Worst prog remarks from friends
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Topic: Worst prog remarks from friends
Posted By: Under
Subject: Worst prog remarks from friends
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 07:29
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Everybody has tried to share his progressive music taste with his/ her friends. I will share some of the reaction I had to swallow:
Please tell me I am not alone. You probably had to stand worse remarks or even evil laughter.
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Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 07:38
after hearing the residents she was laughin so hard she feel off the chair... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: porter
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 07:41
after listening to And you and I, a friend of mine (a girl) asked me if it was greek music.... ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 07:43
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"That's a guy?" My mom when she first heard Geddy and, 15 years later, my wife when she first heard Jonsi.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 07:46
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"You would have no problem making late guests who seem to have no intention of leaving leave". (That remark occured when we put on some Magma). -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 07:53
| My wife normally says "What the hell are you listening to now? You don't half listen to some strange music". Last night it was directed at Steve Hackett. |
Posted By: nimrodel
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 07:53
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" why are you listening beegees? " (some song by yes) " thats kinda gay " (yes again) ------------- We want... a shrubbery! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 07:56
People should be shot for saying things like that. |
nimrodel wrote:Posted By: nimrodel
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 07:57
------------- We want... a shrubbery! |
Posted By: Dieu
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 08:04
| My wife : "Not again your OLD progressive music from another century." |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 08:35
"Turn it down the house is shaking" often comes from my wife, kids and neighbours. Sadly early VdGG does not go down well round here  , Thank goodness for MP3 players..------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Under
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 08:35
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Most people do not understand the long intro's either. "Where is the singer waiting for?" And the bad part is: You have enjoyed the intro very much. Thinking it builts up the song well. And now every time you hear the intro you think about the complain "Where is he waiting for". |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 08:38
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It's come to something when your kids ask you to turn your music down! I normally get "Daddy stop making that horrible noise" from mine when I'm practising my guitar. |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 10:21
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My mate James on Close to the Edge: "It sounds like pantomime music."
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 10:39
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Pantomime Music!?!?!???? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 11:05
That's just reminded me. I played CTTE to a school friend and he reckoned the main guitar riff near the beginning sounded like "Singing in the rain". Some people are beyond help. |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 11:38
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I have a good way with coverting people 2 prog music... It takes a long time, but eventually, I do it! My hip-hop friends comment on Dream Theater was just "Whatever"... Another of My friends "Ow God, this f*cking sucks"... talk bout constructive criticism.. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Under
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 11:38
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And the worst part is, if we consider our decent remarks to the music of our friends. Perhaps the worst remark one could make to our pop loving friends is that it is too commercial, or perhaps to shallow, ....or boring, or.....
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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 11:41
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Ow.. I forogot bout my fav one... I played some stuff from BE... One of the last songs, can't remeber.. Comment on vocals: "Why is that guy screaming around like that? He has absolutely no voice!!! Talk bout un-tallented..." That was the last time I played prog 2 a Sarah Conor fan (girl).... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5">
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 11:45
Sad But True
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 12:23
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"You can't listen to THAT?!" - My dad everytime I mention Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Meshuggah ( "You always listen to crap music. I have an better musical taste than you!" - My brother, but he likes country ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Under
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 12:33
Your brother like country!! I wonder what has been the mutual consensus of the music while driving for holidays or the weekend. Some of Jethro Tull maybe or Kansas?
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Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 15:04
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GENESIS "The Knife" - The singer voice is too... british!
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Posted By: Suki
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 15:10
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I mostly don't care what others are thinking about prog, and when I put on some music when my friends are with him I put it for my own pleasure, and not to expose them to it.
Though, ones I've tried to expose a friend of mine to prog, I choose Camel. He said it stinks. The next day on the bus he told his best friend Camel sucks. Couple of days ago (after a year) he asks me for recommandations of Camel. Snow Goose. After he heard it, suddenly he liked it. Ironiclly, that is the same album as I've given him last year. Too bad this friend of mine only thinks of pose, and wants to play Camel on the electric guitar so it will be his 'style'. Currently I've got one friend who I think can enjoy prog. Too bad he's not that interested right now. Luckily, he's not as stupid as the poser |
Posted By: Xanadu
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 16:13
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"Rush? That sounds like some sort of russian popband?(thinking about 10 sec then says) then they must be communists! then you're a communist!" Maybe a little esoteric? ------------- "Oh, yes, sitting-the great leveler. From the mightiest pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn't enjoy a good sit?" |
Posted By: bertburt
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 16:35
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"Is that Peter, Paul, & Mary?" - A friend's brother remarking while hearing Jethro Tull's 'Ladies' on the way home from a round of golf. Moron.
