You Know You're A Prog Addict When...

...when you walk into a place you visit regularly and sing at the top of your voice: 'Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends!'

Mind_Drive wrote: when your friends who are trying to tell you something really interesting are constantly interupted by you: " sh, sh.. listen to this part it´s so damn genius! "

Guilty as charged!

I've had fun looking through this thread. Keep it up people!

RoeDent wrote: ...when you walk into a place you visit regularly and sing at the top of your voice: 'Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends!'

You know you're a Prog fan when you complain to the school board over the deplorable lack of Kobaïan immersion courses.  I have to home tutor my children in Kobaïan. 

And you know you're a Prog  fan (or at least a Magma fan) when you get your child to sing this (this is not my daughter, but my daughter has loved this video since she was three and does sing along). 

Dean wrote: When after a rainstorm you see a rainbow and look for the heartbeat in the green stripe   When you hear a concert orchestra play the Firebird Suite and feel let down when they don't segue into Siberian Khatru.   When a friend or work colleague tries to impress you by mentioning the name of an obscure guitarist and you list three other bands he also played in.   When you hear The Land Of Make Believe on the radio and proceed to tell everyone in ear-shot that Peter Sinfield wrote that, then look puzzled as to why no one knows what you are on about.   When you spray paint your motorcycle crash helmet in the style of Roger Dean. ()   When you sing along to songs in a language you don't understand.   When you start thinking that From Genesis .... To Revelations sounds a bit proggy, kind of... nearly.   When you start thinking the A Trick Of The Tail sounds a bit poppy, kind of... nearly.   When you hear a song on the radio and think... "that needs more melotron".   When you giggle if a forty-something couple introduces their daughter to you as Kaliegh (and you think ... "more like Grendel if you ask me")   When you can forgive Pain Of Salvation for Scarsick.   When you have duplicate copies of vinyls because you wore out the originals.   When you buy an album because you like the cover art.   When you buy another copy of an album because it has a different cover to the one you already own.   When a guitarist walks on stage and your heart sinks because he's only got one guitar with him.   When you see a theremin on stage and think "Aye-aye, we're in for a good night"   When you remove an easy chair from your living room to make room for another 4 CD racks.   When the wife says "it's either those damn records or me" ... and you hesitate.   When you visit a garishly purple website looking for a Spanish prog band whose CD you heard playing in a tapas bar and never leave,   When you type "Gong" into Wikipedia and feel disappointed that the "This article is about the musical instrument." page loads.   When you audibly cheer when the BBC uses Tangerine Dream or Sigur Ros as incidental music in a TV programme.   When you can remember seeing Gryphon on the kids TV programme Magpie in the 1970s (and Oldfield on Blue Peter and Tiswas).   When you draw around the rims of your CDs in green marker (see below)   When you assume that all audiophiles listen to Prog (see above)   When you organise your CD collection by sub-genre, then alphabetically by artist, then chronologically by album.   When you can't understand why Apple put "shuffle" on their iPlods.   When you only buy "Greatest Hits..." CDs when they have tracks you've never heard of.   When you complain because a band cannot replicate a studio album live, then complain when they do.   When dressing up to go out to an important function, you put a clean band shirt on.   When you bought a needlework stitch unpicker specifically for removing the shrink-wrap from CDs.   When you call one of your possesions "Meurglys".

Yeah Dean!

When you are copying and pasting answers from this topic into a conversation with a non-proggy friend, assuming that they will get them.

moshkito wrote: Hi,   You know when you are a prog addict ... a serious prog addict ... when you can not even humm along with your friends on another song ... some famous pop song ...   Funny thing ... I'm not even interested in humming along Elton John anytime soon! Nothing personal or against his music ... just not my bag of riches!

You know you're a Prog addict when the only Elton John song you really like is "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding".  And you know you're a Prog Metal band addict when you only care about Dream Theatre's cover version (and yes I think Elton John has other proggy material).

On a related note: You know you're a Prog addict when you need to justify liking certain bands/artists by arguing for them being Prog or Proto-Prog or Prog Related.  Cream *cough, cough*. ;)

You define progressive rock as a genre unique from rock... 

Every cent you make you buy prog records with. ( Far too true and is why I've spent almost $2,000 this year... )

Jake Kobrin wrote: You define progressive rock as a genre unique from rock...  Every cent you make you buy prog records with. ( Far too true and is why I've spent almost $2,000 this year... )

wow how many c'ds do you own?

...When your shower performances always begin with either: