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selling_echoes 
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 Topic: Prog as a lifestyle.
Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:00 |
The question may sound stupid as you read it, but I was thinking about
how music is usually the start of labelling - people who listen to rap
being rappers and/or gangstas, and heavy metal guys being Satanists,
progheads being undeniable freaks (kidding  ) -- I was just wondering, do you guys consider prog a lifestyle in some way?
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sigod
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:05 |
That's an interesting question but for me prog is just music that I listen to and a basis for choosing some of the bands I see in concert.
And er...obsessing about it in web forums.
How dull was that answer????
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Reed Lover
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:23 |
Not at all.Most of the forum members here like other genres of music; from Ian Dury to Messiaen it's all here.
Mind you, with the possible exception of Jim Garten and Asuma,WE DONT DANCE!
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:27 |
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Reed Lover
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:30 |
It is the youngsters i worry about.
Hey EDDy:
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 11:31 |
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selling_echoes
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 12:07 |
I'm curious though, do many of you listen to hip-hop?
The thought crossed my mind that I
have never met one person with a mixture of prog and rap. Metal and rap
maybe. But never progressive as we call it today.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 12:33 |
 selling_echoes wrote:
I'm curious though, do many of you listen to hip-hop? |
I would rather stick wasps up my a***
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 12:40 |
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goose
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 12:54 |
selling_echoes wrote:
I'm curious though, do many of you listen to hip-hop?
The thought crossed my mind that I
have never met one person with a mixture of prog and rap. Metal and rap
maybe. But never progressive as we call it today.
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A little, mainly those using jazz samples, or similar. I like A Tribe
Called Quest, Ozomatli, Heiruspecs. Not much though, and I do try to
find some musicians I like in every style. Why?
Why not?
PS the vast majority of "prog" metal listeners are vehemently anti hip
hop (and often anti progressive music too, but that's another story!)
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Syzygy
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 13:24 |
A lot of rap becomes quite boring after the first couple of times you hear it, although some rappers are undeniably good lyricists. A lot of my favourite contemporary acts incorporate elements of rap into their music, often to great effect - Ozomatli have already been mentioned, also some trip hop acts like Massive Attack. The only purely hip hop/rap album I ever really went for was De La Soul's 3 Feet High And Rising.
Mind you, if we're talking about rappers, what about Gil Scott-Heron, or the Last Poets - that's what I call rap.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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threefates
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 13:29 |
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I have a female friend who loves prog and rap....
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Azrael2112
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 13:44 |
selling_echoes wrote:
I'm curious though, do many of you listen to hip-hop?
The thought crossed my mind that I
have never met one person with a mixture of prog and rap. Metal and rap
maybe. But never progressive as we call it today.
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I do....sometimes, but only in the car. I give prog my full attention at home  I have a few rap cd's, mostly Public Enemy. And the music of my youth - Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" and some Snoop Dogg. 
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Captain Fudge
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 13:59 |
You know, the only three kids that listen to prog in my class are the ones with top grades ,the ones you can talk to about something more than football and stiffies  , the kids whose parents were the best in college and who are, if not highly sucessful in life, then at least are happy with what they have achieved. I think that sums it up.
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 Teenage sucks hard -- Emo sucks even harder Epic. Simply epic.
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Captain Fudge
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 14:01 |
Oh yeah, Echoes, how would you define grungies? I'm a grunmgie and I go to church, have no sucidal tendenciesd, and don't feel an urge to wear ripped jeans. 
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Teenage sucks hard -- Emo sucks even harder Epic. Simply epic.
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James Lee
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Posted: January 07 2005 at 14:11 |
Azrael2112 wrote:
I have a few rap cd's, mostly Public Enemy. And the music of my youth -
Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" and some Snoop Dogg. |
Almost exactly my hip-hop tastes. Though I also got into Boogie Down Productions, Urban Dance Squad and of course the Beasties. I was always a big fan of the cut-and-paste production techniques (when it didn't involve simply sampling whole passages from other songs), and I'm sure that had something to do with my appreciation for bands like Portishead, Propellerheads, etc...
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