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Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 17:43
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"Oh this is that music you have to be high to enjoy" - My brother listening to ELP - Toccata "Sounds too much like the smurfs" - A friend while listneing to Jan Dukes De Grey - Sun Symphonica  "Whys theres so much instruments" - Listening to The Grand Wazoo ------------- 
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 18:12
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I was in the car with my friend with Lark's Tongues in Aspic on (bad move). Here are a few choice selections about the Crimso she had so say:
Okay, so it's not that bad...but still. |
Posted By: BitchBrew
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 18:57
 That is f**king hilarious! Some people!  |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 19:31
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"Too much noodles, no soup." my brother, on gates of delerium he should listen to moon child |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 19:54
^  ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 20:59
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Posted By: Karl Hungus
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 21:25
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"They aren't even singing, it's just instrumental, who the hell would want to see that? That's a waste of money!" Not a remark by a friend, but a jerk of a housemate, while watching my Dream Theater - Live At Budokan DVD, This Dying Soul was just starting. ------------- 
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: October 01 2005 at 00:04
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Another brick in the wall part 2... is the only good song of Pink floyd... sometimes i ca ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: October 01 2005 at 00:07
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REGARDING MIKE OLDFIELD'S AMAROK PLAYING IN THE CAR: THIS MUSIC IS FOR SERIAL KILLERS (I MUST ADMIT IT WAS A FLATTERY!) ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: October 01 2005 at 00:08
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my father said to me ... the prog always is the same... the same boring sound... i try to listen a lot of bands and songs... but to my dad is always the same band ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: October 01 2005 at 08:23
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Giving un-prog people a listen 2 Zappa is suicide!!! Its like giving a pop fan a listen 2 any frigin LTE song... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5">
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: October 01 2005 at 08:34
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Quoting Under,I will fill in my personal stuff:
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: October 01 2005 at 08:37
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And another from my one: "This is like music from a planet where God does not exist...turn it off!" My mother about Klaus Schulze. "Oh,dear God,you really like this s*it?" about Hammil "NO VOCALS?BLEAH!" about anything without vocals (doh!) etc.iamgettingalreadysick.etc. -------------
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Posted By: Winterkaelte
Date Posted: October 01 2005 at 08:59
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"I can't listen to prog it's too technical" - however, he has never listened to it correctly, he only says "technical" because thats what I call it "Whoah, weird music" - Yes CTTE, Transatlantic All of the above, Gentle Giant So Sincere "Oh my, insanity" - My girlfriend on Faust "Seriously, what the hell is this" - a friend who likes rap on various prog bands Oh and my best friend scrunched her face up and looked like she was having a very hard time trying to listen to VDGG's a Plague of lighthouse keepers. "Sorry, I just think it sounds like background music" - A classical pianist friend of mine ------------- -Lee Arkley |
Posted By: Xanadu
Date Posted: October 01 2005 at 09:52
Yeah that's pretty much his sense of humor... I wouldn't been surprised if he had started to throw water att me while saying" the power of christ compels you, the power of christ compels you"...yupp he think's I'm a satanist aswell...(king crimson) "typical blood-drinker music" that was his exact words...anything to piss me off I guess ------------- "Oh, yes, sitting-the great leveler. From the mightiest pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn't enjoy a good sit?" |
Posted By: Syntharachnid
Date Posted: October 01 2005 at 18:57
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One of those really ditsy girls that everyone makes fun of after seeing a picture of Yes: "They're worthless. They're not even a little bit hot!"
