Staying with your fav bands or looking for more?
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Topic: Staying with your fav bands or looking for more?
Posted By: crimson87
Subject: Staying with your fav bands or looking for more?
Date Posted: November 05 2008 at 20:59
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I am asking this questiBon because I have more than 200 GB of music in my hard drive and instead of listening the unknown stuff ( like antologies of Magma and 14 GB of pure kosmische muzik) I keep on listening to my regular bands like ELP. The thing is that I wonder how many great stuff I am missing? Listening to " Brain Salad Surgery" for the 23354678 th time won't make any difference to me. Besides it takes several listens to see how the new music grows on you.How do you deal with this overdose of music?
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Posted By: June
Date Posted: November 05 2008 at 21:27
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My current way involves not giving mainstream stuff a second chance (either I love it or I don't) avoiding genres that I know will just waste my time (hip-hop, for example, sorry if there are any fans on here, it just doesn't appeal to me, I'm not saying it's bad), and skipping anything if the vocals, the lyrics (I'm a Leonard Cohen fan, so my standards are pretty scewed/high for both these) or guitar playing isn't interesting enough (that's assuming there are any of those in it). These three things are pretty bad, I know, certainly doesn't show a lot of open-mindedness, but I will most generally make a big effort to listen more than once to the bands that nobody I know has ever heard of
 . So yeah, I'm prejudiced and pretentious.
 But it works for me, right now. Even with these things I'm always on the verge of an overdose though, as there's a limited amount of time each that you can spend listening to music each day (there's this annoying thing called sleep that gets in the way), but I'm not going to stop finding out about music in general anyway. |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 05 2008 at 23:30
Though i definitely listen my favorite bands on a regular basis (at least once a month, cuz i have a lot of fav bands), i usually listen to things that are unknown more frequently (its like, 60-50% of everything i listen is in my non-fav list and 40-50 is in my fav list). For example, today i listened 3 hours of my favorite bands and 5 hours of non-favorite bands, though i like everything i listen. However, there are stuff i just rarely listen. For example, my SBB albums are getting a bit dusty, maybe i should put them eventually, but i'm just not in the mood for SBB recently (i usually listen stuff depending on my mood). -------------   
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crimson87 wrote:Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: November 05 2008 at 23:42
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I have a lot of out of print material saved on a hard drive that I have yet to check out, and then several hundred LPs. On top of that there are hundreds/thousands more artists and albums that I would like to check out. I'm not old though so there is time. And I try to listen to the music any chance I get. Some get more attention than others though which is too bad, but it happens. I also decided to be a bit more discriminatory. Not for everything, but I have a bunch of mediocre looking metal albums so when it comes to something along those lines I'll put it on the stereo and if it doesn't grab me I'll skip around a bit and then turn it off if it isn't worth my time. Unfortunately, there are more good ones to hear than bad/mediocre it seems.
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Posted By: JesusisLord
Date Posted: November 06 2008 at 01:32
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I love cheesecake. Always have, always will. However, I you have other delicious dainties you would like to share, I'll try those too... and marmalade, I've always loved marmalade........ ------------- And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Phillipians 2:11 |
Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: November 06 2008 at 08:08
| key lime, cherry, apple, the list goes on.... |
Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: November 06 2008 at 08:18
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I always make prog overdoses since I always want more! ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: November 06 2008 at 08:52
| I'm a "sound chaser." I'm always on the prowl for good music, old or new. But I do consider my Kansas, Yes, Genesis, etc. to be something of a "home base," where I can always feel safe and warm, and can walk around naked. |
Posted By: Darklord55
Date Posted: November 06 2008 at 09:32
| I am constantly on the prowl for something new to add to my collection. I deal with the overdose by drinking more coffee. This helps me stay up until the wee hours of the night/morning listening to tunes. Hi, my name is Darklord, and I am a Progoholic. |
Posted By: toroddfuglesteg
Date Posted: November 06 2008 at 09:52
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I too love ELP and listen to them a lot. But I am always searching for new prog to fall in love with. I guess that's why we have Prog Archives. I use it a lot to find new stuff. That's what make life/prog so interesting. Always searching, always restless. (only 200 GB ? I got 450 GB.. ) |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: November 06 2008 at 10:07
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I am always looking for more avant-garde, semi-rock ensembles which use non-standard rock instruments, with female singers who have either cute or vicious tendencies! ;P ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: November 06 2008 at 10:30
I can't
 , well i try to listening to "new" albums for me in my IPOD in the trip to work, but i always have a dose of albums that i know for sure.i think irt depends of your mood, sometimes you want to hear powerful music, and sometimes you want to hear delicate, acoustic and intimate songs, and sometimes you want to hear extreme metal music, and so on.
There's not a written rule to that.
don't worry about that and enjoy the music.! -------------  |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: November 06 2008 at 14:16
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I'm always looking for more. If i didn't do that initially, i wouldn't have come across my favourite bands or even prog in the first place.
------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: November 06 2008 at 15:03
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It always pains me to think that I have never heard a note from my favorite band. I just need to find them and replace my current favorite with them. Have to keep searching.
------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: Doomcifer
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 12:44
That's a pretty good way of putting it. Total double-edged sword syndrome. ------------- Greater is the man who conquers himself, than he who conquers a hundred times a hundred on the battlefield. |
Posted By: khammer99
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 15:11
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I am constantly looking for new music. What I consider "new" is music I have not heard before. So, it could be some rare 70's prog band that I've never heard before, or last week's "bell of the ball". I listen to the old stuff, still love it, still brings back whatever memories it invokes. But since I just throw all my music into one large pool as it where, it gets mixed with other stuff keeping it fresh.
------------- Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. - Terry Pratchett |
Posted By: ignatiusrielly
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 15:23
Staying with your fav bands or looking for more?As Mr. Fripp would say, are these my only two options??------------- Four pails of water and a bagfull of salts |
Posted By: dzx
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 15:58
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music is a voyage of endless discovery, so I'm always looking for more and still discovering bands from the 70s as well as new stuff and everything in between. This is not not just in the 'prog' context btw. I have ears out for any interesting branches which please me! I refuse to classify music by umbrella terms but listen to it as music point bar ------------- was that just an Am augmented minor 9th i heard? nice! |
Posted By: TRIFIVE5000
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 16:01
I stay with my fav band that it's God is An Astronaut! That band take out to the stores the new CD that is "God is an Astronaut from God is An Astronaut. Is very good CD!  
------------- Living on a lighted stage Approaches the unreal For those who think and feel In touch with some reality Beyond the gilded cage! |
Posted By: JROCHA
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 17:15
| Always looking for new and old stuff to find, but Rush,Tool and Genesis are always going to be there for me. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 17:53
for me... it can be a real problem.. as I've joked and with some seriousness.. I am no prog snob. My Streisand, Duran Duran, Brubeck, and Allman Brothers albums compete for CD player time with a rather expansive and varied prog CD collection. for me... it's all about moods. I listen to music based upon my moods. Since I am such a moody and off-kilter person.. . I am constantly changing CD's from the widest array of styles you could imagine. I love YES for example.. but to be honest.. .TFTO and Fragile are probably the only albums I have pulled off the shelves in the last 6 months (unless you count Yesremixes  ) I've heard all those albums so many times I can 'hear' them... without playing them. So I guess I pretty much work on newer discoveries until they reach the same place.. when you don't have to listen to the albums.. you hear them when you are in the shower.. sleeping... sitting on the can... getting yelled at at work. Anyhow.. that is how I deal with loving lots of music.. if you love an album that much.. why put it in your player.. it is in your head already.------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 18:31
I have that problem with Dream Theater, Yes and Genesis, in some degree. Though i don't have so much music that i can't listen it all in 6 months, depending on my mood (i mean, in 6 months i would have experienced almost every mood there is to experience in the everyday life, right?), i don't listen them too regularly. -------------
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Posted By: kerosineboy
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 23:42
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More recently i have been checking out newer bands ie Riverside Carptree Satellite and many others and have been very impressed. However as some others have said music is about moods. I have whole weeks where only Van der Graaf will do. ------------- The answer is never where the question is |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 02:56
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I'm still searching for new (as someone here described it - new is something I don't know yet) music and mix hearing of old and new. This is the main reason for me to be here in PA since I have found lots of great stuff here. ------------- omri |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 03:12
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I am a U.S. citizen, so whether its electronics, cars, women, houses or progressive music, I forever want more, more, MORE! No seriously, I am here on PA because I want to know more about different bands and feast on tasty new tunes. i still listen to the stuff i know, but the thirst ever lingers. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 04:03
| Defenetly want to check more, that is all about in prog music to descover new or old bands. To see how this genre grow over the years , the history of this unmatched style. I'm not listening only my fav bands, with more a listen more i descover great bands. |
Posted By: peskypesky
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 12:56
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The internet is responsible for turning me on to HUNDREDS of bands I had never heard before, and probably never would have. RIght now, for example, I'm blasting Neuschwanstein's fantastic "Battlement" album through my Grado headphones and loving it. For those who don't know, Neuschwanstein was a Genesis-clone band who made one of the best Genesis albums ever, IMO. This is just one example, but I could name scads of others....all sorts of obscure and forgotten bands from Europe, Mexico, Asia, you name it.... So yeah, though I still listen to my old faves (Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Rush) a LOT, I'm constantly searching for new sounds for my ears. ------------- Prog fan since 1974. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 13:24
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: Nil Recurring
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 15:54
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I had the same problem some 2 years ago.. I had hours and hours of music that I never heard and I thought: where should I start?? Well I came up with a simple solution. I gave up downloading, deleted all the music I had and started to buy cd's on a large scale. That's when a website like this one comes in handy. I hear a song of an unknown band and I like it, I read reviews and check out wich albums are rated best. Then I buy an album, when I think it's good band I buy more and so on.. This is how I discovered bands who are amongst my favourites now, like Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, Planet X, Riverside and more. Have all (or most) of their albums ------------- Music is no entertainment.. music is art! thread it that way |
Posted By: Nerievsky
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 16:42
Dude I only have 25 GB and I was thinking I'm an addicted
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 16:59
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At my age (48) I seem to be mostly staying with the artists I already know. I still buy plenty of CDs, and some of those will be by artists who are new to me, but I'm nowhere near as hungry for new artists as I was in my teens & twenties, when I guess I was still "experimenting" with music.
