You Know You're A Prog Addict When...

Zombywoof wrote: Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: - When you sing the "A Capella" part of Dancing with a Moonlit Night to your kid instead of a silly lullaby I once had a friend in high school who was into prog and we'd have 'Genesis choir', where we'd sing bits of Genesis songs and see how many lyrics we could remember. Once, (though not a Genesis tune), we recited all of the lyrics to "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers".

When you hear a rhythm from the university's drumline that reminds you of "Contrasong" by Egg.

 ... when all you've been thinking about for the past five years is how to beat "Close to the Edge". 

When you spend an hour reading about how other people know when they are prog addicts,

or

When you realize that listening to any other type of music is just chasing the dragon.

...when you're listening to a 30-minute track, you get up to go to the bathroom in its last 2 mins and you just HAVE to restart it when you come back...

When you are in a hurry to leave the house, but you can't stop the music before that 15 minute song is over...

- When you're the only one in the world who would rather hear Locanda Delle Fate's bootleg 1977 live album (with horrible sound quality) 1000 times over than any thing played on the US mainstream radio.

- When people look at you funny because you've never seen an episode of  "American Idol" or "Dancing with the Stars" but you have seen a ton of youtube segments on various prog artists over the years.

- When you disagree that Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Madonna and Lady Gaga are the all time best musicians in history as MTV/VH1 will have you believe with their "100 Greatest Music artists in human history" shows/segments.

- When none of the bands you listen to or like are on MTV's "Top all-time greatest artists in history" segments and when ALL of the bands you like are nowhere near to be found in the MTV/VH1 "100 Greatest Music artists in human history" or Rolling Stone Magazine lists.

- When MTV/VH1's "Top 100 artists/musicians of all time" episodes seem to have 95 bands from the USA (from emimen to Lady Gaga to Coolio and IceT to Creed, etc..)  and the other 5 token British bands like "The who", "Led Zeppelin", "Beatles", "Rolling Stones" and "Queen"  *BUT* your personal top 100 artists/bands of all time have only 3 or 4 bands from the USA  and the rest from England, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Hungary, Sweden, etc...

- When Howard Stern has Lady Gaga on his show to do one of her unmemorable/non-creative faking-the-emotions  "it's all about me" song and when she finishes it, he calls her piano playing  "The best piano playing I have heard" and you're just begging to have Howard Stern listen to any one of the 50000+ keyboardists from all over the world on prog albums since 1969 and then see if he still feels the same way 

- When you go out to a business lunch or a bar and everyone around you (that you don't know well) is talking about how "freakin' great"  Pearl Jam or Creed  is and you just keep your mouth shut because a million other bands pop to mind in your head and most of them don't even speak english  

When you got up and walked out on Madonna's Super Bowl halftime show to listen to "Close to the edge" which runs about 40 minutes covering the same duration as the halftime show and then resumed to watch the start of the 3rd quarter after the Yes was finished and feeling glad that you did not have to suffer thru Madonna's self-consumed music.
- When 99.999% of the American's and American media thinks Genesis' first album ever was Duke and you stopped listening to Genesis- When the subject of Peter Gabriel comes up in the general American public, everyone else talks about the songs "Sledgehammer" and "Shock the Monkey"  and how they were his best songs and you're afraid to even mention "Suppers' Read" or "Dancing with the Moonlit knight".


Edited by progbaby - April 03 2012 at 18:31

^ i disagree with your signature. There I said it.

   Good one.

You feel an overwhelming sense of guilt when you realize you are playing in 4/4.