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Topic: You Know You're A Prog Addict When...
Posted By: Textbook
Subject: You Know You're A Prog Addict When...
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:34
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#1 You like it when your daily commute to work is an hour or more each way so you have time to listen to a complete album on your headphones.
Your suggestions?
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:36
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Prog addict? Not sure I ever was or will be one.... A music addict, indeed I am, but not solely of prog. |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:36
If you start a song, listen to two others, and the first one is still playing. Think about it  ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:38
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#2 You have more posts on PA than should be humanely possible *cough* progkid *cough* (Also, this thread should be moved to Just For Fun) |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:38
 Good point. |
The Truth wrote:Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:42
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...you have to plan secret times alone in the house to play prog (I like to light candles and rub oil all over my body but that's a different thread) |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:45
| #3 You become alarmed if you purchase a CD and find there is not one track more than six minutes in length. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:47
you mean, more than 20 minutes(the modern prog-fan stereotype)  |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:49
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...If you have songs on your iPod over 30 minutes ...If you post 6.5 times daily in a progressive rock forum ...If you devote most of your time and money to prog Let's see.... check, check....and check. Yup. I'm an addict  -Jeff -------------  Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:51
How about you get up in the middle of a song on one of your favorite DVDs to use the bathroom, come back, and go back to the bathroom in the middle of the same song.  -------------  |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:52
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...If you talk yourself out of buying an album because there isn't a 20 minute song on it
------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:52
 How about... When you're mean to lonely 15 year olds  ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:56
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You pass gas in 19/16.
------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 21:01
I was a lonely 15 year old once, then I went outside and ... well, went to university and became a poor 19 year old prog/beer addict.  |
Posted By: papaatto
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 21:06
fixed
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Posted By: Repner
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 22:02
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You discover how interesting sex is when done in 13/16 ------------- 
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 22:15
That sounds like it could be dangerous. :P # Whatever: When the 'Progressive Rock' genre section on your iPod is bigger than the general 'Rock' section. Or if you have all the subgenres as separate sections... and Zehul has more bands in it than... I dunno, Blues. :P
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Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 22:20
#4. You have forgotten that the word "crime" is written with "i" instead of "cryme" 
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 22:31
| You hear music on the radio in this crazy, unfamiliar time signature you can't quite place and later discover it is 4/4. |
Posted By: Scoppioingola
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 22:39
| Tritone-based compositions don't sound dissonant. |
Posted By: terryl
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 22:40
.. when you drive past the office or home and make that u-turn a few intersections away,in order to allow that 20 minute epic to finish properly. ------------- And who are we to justify the right in all we do Until we seek, until we find Ammonia Avenue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmJ39j58W0 |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 22:50
I've done that numerous times. |
Posted By: Clepsydra
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:02
| You spend ALL your money on it!!! |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:06
| You go to a karaoke party and when your big moment comes, are bitterly disappointed to discover that the machine does not have Thick As A Brick on it. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:09
so true |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:10
So, so true. Those record stores see you coming, always. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:13
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you wonder why progressive.com has so few bands in their database. |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:15
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:17
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If you are a Latino (as me) and name your first born child "Rick Wakeman Perez", and your daughter simply "Genesis". Iván
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:18
anyone else think she's kinda hot in a substitute teacher kinda way? |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:21
| You own hundreds of albums but about three of them have an actual picture of the band on the front. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:21
Fixed.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:23
| You're constantly spending your time off trying to discover more prog/prog-related bands. Or more accurately, that's all you do and have no time off from your quest. |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:25
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You don't think it's odd that your music-based message board of choice has 32 sub-forums.
(Yes I counted.)
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:26
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When you receive a client while writing a review as if you were taking notes. I done this. Iván -------------
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:28
| you spend time trying to figure out what to play for friends that won't cause a two-hour debate on what music is forever damaging a close relationship and further tattering your already depraved reality. |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:29
| You can't remember your cellphone number but can sing The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway from start to finish without getting a syllable wrong. |
Posted By: terryl
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:29
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who hasnt? ------------- And who are we to justify the right in all we do Until we seek, until we find Ammonia Avenue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmJ39j58W0 |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:35
| I have actually walked home with something playing on my earphones and stood in the street waiting for it to finish before going up the driveway to my family. Starless, mostly. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 08 2009 at 23:45
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You are caught in a traffic jam and people look as if you were a moron because you have a face of happiness being that you have time to listen the complete Amarok by Mike Oldfield.. Iván
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 00:18
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You try to walk in any meter but 4/4...7/4's become a favorite of mine.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 00:55
you walk into a record store and ask if they've got it in mono...
...in a gatefold sleeve with a poster
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 00:57
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The boss asks people around the board table for names for the new washing powder product launch.
Jack: Excello!
