Confession
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Topic: Confession
Posted By: Epignosis
Subject: Confession
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 18:51
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I went to the beach today (my 15-month-old's first time ever- he absolutely loved it), and I got the idea for this topic: Here is a non-prog "confessional," so to speak. This is where you tell everyone of a band or song you should be ashamed you like. I mean the hold-your-head-down-and-change-your-name kind of shame. The kind of music most everyone here would laugh derisively at you for (but we won't- promise!). (David Gilmour's On an Island always makes me want to be near the shore, by the way) So let the confessions begin! |
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:08
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Umm, I think there are already threads on this (but they might be locked due to being ancient). Umm, I listen to heaps of non prog, flame me  Rage Against The Machine, The Cure, Sonic Youth, , Drive Like Jehu (The last band is considered "Emo" bands, despite being equal parts math rock/post punk/post hardcore... trust me, I hate today's so called "emo" pop punk like everyone else here, but I can dig the early incarnations of emo that was a lot less commercial sounding). Jeff Buckley, still one of my favorites too. Can't think of anymore right now. ------------- 
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Posted By: splyu
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:12
| Well, that's easy, Michael Jackson is one of my favourite artists. |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:13
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I LOVE BOSTON AND MEAT LOAF! Flame away 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:13
With 310 pages of threads in the General music section, I'm certain this has probably been done before.  Plus, even though I'm expert searcher on Google, I have a tough time located threads I posted in using the search feature here.  |
HughesJB4 wrote:Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:15
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^Yeah, the search function can fail pretty hard sometimes.
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:17
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I love to go to punk and ska shows. They're a lot of fun. Micheal Jackson is really good IMO. I love Prince too. I can dig a good amount of hip hop. ... I guess that's enough for now.  -------------  
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:23
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That reminds me. Yah, I like punk in general, although mainly particular sub genres. Post Hardcore, Emo (of the early variety that was heavily influenced by Hardcore and Post Hardcore) and Post Punk. Generally, I dislike bands like the Sex Pistols, The Ramones and all the extremely simple bands (although I have respect for what they did for helping to push other genres forward, like thrash metal for example). -------------
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:26
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Prince is a friggin genius so that doesn't count.
Culture Club counts though.  I was dark, it was young. Something like that.------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:27
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Okay, okay. Boston is one of my favorite bands, and how could a prog-lover at least not enjoy them? Those Hammond B-3 solos? Excellently crafted guitar parts? Brad Delp (RIP)? I mean embarrassing to the nth degree. Want my secrets? Here you go, with all the shame that goes with it! Ace of Base. Yeah, that Swedish dance group that sang, "I saw the sign, and it opened up my mind, I saw the sign." I started listening to them in the 6th grade based on a recommendation from friend (I no longer know that friend, but damn him, his legacy of catchy pop remains). The first CD I ever bought was The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Greatest Hits. To me now, they are to county what progressive rock is to rock (if you listen to a generous portion of their discography). But hell, give me their rendition of "Mr. Bojangles" any day over "Roundabout."  I also enjoy Amy Winehouse. Yeah, they tried to make me go to rehab too. I said no, no, no. I'm going to get back to you later. There's heaps of embarassing stuff I listen to. I will probably be banned before I can disclose it all. |
Posted By: splyu
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:29
Hardly embarassing... |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:31
What's embarrassing is that I, the English teacher, didn't get to edit my typo before you quoted me. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:36
oh God, that is embarrassing Van Halen, Sinatra, Greenday, Michael Buble.. oh and Michael Jackson rocks |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:40
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^Van Halen fan here too.
