Prog Guilty Pleasures
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Topic: Prog Guilty Pleasures
Posted By: Shakespeare
Subject: Prog Guilty Pleasures
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 21:39
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What album do you love that everyone else passionately loathes? Are you a huge 90125 fan? Are you a die-hard Styx fan? Tell all. I absolutely adore Floyd's The Final Cut. |
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Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 21:43
pretty much all Rhapsody album that i have  ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: jikai55
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 21:49
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I enjoy Behold...The Arctopus! :D ------------- 
I like cheese and I like metal! --Mikael Åkerfeldt |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 21:52
I like the Grand Illusion. I crank Come Sail Away when it comes on the radio. I like Cat Stevens. Al Stewart. I'll stop before I dig any deeper.  By the way, I share your fondness for Final Cut. |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 22:11
| I like Harmonium's L'heptade, which seems to get bashed a bit |
Posted By: FranMuzak
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 22:18
| Another Final Cut fan... and 90125... i was a teenager in the 80's so i like a few of that era. |
Posted By: Inverted
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 22:19
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I'm not a fan of Tormato, as a whole, but I absolutely love Future Times / Rejoice. That song just cheers me up every time I hear it.
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 22:20
I spent the years of 14-24 in the 80's and like a few from that era too.I really like 90125.I also like Asia's debut album. -------------  |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 22:50
same here...Skullgrid is going to explode heads  ------------- 
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jikai55 wrote:Posted By: sircosick
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 22:50
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In prog? Well, I'd say I love Radiohead's debut album Pablo Honey..... I also like Focus' Mother Focus.... In prog I have a very few guilty pleasures..... In non-prog music I have a lot of them I'm afraid ------------- The best you can is good enough... |
Posted By: Hallogallo
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 23:09
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Drama by Yes Giant For A Day by Gentle Giant ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Drekavac/?chartstyle=iTunesFIXED"> 
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Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 23:18
...yep...big Styx fan I am, or used to be and Cat Stevens too. There actually isn't much to be embarassed by with Styx; they made some very good hard rock in their prime (before Cornerstone yuck). Grand Illision is a fine album, as is Styx II.
hmmm...I really like Simon and Garfunkel. I'm sure there's plenty around here who like them but also plenty who loathe them. Bridge Over Troubled Water is a lovely tune.
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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 00:18
| Another Arctopus fan here!! |
Posted By: MadcapLaughs84
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 01:43
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I like Angra ------------- 
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Posted By: Yorkie X
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 01:44
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Not sure if everyone else loathes it but I really like Genesis "we can't dance" has some really strong bits in it like "Fading Lights" and "Driving The Last Spike" I never really understood why it gets so many 1 star responses Also Kansas "Drastic Measures" its so unlike Kansas in style but I still enjoy it on some level infact "Mainstream" and a few Kerry wrote on it are damn good songs.. but I know most people don't like this Kansas CD much  good thread btw |
Posted By: pero
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 03:12
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I like "Tom tom club" and "Slade"
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 03:20
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I listen to The ConstruKction of Light more than ITCOTCK
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Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 03:31
| err... I like Mike Oldfield's Guilty... could there be a guiltier pleasure? |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 03:48
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 05:55
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I don't really have guilty pleasures in prog- I like Styx's 'Equinox', 'Crystal Ball', 'The Grand Illusion' and 'Pieces Of Eight', I think they are solid heavy rock albums with a prog touch. Don't ever want to hear anything recorded after those albums ever again, though!!
I like every Genesis album in some way (although I think 'Abacab' and 'Calling All Stations' have a lot of poor material), and I like Yes' '90125', 'Talk' and 'The Ladder'. 'Big Generator', ABWH and 'Keys To Ascension' have some decent material. I like Asia's debut and most of the Payne era ones.
If I did believe in guilty pleasures, though, it wouldn't be anything related to prog- there are some AOR tunes I like. Having said that, though, I recently got (and got shot of almost immediately) a few Toto albums and found them quite hideous!! There really is only a handful of songs I like by them, Foreigner and Boston. Journey I'm a bit more sympathetic to than those other AOR bands. Like Styx, I think they were a pretty solid rock band (before 'Raised On Radio', which I thought was airbrushed adult contemporary of the worst kind) that got tarred with the brush of being soppy balladeers. And in any case, I find most of Journey's ballads to be infinitely preferable to Styx's...
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 07:50
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 11:21
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I love Supertramp's "It's Alright" song of their Free as a Bird album.
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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 12:16
| I'm not sure if they are loved here and them belonging here is questionable also...but I absolutely love "Death", I think there one of the best prog metal bands ever and then best death metal band. |
Posted By: Hallogallo
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 14:36
The whole collaboration on that album is a f**king joke is what's wrong with it. The promo videos for that album are ridiculous as well. As well as, "I am a camera. Camera, camera." But I still love it. It's so damn cheesy. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Drekavac/?chartstyle=iTunesFIXED">
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 14:58
Don't be ashamed of that,Death was /is incredible.
Chuck Schuldiner was an innovator. ------------- |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 15:35
I like it too!!! that's a good one! nothing to be ashamed for
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Posted By: febus
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 15:39
There is nothing guilty
about listening to THE FINAL CUTthat's not easy listening ,for sure but it's GOOD!!! not a masterpiece, but GOOD
 Only the ROGER bashers have something to say against it!!
 I even listen to the first two ASIA albums, imagine the crime
 ; the'' elite'' will never forgive me for that and will look at me with condescendent eyes |
Posted By: Ryth
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 16:02
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I did enjoy Tormato and Drama. Though I would exactly register myself as a big fan.
On another note, everyone should be a Behold... The Arctopus and Death fan. ------------- http://rateyourmusic.com/~Ryth"> 
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