As to the second issue, Prog is not overtly sexual, but themes of love and romance exist.  There are those of us who are neither attracted nor titillated by the booty shaking nature of current pop music and find Prog and other genres far more stimulating in that manner (as well as intellectually).  I find the music of Vangelis far more sexy than that of Beyoncé.  So, no, Prog is not nonsexual, but it approaches the subject in a sophisticated and intelligent manner, nor is that its only subject.

 

In case you haven't noticed Laz, my questions, with humorous overtones, regard Prog's obvious disassociations from main stream rock and the possible reasons why. That you feel this is not worthy of your interest is not important to me.

I've had sex to all these tracks, and none of the girls I entertained got their panties in a twist (That happened before, but that was entirely my doing).

Music is about as sexy as the people performing it though. If the musician is using up all of his/her brainpower on playing a fugue, then it'll probably be quite difficult shaking dat ass at the same time. 

As for Nietszche? I've always enjoyed his beard, his Thus Spoke Zarathustra and his joy joy way of re leaving God of any power, and I think he'd be sporting a giant erection if he were to attend an Amon Düül ll concert. Call it a hunch. 

Thick as a Brick: The luv soundtrack

Done

 

Yes I know, but http://katalog.kupindoslike.com/Sta-Bi-Dao-Da-Si-Na-Mom-Mjestu_slikaKatalog_L_8234.jpg" rel="nofollow - Bijelo Dugme are the champions..

Did he have to take it to side 2??

Red hair, blue shirt and a nice soft touch on a beautifull keyboards ... if we can add one or two cats we surely can invide and conquer the internet of sexiness

EDIT: Also from the same album!

The horses were ready, sensing trouble ahead

But the trouble didn't start until the men were in bed!

Of course, and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Smak_Dab_in_the_Middle_cover.jpeg" rel="nofollow - this is for a silver medal.

 

  

  

Catcher10 wrote: Babies are not made to this music........

This strangely reminded me of what engineers often said: "architects are not made to structured calculation."

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"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB

Oh, thanks, Steve.. What about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qd77uYU64g" rel="nofollow - Wet T-Shirt Nite ?

But in all seriousness, I find prog lyrics refreshing compared to the lyrics of other kinds of music. I like how it's about different things.

 

yeah obviously not, but I thought the possible reasons for Prog's obvious disassociations could result in another thread, even though this subject must have already been exhaustly discussed. Anyway those were just wonderings of mine, no more worth further discussion in my point of view.

Did the Stones ever want to "ram it up your poop chute"?

Daniel Gildenlow has an entire album devoted to having a sexual encounter at age 10

Also, Comus.

Seems like when prog explores sex it tends to be in a dark and disturbing kind of way rather than a boink some shawtys kind of way

 

 

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Sex in relation to Rock music has been taken to the extreme over decades anyway and for me it's a burden to explain to people in the audience that it isn't always that way. Many original Blues masters from the Mississippi delta and Chicago had been deprived of sex through the tragic environment of slavery. It may also have been out of desperation that they wrote such lyrics because of the times they were living in where upon sex was bad and disrespectful just as Ray Davies quote in "Victoria" that sex was bad and making reference to life in the pretense in England or complaining about the current lifestyle and rules of the British in THOSE times. Also take into account that a white man would not be judged for rape , but a black man would.All these tragic experiences seemed to be evident in the Blues. The stories of sex and the unfairness of it in the South or the desperation to have sex and a world of their own which no man ruled over.   Blues and Rock n' Roll ruled over these trials when it became appealing to a white audience. You wouldn't be discussing who you had sex with to a slave owner from the South unless you wanted to be abused or punished. Maybe not in all cases, but it certainly seemed that way to me. I assume if you protested against the rape of your girlfriend/backstreet girl/wife by a slave owner you would be executed and I've discovered Blues lyrics relating to that. Some of the sexy lyrics in Blues contain references to voodoo/mojo, witchcraft, and a desperate cry to be with a woman.  Words like "honey bee" and so on...were sexual. 

In the past...Prog has covered the areas of Gnosticism where it was not thought of as kindly measures to be feeling proud of an imperfect world and an imperfect body or flesh garment. Prog has also spoken of Satan in a ritualistic way. It has often made reference to having sex with demons or even Satan himself. Prog touches upon the subject of sexual intercourse through a religious or supernatural experience. Blues touch upon the same ideals , but was more "down to earth" with riddles and sexual references in the style of street talk. 

 

Not discouraged and not going out of their way to discourage male slaves from having sex, but humiliating them after it was assumed that they were already having sex in a relationship by raping their women and expecting the male slave to live with that reality as a means of psychological torture. Just acting mean about it. Taking advantage of a woman who was in love with a male slave basically. But hardly anything about a slave's life was encouraged or validated anyway, so I don't visualize a male slave working in a cotton field or on a pea farm, strolling into work and discussing what he had been doing with his woman without getting slapped around or even beaten. It was important to produce free slaves and I agree with you on that point, but I seriously doubt if the majority of slave owners allowed the slaves to enjoy the idea....which was to converse about it to others...and that's precisely what is discussed in Blues songs.

and a graveyard mine

I'm just 22

and I don't mind dying

I've traveled the road in the music business for decades and every musician I've ever met....even in the present,. has a different interpretation for these lyrics. It could be that the word tombstone is making reference to death, the past, or a connection to it. The word hand could be a reference to coldness of the hands and a dark or black heart. Graveyard mine could be taken literally or a meaning of connection to death and possibly suicide. "I'm just 22 and I don't mind dying" is Satanic and can be attributed to a phrase used by witches who discover rituals which tell of rebirth and entrance to another world. 

It's a Hoodoo type of song . Hoodoo.spells.. dating back to the 1800's basically tells us to engage with supernatural forces in order to gain power to progress with one's life.The lyrics can be connected to a form of expression through Hoodoo social environment. The song is also taken by many folks to be a plea to a woman for sex.