Would you rather... (tough question)
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Topic: Would you rather... (tough question)
Posted By: Man Overboard
Subject: Would you rather... (tough question)
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:14
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Now this is a tough one. Okay, you have a choice with two options. You are guaranteed to live for 100 more years, in good health, without aging. You can: a) Listen ONLY to music written/recorded in the past 100 years. The cutoff date is TODAY. You will never hear anything outside of that period, nor will you hear about it or read about it. Basically, music ceases to exist with the exception of the past 100 years. b) Listen ONLY to music made from now until 100 years in the future. The start date is TODAY. You will have no memory of previous music, only the music that exists from today, onward. These choices only impact you. Forthcoming artists will still be influenced by past artists and put out the music they'd put out anyway, should you choose the latter. Can you decide? ------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:19
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I'd choose to live a normal life, for another year hopefully longer and listen to whatever will be released and have been released ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:19
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Yes I can and the answer is A - the last 100 years. Why? Because there is already HUGE amount made from that time period that I know and love (and a lot I've yet to discover but no doubt will too). The future is uncertain... it could be good, it could be atrocious, but at least with 1905-2005 I know I'm guarenteed a staggering amount of good music. I'm not a prog fan who loathes modern prog, far from it, but I'd still like to play safe on this one and go with what I know I love. |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:20
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Tuxon: YOU ARE NOT GIVEN THAT CHOICE! http://aaron.theaftershow.com/burgerdesk.jpg - ------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: undefinability
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:26
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I don't know, probably option A. Although I am very interested in what's to become of this genus, I could never think about abandoning my current collection. ------------- "Don't listen to me." |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:31
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A, without question. The same reason as Trouserpress gave. |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:32
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After much debate, and it absolutely kills me to do this... I'm going to have to choose B. Our progressive pioneers certainly "chose B" in their own way. Now don't get me wrong, I love the early progressive rock more than anything else, but... The music that interests me the most comes from the past 40 years. The previous 60 gave me little to love, except jazz. However, I'm willing to risk it all to see what's coming in the next 100. Considering even the "new" prog bands are either peaked or close to peaking, I'd be losing that just as much as I'd be losing King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, and other favorites. But.. who knows what's to come?  ------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:34
Option A, plesae  I can't live without "Tales from Topografic oceans" 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:37
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I'm gonna live dangerous and go B!................Hey what happened to the stereo! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:38
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What I'd say is a far more interesting poser is: A) Would you stick with buying music from the last 100 years and never have the option of buying ANY albums released after today. or... B) Would you keep what you have from the last 100 years and NEVER GET ANYTHING ELSE FROM THAT PERIOD, instead relying on new releases for all future music purchases. Now that's a tough one. |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:39
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Trouser: Did you freaking read my mind? That was the
original question I had turning over in my head, I ended up deciding to
make it infinitely harder... a double-or-nothing, so to
speak.
------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:40
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But I don't want to live for another 100 years, oh the agony of having to deal with this earthly hell for another 100 years
But if the choise have to be made I'd choose the latter. All new music, I also like to live dangerously ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:40
Hehe... Well personally I'd find the "original" question much harder. I KNOW I couldn't live without what I already have... but would I rather carry on plumbing the depths of the 60s and 70s or see what future curiosos could arise? I honestly don't know!  |
Man Overboard wrote:Posted By: nacho
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:43
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Both choices leave J.S. Bach out! I don't want to live anymore!!! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:44
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I'm gonna surprise everyone here. I would go for option "B" in this case |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 08:46
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Posted By: JCProg
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 09:00
If I have no memory of previous music, I can't really miss anything, can I? So, I choose B. |
Posted By: barbs
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 09:04
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I'd take the last 100. Even though I'd miss out on anything new (some
people say there is nothing new under the sun anyway) I really believe
that we have lived through the greatest changes we are going to see. So
much music today is derivative and thats not to say that someone cannot
be original, however it stands to reason that everyone does what Isaac
Newton recognised in science and mathematics, when he said that 'if I
have seen further it is because I have stood on the shoulders of
giants.' He was just recognising and respecting the work that had come
before. The 'giants' of prog rock owe alot to the forefathers of their
musical era as well. Anyway I would be happy to regurgitate an already abundant supply of music cause I like blues, jazz, symphprog, progmetal etc. Have you ever heard Aaron Neville sing Ave Maria. It is a sublime experience. Anita Baker, Miles Davis, Mr John, john coltrane, sonny rollins. Everything from Yes, to Dead Soul Tribe. I love DT and PT stuff as well as Muse. So I am a happy camper right now. I think we have truly been blessed and yep a renaissance of sorts in the last ten years. Besides, you never said anything about making your own music and I sing and play acc guitar and piano so, if I ever get bored with listening for awhile, I can do that.