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Posted By: Hamatai
Date Posted: October 01 2005 at 19:46
Very close to what my mother generally says.  The best was from my girlfriend, when I was listening to some italian prog: "These sounds comes from loony-bin, this is not music!" and "Turn ofа this screaming moron now!" (VdGG) |
Posted By: Kid-A
Date Posted: October 02 2005 at 04:58
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Pink Floyd are just trying to rap! when hearing the first verse of Comfortably Numb |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: October 02 2005 at 12:06
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"All the songs sound the same"....he was commenting on A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers from VdGG....just one song. Another favorite moment...."Make it stop please"....another comment on A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers. "Okay, I get the message now. They can stop now", and "This is WAY too long" comments on Rudy by Supertramp and then moments later the radio played Hey Jude(a longer and very repetitive tune) and she was all good with it, singing along to it and carrying on. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 02 2005 at 13:47
How can someone who likes country criticise prog?  |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: October 02 2005 at 15:24
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"Can we listen to actual music?"- My friend when we were listening to Elephant Talk (My other friend in the room is a KC fan, though). ------------- 
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Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: October 02 2005 at 15:35
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"Say no to Yes" -guy at a party after hearing Sound Chaser "Is this Josh Groban?" -friend while listening to Merlin the Magician by Rick Wakeman "It's called progressive because nobody likes it yet" -friend who doesn't think Pink Floyd or Jethro Tull are prog "You know I hate this, right?" -band teacher on Suspended Animation by Fantomas "This CD doesn't have The Residents on it, does it?" -friend after I handed him a burned CD to put on in our car on the way to a concert yesterday ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingofbizzare/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: October 02 2005 at 16:18
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A very intelligent (no irony intended) friend of mine about any kind of more avant-garde music (a lot of prog included) and art in general - "I call stuff like this sh*t sculptures". ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: October 02 2005 at 16:36
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Seriously now, after reading these reactions to prog I can only think of Sun Ra's invitation for his listeners to join him at his party on Saturn. I hope this invitation is still valid, because it's high time to get off this planet. ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Throgh
Date Posted: October 03 2005 at 03:55
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My daughter often says: "Oh sh*t - Daddy's at home"
My wife says from time to time : " OK turn IT down, I want to watch my soap opera now" Both say : " BUY A HEADPHONES !!!!" ------------- don't worry be happy |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 03 2005 at 05:06
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"YOU NEED GIRLFRIEND" my sister said to me while i was listening to RUSHr
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Posted By: parrymason
Date Posted: October 03 2005 at 12:40
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"How can you listen to that neverending symphony" (my mother about Echoes) "Are they all totally high or what???" (friend about early Pink Floyd) "How can you listen to that boring symphonic music" (my mother about King Crimson - Islands) "Are they, like, playing backwards?" (friend about the beginning of Close To The Edge) ------------- 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: October 03 2005 at 12:47
Don't know. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: October 03 2005 at 12:53
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Posted By: parrymason
Date Posted: October 03 2005 at 13:01
This is my personal favourite... -------------
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Posted By: Tiresias
Date Posted: October 03 2005 at 20:58
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Bad: I bet he was hot sh*t 100 years ago (about Peter Hamill) This is video game music (ELP)
Good: "I'm laughing because (Gentle Giant) is so good, its ridiculous!!" "Banco kicks ass" (from a hardcore punk friend)
My best story: At a party, these two annoying preps asked if I listened to emo. To get back at them, I told them I would let them hear what I listen two. My host likes Zappa so I told him to put on "Weasles..." and we were able to drive them from the room in 30 seconds. Didn't talk to them the rest of the night... ------------- Wh'ghal ng'fth mglw'y Ry'leh, Cthulhu fhtagn... 
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 21:32
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Where to? |
Posted By: Tiresias
Date Posted: October 05 2005 at 21:54
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kobaia
------------- Wh'ghal ng'fth mglw'y Ry'leh, Cthulhu fhtagn...
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 08:38
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Posted By: krusty
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 11:30
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Both my wife and work colleges independantly call Sigur Ros funeral music... I hope they never get to compere notes at the christmas party.. (whatever funeral music is..! The last funeral I went to my mate used the song Madness by Madness as he was being cremeted. funny and strange at the same time.) ------------- http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/contentChapterView.asp?chapter=309" rel="nofollow - Humanism |
Posted By: eduardossc
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 12:54
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Me and my wife on the car: Me: "Ok, you´ve heard your Britney disc completely and have listened the first two songs again, it´s my turn" She: "What?, are you gonna play your crap?" ............ Once, I has listening to "Apocalypse in 9/8", my mother crossed outside my room, looked at me and started moving like an african in a ritual......OH COME ON ˇˇˇˇˇ ........... Once I played "Inferno" by Metamorfosi and an 18 year old girl said his father used to listen to that. Being this a very rare album I questioned her what else his father listened...his father was there and I went to him..It turned out that he used to listen to 50´s and 60´s oldies.......COME ON ˇˇˇ ........ A friend whom I gave a copy of a selection of best prog songs (120 mp3): "It sounds like something I could have liked"...... WHAT ?ˇ. .........
