Some of my favorite characters in progressive rock
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Topic: Some of my favorite characters in progressive rock
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Subject: Some of my favorite characters in progressive rock
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 03:48
I know there are plenty more but these are some of my favorites, accidentally pressed enter before I could add a few more but oh well we'll go with these  who do you think is the most realized character? My vote goes to Cerpin Taxt.Promise this is not an excuse to do another lame concept albums poll
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 03:50
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Rael. ------------- 
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Posted By: Kazza3
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 05:10
| The most realised character? Hmm. I'd have to go with Pink, in that his motives, background, reasons behind his personality, are all so fully explored. |
Posted By: snowsnow
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 05:34
| I'm Rael! |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 06:12
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I don't find any of these terribly attractive. I can empathise far more with the unnamed central character in Subterranea. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 06:15
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Squonk. ------------- What? |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 06:17
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Billy the Mountain :D voted Pink ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 06:24
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I agree with Kazza3, I voted Pink from `The Wall' for the same reasons he mentioned. Pretty easy to get a grasp on the character right from the start, with further listens revealing other layers as you go on.
I kind of feel other characters like Rael are more surreal and vague, even slightly silly, so makes it harder to relate to them or want to think too hard about them?  
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Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 07:04
Love Rael and The Lamb story - you feel much more empathy for him than any other concept album IMO. Pink is a bit lifeless really, no big passion in there for me. Ziltoid's pretty funny too 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 07:04
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Harold the Barrel.
How can you not like him and his somewhat unusual choice of food for tea?
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 07:19
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Which one's Pink? ------------- 
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 07:25
| Voted for Rael from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway |
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 08:01
| Ziltoid has made a real impact on humanity |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 08:08
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I've seen faces and traces of home--Back in NYC! My best friend is Puerto Rican, I go to Puerto Rico all the time and I live most of the time in NYC so for me --it was a no brainer. In any case Lamb is one of my fav prog albums and love the characters and story too.
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Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 08:13
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I am so omniscient; if there were to be two omniscience's I would be both! Prepare yourselves for the subjugation. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Libor10
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 08:16
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No vote here. I wouldn't vote for the character itself but for the music I like the most (Genesis from this poll). But such vote has nothing to do with favourite character (I wonder why Rael should be my favourite character...? Maybe strangest but not favourite). I suspect such kind of thinking will be usual here and so Rael (=Genesis) will be first and Pink (=Pink Floyd) second. Maybe Floydians could win over Genefans but thats all... ------------- 
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 08:19
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Ronnie Pilgrim. My favorite dead guy. Such an animated spirit. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 08:29
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:Posted By: tboyd1802
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 08:32
| Rael. |
Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 11:21
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Rael for real . ------------- "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?" |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 11:23
| pink |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 12:31
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First vote for William. While it is not my favorite album on the list, that would be The Lamb, nor my second, which is The Wall, I find him in the most intriguing situation. Rael comes next. Pink's story is fascinating as well, but he's kind of a jerk. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 13:36
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I think the Rake is a more interesting character than William in Hazards of love. I can't speak for Cerpin Taxt because while I love TMV I don't have a clue about what's going on in their albums. Ziltoid is basically a cartoon character but a pretty amusing one at that. Well it comes down to Rael and Pink. Hm. Its difficult to separate favorite character from favorite album
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 13:49
There is no Rake on this poll but there is a Rael  ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 13:49
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i would say either Jimmy or Tommy from The Who as my favorite, but from here its Pink. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 14:09
The Who did Rael first ------------- What? |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 14:11
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PInk ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 19:55
| How about Tarkus? |
Posted By: ebil0505
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 21:05
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Rael. It is Rael. It Israel? It's only rock and roll ... BUT I like it ------------- "I like to think oysters transcend national barriers." - Roger Waters |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 21:25
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Pink. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: gramon
Date Posted: August 26 2014 at 22:56
| gerald bostock i like |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: August 27 2014 at 01:49
I wanted to put Tarkus and the runaway girl from Brave, but accidentally pressed enter, yeaaaaah....
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Posted By: Dorsalia
Date Posted: August 27 2014 at 05:26
True. ------------- "Es ist übrigens unmöglich, eine Meinung zu haben, ohne dass es unerfreuliche Überschneidungen gibt. Die Grünen sind für den deutschen Wald, die NPD ebenfalls." |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: August 27 2014 at 05:32
| Awesome to see Ziltoid get some votes. |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: August 27 2014 at 10:24
------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 27 2014 at 22:05
I haven't heard that album yet, but I guess that an alien that visits Earth just to find the best cup of coffee must be a cool guy (as far as I once read the plot from the album was). From what I understand from the stories, I'm not particularly fond of the characters from The Wall, The Lamb, nor Tommy, I guess. |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: August 30 2014 at 00:51
This. Rael was a personality. Pink was exposed to stuff and went through a bundle of attitudes, but no real personality ever came out. |
Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: August 31 2014 at 08:43
| Where's Nicholas from Scenes from a Memory? Where's Snow? |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: September 02 2014 at 18:51
Pink from The Wall.------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |