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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2009 at 19:16
Bike- Pink Floyd (Psycheldelic/Space Prog)
To Know Her is To Love Her- The Beatles (Proto Prog)
Thats The Way-  Page&Plant (Pop/Rock)
In to Deep- Genesis (Symphonic Prog)
Some Day the Sun Won't Shine for You- Jethro Tull (Prog Folk)
The Test That Stumped Them All- Dream Theater (Prog Metal)
Sgt. Pepper- The Beatles (Proto Prog)
You're Gonna Lose That Girl- The Beatles (Proto Prog)
Time Stand Still- Rush (Heavy Prog)
Roundabout- Yes (Symphonic Prog)
 
All artisits but Page and Plant are on hear so I give myself a 3*.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2009 at 03:24
I've been consciously loading my mp3 player with albums that are highly rated on PA.   I started with the top 250 overall (that I own, which comes up to about a third of them) and then started on highly rated albums in each genre.  This project is far from completed, but out of 1038 tracks, these ten came up.
 
Peter Gabriel -- More Than This
Magma -- Kobaia Iss De Hundin
Pink Floyd -- Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Tangerine Dream -- Movements of a Visionary
Gentle Giant -- His Last Voyage
Banco Del Mutuo Succorso -- Ed Oro Lo Domando Tempo Al Tempo
Pink Floyd -- Any Colour You Like
Peter Hammill -- The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa)
Soft Machine -- The Floating World
Refugee -- Someday
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2009 at 07:36
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - 'Relative Ways' (Indie-Rock)
Opeth - 'Master's Apprentices' (Tech/Extreme Prog-Metal)
Ulver - 'Your Call' (Listed on here as Post-Rock but really Electronic...)
Isis - 'Backlit' (Post-Metal)
Meshuggah - 'Combustion' (Tech/Extreme)
Pelican - 'Bliss In Concrete' (Post-Metal)
Strapping Young Lad - 'Detox' (Industrial Thrash, sort of)
Mogwai - My Father, My King' (Post-Rock)
Glassjaw - 'Radio Cambodia' (Post-Hardcore?)
Hell Is For Heroes - 'One Of Us' (Rock)
 
I suppose that's a 3-4, the artists are all unrelated but the mix isn't as eclectic as I thought it would be
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2009 at 07:59
Don't have an MP3 player so used  Windows media player on random...its all the same.


Harvester Of Eyes   Blue Oyster Cult (Rock) 
Dixit Dominu (Psalm 110)      Vivaldi  (Classical)
This Could Be Paradise  Pete Bardens  (Rock)
Children Of Light   Yes  (Prog Rock)
Hours Of Wealth  Opeth  (Prog Metal)
The Homecoming   Camel  (Prog Rock)
Double Trouble  Paul Gilbert  (Rock)
Little Lighthouse  The Dukes Of Stratosphere  (God Knows)
2112  live from R30   Rush  (Prog Rock)
Lighter Shade Of Green  Alcatrazz  (Heavy Metal)

Did another randon 10 and Pauk Gilbert showed up again...so 3 I guess.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2009 at 09:46
LOL starts picking Rituels from Topographic, it this continues 20 songs will be a while. 
And strangely that was the last pick yesterday too, wonder if it repicks when you dont finish a play
(windows mediaplayer)


Edited by tamijo - September 18 2009 at 09:47
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2009 at 10:20
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Marvellous ennit, set this up only to discover I had left my IPod elsewhere. To make amends:
 Addicted To Love: Robert  Palmer (Addicted Volume 1) - whoops,Embarrassed embarrassment!!!
Palmer was one of the best 80's pop artists, dont be !
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2009 at 10:55

First Round
1. In the Hands of Tyrefitter's Hand - Budgie
2. Pledging My Time - Bob Dylan
3. La Belle Histoire - OST
4. I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown
5. King of Birds  - REM
6. Twin - Martin Grech
7. Variations 21 & 22 - Andrew Lloyd Webber
8. Wild Love - Frank Zappa
9. Love's Not A Competition - The Kaiser Chiefs
10. Only A Matter of Time - Dream Theater

Second Round
1. Why Don't I Miss You - Bowling For Soup
2. The Runner - Kings of Leon
3. Seduction of Life - Space Odyssey
4. Time Will Tell - Royal Paradox
5. Your Own Speical Way - Steve Hackett
6. Stepping Stone - Duffy
7. Alien Angel - 3
8. Lovecats - The Cure
9. Girls and Boys - Good Charlotte
10 the Overture - Mostly Autumn.

Feels like a 4* but just a little short of Dick's eclectic measure to earn a 5*.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2009 at 11:55
First Test
Yes – Ritual : Progressive rock, Symphonic Prog       
U2 – Heartland : Rock, New Wave/Alternative
Cher – The Beat Goes On : Pop, Entertainment
Led Zeppelin – How Many More Times : Rock, Classical Heavy
ProjeKct Four – Ghost (part 1) : Experimental
Eurythmics – I Need A Man (Macho Mix) : Pop/Rock
The Savage Rose – Long Before I Was Born : Proto Prog, Psychedelic rock
Neil Young – Shock and Awe : Rock, Classical Rock
Steve Hillage – The Glorious Om Riff : Progressive rock, Canterbury scene
Marillion – Chelsea Monday : Progressive rock, Neo Prog
Let c, no dubs of any artist, but basicly only 3/4 genres: Pop, Rock, Prog/Experimental 
Subgenres 9/10 diffrent
Depending on the genre defination, a 3 or a 4
Second Test
Manfred Mann – Down the Road a Piece : Rock, Classical Rock
Rick Wakeman – Anne of Cleves : Progressive rock, Symphonic Prog
Pink Floyd – Absolutely Curtains : Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock
The Moody Blues – Gimme a Little Somethin' : Proto Prog. 
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Sym No.6, Op. 74 : Classical
Lisa Stansfield – Soul Deep : Pop/Soul
Steve Vai – Answers : Hmm genre, …. Heavy in some strange way
Eric Burdon – Circuit rider : Blues
Frank Zappa – Buffalo Voice : Experimental
Ian Gillan – If I Sing Softly : Rock, Classical Rock
A clean cut 5
As you can only count the lowest rating, this pick, put me at 3,5 i guess 
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2009 at 13:26
1. Lessons In Survival - Joni Mitchell (folk)
2. I'm So Laid Back, I'm Laid Out - 10cc (pop/rock)
3. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye (R&B)
4. Pictures At An Exhibition - Mussourgsky (Ravel arrangement) (Classical)
5. Bitches' Brew - Miles Davis (Jazz)
6. Islands - King Crimson (progressive rock)
7. Visions Of Paradise - The Moody Blues (pop)
8. Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie (pop)
9. Two Young Lovers - Dire Straits (rock)
10. Sundance - Greenslade (Progressive rock)

1. Lounging There Trying - Hatfield And The North (Canterbury/jazz fusion)
2. Tank - ELP (jazz fusion)
3. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright - Simon And Garfunkel (folk)
4. Dan Sing Music, First Part - Keith Tippett (free jazz?)
5. Trappings - Peter Hammill (odd?...)
6. You Don't Love Me - Allman Brothers (Blues rock?)
7. The Sphinx Returns - VDGG (rock)
8. Homage To The God Of Light - Camel (rock)
9. Group Dancers - Charles Mingus (Jazz)
10. In Slow Time - Peter Hammill (erm... more odd?)

We were doing so well until Hammill came up twice. Oh well. 3, I guess.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2009 at 22:54
Love Theme From Number 7- Phideaux
Silent Inferno- The Flower Kings
Oh Come All Ye Faithful- Twisted SIster
Free Bird- Lynyrd Skynyrd
Between Future and Past- Eloy
Take On Me- A-ha
We Are the Champions- Queen
One of These Days- Pink Floyd
Anoanimal- Andrew Bird
World- Beegees
 
I guess that's a 4, pretty wide array of music huh? Prog, Heavy Metal Christmas, etc. LOL


Edited by The Truth - September 20 2009 at 10:35
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2009 at 22:04
I'm a 1* - very Zappastic!Big smile


draw 1: Nick Cave & tBS, Soulsavers, Van Morrison, Nick Cave & tBS, Eno & Cale, Miles Davis, Zappa, Zappa, Zappa, Zappa

draw 2: Zappa, Zappa, Van Morrison, Zappa, Zappa, Zappa, Dylan, Zappa, Zappa, Miles Davis


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 28 2009 at 08:58
1. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
2. Treefingers - Radiohead
3. The Thin Ice - Pink Floyd
4. Mesmer II - Porcupine Tree
5. Money - Pink Floyd
6. Corona Radiata - Nine Inch Nails
7. Home - Jethro Tull
8. Anyway - Genesis
9. Mistreated - Deep Purple
10. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden

1. Cryin' - Aerosmith
2. The End - The Doors
3. Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part One - King Crimson
4. Forgotten Sons - Marillion
5. Forsaken Gardens - Peter Hammill
6. Tom Sawyer - Rush
7. Out-Bloody-Rageous - Soft Machine
8. My Room (Waiting For Wonderland) - VDGG
9. Intermission - Tool
10. The Embryo - Pink Floyd

I'm a 3 I think, the thing is that I've almost got the whole Pink Floyd discography on my Ipod.Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 28 2009 at 10:01
Almost filled my 80gig Ipod, with 8500 tunes from 1250 albums, so in theory more weird eclectism???? Here goes:
 
Beyond The Bridge: Gambale, Hamm, Smith (ex. Show Me What You Can Do)
Rambler: Ginger Baker Trio (ex. Going Back Home)
Sweet Bite: George Duke (ex. My Soul)
Mutoid man : Ozone Quartet (ex.Nocturne)
Ride A Pony: Free (ex. Highway)
Heyday: Nucleus (ex. Snakehips Etecera)
Oysterjungle: Secret Oyster (ex. Sea Son)
Oregon: Ghost Beads (ex.The Essential oregon)
Madness: Adrian Belew (ex. Side One)
Elergy: Jeff Beal (ex. Liberation)
 
Oh dear, 7 from ten I would say were jazz rock fusion tracks.......odd, this morning  had 5 consequetive tracks which were blues, followed by modern flamenco. Sometime wonder about how 'shuffle' play is achieved on an IPod - it's never quite as random as I think.
 
Got to reset the shuffle: and here's the result:
Checking Out: Allan Holdsworth (ex. IOU)
Bird On A Wire: Leonard Cohen (ex. Songs From A Room)
Night Illusion: Gong (ex. Gauzeuse)
Tiger Feet: Mud (ex. Greatest Hits) - whoops
Compared To What: Les McCann/Eddie Harris (ex. Swiss Movement)
Divisions: Fire Merchants (ex. Fire Merchants)
Good Day Good Morning: Odyssey (ex. White Swan)
Mille Vagues: Nguyen Le (ex. Million Waves)
Bitter Suite: Marillion (ex. Misplaced Childhood)
SF Sorrow Is Born: Pretty Things (ex. SF Sorrow)
 
still heavy on the jazz rock .....


Edited by Dick Heath - September 28 2009 at 11:07
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2009 at 08:53
My iPod really only has about half of my library, it's way too small for me.

Pavement - Trigger Cut / Wounded-Kite at :17 (Indie Rock)
The Fall of Troy - Semi-Fiction (Heavy Prog)
Joy Division - 24 Hours (Post-punk)
Protest the Hero - Blindfolds Aside (Progressive Metalcore)
Neu! - Weissenssee (Krautrock)
Rush - Something For Nothing (Heavy Prog)
Porcupine Tree - Remember Me Lover (Heavy Prog)
Phish - Guyute (Jam Rock)
The Flower Kings - Dream On Dreamer (Symphonic Prog)
My Bloody Valentine - Blown a Wish (Shoegaze)

That didn't really come out as varied as I'd have liked it to. Not to mention that its 40% non-prog. I'm not sure. I'd say 3*


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Knokin on Heavens Doors - Bob Dylan (Folk)
The Blessing - Gui Boratto (Progressive Trance)
Send For The Man - AC/DC (Hard Rock)
White Hammer - VDGG (Ecletic Prg)
L'isola Di Niente - PFM (Rock Progressivo Italiano)
Heart Of The Sunrise - Yes (Symphonic Prog)
Come Together - Beatles (Rock'n'Roll)
Highway Chile - Jimi Hendrix ( Classic Rock/ Acid Rock)
Stay - David Bowie (Glam Rock)
Skater Boy - Avril Lavigne (Faeces Rock - To ruin My list) ahuahuahuahau
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2009 at 21:17

Rush - Witch Hunt

Geddy Lee - Home on the Strange

Rush - Turn the Page

Arriving Somewhere but Not Here - Porcupine Tree

Rush - Der sl*gwerker (drum solo)

Nosound - The Moment She Knew

Porcupine Tree - Buying New Soul

Rush - Shape of Things (cover)

Harmonium - Histoire Sans Paroles

Proclamation on Reflection - Gentle Giant



So much for shuffle being random, holy Rush!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2009 at 07:07
Æthenor - Betimes Black Cloudmasses III (impro-ambient)
The Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (pop-rock)
All Neon Like - Björk (Pop/Electronica)
Invocation of Almost - Curren 93 (neofolk/psychedelic drone)
Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter (jazz)
Hagal - Wardruna (neofolk)
Opus 12 - One Shot (avant-prog)
Evasion de Julien - Miles Davis (jazz)
Spring - Fresh Maggots (prog folk)
Spin the Context - Anja Garbarek (ambient/experimental pop)

Tuulenkaato - Tenhi (prog folk)
Disco Hospital - Coil (experimental electronic)
Mary's Song - The Trees Community (psychedelic folk)
The Widow - The Mars Volta (eclectic prog)
More Action! Less Tears! - A Silver Mt. Zion (post-rock)
Blåe Øya - Kråkesølv (pop)
Truly Golden - Woven Hand (folk)
Unloveable - The Smiths (pop-rock)
Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh - Magma (zeuhl)
Eden 1 - Psychic TV (ambient)