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:45
That was taken just a little bit before I got into prog : -------------
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:50
x 10
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Posted By: febus
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:55
Who is William Hung??/
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 21:57
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Video shot in his peak : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcc8dTqflh8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcc8dTqflh8  -------------
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 22:15
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This has been done before, but just so no one forgets, I'm a big Euro-synth-pop fan, going all the way back to Mouth & MacNeil. ABBA, Human League, you name it, I love it. Hey, it's harmless fun. |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 22:19
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sometimes I dig out one of my old KoRn albums and laugh my way through it. so precious.
and hey they loved their funk, and Mr. Bungle too... ok, no, KoRn are indefensible. ;P ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: October 18 2008 at 22:26
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I have a few : Naked Eyes , Yello, ABC, the Adventures, Aha, Enigma, Enya, Icehouse, Men Without Hats, Sade, Stan Ridgway. ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 00:09
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Panic at the Disco (Beatles' rip-off era only) The Killers The Strokes The entire indie pop/rock genre Usually when people look at my Last.fm page, they wonder how I can enjoy prog while being such a huge indie-head... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Avantgardian |
Posted By: MonkeyphoneAlex
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 00:19
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I really like that song "two Princes" by The Spin Doctors. To be honest, I think that might be the most embarrassing to be mentioned in this thread so far. I also really like that John Fogerty song about baseball and get really happy when it comes on the radio at work.
------------- "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." -FZ |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 03:21
Perhaps some people here remember the time when he was added to the database .... It was an April Fool joke btw!As for myself, I don't think there is anything to be ashamed of in our musical tastes (or any other tastes for that matter). Anyway, if I had to choose, I'd mention that in the Eighties I used to dig some songs by bands that no progger would consider respectable . A particular favourite of mine was "Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat (a very poignant song, with an equally poignant video), as well as stuff by Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 03:21
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When I'm alone, and nobody's looking, I'll throw on a Green Day or Blink 182 song just for the fun of it.
I actually enjoy Green Day's 9 minute songs quite a bit. ------------- 
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 03:56
Great thread, few volunteers....
OK here goes.................
George Michael - especially Older and Patience
Barbara Streisand's - Guilty with Barry Gibb
Sade - all their work!!
Cat Stevens - Foreigner
Early Lionel Richie
just to name a few......
damn proud about it too  ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 04:17
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no shame in Cat Stevens, his whole progressive period - Foreigner, Buddah and the Chocolate Box, Numbers - is brilliant ..and I agree about George Michael, the man can sing |
Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 04:23
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^^ he wins.
I found this in my cd collection, have no idea how it got there.
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 04:24
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Foreigner should qualify CT for PA don't you think? Never tire of Foreigner Suite....man think I'll spin it tonight ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 05:16
^ frankly I do, but that proposition is for another day  |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 05:38
I don't really have anything in my collection that I'm truly embarrassed by. Depending on the situation there are always things I wouldn't mention (sometimes it's prog, sometimes it's Swedish indiepop from the 90s), but if there was something I kind of liked but felt "eerrm... " about I wouldn't have kept it in my collection.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 05:45
Green Day??...
Green Day...??...I don't honestly know whether we can work together any more, David..and I had you on such a pedistal...
 OK...urm...I actually thought Abba were very cool...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 06:01
| Abba are very cool compared to Green Day. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 08:45
The search is not great, but it works. The trick is knowiing what to look for... in this case the magic word is "guilty"
You just needed to wind the Find Posts: [Last Six Months] back to Find Posts: [Any Date] and enter "Guilty" in the search box
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I love quality Pop, so... (as posted in pervious guilty pleasures threads):
Anglezoom - electro-goth from ex-X-Perience europop/disco diva
Buck's Fizz - EuroVision winners (that makes them automatically cheesy) but great songs, superb production and Cheryl Baker.
MCR - The Black Parade - the psuedo-Emo's go psuedo-Prog - the live version (The Black Parade Is Dead!) is brilliant.
and my latest confession:
Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts - ex-Sugar Babe attempts at left-filed indie and misses by a country mile, but the tilte-track (Ghosts) is great: http://www.myspace.com/siobhandonaghyparlophone - http://www.myspace.com/siobhandonaghyparlophone
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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 09:15
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Not really ashamed of any of my musical tastes, but I still get funny looks when I say Duran Duran are the best band ever. Period. Yeah. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 09:37
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Asia. Yeah. I said that. Love 'em. Also, I'm usually pretty bored by modern music, but Rihanna's Disturbia, is, in my opinion, a really good song. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 09:57
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 10:02
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I've been in the confessional booth far too often around here....
