Atheist Prog
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Topic: Atheist Prog
Posted By: Mascodagama
Subject: Atheist Prog
Date Posted: July 25 2018 at 06:27
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Possibly a narrow category, but let's see what anyone can come up with. To give ourselves a bit more scope let's include ‘agnostic but sceptical' for purposes of the thread. Peter Hammill would be an obvious choice, but instead let's start with an instrumental: ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: July 25 2018 at 08:20
| Rush is the first band that comes to mind. Neil Peart is pretty transparent with his views on religion in songs like Freewill & Faithless among others. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: July 25 2018 at 09:17
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The Only Way from side two of the Tarkus album by ELP springs to mind... ------------- 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 25 2018 at 09:46
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^Yea, Pete Sinfield blows Neil Peart away in terms of atheism... ------------- 
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 25 2018 at 09:52
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Jethro Tull have their moments ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: July 25 2018 at 09:59
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Hammill: ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 25 2018 at 21:30
| There should be some of it in Roger Waters (and Pink Floyd, by default). The one that comes to my mind is the Breathe reprise after Time. |
Posted By: philipemery
Date Posted: July 25 2018 at 22:39
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I mean, Dark Side of the Moon all around is pretty nihilistic. I mean Eclipse can be summed up as: Yeah all this crap that everyone does is pointless in the end: "everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon." The album is very much just Roger Waters in a depressed bout of melancholy and nihilism. Great Gig In the Sky comes to mind especially, with the spoken intro. ------------- But the sun is eclipsed by the moon. -- Pink Floyd |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 26 2018 at 00:48
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Muse - Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist I do like this track a lot and yes I do think this is a prog track (not all Muse is of course)
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Posted By: philipemery
Date Posted: July 26 2018 at 09:50
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Muse - Knights of Cydonia (I personally think it qualifies as prog) and it definitely has some atheistic, or at least heavily agnostic, ideas in it. Lines like: "I'll show you how god falls asleep on the job." ------------- But the sun is eclipsed by the moon. -- Pink Floyd |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 26 2018 at 21:31
Though the spoken intro to Great Gig, as well as all the spoken parts on the album, were not written by anyone in the band. They went along (I think within the recording studios) asking people about... well, I don't know about what, but they got all that bunch of answers and they used the ones they felt worked best (they were supposed to have actually asked Paul McCartney too, but his response was too uninteresting and they didn't use it). However, Amused to Death has it's share of atheist philosophy, so to speak (the most obvious ones would the What God Wants). |
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