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paganinio 
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 Topic: Songs that are good ONLY when you're not listening
Posted: October 02 2009 at 11:51 |
This thread is inspired by "Shine On Your Crazy Diamonds". This song (which has 10 parts) has been frequently playing in my head, and I got excited and thought it was really a good song. But everytime I actually listen to it, it's horrible. Here are the reasons: 1. I was blinded by the PA charts and ProgFreak charts. I love those websites, and "Shine On Your Crazy Diamonds" is obviously the highest rated thing on those websites. I have developed a blind faith in PA and ProgFreak. That's why I thought the song was so good. But the ears never lie. An actual listen to the song will surely dispel the hype. 2. The song is aight. About 10 seconds of it are awesome. These 10 seconds stuck in my brain and convinced me that the rest of the song was just as awesome. Man, I was wrong. 3. Maybe the melodies are memorable, but the overall sound is annoying. It sounds dry and flat. It feels like the musicians are set on fire and trying to shake hands with me.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 12:34 |
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Blacksword
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 12:44 |
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Not sure what you're saying, apart from that you dont like 'SOYCD' which is a song many other people do seem to like.
No crime in that, just not convinced it's worth a thread.
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rushfan4
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 12:48 |
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Basically just about anything on the Billboard top 100, or MTV top 50 videos is pretty much only good when I am not listening to it.
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Padraic
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 12:48 |
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This thread is only good when I'm not reading it.
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Ricochet
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 12:51 |
I've been deceived by PA in thinking Close To The Edge was anything out of the ordinary. That is all. 
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LiquidEternity
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 13:12 |
 Ricochet wrote:
I've been deceived by PA in thinking Close To The Edge was anything out of the ordinary.
That is all.
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You may be kidding, but I agree anyways. If I had gone in blind without preconceived notions and listened to Fragile, The Yes Album, Close to the Edge, Relayer, and Tales from Topographic Oceans, I think I'd be even less impressed. As to the actual topic, Sound Chaser is that way to me. I like about thirty seconds of the whole thing (and the rest is listenable but not that interesting, really), so I pay attention for those few seconds and let it run the background elsewise.
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rdtprog
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 13:43 |
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The moral of the story : Listening a song is listening the complete song and it cannot be good if you didn't listen to it with your ears. The song exist in your perception and not in some charts.
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran
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The Pessimist
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Posted: October 02 2009 at 13:47 |
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SOYCD is one of those songs that I thought was impossible to dislike, like Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder, or Earth Day by Devin Townsend. They are just so epic and packed with emotion that I genuinely don't understand how anyone could not love them.
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
Arnold Schoenberg
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Tarquin Underspoon
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Posted: October 03 2009 at 17:49 |
I feel this way about songs by Metallica and Iron Maiden. I love, say, Battery or The Trooper....
Until I'm forced to sit through them again, that is
I also just realized I feel this way about one of my favorite albums, Rush's Moving Pictures. It's probably one of my top 5 all-time, but I just cannot sit through it because I've overplayed it so. A pity, really.
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"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"
-The Great Gig in the Sky
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progkidjoel
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Posted: October 03 2009 at 17:54 |
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ALOT of Floyd's earlier work.
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The Sleepwalker
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Posted: October 03 2009 at 18:21 |
I had this with a couple of bands, mainly because I just didn't like them but something in their music attracted me. One of those bands was Dream Theater. They sounded great in my head, but when I actually listened to them I disgusted it. So, I stopped listening to them.
About the Shine On thing... I'm sure many will disagree with you. I can see why you would dislike the song though, but I think it's strange that you said "An actual listen to the song will surely dispel the hype". That doesn't make any sense to me, unless you're pointing that only at yourself.
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tamijo
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 08:50 |
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This makes me wonder why PA dosent have a "PUKE" smily, every other side got a "PUKE"
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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daslaf
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Posted: October 06 2009 at 09:20 |
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cause puking ain't prog
xD
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But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don't bear the glow
They did so long ago
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The Sleepwalker
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Posted: October 07 2009 at 01:21 |
tamijo wrote:
This makes me wonder why PA dosent have a "PUKE" smily, every other side got a "PUKE" |
The green "dead" smiley kind of looks he's puking. You could also start a thread at Help Us Improve The Site... 
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