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Joined: August 22 2010
Location: Indiana
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Posted: April 20 2014 at 10:22
moshkito wrote:
Hi,
I never looked at any music as "prog" or "progressive" and it actually confused me when I first saw that designation in the 1990's in the Fido boards and such. In many cases, it was not even an apt description at all.
At 63, I still don't listen to anything because it is something or other!
I have to say you are consistent.
btw...I'm 63 also.....does that mean we get to join a specific club for old time prog fans?
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin
Joined: June 01 2012
Location: USA
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Posted: April 20 2014 at 11:28
Moving forward a bit, I tended to not listen to much/any progressive music during the late 80's and throughout the 90's - opting instead for classical, jazz and blues. I happened, however, to pick up a 40th anniversary copy of In the Court of the Crimson King, and was completely blown away. Having listened to the album since the mid 70's, I was amazed at the clarity and detail brought out in this edition.
To make a long story short I decided to checkout the fellow who mixed this disk, one Mr. Steven Wilson, and picked up PT's Sky Moves Sideways. Loved it - still do. It became the gateway drug for discovering lots of great music written over the past 20 years.
So, I guess I would have to also list Sky Moves Sideways as one of the pieces of music that screams prog to me.
Joined: June 14 2007
Location: Near York UK
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Posted: April 20 2014 at 15:56
progbethyname wrote:
Hercules wrote:
A few not mentioned (unless I've missed them):
Lunar Sea
Midnight Mushrumps
Watcher of the Skies
Hocus Pocus
Free Hand
I could go on for ages.
Glad your back man.
Thank you, Sir.
I was going to go into politics (I was offered a chance to stand as an MP) but I decided not to as I really didn't want to spend time in London away from my adopted Yorkshire home.
Hence I'm back. Which will p**s a few people off, but most have been very welcoming.
Joined: September 20 2010
Location: Serbia
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Posted: April 21 2014 at 08:07
"... She takes the taxi to the good hotel Bon march as far as she can tell She drinks the zombie from the cocoa shell She feels alright, she get it on tonight yeah
Mister driver Take me where the music play Papa say
"Oh haa, no hesitation No tears and no hearts breakin No remorse Oh haa, congratulations This is your Haitian Divorce" ...
Joined: September 20 2010
Location: Serbia
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Posted: April 22 2014 at 03:32
Etida by KORNI GRUPA (Belgrade, ex-Yugoslavia) ought to be mentioned in this thread as an amazing prog song which structure is based on Classical music.
Jersusalem from Brain Salad Surgery for me was a formative experience (I guess I was about 15) when a school buddy lent the album to me. Not sure I liked it first time, found it a bit unnerving and difficult to follow but a tiny door in my ripening psyche was forever jimmied ajar that fateful day. There was no shoulder angel in my ear whispering this is Prog!, just a realisation that things would never be quite the same again. This was patently not Mud, T Rex, Status Quo, Free or even the Faces? Forever hence, I've always been haunted by the idea that Blake's dark satanic mills just might actually be referencing organised religion rather than the iniquities of the nascent industrial revolution?
I thought that was very odd too. He made a better call with Aja which is one of the only properly prog SD songs. But still, I wouldn't say that even screams prog.
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Hercules wrote:
Forever hence, I've always been haunted by the idea that Blake's dark satanic mills just might actually be referencing organised religion rather than the iniquities of the nascent industrial revolution?