------------- Eternity |
Posted By: MorgothSunshine
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 09:12
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Correct answer! ------------- For every truth even the contrary is true... 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 09:24
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Brave |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 09:25
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Definitely b, because I'll get the past 100 years through their influence on the artists. I'm currently in a similar state as far as some 70s prog bands are concerned. I only listen to Yes, Genesis or Gentle Giant through bands like Spock's Beard, because I never find the time to listen to the classics. It's a nice question, well done! P.S.: Please don't use my Spock's Beard comment to start a 70s/90s war here, there's a whole Spock's Beard thread "next door". ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 09:30
There is a logical mistake in your argument which I'd like to point out. Without any prior knowledge of earlier music it is higly unlikely you would love the music of the future. A musical taste is acquired over the years. You just don't get thrown into the world and say: "Ok, I like neo-prog". It is simply impossible. -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 09:37
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There is a logical mistake in your argument there baldJean
You would have 100 years to acquire a taste in music ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 09:43
Quite true! When Kansas opened the door to me, I was an innocent kid. Hearing something like The Flower Kings would've surely done the same, as they have the same complex, experimental, symphonic elements that attracted me to Kansas in the first place. ------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 10:36
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choice B is for teenagers choose Jethro Tull "A" ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 10:39
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I'm choosing A but PLEASE, PLEASE make the cut-off tomorrow (or Tuesday, to be on the safe side It would probably take me 100 years to earn enough money to buy or to otherwise get all the music I'd want to hear anyway... ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 10:47
Hey Tuxon.. its only an earthly hell because you live in an overpopulated little country, where there are no hills, all the cheese is tasteless and you allow your kids to put little chocolate 'hundreds and thousands' on their bread at breakfast time Escape now while you are still young and emigrate to Belgium!! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 10:54
But would the music be prog then? Could you like prog at all without any knowledge of any of its influences? And, what's more, wouldn't it be a rather dull choice to vote for prog only? ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 11:00
1969: Prog rock is for teenagers! ------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 11:13
WORD. I'd choose B (starting from today), soI'd get Octavarium and the other DT stuff ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 11:29
Did Maiden retire? Dance Of Death was good, despite the bad cover. 
------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 11:31
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Maiden won't retire until they look like Eddy
Which shouldn't be long now... |
Posted By: FishyMonkey
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 12:13
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Previous 100 years. There's so much stuff I love from the past 100
years. Hell, I'd be happy wiht just all of Porcupine Tree, YES, King
Crimson, Opeth, Pain of Salvation and Dream Theater work. I'd end up
expanding of course though.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/FishyMonkey/?chartstyle=artists"> 
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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 12:15
Yeah but look, what about stuff like "7th son...", "Somewhere in Time" or "Brave New World"? I woulden't get to know them ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5">
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Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 12:22
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I have faith that there will be more breakthroughs in music... I
don't think that all that can be explored has been explored... ------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 12:38
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Well looking at MTV and all that stuff You're pretty optimistic ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5">
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Posted By: omri
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 16:34
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If I live for one hundred years more there's a chance I'll be the last man on earth. And how would I get electricity to play my music ? My answer will be A for sure. For me most of interesting music including classic (Stravinsky, Bartok, deBussy, Rimsky-Korsakov and a lot more), Jazz and ECM (Jan Garbarek, Zakir Husain, Stefan Mikus, Paul Winter and more) and prog (King crimson at first & many others) occured in the last 100 years. I agree with Nacho that giving up Bach is terrible but it happens in both choices. I do'nt think the next 100 years will get even close to the last ones since the media and popularity (what they call - the global village) pushes everything to a low quality (Britny Spears for example). In Bowie's words : "So much has gone and little is new" ------------- omri |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 16:45
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I'd rather die then choose B ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 16:52
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I go for A. The music that is now is mostly crap IMO, so this is a easy choice for me. I just can't live without "Foxtrot" or "Octopus" |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 17:05
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I'd go with A also... And not only in regard to losing prog from the 70s... but bubblegum from the 60s, like the Monkees, The Grass Roots, The Association, Hermans Hermits, The Turtles,.. I wouldn't want to lose Steppenwolf, CCR, Elvis Presley or THE BEATLES.. all the songs I had to learn to play when taking piano lessons as a child... Also the Supremes, the Temptations, the Drifters, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills & Nash Then those songs you were raised with... You are my sunshine, How much is that doggy in the window, Itsy Bitsy Spider, the Wheels on the bus go round and round... How could anyone give up the music from the last 100 years.... for anything??? ------------- THIS IS ELP 
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Posted By: frippertronik
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 17:51
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i choose the option A, i couldn't still alive without yes, crimson, tull, focus, VDGG, GG, genesis, etc... ------------- a plague of lighthouse keepers |
Posted By: Andhi
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 18:17
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I'd go for A. I haven't heard much interesting music from this decade,
and if it got cut off now I'd have to wait ages to have anything
interesting to listen to. For at least the first few weeks there'd be
nothing whatsoever to listen to.
