Hated at First
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Topic: Hated at First
Posted By: Epignosis
Subject: Hated at First
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 12:02
Time to shake things up a bit. These are all songs I did not like the first time or two I heard them, but I really enjoy them now.  Which one do you like best? (And no, I'm not joking about #5) ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 12:12
| Maybe it's just me but I never got into "A Passion play". |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 12:16
Take The Veil for me. I liked as soon as I heard it though. I have a thing for bass jamming 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 12:24
| Passion Play for sure. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 12:44
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From this list I like 'Anesthetize' the most, followed by 'Ace of Wands'.
'Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt' may be a bit irritating at whiles, but in general I like it.
'Going for the One' remains a matter of dislike on a four-star album.
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 12:57
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Some of these are really good songs! Take the Veil, however, was the first Volta song I had ever heard... and I listened to it like 7 times in a row just because it was so awesome. So I'll go with that. ------------- 
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Posted By: alerxst
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 13:03
| I haven't heard the Kansas, Steve Hackett, or Porcupine Tree ones yet. All the other ones I had absolutely no problem getting into at the get go. Although now I don't like The Mars Volta at all, so were the question "which of these initially-liked song do you not like now?" my vote would go to Take the veil Cerpin Taxt. |
Posted By: Prometheus
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 13:46
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"take the veil..." takes the cake; it's just an awesome song, probably their best.
------------- "Tell me why world, unfathomable and good, The beauty of everything is infinite and cruel." --Kayo Dot |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 13:47
| ELP - The Barbarian |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 13:48
| Going For The One. Very... zeppelinesque. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 14:06
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I really like "Proclamation" -- always have. I particularly like "Just The Same / Proclamation" off Playing the Fool.
------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 14:08
That is a very notable composition.  Proclamation was a huge contender for my choice as well. This was a good poll. -------------
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Logan wrote:Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 14:12
| I still can't get into APP |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 14:13
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Going for the One. I love the slide guitar. ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 14:34
You still can't get into music    |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 14:44
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Anesthetize is the best one the list, but many of the choices I love and always have.
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 14:45
| The Barbarian, a fine song even if it is a semi-ripoff of Bartok. I've given up on APP. |
Posted By: horsewithteeth11
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 14:48
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Anesthetize is one of my top 3 songs of all time, so I have to go with it.
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Posted By: Sunny In Jeddah
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 15:24
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 16:52
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I voted for Proclamation. I used to hate Gentle Giant, but now I really love them. In fact I like all of these except Take the veil Cerpin Taxt which I hated on first listening and it went downhill from there. If anyone ever plays it to me again I will have to kill them. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 20:16
| The question isn't "which of these if any did you not like at first but now like?", it's, "These are songs I didn't like at first but now I do... which is your favorite?" So yeah, I've always loved The Light by SB, that's my choice. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 20:29
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I think I was the same with "Anesthetize". The first time I heard it, I was like "I don't see all the hype about this song".
Then I heard it again. OMG IT WAS AWESOME!
And I haven't heard enough on this list to say much. ------------- 
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Posted By: harrold the barrel
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 20:45
| ELP's the Barbarian, has got to be my most listened to song of all time. It's what helped me to really get into prog. To have listened to it as many times as I have and not get tired of it is the definition of classic. It's easily the most intense song on the list and I love intensity.(thanks in large part to Mr. Palmer) |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: December 14 2008 at 22:51
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Probably The Light ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: December 15 2008 at 00:21
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Gentle Giant- "Proclamation". I love that song, the song keeps changing and it sounds perfect to me.
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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: December 15 2008 at 03:28
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Interesting poll this one, Robert.
I know some of these, and all I know, I like! My faves in order:-
1. In The Flesh
2. Anaesthetize
3. Barbarian
4. Magnum Opus (are you sure you didn't like that one initially Robert
 ?)5. Going For The One
I like The Light, but it's probably my least favourite on the album.
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Posted By: Okocha
Date Posted: December 15 2008 at 04:46
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Wow Barbarian and APP(II) in the list... APP(II) for me! |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 15 2008 at 08:43
Hey Roger- hope all is well in the perpetually sunny England I have loved Kansas from the first time I heard them, but the first several times I heard Magnum Opus beyond "Howlin' at the Moon," I was like, "This is the weirdest stuff they've ever done. I'll never listen to it again." Chalk that up to another lie I've told myself.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: December 15 2008 at 09:58
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Thanks Robert.
It is a lovely sunny day here, only problem is it's about freezing point!! Hope Orlando is a bit warmer.
Incidentally, a few weeks back you mentioned the "interesting" lyrics by Neal Morse in "The Water". You're right, they don't really sit square with his religious image
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: December 15 2008 at 12:19
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Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt, brilliant song!
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Posted By: SgtPepper67
Date Posted: December 16 2008 at 18:44
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In the flesh for me, but I liked that one on the first listen. Same goes for Going for the one. ------------- 
In the end the love you take is equal to the love you made... |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: December 17 2008 at 02:51
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That was easy, I loved In The Flesh first time around!
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: December 17 2008 at 03:47
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Ace Of Wands for me. Never liked it at first, but never mind hearing it now. ------------- 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: December 17 2008 at 10:52
Since when are Proclamation and Anesthesize initially hated? ...anyway, I went with Anesthesize ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 17 2008 at 10:56
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You know, at first I really hated "The Light", but after a few listens, I hated it even more. The Barbarian. |
Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: December 17 2008 at 11:05
Initially hated by Robert. -------------
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 17 2008 at 13:37
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I've heard all but one and I can't honestly say I hated any of them when I first heard them. Although I wasn't particularly impressed with Going For The One. Volta is the one band I haven't become acquainted with. Proclamation actually hooked me on Gentle Giant. Love all of Passion Play including the silly bits. Magnum Opus is certainly worthy of coming in low in the poll especially the live Two For The Show version. I just put on The Barbarian, not sure what there isn't to like about that one. Ace Of Wands kicks ass. No problems with Anethetize, didn't numb me at all. In The Flesh is not a favorite from that album, but we're going to have to put you up against the wall. And though I haven't become a big SB fan, The Light's OK with me.
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 00:12
I think it wouldn't be unreasonable to say Robert sucks. :P -------------
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 10:45
Which Robert?... (the one in my picture?)------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 10:50
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I like lots of those song on first listen. Proclamation is one of my favorites and it took a little time to grow on me (though I did initially like it) so I go for GG again. ------------- 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: Silhouette
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 08:28
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Voted Porcupine Tree. I wasn't really a fan of Fear of a blank planet at first, but after some more listens, I really like it. Silhouette ------------- Silhouette http://www.last.fm/user/Zammiz/?chartstyle=Geldropdown-small - Profile @ Last.fm |
Posted By: Einsetumadur
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 14:19
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I actually like all of them very well from the beginning on. But "Proclamation" and "Passion Play 2" are my favorites; I'll take the latter as the hare story is so great.  ------------- All in all each man in all men |
Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 16:20
| The Barbarian is for me. If I had just 5 minutes to convert someone into prog I just would play that song. Probably one of the best openers of all time |
Posted By: Trial and Error
Date Posted: January 14 2009 at 03:14
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Barbarian, then Proclamation, then A Passion Play II.
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Posted By: Carlos
Date Posted: January 14 2009 at 09:05
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Going For The One...
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: January 14 2009 at 23:02
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Of those listed The Mars Volta song is my favorite, however I voted for the one that suits the topic more. "In the Flesh". I did not like that song, and that band very much at first. I didn't even like it when Dream Theater covered it and I was a fan of theirs then. However, come time and new ears I began enjoying the song quite a lot. And then we got married.
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