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magnus 
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 17:53 |
No, we're not pompous. We're just THAT much better/more enlightened than everyone else, that's it. 
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Asyte2c00
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 17:45 |
 richardh wrote:
Pompous.........moi? |
Sinfield allusion. Nice.
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An old fart
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 17:42 |
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Yeah, we and our favourite bands are pompous, but at least we admit it and have some sense of self-irony about it. (And we have a better taste for music than those other ignorant, low minded trend followers, whom we have a mission to enlighten.) It's only the people/bands/whatever without a sense of humour that are pompous in a bad way.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 01:49 |
bhikkhu wrote:
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
And in first place....WHAT'S WRONG WITH POMPOUS MUSIC????
POMPOUS IS GOOD!!!!!!!
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Ivan, you are the Gordon Gekko of prog. 
(If you don't get the reference, see the movie "Wall Street.")
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Gordon Gekko is one of my favorite anti-heroes
I'm a fan LOL,. hey but I'm not a voillain, just an apprentice
Iván
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bhikkhu
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 00:15 |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
And in first place....WHAT'S WRONG WITH POMPOUS MUSIC????
POMPOUS IS GOOD!!!!!!!
Iván |
Ivan, you are the Gordon Gekko of prog. (If you don't get the reference, see the movie "Wall Street.")
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: March 05 2007 at 00:04 |
- Prog is generally a pompous genre.
- Prog sub-genres have some very pompous names
- Symphonic
- Rock in Oposition
- Avant Garde
- Neo Progressive
- French Theatric Symphonic (Wow, not only Symphonic but also theatric)
- Prog artist are usually pompous and at least slightly egomaniac.
- Rick Wakeman
- Keith Emerson
- Roger Waters
- Keith Emerson
- Fish
- Prog albums have in many cases pompous art covers.
- Prog bands have in many cases pompous names
- Genesis: The creation and the first plus most spectacular book of the Bible
- Triumvirat: Reminds of the Roman Empire
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Sounds like a pompous law firm
- Symphony X: A bit overblown
- Pendragon: The first legendary English dinasty.
- Not to talk about the album names:
- Tales from Topographic Oceans
- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
- Spartacus
- Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Why in hell shouldn't we be pompous in our musical taste?
And in first place....WHAT'S WRONG WITH POMPOUS MUSIC????
POMPOUS IS GOOD!!!!!!!
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - March 05 2007 at 00:08
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stonebeard
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Posted: March 04 2007 at 23:17 |
If you mean it like "Am I better than any non-prog fan," then yes. 
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The Whistler
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Posted: March 04 2007 at 23:07 |
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No more so than the artists...heh, heh...
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: March 04 2007 at 23:06 |
I'm only pompous when I'm on non-prog forums. Other than that, I'm pretty understanding but I'm banned from the ultimate-guitar.com forums for that reason
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lighthouse
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Posted: March 04 2007 at 23:02 |
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They can be
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Cheesecakemouse
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Posted: February 28 2007 at 19:11 |
Don't know, perhaps I was in the past but come on there hasn't been much decent music around for over a decade, except for a few exceptions, but I like some pop, some blues I'm more into everything except punk rock and anything uninspired, although I like bands with elements of punk eg the Police.
To be honest I think people can be pompous with any sort of music, just about every teenager thinks they listen to the greatist band in the the world, its more of a personality thing.
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mrgd
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Posted: February 28 2007 at 19:07 |
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I do my best to be pompous at all times other than when I am not being pompous which I find to be a splendidly self-important attitude to pomposity , on the whole .
Pompous, moi?.... You work it out.
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Looking still the same after all these years...
mrgd
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Nash
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Posted: February 28 2007 at 12:35 |
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I think we are pompous, at least in my case, but not everytime of course
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 10:59 |
I guess my reply would be that a fellow who has to declare that he is no fool usually has his suspicions  To serve man, ( the cookbook ...)
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 09:42 |
Yesprogs fans are pompous ?!?!  
is this necessary to start a war with Yesfans? 
Edited by Sean Trane - February 23 2007 at 09:43
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Empathy
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 09:06 |
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I'll go with "half the time". I definitely love Prog, but sometimes I
just want to rock out to some AC/DC or Van Halen, or groove out to some
Prince.
I basically appeciate anything that's well made. If that makes me pompous, so be it!
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Pure Brilliance: 
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 07:49 |
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^Well said Sir, well said. =)
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Drachen Theaker
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 07:43 |
Prog fans generally confine their pretentions to music - unlike fans of another four letter musical genre that begins with P who thought their music could change the world.
Proud to be a pompous, pretentious, ego-inflated dinosaur.
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 07:42 |
Man Erg wrote:
Didn't Pink Floyd play Live and Pompous?  |
Yes they were. Playing in Pompeii in front of empty audience, but full of pompous ghoast.
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 07:27 |
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You say pompous as if it's a bad thing...
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