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Cygnus X-2
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Topic: Prog’s Infatuation With the Color Red Posted: November 09 2005 at 20:03 |
My question is why do so many prog artists have at least one song that has the word red in it?
I thought we all agreed that purple was the proggiest color.
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jefmoret
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 20:16 |
I think it spans beyond prog, to all modern western music.
Red House (Hendrix)
Red Red Wine (Neil Diamond)
Walls of Red Wing (Dylan)
Lady in Red (Chris DeBurgh)
Little Red Corvet (Prince)
99 Red Ballons (Nena)
Red Skies (The Fixx)
..just the ones that immediately come to mind.
It's more that there are a vast number of things that red can be used
to symbolize...passion, lust (those 2 represent 90% of the songs ever
written), danger, anger, etc etc..
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 20:17 |
Well, yes, I was aware that it goes beyond prog.
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The Doctor
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 20:26 |
Yeah but I can think of songs with other colors:
Prince-Purple Rain
KC-Starless and Bible Black
Twelfth Night-Blue Powder Monkey
Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale
Moodies-Knights in White Satin
Edit: Genesis-White Mountain
and sometimes they like to mix it up, for example Tony Banks-Red Day on Blue Street.
Edited by The Doctor
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andYouandI45
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 20:57 |
Yea, the color Red represents lots of sh*t.
For those who don't know King Crimson's Red is all about the fear of flights, thats what my friend told me, and then he explained to me how Red gets involved with that. I don't feel like typing it all out...
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 20:59 |
andYouandI45 wrote:
Yea, the color Red represents lots of sh*t.
For those who don't know King Crimson's Red is all about the fear of flights, thats what my friend told me, and then he explained to me how Red gets involved with that. I don't feel like typing it all out...
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I think you mean One More Red Nightmare.
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andYouandI45
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 21:01 |
Know the whole album is suposedly a concept album, all about it.
You know what that dosen't sound right at all. But it might be.
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Green and Funky
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 21:59 |
Like which songs, Cygnus? The only really prog songs (i.e. not just songs from prog bands) I have are KC: "Red" and "One More Red Nightmare", and Rush: "Red Barchetta" I do have a fair amount of prog (1,000+ songs) and only a few songs with "red" in the title. On the other hand, I have about the same amount of other music, mostly rock, and there are many with "red" in the title.
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lunaticviolist
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Posted: November 09 2005 at 22:10 |
I don't think the color red appears more often than other colors in prog or any music. I think people focus more on red (that's a fact), so people forget about the songs that have other colors in the title and just concentrate on those that mention the color red.
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Prog_Bassist
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 00:29 |
here's a though: who cares?
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BiGi
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Posted: November 10 2005 at 03:02 |
Rush are very obsessed with the red colour... Apart from Red Barchetta we have Red Lenses, Red Sector A and Red Tide
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Posted: November 15 2005 at 11:06 |
ELP had the well-known song "Are you reddy Eddy".
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Space Dimentia
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Posted: November 15 2005 at 11:27 |
Red is one of those colours that has many different conotations, such as fear, love, maybe in some peoples eyes it is to party and have a fiesta.
At least thats what I think anyway
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