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Kestrel

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Joined: June 18 2008
Location: Minnesota
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Posted: May 02 2010 at 02:03

Top 3 Bands: Genesis, Rush, King Crimson

Top 3 Prog Genres: Symphonic, electic, avant

Top 3 Non-Prog Genres: Ambient, New Wave, disco/funk

Top 3 Decades: 70s, then 80s or 00s depending on the genre

rogerthat

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Posted: May 02 2010 at 01:42

Favourite Three Prog Bands: KC, Genesis, Gentle Giant

Sub genres: Eclectic, jazz fusion, Canterbury

non prog genres: jazz, classic rock, metal

favourite decades (limited only to rock): 70s, 60s, 90s

Soul Dreamer View Drop Down

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Joined: October 17 2005
Location: Netherlands
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Points: 997

Posted: April 29 2010 at 19:45

Favorite Three Bands (Yes, Riverside, Genesis)
Favorite Prog Sub-Genres or Types ( Symphonic Prog, Neo Prog, Prog Metal)
Favorite Non-Prog Genres (Classic Rock, Heavy Metal, Alternative Rock)
Favorite Decades in Music ( '00s, '70s, '90s)

To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica)

akamaisondufromage View Drop Down

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Posted: April 29 2010 at 14:55

bands: I gave up on fave bands yrs ago.

Prog Genre: Canterbury, Kraut, Space

Non Prog Genre: (At the moment) Post-Punk, Folk, Electropop

Decade: 70, 00, 60's

Help me I'm falling!

Anirml

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Joined: June 20 2008
Location: Denmark
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Posted: April 29 2010 at 14:44

Favorite Three Bands (Yes, King Crimson, Genesis (top 3 don't seem to change often Wacko

))
Favorite Prog Sub-Genres or Types (Eclectic, Jazz Rock/Fusion, Krautrock)
Favorite Non-Prog Genres (Minimal-wave/synth, 80's Thrash-metal, ~~prog-metal~~ Big smile

Classical)
Favorite Decades in Music (70's, 60's, 80's)

Edited by Anirml - April 29 2010 at 15:08

toolis

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Joined: April 26 2006
Location: MacedoniaGreece
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Points: 1678

Posted: April 29 2010 at 13:54

Favorite Three Bands (Tool, Pink Floyd, Metallica)
Favorite Prog Sub-Genres or Types ( Symphonic Prog, Prog-Metal, Neo Prog)
Favorite Non-Prog Genres ( Heavy Metal, Alternative Rock)
Favorite Decades in Music ( '90s, '70s, '80s)

-music is like pornography...

sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...

-sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue...

elder08

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Joined: February 25 2010
Location: Russia
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Posted: April 29 2010 at 13:44

Favorite three bands: RHCP, Pink Floyd, King Crimson
Favorite prog subgenres: Zeuhl, Prog Metal, Psychadelic
Favorite non-prog genres: Funk, Funk rock, Funk Metal (HAHA)
Favorite decades in music: 70's, 60's, 80's

(never really thought about this one but most the music i listen to is from the 70's)

"There are people who say we [Pink Floyd] should make room for younger bands. That's not the way it works. They can make their own room."- David Gilmour

omri

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Posted: April 29 2010 at 11:33

BaldJean wrote:

it would be hard for me to name 3 favorite bands; there are so many I like. I will pick 3 for now, but it is totally possible, nay almost sure,I will pick 3 others tomorrow: Hawkwind, Gong, Magma. or shall I pick Embryo, Can and VdGG? and what about King Crimson, Amon Düül 2 and the Residents? nay, impossible task.
favorite musical decade? absolutely unanswerable, unless it means favorite decade of prog; then I'll go with 70s, 60s, 00s.
favorite three sub-genres: Krautrock, space-rock, the third is a battle between RIO, jazz-rock, Zeuhl and the in my opinion either misnamed or misused category folk prog (I'd be more happy with "ethnic prog" as sub category).
as to favorite non-prog genres: jazz, classical music (another misnomer; there are so many different styles which are sub-summarized under this category; baroque music has nothing at all to do with music of the impressionists, for example), Indian music

I think it is is the second time in few days you wrote that in different threads.

I said it about 3 years ago and got no responses so I felt I should support you here.

However, how would you describe Acid folk in this case ?

omri

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Posted: April 29 2010 at 11:30

As some mentioned it is impossible. Especially 3 favorite bands but lets give it a try :

bands - King crimson, VDGG, Robert Wyatt

Sub-genres - Hard prog (most of it is classified here as eclectik), Acid folk, R-I-O

non prog genres - ECM jazz-rock (Webber, Micus, Hussain etc), Baroque (Bach, Vivaldi, Corelli), Modern classic (Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov)

Decades - 1970-1979, 1890-1899, around 1700 I think.

omri

ANDREW

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Posted: April 28 2010 at 18:40

Favorite Three Bands (Pink Floyd, The Cure, Dream Theater)

Favorite Prog Sub-Genres or Types ( Symphonic Prog, Prog-Metal, Jazz-rock/fusion)

Favorite Non-Prog Genres ( Thrash Metal, New Wave, Blues Rock)

Favorite Decades in Music ( '70s, '80s, '90s)

Negoba

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Joined: July 24 2008
Location: Big Muddy
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Points: 5208

Posted: April 28 2010 at 15:49

Just for giggles as are most things on the net:

Favorite Three Bands (Genesis, Gentle Giant, Devin Townsend)

Favorite Prog Sub-Genres or Types (Jazz Fusion, Post Metal, Avant)

Favorite Non-Prog Genres (Singer Songwriter, Shredder/Instrumental Guitar, Psychedelia)

Favorite Decades in Music (70's,60's, 2000's)

You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.

WalterDigsTunes View Drop Down

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Posted: April 28 2010 at 15:30

moshkito wrote:

I'm of the opinion that those kinds of questions are not serious enough for you to discuss "music"! That simple! But if you want to write a book on the socio-economic bs of these for your dissertation go ahead. Hint .. you might only be able to do this in Berkeley! Because too much of the stuff that you wish to honor is not even considered, and I'm not sure that you have any idea as to why that is so!

F*ck you too Wink

I did my damn History thesis on a prog album at Berkeley.

richardh

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Posted: April 28 2010 at 15:26

Favorite Three Bands (ELP,Rush,IQ)

Favorite Prog Sub-Genres or Types (Symphonic,Neo,Electronic)

Favorite Non-Prog Genres (Heavy Rock,Seventies Pop,Classical)

Favorite Decades in Music (70's,00's,80's)

The Hemulen View Drop Down

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Posted: April 28 2010 at 06:42

TheGazzardian wrote:

You might be interested - his site is here: http://www.josiahtobin.com/bit_rat/index.html

Nice stuff. I like a bit of chiptune goodness every now and again, but I've yet to discover someone who's really pushing it into new territory. These guys are pretty good, but it's all a wee bit inanely poppy. Ultimately, it all just sounds like fantasy game music, but I'm sure one day it could go way beyond that.

splyu

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Posted: April 28 2010 at 04:00

TheGazzardian wrote:

I have to put in a shameless plug - a buddy of mine (who does the audio in games that we make together) does chiptunes under the name of "Bit Rat". He recently released his first full length album under that name and apparently it has been getting pretty good reviews, even being compared to some of the big names (I think) in the scene (although I don't know who they are, as I don't really listen to chiptunes myself xD).

You might be interested - his site is here: http://www.josiahtobin.com/bit_rat/index.html

Good stuff, thanks for the link! I like the description your friend gives on the about page, pretty much hits the nail on the head.

Leo J.

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Posted: April 27 2010 at 23:22

GY!BE, Genesis, The White Stripes

Kraut, Eclectic, Symphonic

Post-Rock, Jam Band, Indie

70's/90's/00's

UndercoverBoy View Drop Down

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Joined: November 10 2009
Location: Tulsa, OK, U.S.
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Points: 5148

Posted: April 27 2010 at 21:03

-Three Favorite Bands: Van Der Graaf Generator, Genesis, King Crimson

-Three Favorite Sub-genres: Eclectic Prog (and bands that combine complex, off-the-wall elements with melodies in their music in general,) Canterbury Scene, Symphonic Prog

-Favorite Non-Prog genres: Video Game Music, Jazz-fusion-y stuff, and Classical

-Favorite Decades: 70's, 00's (because it has The Mars Volta), 60's

TheGazzardian View Drop Down

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Posted: April 27 2010 at 20:35

Slartibartfast wrote:

TheGazzardian wrote:

splyu wrote:

J-Man wrote:

splyu wrote:

Favorite Non-Prog Genres: Minimal Music, Chiptune

May I ask what either of those mean? LOL

Sure. Minimal Music is a bit of a misnomer; the big names here are Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Terry Riley. It's not really that "minimal" at all; it can seem repetitive at first, but really it just develops over longer periods of time.

Chiptune is any music directly or indirectly related to 8-bit computers like Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System etc, or more rarely 16-bit computers like Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. That is, music either made on those computers (or a combination of them), or covers of old video game music with any kind of instrumentation, or just music loosely inspired by it.

I have to put in a shameless plug - a buddy of mine (who does the audio in games that we make together) does chiptunes under the name of "Bit Rat". He recently released his first full length album under that name and apparently it has been getting pretty good reviews, even being compared to some of the big names (I think) in the scene (although I don't know who they are, as I don't really listen to chiptunes myself xD).

You might be interested - his site is here: http://www.josiahtobin.com/bit_rat/index.html

Not if we can't illegally download it. LOL

Legal downloads aren't interesting? Tongue

Tarquin Underspoon View Drop Down

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Posted: April 27 2010 at 20:32

My main problem?

I like way too many different types of music to respond to this honestly.

Edited by Tarquin Underspoon - April 27 2010 at 20:33

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Dalezilla

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Posted: April 27 2010 at 20:26

Favorite Three Bands: Obviously changes all the time, but for now: Tom Waits, The Smiths, The National
Favorite Prog Sub-Genres or Types: I really don't know. I like KC, JT and Harmonium.
Favorite Non-Prog Genres: Post-Punk, Post-Rock, Ambient
Favorite Decades in Music: 80s, 00s, 70s