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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 03:36
Originally posted by Jacs1963 Jacs1963 wrote:

Sci-fi and prog go hand in hand don't they?

I love sci-fi (Doctor who being a favourite - although my ultimate doctor is David Tennant). Star Wars, Star Trek, Warehouse 13, Babylon 5, etc etc - it's escapism and makes you think... which is what great prog offers too.


Don't like Battlestar Galactica?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 11:07
BEYOND TWILIGHT. --SECTION X

incredibly bizarre concept album based on brain mapping and super cloning.
It's wild, dark and requires a good imagination to appreciate.

Highly recommended.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 11:19
Yep Battlestar Galactica was great too :) that's what I meant by etc :) xx
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 12:34
Originally posted by Jacs1963 Jacs1963 wrote:

Yep Battlestar Galactica was great too :) that's what I meant by etc :) xx


Wonderful!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 17:11
Not as wonderful as one word posts.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 17:41
Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:


Originally posted by Knobby Knobby wrote:

Rush SHOULD bother everyone.
Don't you worry your Canadian citizenship will be revoked?


I think it can be balanced out by simultaneously owning albums by Saga, FM, Triumph, Coney Hatch, Max Webster/Kim Mitchell and Bill Shatner.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 21:26
You got a chance to redeem yourself if you remove FM from that list o' shoite.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2013 at 10:27
Not a fan of Saga or the Shat, I take it?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2013 at 08:26
Colossus Project did a sci-fi theme (too bad its on that utter  cack-theme known as Star Wars)  with "The Empire & The Rebellion".
 
Unlike all the other great Colossus  projects, this one is a SINGLE band. Mainly of Tillion.
 
Musically very good.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2013 at 12:04
I promise this isn't meant to be self serving; but my prog band, Artilect, has concept album loosely based on the work of Professor Hugo de Garis, a synthetic brain builder currently living in China, author of "The Artilect War''. We didn't know it at the time of the band name's inception (we picked it by combining the words "intellect" and "art") but he coined the phrase "Artilect'' as partaining to artificial intellects.
 
He believes that within the next 50 years, as we integrate technology and robotics more and more into our daily lives, that we will reach a point in which society will have to ask ourselves if we truly want to make the next step and create synthetic beings that will be as smart as we are. (Think a less optimistic Isaac Isamov). De Garis believes there will be a global war before the creation of the Artilect between those who believe it can only render good (Cosmists) and those who fear it could bring devistation to humanity (Terrans).
 
We liked the scenario, and I decided to begin a novel that coincides with the music and works as a "Part A, Part B" companion to the albums.
 
 
Prog recorded @ Neal Morse/Mike Portnoy's studio;produced by BTBAMs producer.Check it out and give us some feedback!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2013 at 15:11
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Tend to think that Rush were better when they left the sc-fi thing alone. Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures were a spectacular reinvention of their sound and style more so than any other band I can think of. Rush were never as self consciously embedded in the whole seventies prog thing as other more symphonic styled bands were. They just rode it while it suited them imo.


Couldn't agree more. Permenant waves,
Jacob's Ladder puts me in sci-fi dreamland with cloudy weather. Lol
Incredible intro to that song. Rush, for me, may very well be the sci-fi kings of prog. Not many better.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2013 at 08:09
f**k Rush and stop blathering about nonsense.
 
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KundaliniShakti Devi "same"  Two of the three long tracks ("Sensitivity", "Galactic Museum") are on scifi theme.
Recorded in '74, never released till now.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2013 at 12:58
Originally posted by Knobby Knobby wrote:

f**k Rush and stop blathering about nonsense.
 

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KundaliniShakti Devi "same"  Two of the three long tracks ("Sensitivity", "Galactic Museum") are on scifi theme.

Recorded in '74, never released till now.


If you don't like it you don't have to contribute to the thread.

Why. What's shaking your sci-fi music tree these days??

Give me a better example instead of bashing rush.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2013 at 14:44

I gave you some 20 examples of better music in this thread alone/

 
What is the matter with you?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2013 at 14:53
Originally posted by Knobby Knobby wrote:

I gave you some 20 examples of better music in this thread alone/

 
What is the matter with you?

...as the Original Poster, I salute your contributions, thanks!  Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2013 at 15:12
Fanks, sir.
 
THAT is why I, as a Pwog Masterman, ams here.
To faithfully deliver satisfaction.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2013 at 14:21
^ sorry. To me it just seems like an oxymoron to love prog as much as you do...I can tell...but also to bash rush???
They've done so much for prog music. Incredible musicians.

What don't you like about them? Your fully entitled to not like them of course, but I'd like to know specifically what erks you about Rush. Just an inquiry is all. I mean no criticism here.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2013 at 14:28
1/ Rush hasn't made a prog album in ages
 
2/ what they made is pure sharn
 
3/ Pwog Mastermen do not need justify themselves. We are Expounders of The Reality. Our power is absolute.
 You have stepped over the line, son. Your emotions are at play here. Know your PLACE.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2013 at 14:29
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2013 at 14:32
Originally posted by Knobby Knobby wrote:

1/ Rush hasn't made a prog album in ages
 

2/ what they made is pure sharn

 

3/ Pwog Mastermen do not need justify themselves. We are Expounders of The Reality. Our power is absolute.

 You have stepped over the line, son. Your emotions are at play here. Know your PLACE.


Ok then.

Sorry to have shook your tree.
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