Jill: Wonderbright! You: Gleaming Iridiscence Cascades From A Distance Faintly (Movements 3-7)!
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Posted By: LandofLein
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 01:17
| When you start talking like how Peter Hamill sings |
Posted By: Qboyy007
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 01:46
This. It's getting to such an extreme that if I don't see a song on an album thats over 6 or 7 minutes I'm extremely hesitant to buy it. It's ridiculous, but whatever.
------------- Hay Budday |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 01:55
| You become almost physically aroused when you see a tracklisting split into acts. |
Posted By: terryl
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 02:10
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... when all your CD collection makes no sense to most (or all) of your friends. ... when you're spending office hours reading RSS feeds of PA forums and album reviews. ------------- And who are we to justify the right in all we do Until we seek, until we find Ammonia Avenue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmJ39j58W0 |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 02:25
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The people who actually work at the record shop have never heard of any of the bands/albums you're asking for. |
Posted By: ozzy_tom
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 02:56
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#When you don't want to check some rock band only becasue there is no keyboardist in line-up#
(for sure me
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 02:59
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When you get out of the shower & strike Rush's Hemisphere's pose in front of the mirror... ...much to the confusion of the other guys in the swimming pool changing room  -------------  Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: MaxerJ
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 03:00
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GREATEST. THREAD. EVER. When you can drive away unwanted female attention by giving a highly detailed deconstruction of every Yes album...in 15 minutes. ------------- Godspeed, You Bolero Enthusiasts  'Prog is all about leaving home...' - Moshkito |
Posted By: terryl
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 03:05
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...when you just can'stand the mainstream radio, and the DJs havent got a clue about your song request.
------------- And who are we to justify the right in all we do Until we seek, until we find Ammonia Avenue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmJ39j58W0 |
Posted By: terryl
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 03:06
Hey MaxerJ, what do you want to do that for? ------------- And who are we to justify the right in all we do Until we seek, until we find Ammonia Avenue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmJ39j58W0 |
Posted By: MaxerJ
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 03:17
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^... there are some creepy women in this world. Luckily I haven't met any of them. But I have met ones asking me to dance to Metro Station and Jonas Brothers and that is where I DRAW THE LINE. No matter how hot you are, you are not making me dance to Metro Station! ------------- Godspeed, You Bolero Enthusiasts 'Prog is all about leaving home...' - Moshkito |
Posted By: terryl
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 03:20
I'll add another one here for you then. ... when a woman cannot ask you to dance to Metro Station and Jonas Brothers, despite how hot she might be.
------------- And who are we to justify the right in all we do Until we seek, until we find Ammonia Avenue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmJ39j58W0 |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 04:41
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I could easily dance to the dish washer if she was hot enough. ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 04:54
| I have a true story about a guy who lured a woman back to his room and was all set to score and then put on Karn Evil 9 because he thought it would impress upon her how out-there and arty he was or something and instead she. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:01
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Hell of a way to make a first impression or a second or third.... ------------- Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:07
Sadly, both happened to me. ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:12
Instead she what? Scarpered? Attacked him with a machete? Turned into a mechanical armadillo? Come on I'm intrigued! ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:18
You Know You're A Prog Addict When...you'd rather spend the night in listening to the latest PT album instead of going (nothing would stop a true progger going to the pub
)------------- Prog Archives Tour Van
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Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:20
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When you stop and watch the drum solo rather than going for a toilet break.
------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:28
| Actually I don't drink at all. This just makes a lot of things harder to listen to. |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:28
| Cactus Choir: Whoops what a typo. She left. |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:37
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That's the effect ELP usually has on women (I keep my addiction
secret). The UK broadcaster Stuart Maconie told a similar tale in his
Cider with Roadies book. A school pal tried to impress a girl by
playing Brain Salad Surgery - not even the potentially girl-friendly
bits like Stil You Turn Me On, but the whole 29+ minutes of KE9. Like
your mate he failed to score!
------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:48
| I tried to use prog to impress a girl with how deep I was, but yeah, backfired for me too, just seemed to make her think I was trying. |
Posted By: Synchestra
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:49
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you try introducing your metalhead flatmate to The Flower Kings, because you thought after Mastodon hed appreciate complex music... Then, eager for more punishment, foolishly try the same thing with his sister who you like. fun weekend that was ------------- 'Yeah, thats.. Whatever you're talking about for ya' - Zapp brannigan |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:52
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In a social situation you crack yourself up with a remark that humorously parodies a prog title or lyric (Careful with those snacks Eugene!) or somesuch blithely unaware that everyone around you doesn't get it at all and thinks you're mad. |
Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 05:58
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When you decided not to go to the school just because you want to listen your prog music and don't want to be disturbed. It happened to me few times. then I discovered magical thing called headphones : ) ------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu  Even my |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 06:26
 ------------- Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 06:41
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there's a dilemma - drum / keyboard solo - or the bar? ------------- Prog Archives Tour Van
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Posted By: UpsideDown Ocean
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 06:43
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when i go out with my girlfriend and the first thing i do when she enters the car (after a kiss, obvious...) is to force her to hear that fantastic passage in a Genesis, IQ or Dream Theater song i was listening... ......guess she has a great patience....... ------------- I always liked to talk to people I don't know...with them I feel safe and sane... (Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience) |
Posted By: Darklord55
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 07:27
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Step one:
When you have a 160GB iPod full of your favorite prog music including a little jazz and classical.