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 10:18
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I don't own an album of his, but have always loved George Michael's voice. E ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 10:20
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I saw him during his 'Faith' tour.. .and man.. .I was shaking that ass of mine. great voice.. great music.
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 10:44
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Oh yeah, George Michael. Even at his worst (yes, I'm talking about "Last Christmas" ) he is miles ahead of the vast majority of today's mainstream pop. At his best he is plain awesome. Other 'gulity' pleasures? Hmm, Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite. Not sure how guilty that is though, I think it's a really good song! Ah, here's one - Shaggy's immortal Mr Boombastic! And Ms Minogue's latest (I guess) "How does it feel in my arms" - hampered by the lame chorus, the rest of the song just feels very good! Haven't listened to any Spock's Beard for quite a while now, so I'm not sure how they'd hold up, but I used to love them |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 10:47
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Cheap Trick's "Surrender." I have no inkling why but I love it. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 13:47
I get that, but I once searched for "Geddy Lee" just as an experiment and did not get a topic that was about Geddy Lee (and included his name). Perhaps it was a bug, I don't know. Anyway, I think I do a fairly decent job of coming up with original ideas for topics and polls. I hope a "rerun" from time to time is looked over- besides, I haven't created a "Yes vs. Genesis" poll, now have I? |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 13:55
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There's more from me (and more will keep coming, no doubt)... I like Wyclef Jean. The Carnival is one of the best rap albums I've ever heard (and that's out of about five). Outkast- from "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" to "Hey Ya." I'll go stand in the corner now... |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 14:03
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I once listened to What Is Love 17 times in a row. That was recently, too. And I enjoyed Take on Me, Crazy by Gnarls Barkley, and Viva la Vida (the song) much more than I should have.
Hahaha, did you photoshop that or just try really hard? ;-) ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 14:16
No one is critisising this thread - I actually enjoy these Guilty Pleasure / Confessional threads.
But now you've confused me - searching Geddy Lee finds several threads with his name in the thread title, but I don't know what you mean by "about" - just having Mr Lee in the title is no guarantee that the thread will be about him and I don't think any search engine can determine that.
There are three distictly different Search methods on the forum,
first is main forum
 http://www.progarchives.com/forum/search_form.asp - Search , which is restricted to searching for words in thread Titles; Entering "Geddy Lee" in there will result in several pages where Geddy's name is used in the Title of a threadthe second is the
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/search_form.asp?TID=52685 - Topic Search which searches the Posts in the selected Thread ; For example putting Geddy Lee into that search field will show your previous post, and this one in this threadand finally there is the Google search on the main PA section (eg: grey box on the PA front page) which will search the whole site (including the forum)...
If you wish to search the Forum using Google then try "site:www.progarchives.com/forum" in the google search field along with the subject you are looking for, for example: like > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=geddy+lee&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=www.progarchives.com%2Fforum&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=off - this <
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 14:34
I think this may help. Thank you. All I meant about the Geddy Lee thing was that fairly recently, I searched for a topic I knew already existed. Knowing the name of it (and that this name was a part of the title), I searched, and got no results. It may have been a technical issue. Thanks for the information, though. |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 14:54
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Well, I actually enjoy sometimes listening to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no05vJFqh7A - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no05vJFqh7A
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Heintje was a child star who was immensly popular in Holland during the sixties and seventies. I know......
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 15:30
Nice try. You're not going to Rickroll me. |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 15:42
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I understand your meaning, but I don't understand the word Rickroll. And sadly it is not a nice try.....