------------- It's only knock and knowall, but I like it... |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 19:36
| Definately "A". There is so much music in the last 100 years that I have yet to hear, that I want to hear, and that I love to hear, it would last more than 100 years. So I go with "A." |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 20:06
Aw for heaven's sake I didn't say "Media-driven music from the next 100 years".
I can only imagine what King Crimson's going to do next... I may
be one of the few who thinks their 2000+ material is among the most
brilliant... ------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 20:10
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 20:11
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And you could also choose both Because No Close to the Edge or Images and Words??? Then I want to hear Octavarium and The Perfect Element Part II.... |
Posted By: ExquisiteCorpse
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 20:54
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I'd have to go with B, becuase I like listening to music thats relevant also, what would I talk about durin lunch at school? ------------- No, her name is not Beatrice. Yes, it's true: Movon invented cancer. Josh and Peanut for President in '06! |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 21:18
*blinks* ...Sure you're on the right forum, mate? |
Posted By: Mr. Floyd
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 21:26
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A) is a very good option, you already have plenty unbelievable music to hear. but I would choose B), why ? - You still have a chance old groups reunite (It would be odd but it's possible) - Every time more and more music is made, not all of it reaches us. If I would live 100 years, I would take the time to search for the good music there is in the underground scene. Instead of listening to the sh*tty pop that is and will be dominating the world wide scene. - You said that artists will be influenced by the past music, then they coud be inspierd to do their music as an analogy of the old one. I'm sure something interesting would come out. Something worthy to listen to. Or simply do covers. jejeje. Do covers count as old music ?? - Besides, I'm hopeful that music of the next hundrer years (because I'm relatively young) will be as marvelous as it was in the last 100 years - Who could predict that prog rock was going to appear !? did any of you old men !? or that any of what happened was going to happen ! We are children of our time ! none of un can think of anything different of what we have lived. - We are to make the music that's going to be heard in the next hundred years !!! If I'm to hear what's going to be maide, then I'll make my own music !!ç (This sounded very Thick as a Brick to me. jejeje)
http://www.cupofwonder.com/thickas3.html#reprise - So you ride yourselves over the fields |
Posted By: Losendos
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 21:51
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I suspect in the next hundred years there will be another golden era of music like 1967-1976 . Prog wasn't the only style that's best days were behind it by 1977. Just consider that KC and the Sunshine Band were the hottest act of that year and you realise that other genres were also in trouble. I suspect this new golden era will be quite differnt to the last one and i am quite curious as to how such an era would shape up. But I might have to wait 70 years before it gets going ! So 70 years waiting and not being able to play Love Beach is a high price to pay to see in the next golden age. If I can't play Love Beach if I could at least look at the cover and have the lyric sheet then I could wait those 70 years. ------------- How wonderful to be so profound |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 21:58
------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: Mr. Floyd
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 22:19
| If you wait 70 years without knowing of that album, and you heard it then, you would experience it again ... for the first time. Is that worth waiting for. I personally haven't listened to it. |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 23:38
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http://www.greglake.com/newsite/html/discpops/14AllWnt.mp3 - http://www.greglake.com/newsite/html/discpops/14AllWnt.mp3 ------------- THIS IS ELP
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Posted By: palaceflophouse
Date Posted: June 06 2005 at 02:21
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Duh!!!! A!!! I can't stand anymore psuedo-60's bullsh*t rip-off artists!
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Posted By: lynton samuel
Date Posted: June 06 2005 at 05:27
| definitely alt.A |