As far as prog artists specifically go, during my first year or so here I found more than enough ones (mostly older acts, but some recent) which were new to me, to keep me busy forever. I'm not really looking any more.
Again, I think that's largely a factor of my age -- by now, I know what I like, and I like what I know.
  I don't own any music I haven't heard -- I think your situation becomes much less likely, if one is actually buying CDs, and is therefore limited in how much new music one can afford at once.  (I don't buy MP3s, and I certainly won't steal from artists & illegally download.) ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 17:26
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Talking only about prog I'm still more in the mood of my fav bands that I discovered while I was a kid back in the 70s but sometimes I feel bored with ELP, JT and some kraut bands. So I'm also always à la recherche du temps perdu...
a) I've rediscovered some fine old acts like BJH and Procol Harum;
b) I've discovered some bands that appeared in the 80s and early 90s when I wasn't too much into the prog mood like Abel Ganz, Landberk, Isildurs Bane, CAP, Spock's Beard, etc;
c) I've been in close contact with new bands like Edera, Notabene, Little Tragedies, Phideaux;
d) I've been open to other genres, mainly prog-metal, starting with Shadow Gallery, DT and Symphony X and exploring this sea a bit more deeply only to find some new interesting stuff... well, still exploring and enjoying fairly. ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 22:30
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But Guigo, do your sons have any influence in you still being eager for new things?
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Posted By: febus
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 22:51
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I grew up with my seventies bands , own something like 1000cds maybe more now , 1000 Lps .
I have never been really interested looking for new prog acts, bought a few CDS from them but nothing to mesmerize me and try to get to know more ....
..............and i am not interested in pseudo prog-metal and all this stuff!!
On the other hand it doesn't mean i stayed stale as i have found interest in total different kinds of music and have explored quite a few new genres: classic Jazz, new wave,modern ''classical'' music, Brazilian music, traditional Argentinian music, French songwriters, traditional American,etc, etc...............and when i shop for cds ( a lot) it doesn't mean i buy a lot of prog necessarily these days....usually, it's for completion of my collection.
The funny thing is that i had two sons who grew up with Metallica and prog metal, tried to make me love these acts..............and you know what, now they are 25 and 28 and don't listen to this metal stuff anymore and just love the ''oldies'' from the 70s!!
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: November 10 2008 at 00:41
I hope torodd has lossless files because that's damn ridiculous. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 10 2008 at 01:15
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^ Not at all. Or maybe.... Anyway, I'm constantly looking for new music, but oddly enough most of the new prog I look for is obscure neo prog for most reasons I shouldn't like anyway. Oh well. I'm trying to find more pop-based music I like. Obscure recommendations of low-key indie/electronica bands usually. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: mobby
Date Posted: November 10 2008 at 03:11
| i am a dedicated eloy fan since eighties, so i stick to my fav band, yet i always look for new bands and sounds and love it when i discover great new music..like when i quite recently found beardfish/magic pie/ shadow circus/ephrat .it enriched my music library and my mind to a great extent..long live prog rock the classical music of our times!!. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: November 10 2008 at 05:50
Yes! ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: November 10 2008 at 06:04
Do you mean that, when I become a citizen, I'll start wanting more too? And that reference to US citizens and women worries me a bit, to tell you the truth ....Now, speaking more seriously, I do like discovering new bands (even if not necessarily 'new', if you get my meaning), but with my life having been in a state of flux for the past year, my motivation for seeking out new music hasn't been what it used to be. Hopefully from now on I'll feel like exploring again. I'm still faithful to my old favourites, but that won't stop me from listening to any new stuff that comes my way. |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 10 2008 at 09:23
Actually that is still a small amount of music. I have seem people on the internet with over 2 TB (terabyte = 1024 gigabytes) in non-lossless music. For old people with wide musical taste, that still small, according to them. Anyway, this is the internet! Im not saying anyone is a liar, but we can never take things in the internet too seriously. It avoids a lot of e-drama. -------------
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Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 10 2008 at 09:25
The younger generation always helps   -------------
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Posted By: GentleGiant
Date Posted: November 10 2008 at 13:52
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"Proghunter" it's my second name
------------- BeGiantForADay "This British band is just the cup of tea for aficionados who demand virtuosity,progress and originality in their mix." http://rateyourmusic.com/~GentleG |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: November 10 2008 at 19:51
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I guess I'm a bit 50/50. I'd like to finish my Dream Theater collection someday, and I always try to get the latest release by the bands I love the most, but lately now I've been experimenting more, and the more I get the more I realize I have been missing so much good music. In the past year, I've gotten the newest releases by Meshuggah, Opeth, and The Mars Volta, and the last few albums I got were "Lift your Skinny Fists like Antennae to Heaven", "Tubular Bells", and "In the Court of the Crimson King", and I am eagerly anticipating the release of "Traced in Air". The thing is, these bands and even more other bands i'm hoping to listen to are part of the biggest groups of prog, and compared to the people who say they have barely scratched the surface, I have barely heard as much as they have.