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 15:48
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Just making a little joke, friend. (Google "Rickroll" if you're not familiar with the silly phenomenon of bygone times) |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: October 19 2008 at 17:43
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Oh yeah, I still listen to Weird Al if one of his songs pops up on shuffle. I used to be the hugest weird al fan when I was younger. -------------
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 20 2008 at 19:32
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Not so sure I should be ashamed, but I have an anomaly in my tastes. I despise the radio, not just the recycled uninteresting music that comes out, but the commercials and the personalities. I have never really liked, even amongst prog bands, a bands radio hits and especially radio edits. That being said, I really like Soundgarden's radio songs. My favorite is Rusty Cage, but I also really like Black Hole Sun, Burden in My Hand, Outshined, and Blow Up the Outside World. Some of there stuff has prog elements, especially Black Hole Sun and Burden in My Hand. But all of the rest of the albums just sounds like filler to me. So Soundgarden has one of the only 3 out over 700 albums that is a "Greatest Hits" (Yesterdays and Argent Anthology are the others). I suppose the one that should give me the greatest shame is my enjoyment of Cypress Hill's Spanish language album. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Coolcosmos
Date Posted: October 20 2008 at 20:47
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The whole Beach Boys discography
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 07:35
| Scorpions' big hit songs - yeah, yeah, Hurricane and Wind of Change and all that - are the closest to what this thread is about for me. And with my obsession with their 70s prowess showing no signs of waning, I like the aforementioned hits less and less anyway. For whatever reason, I never listened to much pop in a big way at any time. The only modern pop artist I dug into recently is Tori Amos, maybe I should feel guilty about that, don't know. And yeah, I still like Santana's Supernatural album - I first listened to it nearly 10 years back - , again I love the guitarwork on the album, so it's not much of a guilty pleasure for me. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 12:41
| I like The Ataris. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 19:21
You're pretty normal. Tori Amos is a fine musician, and of course people here love Santana and his cruddy albums. And Scorpions are one of Opeth's main inspirations.
Scorpions for prog related?  -------------
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 19:34
| Not really ashamed, but well here it goes: Simply Red, INXS, Audioslave, Pearl Jam, Blind Melon, The Corrs, Daft Punk, XYZ, Sumo, Stevie Wonder, and some others... The ones that I pick up with more frequency than others, it's Pearl Jam and Audioslave. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 22:05
| I could make love to The Doobie Brothers. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 22:06
| I mean, I could make love to a woman while listening to The Doobie Brothers... |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 22:22
 I could make love to The Doobie Brothers... ...all of them... |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 22:22
You think the thought didn't enter my mind?
I am sure proggers will enjoy the first two Scorpions albums and then they were an influence on European power metal and in turn on the symphonic power-prog wave from the mid-90s onwards. Maybe some other time. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 23:13
To late! No takesees backsees you Doobie doer! ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 00:15
Well, I think we have to draw the line somewhere, and although I'm sure the Scorpions have plenty of material that proggers would adore, that's taking things a bit too far. I seriously think that tons of turmoil would pop up if there was an actual suggestion like that. I mean, with all these old farts riled up about Metallica being on a prog site...
Their loss.  -------------
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Posted By: marcuz29
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 00:54
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Well, I love attending rock shows , punk and ska... To admit i want they'r music also. hehehe.
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 02:07
Lol, my suggestion was purely in jest anyway . My own view is that it is more important to add obscure bands to the website that are clearly prog than to add famous bands that have some relation to prog, who hasn't heard of Scorpions anyway. I write reviews for metal-archives.com and we don't practise anything like metal-related there so no King Crimson, no Blue Oyster Cult, no Uriah Heep. This by no means puts an end to debate because way too many metalheads are not interested in its development through the 70s and don't consider even Black Sabbath's 70s material as metal, least of all Scorpions and Rainbow (who are on the metal-archives). But at least then the line is drawn at the core of the genre, related becomes a broad concept. Ok ok this is well outside the topic, so I stop. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 11:14
Eh...I don't see Michael Mcdonald. No deal. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 12:44
 Anything Ms Minogue does is pure bliss.... ------------- 
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Posted By: pelican
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 12:53
| Oh god-I can't believe I'm confessing this, but I have to get it off my chest. I like that Miley Cyrus song "Start all over" |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 13:09
Lets see
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 13:20
Go listen to Meddle three times and then say "I get up, I get down" twenty times, and your soul will be cleansed. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 13:22
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Posted By: pelican
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 13:47
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^
Does listening to the Dark Side of the Moon while cleaning your bathroom count?
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 14:23
Um....only if you dress up and pretend to be Dorthy Gale while you do it. |