33
Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach
Aphrodite's Child - 666
White Willow - Storm Season
Plus I will be getting pretty much all the back catalogue of Opeth soon.
Very bad Christmas for me this year, oh well!
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 19:57
VDGG-The least we can do is wave to each other
Genesis-The Lamb
Pink Floyd-Atom Heart Mother (finally on CD!)
Creative Zen Mp3 player
Saucerful of Secrets-The Pink Floyd Odyseey
Thats everything music related.
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Posted By: Ritual
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 19:59
Jon Anderson- Olias of Sunhillow
Jon Anderson- Tour of the Universe DVD
Gentle Giant- Free Hand
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Posted By: Hemispheres
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 22:33
Gentle Giant Dvd ![](smileys/smiley4.gif)
Supper Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
Dead Kennedys - Bedtime For Democracy
Crybaby wah pedal
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Posted By: barbs
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 22:43
Gentle Giant- In a glass house (CD)
Yes - Symphonic DVD
Opeth - Damnation, Ghost Reveries
Glass Hammer - Lex Rex
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Posted By: walrus333
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 22:51
I got a bunch of stuff this year ![](smileys/smiley4.gif)
Cd:
Psychotic Waltz - Into The Everflow, Live `93
Genesis- Foxtrot
Yes- Close To The Edge
ELP- Pics, BSS
The Mussorgsky version of Pics
DVD:
ELP- Pics
VDGG- Live In 1975
Marillion- Recital of The Script
Ozric Tentacles- Pongmasters Ball
Also I will be going to go to Tower Records tomorow to spend my 20$ 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!!!![](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley4.gif) ![](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley4.gif) ![](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley4.gif)
The other stuff I got was clothes and candy ![](smileys/smiley17.gif)
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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.
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Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 00:29
I guess Santa didn't see all the spamming you do at this site.![](smileys/smiley2.gif)
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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
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.![](smileys/smiley32.gif)
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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
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 09:57
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
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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![](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif)
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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
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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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