Step two:
You are forced to remove the jazz and classical to make room for more of your favorite prog.
Step three:
Removing some of your favorite prog to make room for more of your favorite prog. iPod is still full.
Step four:
Buy another iPod
Step five:
Divorce
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Posted By: HeroOfYesterday
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 10:11
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When you are not happy with a song with no time signature changes. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/HeroOfYesterday |
Posted By: HeroOfYesterday
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 10:16
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And also when you have over 300 artists that can be classed as prog! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/HeroOfYesterday |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 10:31
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when you have written 500+ reviews but none in the "Prog Related" section
------------- Prog Archives Tour Van
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 10:42
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When you know all the members of Gong and have never seen a single episode of American Idol.
When any 3D conversation in the year 2009 has the word "mellotron" in it.
You'd rather listen to Andy Latimer play guitar than Eric Clapton. ------------- 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: The T
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 12:14
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I'm a recovering adict.... ------------- 
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Posted By: inrainbows
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 12:24
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I am an addict who refuses to recover
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 12:42
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When you only turn on American Idol in the hopes that the episode will, at long last, be "Prog Night".
------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 13:26
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...When your on a progressive rock forum when you're at school ------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 13:49
When your Amazon wishlist is comprised of 500 cds, most of which are prog.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 13:51
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... you drive from Ohio to Florida (roundtrip) even though someone offers to buy you a plane ticket, solely so you can catch up, uninterrupted. on all the music accumulating at your house. ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 14:06
Yes!!!! My friend and I drove two states to a show rather than fly just to share music. It was great! ------------- 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: TheCaptain
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 15:16
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... you can name at least one band from 10 different countries across four different continents.
------------- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. |
Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 15:16
Happens a lot with all these university lectures I have to survive (& 10mbit wi-fi connection helps also a lot) ------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my |
Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 15:26
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when you dance at the disco and memorize "Sleepwalkers" in your head just to have something to dance to its rhythm (and of course not to the music served by DJ)
when you refuse to go out with the girl only because you have Pendragon's gig that night :) ------------- yet you still have time! |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 15:42
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My commute is 3 1/2 to 4 hours per day......it' great!
-------------  Open the gates of the city wide.... Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/ |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 17:48
^ So lucky. I got a 10 minute bus ride I usually don't finish one song from there and back, and some people can finish 8 or 9 songs! -Jeff ------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 17:55
Start listening to the Residents' Commercial Album, you'll make it through 10 songs as well. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: inrainbows
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 17:57
This! -------------
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 18:38
| When you have posters of groups of bearded men all over your bedroom walls. |
Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 19:30
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[/QUOTE] # Whatever: When the 'Progressive Rock' genre section on your iPod is bigger than the general 'Rock' section. Or if you have all the subgenres as separate sections... and Zehul has more bands in it than... I dunno, Blues. :P [/QUOTE]
Just plain Rock on my computer. 0. Zeuhl, 1 Band. Blues, 0 Bands. Ouch. Although I guess you could say some of the bands in my Psychedelic Rock section are really just Blues-Rockers but forget it. You have a thirty minute conversation with your friend about a Progressive Rock Guitar Hero and what it would be like. You feel ashamed about listening to Pink Floyd because they are too simple. (Not true for me) |
Posted By: Mind_Drive
Date Posted: October 09 2009 at 19:32
...you know you have become a prog adict when your former favourite non-prog bands begin to bore you  ------------- It's just a ride... <3 |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 01:58
| You didn't have second thoughts about buying Gong's Acid Motherhood after seeing the cover. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 02:08
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...people expect you to be on PA all the time -------------
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 02:21
agreed.------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Rottenhat
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 04:16
Yes! A ugly bunch those old progsters. A feel a bit of horror watching a old Jethro Tull DVD with a sweaty Anderson that look like somebody they dragged in from the gutter ;)
------------- Language is a virus from outer space. -William S. Burroughs |
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 04:26
| ...when even your girlfriend begins to recognise some of the music you play and your dog barks at pop music... |
Posted By: Luca Pacchiarini
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 06:58
| ...when you think the Holy book of Genesis has Gabriel's lyrics in it |