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Posted By: TURK182!
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 13:06
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"Do we have to be stoned to understand your music!?" That's the kind of remark I received from girls of my age in parties. or something said by a guy that I work with. I borrow him "Carress of Steel" from Rush and when he gave me back the album, first comment he said about the album was about "Fountain of Lamneth" (Which is about 20 minutes) and told me: "Hey! The musicians must feel asleep after a long song like this!"
------------- "A Flower!!!" "If you go down to Willow farm, you look for Butterflies..." |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 14:50
I don't think prog music's the best idea of things to discuss/listen to at a party
Yes, learnt from experience |
Posted By: gorillah
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 14:52
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My wife, after listening to some Rush in the car: "That's a man? [Geddy
Lee] Whoa?! That's so mean! He's stealing a woman's job!" (roughly translated) Well, she laughed after that |
Posted By: TURK182!
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 15:21
------------- "A Flower!!!" "If you go down to Willow farm, you look for Butterflies..." |
Posted By: TURK182!
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 15:23
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That's a good one! You know, the female solidarity!!! ------------- "A Flower!!!" "If you go down to Willow farm, you look for Butterflies..." |
Posted By: Hemispheres
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 14:16
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my friends dad said (He liked Frank Zappa But not his music) My friend calls me a crazy Prog Freak now (i like that name my conformist friend who thinks Pink Floyd rock but Yes are Garbage
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 15:25
Surely if he/she is that conformist, then they would know that Yes aren't Garbage - they're too old, and don't have a female vocalist for a start... although many popsters might disagree that Yes don't have a female vocalist...
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Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 15:31
Ha. ha. ha. ha. ha. Cert's failed joke counter: 1  |
Posted By: Crimsoner
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 15:32
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hahahahha ------------- Just BE! |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 15:35
Laugh? You nearly did.
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Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 08 2005 at 20:01
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 00:37
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My Friend on yes: A little bit too much on the fag side for me
then
sucks for him |
Posted By: Hemispheres
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 00:40
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oh yah i showed my friend Van Der Graff Generator (Lemmings) he said it was like funky shaft music ------------- [IMG]http://www.wheresthatfrom.com/avatars/miguelsanchez.gif">[IMG]http://www.rockphiles.com/all_images/Act_Images/TheMothersOfInvention/mothers300.jpg"> |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 01:08
Iván
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Posted By: RoyalJelly
Date Posted: October 09 2005 at 05:16
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Back in the '70s, when all that stuff was new and most of my
teenage peers were into Led Zeppelin and (gag) Peter Frampton, we'd always try to play Yessongs at parties, since for us that really rocked. Invariably, during the slow organ section of Close to the Edge, someone would come along snarling, "What's this f**kin' CHURCH music, man?!?", and commandeer the turntable with AC/DC or something...still muttering, "f**kin' CHURCH music!". |
Posted By: Diarrhea
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 23:03
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Mine is: "You've been playing intros all day long!!!!!!!!!" "Why dont you play that new song so we can dance"
------------- The World is a Big Ball!!! |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 23:23
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man! looks like a long drive shaft! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Sweet Prog
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 00:59
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Frank Zappa/Steve Vai "Voodoo Acid" "That's a little too pyscho for my taste" Dream Theater - Live at Budokahn Instrumental "Sure they're great musicians but it all looks like muscle memory at that point." I reply "blah blah" "OH well too bad they're not a popular genre of music" *laughs to self* Any music i like Sister "You listen to weird music/what the hella re you listening to." (pop / rap listener) James LaBrie "That guy must have the smallest dick in the world" |
Posted By: Pigeon
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 01:30
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I once put on Gate of Delurium for my class whist we were cleaning the set. It was just general confusion and 'wtf' all around. |
Posted By: GFoyle
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 02:07
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I had bunch of friends at my place last weekend and one of them told
me: "the only thing which sucks in spending the evening here is
that we have to listen to your music". What really bugs me, is that most people almost like the music until a certain part of a song starts which they do not like immediately and then tell me that the band is crap Once I decided to build a playlist of songs from most of the bands I have in my IPod, some which I knew my friends liked. It was something like 60 songs and contained bands from sixties to modern, from really mellow to the heviest (Death, Meshuggah, Strapping Young Lad) and from most styles of "prog".... Later in the evening my friends (almost collectively) started complaining that I should change the music and stop playing the same sounding crap  . From that point onwards I stopped ignoring their comments about music in general |
Posted By: robertplantowns
