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Snipergoat View Drop Down

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Posted: December 05 2007 at 09:19

Play some Zappa.

MUFFIN MAN!

Shakespeare View Drop Down

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Posted: December 05 2007 at 16:57

The day of song-playing is not the present one.

I misunderstood. I thought we were all playing our songs today, but alas, one will be played daily. My turn will be well into the future.

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Posted: December 05 2007 at 16:58

My mom entered my room while I was listening to Zaar at full volume. Her face expressions was priceless!

As for the song, Bungle's None of Them Knew They Were Robots would be my pick

RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway!

Bj-1

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Posted: December 05 2007 at 17:02

Shakespeare wrote:

The day of song-playing is not the present one.

I misunderstood. I thought we were all playing our songs today, but alas, one will be played daily. My turn will be well into the future.

More time for planning!

May I come with some avant suggestions:

Present - Promenade Au Fond D'un Canal

Fantômas - Delerium Cordia

Absolute Zero - Stutter Rock/You Said

Discus - System Manipulation

Wha-ha-ha - Inanaki

Just to see how they react

RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway!

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Posted: December 05 2007 at 17:14

My mom was weirded out by Animal Collective. Good times.

<font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR]

ANDREW

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Posted: December 05 2007 at 18:19

Show 'em the prog ( maybe "Firth Of Fifth", "Heart Of The Sunrise" or "Entangled").

Okocha

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Posted: December 06 2007 at 15:46

Show them whart prog means

King Crimson776 View Drop Down

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Posted: December 06 2007 at 18:25

Rage. Or Transatlantic. Or Magma. Or Napalm Death. Or Pat Metheny; As It Is from Speaking of Now. That would be epic, picture the reactions of the mainstreamers and hipsters and punks and emos and all the just plain uselesszoids. It wouldn't freak anyone out, it would just kill all their bad musicy thoughts, at least for a while.

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Posted: December 06 2007 at 19:58

Zeuhl their ass ........Magma (Kobah),
Space them out ......Hidria Spacefolk (322), Ozrics (Kick Muck from Pungent)
PT their booty (Voyage 34)
Medieval folky their ass ... Gentle Giant: Advent of Panurge
or just folky ... Tull (Thick as a Brick & photocopy the album cover)
Tickle their ass .... Caravan (Golf Girl or Very Smelly Grubby Little Oik)
Fish their neo-asses ... Marillion (Script for a Jester's Tear)
Fish and Depress their asses all at the same time ...Torch Song

Cheese their asses out ... Spock's Chin Fluff ... Wind at my back Yes (Owner of a ...no can't finish the title ... must concentrate.... lone....l nah just can't do it.)

Or... prove that you listen to more talented musicians

mcLaughlin/lucia/meola ..friday night in SF ... mediterranean sundance

Start a class deabte with ..

The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity

or just Freedom Song by Thin Lizzy because it's just such a fabulous track (oh it's not prog) ... ach just play it anyway ... if you don't know it give it a listen & decide for yourself........

An té nach mbíonn láidir ní folláir dó bheith glic

agProgger

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Posted: December 07 2007 at 03:36

Me being the sadistic one that I am, I'd say bring in some horrendously heavy metal (like maybe Meshuggah's "Elastic"), and then whip out some ear plugs Evil%20Smile

. If you like your friends and want to keep them, bring plugs for them, too. Make the rest of the class suffer, though!

Actually, I'm probably not the one you want advice from, seeing as how you seem to be a lighter prog listener, whereas my thing is mostly in prog metal.

Friend of the honest; enemy of the arrogant and closed-minded.

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Posted: December 08 2007 at 21:43

Not a metal fan myself, but I listen to it for laughs every now and then. I mean DT are almost as funny as Weird Al.

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Posted: December 08 2007 at 23:49

I would just go with playing something that most people usually like. Gets interest in an artist...

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Posted: December 09 2007 at 01:23

Id go with some Porcupine Tree. Interesting yet not too far away from what people are used to hearing. Do something from In Absentia, like .3 or The Sound of Muzak. Sound of Muzak would be good cause its got that great chorus and the semi-complicated verse parts.

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Posted: December 09 2007 at 09:19

show all the humans out there what we prog-heads listen to. it may scare them, it may convert them, either way i think you will be happy :-)

Shakespeare View Drop Down

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Posted: December 09 2007 at 09:29

The ones I have to choose from right now are Knots, Mike Patton's vocal track from John Zorn's latest, Something from the Zeuhl genre (haven't decided what, yet), or ... something else.

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Posted: December 10 2007 at 02:03

Hortz Fur Dëhn Stekëhn West!

Knots would be cool too.

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Posted: December 10 2007 at 02:52

Mike Patton's vocal track from John Zorn's latest if thats what your looking at. My vote would have a Mr. Bungle song or a Zappa. anyway, i voted to JOHN ZORN THEIR ASSES!

Edited by keiser willhelm - December 10 2007 at 02:53

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Posted: December 10 2007 at 11:50

Well...you won't be making any friends with Zeuhl or Patton (ah, but you knew that lol) and Knots is sure to get some giggles - I say go for this one because the other stuff is just cruel and unusual ...imagine someone making you listen to Nickelback for 8 - 10 minutes (okay, don't do that....could cause a headache). I'll give your classmates the benefit of the doubt and assume that they aren't as conformist as mine were (one time I was laughed out of the room for listening to Zeppelin. Zeppelin for God's sake! Something tells me GG wouldn't have gone over too well...). But I digress; if I were you, I'd give 'em something complex but 'fun', something that rocks a little and has a good melody...good luck and hopefully it will go over well.

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Shakespeare View Drop Down

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Posted: December 17 2007 at 19:03

Reviving this thread because TOMORROW is the big day.

I'll give you a wide spectrum of what I'm thinking of:

1) Knots
2) Avant-Garde
    a) Litany IV (Mike Patton vocal track)
    b) Hair Pie 1 (or something else from Trout Mask)
3) Something I think the metalheads will like
    a) Level Five
    b) Pthisis or Donkey-Headed Adversary
4) Stoner prog
    a) One of the shorter tracks from Tago Mago
    b) Vitimin C
4) Jazz
    a) Something from Soft Machine's Fourth
    b) A Pat Metheny track
    c) Birds of Fire
    d) Last Seven Minutes (Magma)

If I had the whole class I would play De Futura.

But I don't.

I'm sort of leaning towards Knots, Beefheart or Can, but I would love to show people Magma....and all the other choices are so tempting....once again, I can't decide.

Any last recommendations before I pick from a hat?



Edited by Shakespeare - December 17 2007 at 19:17

King Crimson776 View Drop Down

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Posted: December 17 2007 at 19:31

Christ. Don't play SGM for the poor little f**kers, this generation is confused enough. Out of those choices, Mahavishnu, but I would say Miles Beyond rather than Birds of Fire, picture it.

Poll Question: What should I do?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Make everyone happy	4	[6.15%]
Show 'em the prog	42	[64.62%]
JOHN ZORN THEIR ASSES	19	[29.23%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted