Most Progressive Fruit
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Topic: Most Progressive Fruit
Posted By: WillieThePimp
Subject: Most Progressive Fruit
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 14:57
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It has been over three years since I last did this poll. The results were hilarious, thoughtful and just plain fun. This takes a little bit of abstract thinking which I encourage all to do. Consider everything: taste, smell, physical qualities, etc. Some of the fruits are really strange, but that does not necessarily mean they're more 'prog'. *note: Depending on how this goes, I may consolidate the all of the different kinds of berries into their own group. Also, suggest one that isn't listed if you voted 'other'. ------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 14:59
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pineapple ------------- 
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Posted By: chemebien
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:00
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Targerine I Guess
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Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:01
Totally!! I cannot believe I forgot pineapple! ------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
rushfan4 wrote:Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:02
Strawberry for me (I'm also a Berry, after all ...).
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:04
| Well I am going with the Kiwi. Any fruit that has a beard is clearly progressive or have certain tendencies to listen to complex music. The fact that it is green - filled with small black formations inside that taste of absolutely nothing raises the question: will there ever be a more progressive fruit than the KIWI? |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:04
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Banana. Even though I'm not a fan of the fruit, it's inspired so much music...most of Kevin Ayers' material, miRthkon's song, etc. It can be used as a pretend phone, it's designed to fit a human hand perfectly, wears a jacket, etc.
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:11
I'd say the pomegranate. |
Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:12
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This is already hilarious; good observations!
------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:15
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Tomatoes are fruit? |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:16
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"Funeral For A Friend" is a fairly proggy tune. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:19
Wikipedia says: Botanically, yes, but it is considered a vegetable for culinary purposes; it's not so sweet. ------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:22
Where are skittles on your list? 
That's how I get my fruit. That or froot loops. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:32
Well the tomato is the main reason for old English tales of punishment in the pillory and the main ingredient in Italians. Fruits are clearly above these sorts of entanglements. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 15:33
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Posted By: apps79
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 16:06
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 16:09
Bananas might lose some points for this though:
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 16:20
Bondage. What? Bondage is not a kind of fruit? ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 16:27
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Apples are constantly pushing the boundaries of fruit as we know it. Apples are a very progressive fruit. ------------- 
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 16:29
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Strawb(s)erries!
------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 16:31
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I go for the Plum... it has many variations on their color and tastes... but the mixture of bitersweet taste is priceless... and for any who has not taste it, is very unexpected, which is the property of prog rock... expect the unexpected.... ------------- |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 16:52
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 19:05
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Strawberry.
Strawbs
Strawberry Fields
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Posted By: Rune2000
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 19:10
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Apple, since that's where it all began
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 19:18
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David Bowie but seriously, I'd have to say lemons for their uncanny ability to work in almost anything-- savory, sweet, you name it and a little lemon can't hurt. |
Posted By: Camel_APPeal
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 19:24
Froot Loops are way too pop for my tastes (not as much as Corn Pops, though)...
 I haven't tried all the fruits on the list, so no vote from me this time...
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 19:27
| Pomegranates are overly complicated to enjoy, so that is what I pick. (lol, a fruit pun). |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 19:45
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I've always had an affinity for schnozzleberries myself. Durian is also a good choice, since it is known to clear a room once opened up, the fruit equivalent of The Residents. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 20:20
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I have to agree with pomegranates as well. They're nearly impossible to eat! Apples are progressive, though, because of all the different varieties. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 20:34
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Pear. Just look at the way it's shaped!
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Posted By: jplanet
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 21:54
Ha! I just checked this thread to make sure someone had mentioned Durian...that's a proggie fruit! Of course, star fruit is more symphonic... ------------- https://www.facebook.com/ShadowCircus/" rel="nofollow - ..::welcome to the shadow circus::.. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 22:36
You and i think a like David.
I mentioned "Funeral For A Friend" earlier as a veiled way of saying Elton John might have been a progressive fruit.  ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 23:25
Tomatoes. Though now I'm beginning to think that it is the most punk rock of the fruits. 
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: February 12 2010 at 23:28
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I'd vote for "Tormato" but it isn't listed. Damn. I guess "kiwi" wins mine. ...can't say that the topic of "fruit" has been fully explored in prog rock, really.