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 02:14
| I tried exposing my punk, rock and 80s music-loving friend (who's now in an EMO band) to prog but maybe I went harsh on him at first by cutting straight to the chase with some Gentle Giant. He said he liked Dream Theater's Metropolis Part II. (but I think the reason was because he "studied" it to get new drumming ideas from Portnoy) When I decided that the time was right, I played him some Gentle Giant and he simply said that he "respected" the band for its musicianship, meaning he thought the music was crap. When i repeatedly asked him whether he liked it he merely said the same thing that they are great musicians ....and then silence. Now whenever I'm at his house and tell him to download an album that I think he might be interested in, he doesn't trust me and simply ignores me! Well... at least he was courteous about it. |
Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 11:58
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Friend of mine who's a drummer: Yes's Close To The Edge Organ Solo:"Wtf is this??" The drums right after the organ part: "Why is he drumming so fast, he could use 8's instead of 16's" Friend of mine who doesn't listen to music anyway: Focus' Hocus Pocus: "Wtf is he yodeling?" To anything that has a man with a high voice: "Is he gay or something?" Usually I just get "this sucks" or "it's repietitve" A lot of my "friends" say they dislike commercial music. They listen to, amongst others: Greenday, HIM and Blink 182. My father dislikes King Crimson, he thinks the music's too "nervous". ------------- http://www.soundclick.com/rosescar/ - My music! "THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:11
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Comments from my wife range usually include "pretentious" and "over the
top"; in particular she finds some of the groups who employ a lot of
time changes to be obnoxious. But among her favorite things to
listen to are Broadway musicals! Talk about pretentious and over the top! She even admits it, but claims they are her kind of "over the top". Another complaint is the length of the songs, that's probably a popular complaint of "non-proggers". Basically she recognizes the talent of the musicians of the various things I listen to, but just can't get into the music. A lot of my prog metal is also just too heavy for her - totally understandable. |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:18
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Often when I put on a CD, peole read the song list and they say someting like : Hey I don't know any of these songs. Why did you say it was good? That's frustrating! They don't even give the music a chance.-------------  
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 16:13
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My brothers a speed garage/hip hop fan and absolutely hates my music. As for my freinds I have only had one or two bad coments like "have you got anything good like 2pac" Most symphonic prog goes down well with my flat mates here (If I get to the kitchen first I will put on a CD and so far Genesis, Floyd, Spocks Beard, Transatlantic, Dream Theater, The Flower Kings and IQ have gone down well). Most of my friends back home like Modern Symphonic/prog metal at least a bit too (one of them got me ino prog).
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and "WTF is this" (listening to Easter, Marillion)Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:22
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my brother always says "you cannot play something like real music?" ------------- 
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Posted By: stan the man
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:30
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during the wind screaming part in echoes my mom said "geez this song was actually good but now it just sounds like bad halloween music" ------------- true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants. 
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Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:46
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She likes some prog, though, and she isn't the only of one my friends who do - and those who don't like prog in general are still quite respectful towards it ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Meddler
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:14
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I hate letting my friends listen to my prog, because of the comments. I usually got like, "ABITW Pt2 is there only good song." - Pink Floyd This has got to be my most hated comment ever! But the only bad thing is I.. used to think it to until I really listened to Floyd."When are they going to start the song?" - Echoes And my dad, he likes Pink Floyd, but he doesnt listen to any other prog because, "they all sound the same." |
Posted By: Mharo
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:17
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Two of my best friends had very similar tastes to me in regular rock (Led Zeppelin, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica). I decided to push them a little further, and started talking about Gentle Giant and how they squeezed a xylophone solo in Knots. After making them listen to it (twice!) I got (aprox. translation): "Seriously, you've gone mad." "I'm pretty sure this is the worst song I've heard in all my life. I don't know how they had the nerve to release it" I realised then my proggin' would be more lonely than I hoped. ------------- Suritis: The Remembering. Hopefully we should appreciate that given points in time are not so significant as the nature of what is impressed on the mind, and how it is retained and used. |
Posted By: Chris_Kemp
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:18
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This geezer I worked with said "Toccata" sounded like a video game...AND TURNED THE CD OFF!! Rude. ------------- "That's not your face...it's mine! IT'S MINE!! |
Posted By: hamham
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:21
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Posted By: MrHiccup
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:17
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When listening to Focus - "Hocus Pocus": "Where are the lyrics?"
