Should Spinal Tap be included to PA?
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Topic: Should Spinal Tap be included to PA?
Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Subject: Should Spinal Tap be included to PA?
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:02
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Spinal Tap being one of the most accurate parodies and satires on the egotistic beast which is the 70's-80's Rock Band culture draws much of its inspiration from the Prog-Rock genre. The albums released by the "band" are not only clever satires of some Prog-Rock but offer insight into some of the 'heavy' thought processes which many bands felt the need to pursue in order to feel relevant. The music is thoroughly enjoyable as well! I vote Yes!! ------------- My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head. |
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Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:10
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I vote yes, purely because if there was one band who SHOULDN'T be on this site it'd be Spinal Tap, But since we're clearly going in that direction anyway, Sure why not? ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:11
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:18
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Well, Stonehenge is definitely prog. "Where the banshees dwell, and they do
live well....and oh how they danced, the little children of Stonehenge..." Uncomfortably close to some of our real prog faves, methinks... ------------- The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning And all the rest is just bullsh*t -Steve Kilbey |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:27
I say 'Yes' just so we can read the funny album reviews... ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:28
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And we can't forget Nigel Tufnel's three part Mach* piece in D minor (the saddest of all keys), "Lick My Lovepump" (*Mozart + Bach influenced = Mach) ------------- 
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Heptade wrote:Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:43
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Don't forget creative epics like Stonehenge and more importantly, the progginess of Big Bottom:
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Posted By: robertplantowns
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:49
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Well they have a crazy keyboard player so they have the prog format goin on. Big bottom was revolutionary in its utilization of the "triple bass sound." And who can forget their wonderfully awful experimental jazz phase they went through for the better half of about an hour? They also took a conceptual approach to their lyric writing, an example is taking a complicated and sophisticated idea like sex and putting it in a farm context. pure genious! ------------- 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:50
hhhmmm, a red x, interesting choice of pictur cyg. Anyway, dont know them so no comment. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:01
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My favorite album is Shark Sandwich. I knew I had to have it after I read the two word review that said 'sh*t Sandwich'. They really were a band of 'Deep Thinkers'. ------------- My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:03
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Um, no. Awesome movie but no. ------------- |
Posted By: dooshbaggins
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:05
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^??????
Can you hear the sustain??? ------------- Pull My Finger! |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:07
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:08
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"No, dont even look at it" ------------- |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:11
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:16
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whats a good quote about the black album- "it can't get more blacker?" - something funny like that ------------- |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:22
'I mean how much more black could it get? None, None more black' ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: robertplantowns
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:25
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"It's like how much blacker could this album cover get? and the answer is none, none more black" another good related black quote is A salesman, like maybe in a, uh, haberdasher, or maybe like a, uh, um... a chapeau shop or something. You know, like, "Would you... what size do you wear, sir?" And then you answer me. Marti: Uh... seven and a quarter. Nigel: "I think we have that." See, something like that I could do. Marti: Yeah... you think you'd be happy doing something like-... Nigel: "No; we're all out. Do you wear black?" See, that sort of thing I think I could probably... muster up. Marty: Do you think you'd be happy doing that? Nigel Well, I don't know - wh-wh-... what're the hours? "The Review you had on Shark Sandwich which was merely a two word review, just said sh*t sandwich." Where did they print that? Derek Smalls: That's not real, is it? Nigel Tufnel: Now that's nit picking isn't it David: They said the album cover is a bit sexist. Nigel: Well, so what? What's wrong with being sexy? David: Sexist, Nigel. 'The Gospel According to Spinal Tap': This pretentious, ponderous group of rock psalms prompts the question "On what day did God create Spinal Tap?" and couldn't he have rested on that day too? Those are the best lines as far as I'm concerned. -------------
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Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:37
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Oh God you're killing me here, Especially with the first one, cause It's such an awkward situation! The way he interrupts the guy, Classic.Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:49
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So nice to see proggers have a great sense of humor. Well, I'd love to hang around and chat but I have to sit down in the (prog) lounge and wait for my limo. 
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 20:51
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- great stuff guys ------------- |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 15:35
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- unbelievable! No sooner do I post on a topic about Black Sabbath's inclusion that before long someone will ask about Spinal Tap being here, than someone actually does!!
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Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 16:19
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I vote yes, they were pioneers in the studio. One of the first bands to record in Dubly! (TM) |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 16:30
| No No No The Rutles should have priority - under the new genre: post pre-prog (have to take all those pees)................. |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 16:56
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I hear Phil Collins is to be their next drummer. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: GPFR
Date Posted: March 18 2006 at 22:31
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No Way, amazing movie but no. "What we do, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?" "Put it up too 11?" "11. Exactly, one louder" "Why don't you just make 10 louder and make 10 be the top number and make that a little louder?" (After Thinking for a minute) "These go to 11." ------------- www.myspace.com/hail_peter 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 09:07
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Derek: Being on stage is like an extension of my childhood. It's like the stage is a national park, and my childhood is the moose in the park that they're trying to preserve. 'My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
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