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Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 03:53
Even Neil Peart thinks so! ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 04:07
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Although some prog may make me go bananas, I vote for the Tangerine (because of the Dream of course). ------------- 
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 04:11
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thee Artichoke is very progressive fruit /plant with a so many taste variaties and neuances that you don't realy know what it taste like an acquired taste and you may not like it at first but on second or third time you may like it. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 05:09
| The tangerine, obviously. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 06:41
I voted for the blueberry, but my personal favorite is these: When you get a good a batch, they're a wonderful blend of sweet and sour and few seeds if any, very tender flesh. "The Minneola tangelo is likewise a cross between a Duncan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit - grapefruit and a Dancy tangerine, and was released in 1931 by the United States Department of Agriculture Horticultural Research Station in Orlando. Most Minneola tangelos are characterized by a stem-end neck which tends to make the fruit appear bell-shaped. Because of this it is called the Honeybell in the gift fruit trade where it is one of the most popular varieties, but the proper name is Minneola. The fruit is usually fairly large, typically 9 - 9½ inches in circumference. The peel color when mature, results in a bright reddish-orange color. The peel is relatively thin, so the fruit peels easily. It is quite juicy. The Minneola is not strongly self-fruitful and yields will be greater when interplanted with suitable pollenizers such as Temple, Sunburst tangerine or possibly Fallglo tangerine. It tends to bear a good crop every other year." Wkki By the way, the smaller ones are usually the best. I wonder what would happen if The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen joined forces with The United States Department of Agriculture Horticultural Research Station in Orlando?  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 07:09
What a coincidence ! I just ate one for breakfast.... They're delicious ! I have to say I had never heard of them before I moved here, but yesterday got a bag at the grocery store, and now I am a fan. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 09:27
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yeah.. that was really delicious. not sure if it is prog or not.... but then again... I don't even know if Genesis is prog or not According to 99% of the musical world they are a pop group and should be in Prog-Related like every band that did prog albums yet is KNOWN as something other than a prog band. Like Judas Priest haha.------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 11:57
| Durians... spiky fruits are pretty prog to me! |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 14:23
I like them as well. I bought a net of them last week. My wife and kid don't join me on eating them, and they don't know what they are missing. They are tasty and very juicy, and not so difficult to dismantle as oranges.
That's what I wanted to say as well, though I wouldn't have said it as well as jampa |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 14:41
| Definitely the Cloudberry. A food of the Gods. |
Posted By: idiotPrayer
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 15:35
| Lemon/Lime it's my favourite fruit but definitely not the most popular because not as sweet as others |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 16:32
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Uhh...Tangerine Dream anyone? ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: synthguy
Date Posted: February 13 2010 at 16:50
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The Tomato is surely the proggiest of the prog foods! Like prog fans, it is often mistaken for a vegetable!  ------------- Wearing feelings on our faces when our faces took a rest... |
Posted By: Lewa
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 11:04
Wait. What? Really? Why do people think I'm a vegetable?  Please explain! |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 15:18
^ No no see, what he's saying is that a tomato is so progressive, people don't even know it's a fruit  ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 15:33
A good home grown tomato is the fruit of the gods, the ones you typically get at the store are usually awful. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 15:36
All too true, even in Italy nowadays. Beefsteak tomatoes can be particularly tasteless, even in summer. I generally go for plum tomatoes, which are usually tastier. |
Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 16:01
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Subscribing to the Tomato - a berry masquerading as a vegetable (genetically it's closest relation is the potato apparently).
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 16:03
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Tomatoes turn out to be fruit and peanuts turn out to be beans. Nothing is what it seems, which is also prog - like. Whatever the case, TORMATO will never be the proggiest fruit . It gets rather bashed on this site and even squashed on album covers Maybe grapes are the most progressive fruits, because the different flavours in a good wine are very prog - like. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 16:04
Indeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightshade - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightshade And also to the eggplant (or aubergine), pepper and tobacco - all imports from the New World . |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 16:24
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The pineapple - geometrically complex, and surprisingly versatile - if that's not prog I don't know what is. ------------- '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: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 16:59
| The Mushroom. |
Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: February 14 2010 at 21:14
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Spectacular answers! Despite what the polls may say I think I'm stuck on Pineapple or Tomato.I am also surprised that the Apricot hasn't received a vote yet! ------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: February 21 2010 at 08:55
| Kiwi- Shocking green on the inside, hairy, brown fluff on the outside... |
Posted By: By-Tor90125
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 01:04
| Canter-berry |
Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 01:27
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Tangerine
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Posted By: Tuonela
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 10:26
I think the orange is more of a blues fruit: So I'll go for the kiwi, that's a complex fruit that you can keep coming back to and discover something new everytime!  |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 12:49
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Cranberry (other). Because it needs to be mixed with another type of fruit to be most effective.