Very, very rude. What's the problem if it sounds like a videogame? I don't understand people who thinks videogame music is not real music... Videogame music can be very complex... ------------- Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends... |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:24
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"It's so depressing and it all sounds the same" "It's nothing but noise!" "It's nothing but sound effects!" "Why can't they keep it under three minutes?" "If they can't do it in three minutes, then it's not worth listening to." "It sounds like druggie music." "That's weird!" "I'm not sure where you're going with this." "Makes me want to jump off a bridge." Of course, watching people with their mouthes wide open unable to make a comment is amusing to me. |
Posted By: VERS
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:29
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I've had alot of "WTF?"s and weird looking faces after THEY asked to hear what I was listening to. But its all good, most of my friends also like prog rock, along with my dad, and also stepdad. ------------- 
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Posted By: Flying Dutchman
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:36
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Ugh... My one friend only listens to music that "rocks" which means (for him) Korn, System of a Down, Linkin Park and other terrible new bands that can only play semi-heavy crappy halfway metal rap. He asked me one time if I ever wanted to kill myself because the music I listened to was so bad. Another time he said some RHCP song was good. I said it probably wasn't as good as A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, which I heard for the first time the day before. He said that if it was by one of my "60 minute song bands" it probably sucked. He also says that the only good bands are the ones on the radio, because they are the only ones that people like, therefore they are the only good ones. WRONG. Let's see. Another friend of mine claims to like prog, but he only listens to Pink Floyd and even then its only Dark Side, WYWH and the Wall, which are their most commercial releases. He also said that Peter Gabriel sounds exactly like Phil Collins. Like their solo music. He said that they both play poppy crap, which is true as far as Phil goes. However, as poppy as Gabriel gets, he is nowhere near as poppy as Phil is... at his least poppy. Another time before school I was passing the headphones around which were blaring out A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, and one said, "How can you like this?" and I said "You just don't like it because it's not commercial and innaccessible." Another friend said, "No, it's probably just because it's crappy." I have another friend who claims to be open minded, because he listens to like every genre (Rap, rock, metal, punk, blues, reggae, jazz, etc) However, I told him that with all of those, you know what you're getting and it's more or less accessible. (The deepest he will wade into prog is some Rush, PF, Schizoid Man, and some Tull.) He said that he hated Storm by GY!BE as soon as he heard it, and as far as post rock goes, that's one of the most likeable and accessible songs. Another one- I was playing Gates of Delirium as part of some in class project, and one kid said that we couldn't listen to metal for 20 minutes straight. That was dumb. My friends are morons when it comes to music, especially since they have a gnat's attention span and expect the goodness of songs to be present from the first second you here it. Luckily I have one friend who likes prog, he comes to this site. Posts here too, I think. |
Posted By: agaric
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:47
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Well, after about a year of lurking, I step out of the shadows. Hello, all! My Mom, on hearing some Genesis, I can't remember: "This sounds like exorcism music!" And, after 'Free Hand' "This is really wierd. It sounds like Indian shamans on peyote." I'm sure she has never heard that before. If anyone gets Discover magazine, a while ago there was an article about applications that learn and the evolving vocabulary of electronics, and the author used the example of Aqualung to say if one doesn't like the song being played on a media player that 'learned' by what one says they don't like, you press the 'never again' button and the 'horrible' flute solo would be gone forever. |
Posted By: Rust
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 21:08
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Church Organ solo during CTTE - My mom askes, "Did somebody die?" ------------- We got to pump the stuff to make us tough from the heart Its astart What we need is awareness we cant get careless Mental self defensive fitness Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be |