That's a 3, I guess.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2009 at 09:05
Running a shuffle through my whole collection, which is loaded on a Zune, not an i-pod (I'm on my third player, haven't done any i-pods, no particular reason):
Rain, Rain, Rain - Roxy Music
Oxygene, Pt. 1 - Jean Michel Jarre
Cheyenne Anthem - Kansas
Strange Little Girl - Tori Amos
Heavy Feet - Alex de Grassi
Freedom - Jimi Hendrix
Easy Money - King Crimson (Night Watch)
Lelekovice: Third Movement - Arditti String Quartet
[Untitled Track] - No-Man (Wild Opera)
Ice Cakes - The Dixie Dregs (What If)

Next Ten:
Henry: Portraits from Tudor Times - Anthony Phillips
Nine Cats [Acoustic Version][Demo Version] - Porcupine Tree
Ghostwind - Steve Morse
Oh Willy - Nektar (Down to Earth [UK Bonus Tracks])
The Ocean - Led Zeppelin
Rings Around the Moon - Adrian Belew
Race With Devil on Spanish Highway - Al Di Meola
"Light Mass Prayers" - Porcupine Tree
Painter's Link - Kate Bush
Three-Part Invention No. 7 - Béla Fleck

That's weird, Signify showed up twice on the second shuffle.




Edited by Slartibartfast - November 29 2009 at 09:25
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2009 at 11:09
Round 1

Sono La Bestia - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso (Canto di Primavera)
The Revealing Science of God - Yes (Keys to Ascension)
L'Hymne Medieval - Atoll (Musiciens-Magiciens)
The Sane Day - Beardfish (The Sane Day)
Teakbois - Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe (ABWH)
Dritter Teil Der Erzahlung - Anyone's Daughter (Piktors Verwandlungen)
The Book of Dreams - Mangala Vallis (The Book Of Dreams)
Power In The Air - Neal Morse (Testimony)
Look Up - Zero Seven (When It Falls)
Lunar Sea - Camel (Moonmadness)

Round 2

Tizenketto Negyed - Korai Orom (Korai Orom 2009)
Tower Of Hope - Ayreon (Into The Electric Castle)
Mini Me - Tribal Tech (Rocket Science)
Parallels - Yes (Yesshows)
Pigmy - Akira Ishikawa and Count Buffalo (Uganda)
Marbles III - Marillion (Marbles)
Vietato Generalizzare - D.F.A. (4th)
Achilles Heel - Edge of Sanity (Crimson II)
Agadez - The Mars Volta (Bedlam in Goliath)
Pilot To Paradise - Eloy (Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2009 at 07:27
Here we go:
 
1. Executive Dive - The Dicks (punk)
2. Wake Up - Nomeansno (punk/prog?)
3. When I See That Girl of Mine - The Kinks (classic rock)
4. Losers, Boozers, and Heroes - fIREHOSE (indie rock)
5. Sea Shell and Soft Stone - Ron Geesin/Roger Waters (avant garde / psych)
6. On the Tundra - Guided by Voices (indie rock)
7. Steve Instant Newman - The Melvins (indie rock/metal)
8. Cameage - Descendents (punk)
9. Sinner - Judas Priest (metal)
10. Sagittarius Silver Announcement - Flaming Lips (indie rock)
 
Where's the prog?  OK, second round:
 
1. I'm Down - Love (psych)
2. Just a Job to Do - Genesis (pop/prog)
3. Flippin' the Bird - Sun City Girls (avant garde/jazz)
4. You Are Too Far From Me - R. Stevie Moore (indie rock - did that exist in the 70s?  If so, Moore was probably one of the few in that class)
5. The Kitten Song - Steven Wright (comedy)
6. Twin - Steven Wright (comedy)
7. Drum Factory - Fred Frith (avant garde/prog)
8. Heartattack in a Layby - Porcupine Tree (prog)
9. Only Time Will Tell - Earth and Fire (prog)
10. At Sixes - Soft Machine (jazz/fusion/prog)
 
 
The genres were just grudgingly assigned by me, but the first list is clearly punk-centric, which was a surprise.  Lots of "indie rock" on both too.  Interesting observation - a lot of the actual running time on my iPod (over 14,000 songs) could be called prog, but those songs are generally longer than the punk stuff, so there are probably a lot more punk selections to choose from - thus a random shuffle would be more likely to pick from that pool.  Perhaps?
 
I'll give these lists a collective "3".


Edited by HolyMoly - November 30 2009 at 07:29
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