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Jim Garten 
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 Posted: December 19 2008 at 02:23 |
 threefates wrote:
I love some classical music, but I think I would find it hard to stay awake if I had to listen to classical music all the time. Actually I find it hard to clean the house anymore unless I have AC/DC playing loud. :-)
And this time of the year, I prefer jazzy or celtic holiday music . |
Linda?
Welcome home! 
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Atavachron
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Posted: December 19 2008 at 01:33 |
debrewguy wrote:
I've decided to leave my prog rock & rock music collections aside for ever. I will now listen exclusively to the music from which all music has sprouted from - yes Neo-lithic (not neo prog) music. After stumbling upon some articles re : the earliest noted compostions on rock wood and head, I have found that nothing that came after that satisfies that primal need all primates have.
So attached to this now & never ever non-existant music that if I could, I would start a pre-historic archives, but due to the nature of pre-history, there is nothing to archive.
So once I have nothing included on the site, I would, for all intents and purposes, have everything ever released or written about this primieval music.
So it is with glee in my eye, and beer in my stein that I bid you all a dollar for your thoughts, and hope that someday we can find out the name of the ape who wrote that first note, and how long it took them to find all but that one lost chord.
Ah, so much to do, and so little to do it with ....
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you could make some recordings of how it may have sounded and release it as Neolithic Gold; " includes the hits 'Earthworm For Your Thoughts', 'Rock You, Rock Me', and 'Leaves & Stuff' "
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Chris S
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Posted: December 19 2008 at 01:12 |
" I have heard the big music
and I'll never be the same
Something so pure just called my name
I will always climb the mountain
cos I have heard the big music
Like Jazz manna from sweet chariots
and I'll never be the same
something so pure has called my name...."
The BIG Music
Happy festivities everyone, prog on...
Lyrics by M. Scott
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<font color=Brown>Music - The Sound Librarian
...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR]
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The T
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 13:58 |
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^WHOSE ego Db?
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Alucard
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 13:56 |
the other day I read an article about this guy who had the biggest collection of PEZ dispensers in the world ...remember these funny sweet dispensers with a Micky mouse head and he is organizing PEZ conventioins all over the world and he is spending all his sparetime going to sales etc to enlargen his collection...I was quite amused and thinking about a cross convention of PROG and PEZ fanatics which could obviously result in a new PEZ series with Prog greats like the Ruth Underwood PEZ or the Christian Vander dispenser etc... I am disgressing, the thing is as long as you feel passionate for something.....
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Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear
"Hey there! Rotter's Club!
Explain the meaning of this song and share it"
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debrewguy
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 13:47 |
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I've decided to leave my prog rock & rock music collections aside for ever. I will now listen exclusively to the music from which all music has sprouted from - yes Neo-lithic (not neo prog) music. After stumbling upon some articles re : the earliest noted compostions on rock wood and head, I have found that nothing that came after that satisfies that primal need all primates have.
So attached to this now & never ever non-existant music that if I could, I would start a pre-historic archives, but due to the nature of pre-history, there is nothing to archive.
So once I have nothing included on the site, I would, for all intents and purposes, have everything ever released or written about this primieval music.
So it is with glee in my eye, and beer in my stein that I bid you all a dollar for your thoughts, and hope that someday we can find out the name of the ape who wrote that first note, and how long it took them to find all but that one lost chord.
Ah, so much to do, and so little to do it with ....
Edited by debrewguy - December 18 2008 at 13:49
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"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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Windhawk
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 13:42 |
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As for the topic of this thread: Why stick to one style or type of music only?
I may be an odd one in that department - but I listen to music all across the genre spectrum all the time. When I sit down and listen to music playing Saxon after Madness before enjoying Mussorgsky, Billy Holiday and Venom, mixing in Rush, Marillion, Al Di Meola and Hawkwind before ending with some Gary Numan isn't that unusual.
As an example :-)
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debrewguy
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 13:40 |
Henry Plainview wrote:
I hate to be blunt (that is a lie), but you have 25 posts: do you really think your presence on this site warrants a DRAMATIC GOODBYE thread?
Although, I've mostly been listening to jazz these days. And when I do listen to prog, it's almost never "classic prog", most of which I've found very disappointing upon revisiting... :( |
I think he missed the "Annoucing the departure" thread that I specifically set up to wean these people off their ego.