It makes me so happy that there's much more to explore. ------------- 
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Posted By: maryjstar89
Date Posted: November 11 2008 at 20:07
| I am always looking for more, its always cool to discover a new cool band |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: November 12 2008 at 21:46
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i dont have favorites. i listen to something for a week, form a highly negative opinion of it, and move on.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: November 12 2008 at 21:50
------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 12:27
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Im always looking for new music, although my alltime favorites never will be forgotten by me.
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 07:01
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To some extent I have favorite artists, but I was never a fanboy of anything. The old Dream Theater, Yes, Genesis etc records........ it's still cool, but I want to hear what else is out there. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 09:37
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Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming...
I would say that roughly a dozen bands never leave my play-area - there's always a Pink Floyd, Anathema, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Tori Amos, Mike Oldfield, Opeth, Peter Gabriel/Genesis, Peter Hammill/VdGG, Philip Glass, Renaissance, Tangerine Dream or Cure album within a few feet of my CD player at any one time - a week will not pass without hearing something from at least one of those artists, usually more. Another 100 are perhaps a few yard from that epicentre: Dream Theater, Paradise Lost, Steve Wilson/Porcupine Tree, Yes, Bauhaus, David Silvian/Japan, Sparks, Moody Blues, Deep Purple, Pain Of Salvation etc. will also get a regular listen.
Considering that those artists have probably produced over 500 albums between them I could practically survive on those for some considerable time.
Yet I don't - I'm always dipping into the past for something 'different' and 'obscure' to listen to and into the present for something I've never heard before. I constantly search for new music to hear, looking for the next band to join the list, or the next release from an existing favourite... ever hoping that the next CD will be the tomorrow's Close To The Edge, Thick As A Brick, Selling England By The Pound or Wish You Were Here.
That is the nature of my 'addiction' to music, the bane of my bank-balance and the curse of my storage issues. I've never bought an album and listened to it just once - even the direst, most derivative, slice of dullsvile trash gets at least two spins before falling to the bottom of the heap - and even then, in a few years it may get played again just to confirm my original thoughts.
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 12:05
Worry not, a woman of your intelligence can surely spin it to your advantage.  And on topic, I have just discovered 3 new bands. Always searching! ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 14:52
Frankly, I'm more interested in seeking out new favorites than staying with the old. On Last.fm, my no. 1 artist is Frank Zappa with 359 plays out of 26027 in total. 'Nuff said.  I'm sure it'll even out later in life, but as of now, I'm still naive enough to believe that there's too much good music out there to restrict yourself to the bands you discovered at 15. ------------- 
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Posted By: easytargets
Date Posted: November 17 2008 at 12:55
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I´m always tryin´ some new bands as well as I´m always playin´ some of my beloved classics.
The virtue is in the middle ------------- The water rushes over all cities crash in the mighty wave; the final man is very small, plunging in for his final bathe |
Posted By: Sunny In Jeddah
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 20:55
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I think I'm more of a fan of bands than genres. I rather listen to every album from a band I discover and really like than listen to 25 different albums from 25 different bands in a certain genre. This probably makes me a lot less rounded than I could be in terms of prog knowledge, but it never was a contest anyways. It also helps me from downloading more music than I can handle at once. ------------- 
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Posted By: Jabalcuz
Date Posted: November 25 2008 at 06:38
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Hello my friends: I am looking for more. i'm looking now a band (T) a proyect of Thomas Thielen but I dont find nothing in emule. Can you help me to find it anywhere? Thanks |