Amusing poll idea, by the way. I like this abstraction stuff. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: February 23 2010 at 21:03
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Tomater, it's so progressive it's almost a vegetable... ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 05:26
| Dunno why but the cumquat sounds kind of progressive. |
Posted By: cyclysm748
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 21:53
| Banana, it is the longest, and it takes time to get into. |
Posted By: Angel of Death
Date Posted: February 27 2010 at 14:52
| I voted Kiwi. Pleasant experience for those willing to look past the unusual appearance, a.k.a. the first listen. |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: February 27 2010 at 14:55
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Black cherries ! ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 27 2010 at 15:48
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 27 2010 at 17:55
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watermelon for jazz-rock fans strawberries for psychedelic pop fans (both the beatles and the damned -> 'strawberries' = fantastic psychedelic pop album) tangerine for electronic music fans banana for canterbury fans to(r)mato for symphonic prog fans ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: LandofLein
Date Posted: February 27 2010 at 22:30
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Pineapple But I never get to enjoy them because these guys break into my house and steal them every time i get one
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Posted By: I Love Internet
Date Posted: February 28 2010 at 07:36
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Frank just told me to call any vegetable and the only one on the list that´s kinda like a vegetable is tomato so I´ll pick that.
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Posted By: inrainbows
Date Posted: February 28 2010 at 14:58
I think orange is a very progressive fruit http://www.sweetim.com/s.asp?im=gen&lpver=3&ref=10">
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: February 28 2010 at 20:56
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: March 15 2010 at 00:05
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Watermelons, because there's more to them then meets the eye, and even when you think you've figured them out, you get deeper and discover something even more bizarre than before.
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Posted By: Tursake
Date Posted: March 15 2010 at 14:05
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kiwi, no explanations it just is
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: March 15 2010 at 20:59
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BONDAGE FRUIT ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: March 16 2010 at 12:21
Can't help but wonder what that would taste like... ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: AbrahamSapien
Date Posted: March 16 2010 at 13:23
| I think you forgot lemons. Although, you have included tangerine, you still have insulted the founders of cytrus rock, Led Zeppelin. |
Posted By: geddyx12112
Date Posted: March 16 2010 at 14:27
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Probably the tomato, it really pushed the envelope by being a fruit with vegetable tendencies. It's clearly the Moody Blues of the group. |
Posted By: InfiniteWake
Date Posted: March 17 2010 at 09:51
| Progressive music tends to be a bit lofty and self-interested. What's more lofty and self-interested than something with a cloud for a namesake? Seriously, have you ever seen a cloudberry? (Google image search would be appropriate) Tell me there's something more progressive than that? That berry is writing the book on progressive. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 17 2010 at 10:29
Leather or rubber of course. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: March 17 2010 at 11:06
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I've been here almost a year and still don't know how to post videos, anybody help me? I found a video quite fitting for this topic ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Calculate900
Date Posted: April 04 2010 at 10:02
Dragon fruit, anyone? Highly underrated, due to its isolation from the rest of the fruits. However, it's complex shape suggests a progressive form unlike any other. |
Posted By: Zeromus218
Date Posted: April 04 2010 at 12:18
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Hey Banana!!! totally that one... for the sake of Kevin & David!!!
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Posted By: krishl
Date Posted: April 25 2010 at 08:10
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian - Durian . (I like dragon fruit, too. Very cool exterior, clean simple interior, nice pleasant taste.) |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: April 25 2010 at 08:23
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The Strange Type ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 06 2010 at 09:49
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TANGERINE!!!!!!!!!! DREAM ------------- 
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Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: May 06 2010 at 16:16
| Strawberry because of The Strawbs? |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: May 09 2010 at 22:30
| Apple. The only fruit I chew in odd time signatures. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: May 09 2010 at 22:33
| It's called a chokecherry, not chokeberry, FYI |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: May 11 2010 at 06:54
| Kumquat! It even sounds progressive! |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: May 12 2010 at 16:47
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Banana. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |