Prog for your partner
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Forum Name: Prog Recommendations/Featured albums
Forum Description: Make or seek recommendations and discuss specific prog albums
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Topic: Prog for your partner
Posted By: condor
Subject: Prog for your partner
Date Posted: August 10 2015 at 13:24
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What did you buy your partner to introduce them to prog? |
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Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: August 10 2015 at 13:40
| Take the easy way out. Make sure they like prog before you become partners. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: August 10 2015 at 13:42
| Sorry, but it was the other way around. Horslips, Fairport Convention, Pentangle and Clannad just to name a few better known bands. |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: August 10 2015 at 13:48
  ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
emigre80 wrote:Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 10 2015 at 15:13
she bought me my first UZ album... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 03:18
We'd have been fighting for the same 30 women, then!!
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 04:06
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I didn't buy anything, but she's happy to hear my Camel and RPI albums. Like I do
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Posted By: Disparate Times
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 04:13
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It's a work in progress, but I won't hold my breath. She was able to listen to giant for a day it's good to have differences.
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 05:28
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My wife can't tolerate most prog.....when I take a proggy album off the turntable, my wife lets out an audible sigh of relief. However, my love of Peter Banks-era Yes swayed her a bit; then the hypnotizing hum of Kraftwerk pulled her a little further in; then early Weather Report, then the first two Return to Forever albums......now she slips Eno, Floyd and electric Miles into her cd case to play in the car or at work. She ain't no convert - Genesis and Crimso still make her cringe and Mahavishnu drives her out of the room, but it's a start....I've even heard her humming the "da,da,da" harmony of I See You (she'll never admit it though!). ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 06:17
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Marillion and Bryan Ferry, but she was already liking Genesis and Pink Floyd (Gilmour featured on Boys and Girls) ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 07:03
* spits mineral water on screen * (I'm still working today )Not many men have that experience I never realized, you can share even the most RIO, the most advantaged avant in the living room... wow
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 07:11
Haaaa!!!!... I just slap the bitch silly if she so much as sighs of relief...   Just kidding of course...  Most gentle prog, she either listens to (loves Supertramp, for ex) or waits through it (like I suffer from her TV addiction). For ex, I know that if I play ITCOTCK, I'll have to skip Shizoid and the last 9 minutes of Moonchild, the rest goes down easy. I won't try VdGG, but anything from renaissance or even Camel, she will take on no problem. She'll even take a look at the album cover. She actually like one or two tracks from Magma (but no more than a 7-minutes session), but that's mainly because she loves choir and Karl Orff. Where she's got a real problem (and therefore it is mine too  ) is as soon as it gets jazzy and/or dissonant: so no RIO/Avant or JR/F (which are my fave styles), or else she'll scream, squeak or howler (as if in pain) until I turn it off. For Tangerine Dream, anything between Ricochet and Tangram will do (after that, it won't do for me ), but playing the band's Pink Years stuff (first four albums) will simply have her jump out the window (this could be useful the day I find a more progressive mistress, though )
my GF actually can suffer through a few UZ tracks,k but no more |
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 09:06
Good for you, at least a bit. I still remember one moment in the modern polls, I don't know what, but probably I was listening to some RIO/avant, when suddenly my family was no longer in the living room. Music is a universal language, they say, but we certainly can speak different dialects
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Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 09:10
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Once I made a prog compilation and she liked some songs. There are only a few almost prog albums that she really likes: Queen - Greatest hits, Vangelis - Themes, Neal Morse - Send the Fire ... |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 16:08
| when we met (1980), my husband was a Genesis/Pink Floyd fan. I was a Yes fan. We cross-pollinated. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 16:23
that we do. She did expose me to a lot... but I made it up to her. I rekindled her love of RPI and I exposed her to Willie Nelson. Soon I'll have her in sh*tkickers and a Stetson... oh baby.. then Raff and Mick can hit the town in style!!!  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 11 2015 at 17:36
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Make playlists on streaming services such as Spotify. Or iTunes etc... If you got just a tad of social skills its possible to create hours of brilliance for yourself and your partner featuring carefully selected Kraut, Canterbury, Progressive Electronic, Progfolk, Jazzrock, ItaProg, Eclectic and whatnot. Its easy: Neu! Hallogallo - yes! Negativeland - no! King Crimson In The Wake of Poseidon - yes! Devil's Triangle - no! Can Oh Yeah - oh yeah - Aumgn - no! etc... |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 12 2015 at 01:31
Reminds me of my student days. Me and another guy, we were law students and joining a student association. We were a bit dropouts of it, but we were both music fans. He was into country rock and southern rock, Poco, The Allmans, also Creedence, I was starting to collect prog records. We gave each other a total immersion to each others' music. I tried to convert him to Traffic, he me to Poco. We both succeeded a bit. Fun times
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