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Joined: October 07 2016
Location: Cardiff
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Points: 18
Posted: November 08 2016 at 16:20
Probably Ludovico Einaudi for me. The Richard Clayderman for the new millenium. I like something easy to listen to when I'm working so it doesn't distract me though.
Joined: August 16 2009
Location: rio de janeiro
Status: Offline
Points: 990
Posted: November 08 2016 at 16:26
I don't feel shame or guilty... After all music like other artistic manifestations is a question of taste and I really think , you can find good music beyond of progressive music frontiers ( which in really isn't so very clearly demarcated progressive is rock/ jazz/ psychedelic/ classical/ folk etc...) I also like some The Carpenters tunes and the voice of Karen dismissal any comments ! I like some bands very pop like , for instance some REO SPEEDWAGON ( album "You can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish") , and I detach in my collecttion :
Elton John ( at least 2 albums "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Capitain Fantastic and The Brown Dirty Cowboy" )
Crosby Stills Nash & Young ( Deja- vú and some others albums)
Janis Joplin ( Cheap - Trills ) etc...
Eumir Deodato ( Prologue and Deodato II ) .... and more
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Joined: October 05 2013
Location: SFcaUsA
Status: Online
Points: 14832
Posted: November 08 2016 at 16:41
I'm an avid traveler and when i visit a culture i love to delve into the music above all else but every aspect really. My most recent trip was my first to the islands of Hawaii and i fell in love with these brilliant artists instantaneously :)
311 is one of the bands I grew up with, and they are still one of my favorites. They're not really prog, but they do have their moments of complexity. Their 'Transistor' album still practically lives in my CD player. Have a listen!
Also, I do occasionally enjoy some EDM/Dubstep (but don't tell anybody).
Edited by Mystic Mamba - November 08 2016 at 16:45
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PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic
Joined: October 05 2013
Location: SFcaUsA
Status: Online
Points: 14832
Posted: November 08 2016 at 16:51
^ I have friends ( a man and woman marriage team) that LOVES 311 so much that they have taken Carribbean cruises because of them. I'm not as much as a fan but i have found a few albums of them that i totally dig, big time! Especially their most recent
Joined: April 14 2006
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 40
Posted: November 08 2016 at 18:18
For those of you who mention Sweet, how about "Love is like Oxygen". It has some proggy moments in it. Also, I like to give a call out to Jefferson Starship's album "Freedom at Point Zero.
Joined: May 12 2009
Location: Coolwood
Status: Offline
Points: 6402
Posted: November 08 2016 at 23:04
I don't do guilt in my listening habits. Right now I am listening to the latest album by Foghat and am really getting into it. No frills blewzy rock 'n' roll. This one sounds a little like AC/DC.
I never took The Carpenters seriously, but I have always admired Karen's voice. I am glad to find out after so many years she was an awesome drummer, too.
Weird Al is a genius.
Sunday morning is our time for Hawaiian music. Iz had an amazing voice and was a magnificent ukulele player. There are many excellent slack key guitar players, such as Led Kaapana and Cyril Pahinui.
Speaking of guitar players, Chet Atkins was the man and Tommy Emmanuel will blow your mind. There are so many possibilities with finger picking.
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
Joined: July 27 2006
Location: wonderland
Status: Offline
Points: 41782
Posted: November 09 2016 at 00:04
here is some music I got laughed at or thought to be crazy or weird for listening to
A-ha - people who usually laugh at this band only know their first hit Take on Me; they usually changed their mind after listening something else from them (LOL)
Depeche Mode - well if you're into rock and metal, how can you listen to something like DM? yes, someone asked me that years ago.
Bon Jovi - I enjoy a lot of their songs, I also dislike several
Foreigner - couple of my buddies laughed when they saw I had some of their albums
Metal in general - those singers that scream?
of course metalheads will laugh at me for enjoying little extreme metal - You're not a metalhead if you're not into death or black!
I also have been a long time fan of The Sweet. I saw them when they were booked at my uni in c1973: I had to go as I was the new Entertainment Organiser and I was livid that my predecessor had booked a sh**ty glam rock band. They were absolutely AMAZING. They were excellent musicians and, apart from their hits, they played some excellent heavy rock of real sophistication. I booked them next year as well.
No reason to be guilty of those, Rammstein is top-notch industrial metal and Sweet is great fun heavy rock 'n' roll.
Joined: September 13 2016
Location: Santiago
Status: Offline
Points: 652
Posted: January 16 2017 at 16:50
Siivagunner!
It's a collective of musicians that pretend to be one person uploading videogame music to the internet. But in reality the music that gets uploaded is altered. For example, they can take a tune from a videogame and change the melody to the Flintstones theme melody.
This band also has a plot. It's a concept band. There are even videos that show parts of the plot.
The music often uses musical memes. There are recurrent melodies.
Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916
Posted: January 16 2017 at 22:44
Still insist on Kajagoogoo. My absolute fave from the 'sickly' 80's New-Wave Synth Pop genre. Just great musicianship, arrangements, and ideals. Still find plenty of time to squeeze in some of their albums / e.p.'s between Canterbury, R.P.I. and Tech / Extreme etc. All great fun
Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916
Posted: January 16 2017 at 22:49
EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:
Sherbet
Love Sherbet. One of (if not) the first band I got into at the tender age of 5 !! Still enjoy them, and Skyhooks, every now and then. Incidentally, Sherbet 'progged it out' on there version of Steven Stills' Chicago track - right down to Emersonian Hammond licks and Crimsonian Mellotron parts !! Not quite Sebastian Hardie, but awesome, regardless.
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