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"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 13:06 |
KingBarbarossa wrote:
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To "Henry Plainview": My low post count does indeed stem from being not very active, but it does not mean i am not present. In fact I am a regular visitor of progarchives with interest. In the beginning I started doing a few reviews as well until i realized that I don't really want to judge other people's art - too personal are the different tastes...
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And even if you weren't a regular visitor, KB, your first as your 10 or 100 thousand post is as valuable, you don't need to be a senior member to express your opinion.
Somethimes having more posts only means you have less real life than most people. 
Iván
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 11:11 |
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I love all kinds of music.
But at least this guy isn`t trading in his progrock collection for every Céline Dion album.
Edited by Vibrationbaby - December 18 2008 at 11:12
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Tony R
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 10:56 |
threefates wrote:
I love some classical music, but I think I would find it hard to stay awake if I had to listen to classical music all the time. Actually I find it hard to clean the house anymore unless I have AC/DC playing loud. :-)
And this time of the year, I prefer jazzy or celtic holiday music . |
O - M - G The ledge returns!
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Floydoid
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 06:12 |
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You can run, but you can't hide from prog.
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"Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour
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Moogtron III
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 05:11 |
Welcome back, Linda (Threefates). Great to see you post again.
When I was 12, I listened just as much to classical as to rock (I was an active music listener since I was 6 years old). But I have to say that prog rock is like a little cuckoo pushing other birdies out of the nest. I do listen to other musical styles, but prog rock is taking the lion's share of the music I listen to.
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mrcozdude
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 04:19 |
Carl Snow wrote:
[QUOTE=Slartibartfast]
progressive music will not die so long as it progresses
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Quote of the day,thats great.
I've felt myself starting to be put of the general format and stereotype of prog.Although i listen to it as much as i ever did,i find i don't want my favourite bands to fall in a catergory of cliche.And prog has a lot of it!
Perhaps i've started to give in to societys perspective and ignorance towards genre stereotyping!  This thread has just made me doubt my whole moral existence.
i'll come back when i've found myself again.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 04:02 |
Atavachron wrote:
^ I remember adding them.. I don't remember all their stuff being tech/post hardcore but I think that mix of things probably helped them get our yes vote
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Ohhh, I'm not saying they don't deserve to be here, because their music fits the criteria for prog as it is and they go above and beyond straight post hardcore bands for compositional complexity, easily. But it's just, their aesthetic is so punk, it's just odd to see them in the same sub genre on PA as bands like Rush and Porcupine Tree which have the prog label written all over them. But I guess on the same token, you could say many of the bands in Tech/Extreme prog metal have such a metal aesthetic that it's weird to see them on the same site as Yes, Marillion etc.
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el dingo
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 03:38 |
I hadn't listened to Guru Guru for 30 years. Along comes PSY, I dig out Dance of the Flames, in the Guru Lounge and rediscover old friends.
It really is a cyclical thing, this music.
Man cannot, however, live by prog alone. But add some prog metal, hard rock, vintage punk and whatever floats yer boat and life can be quite bearable.
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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rogerthat
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 03:37 |
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About few months back, it used to be just metal, metal and more metal. Now it's prog, prog and more prog. Tomorrow it will be something else. But it's not about genres, there are some all time favourites for me in both these and other genres and well and I will keep returning to them. Exploring one genre in exclusion for forever is not something I would be able to do or would enjoy doing either.
Edited by rogerthat - December 18 2008 at 03:38
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Easy Livin
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 03:36 |
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I've re-located this thread to the general music disucssions, as it draws in music from a wide area and looks at prog in that context.
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Blacksword
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 03:06 |
Wow!! Linda threefates is in the house..! Hi Linda.. 
I've loved progressive rock since my mid teens. I like many different styles of music, and have drifted away from prog for long periods, but it always catches my attention again and reels me back in. I tend to get fixated on one or two bands at a time. Right now its Opeth and Porcupine Tree. That will fizzle out eventually, and I'll probably listen to Judas Priest for a year, before going back to King Crimson.. 
Some mentioned Steve Reich. I was listening to Different Trains a few nights back. Mindblowing!
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JesusisLord
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Posted: December 18 2008 at 00:41 |
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To everything there is a season.........
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And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Phillipians 2:11
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