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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:21 PM
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Poll question: Which is worse - New Country or Progressive Rock?
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 09:23 PM by Wat_Tyler
It's a tough one - each sucks in their own extraordinary fashion.
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nine23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:35 PM
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1. New Country is to music what Faux News is to journalism. Or,
...what Free Republic is to humility.
...what WWF wrestling is to humanity.

Prog doesn't even come close to being that embarrassing. Try keeping Toby Kieth from stinking up your fucking television screen.
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:36 PM
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3. Yeah - I often fantasize about the 50ft reanimated corpse of Hank WIlliams
crushing Nashville under his heel.
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 03:14 AM
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33. I agree 100%!!!
:puke: Nice analogies, though!:-)
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:35 PM
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2. I'd sooner chew broken glass than attend a Josh Groban concert
Just throwing it out there.
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:36 PM
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4. But (*swoon!*) - HE'S SO PRETTY!!!!!!!!!!!
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:40 PM
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7. He looks like Roger Waters with a bad perm.
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:54 PM
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8. .....or the Vidal Sassoon Jeff Buckley.
Which he is, basically.
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:37 PM
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5. I didn't think they made progressive rock anymore.
I thought it was all nu metal and pop-punk.
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 09:38 PM
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6. There is some.
A lot of the old bands still tour, and there are newer bands keeping the terrifying flame alive.
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coloradodem2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:32 PM
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9. Progressive Rock is way better than that Toby Kieth shit.
n/t
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IcyPeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 10:57 PM
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10. Define Prog Rock...
Isn't that what those 70s album oriented groups were called ... like Yes, ELP, Floyd? Or do you mean those new bands like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Spiritualized, Godspeed, etc. etc. ?

Which prog rock genre are you asking about?

Regardless, I guess, I would choose Prog Rock over any Country....
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:01 PM
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11. Prog Rock would be defined by the following.
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 11:03 PM by Wat_Tyler
Yes
ELP
Genesis
Tangerine Dream
King Crimson (maybe)
Rush (definitely)
Anything Rick Wakeman touched that wasn't Bowie's Hunky Dory
If you can't see the keyboard player for his enormous organ - it's prog.

Those new bands are more in the psychedelic / krautrock tradition - not prog. Prog is the victory of virtuosity over content - big solos, showing off, pretention. Krautrock and Psychedelia were always subservient to the tune or rhythm.
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IcyPeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:11 PM
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14. Rick Wakeman touched Bowie's what?
"Anything Rick Wakeman touched that wasn't Bowie's Hunky Dory . . . . . If you can't see the keyboard player for his enormous organ - it's prog."

hmmmmmm

(icypeas blushes)
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:30 PM
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16. Yeah - I've seen the photos.
:scared:
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 05:20 AM
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36. Wakeman played keyboards on Bowie's "Hunky Dory" album
That's his piano on "Changes" (and Bowie himself on the saxophone at the end).
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:08 PM
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12. Can't stand Josh Groban
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 11:14 PM by mvd
He holds his syllables out like the crooners, but he has no flair for crooning, so it just sounds annoying.

His genre would tie with jingoistic country (not all new country) in my opinion.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:10 PM
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13. That Josh Groban crap
what kinda fucked up music is that anyway? :wtf:

maybe he's the illegitimate child of Celine Dion & Andrew Lloyd Webber :shrug:
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samplegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:29 PM
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15. Anything
Texas TWANG...cant be good
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:40 PM
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17. And what have these categories all in common??
They're too far from their roots! (Extraordinary is an apt term, Wat_Tyler. These suckages are too out of the ordinary expression of a human soul.)

Nothing wrong with twang, if it's from the heart.
Rock & Roll should never completely leave the blues.
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:45 PM
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20. That nails it, Ron.
Music should say something understandable, something real and honest.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:42 PM
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18. What the hell is Progressive Rock?
Dare I ask? :scared:
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:46 PM
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21. Probably not.
They wore capes!
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:48 PM
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25. Capes?
AAAAAAAH!!!
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FrankBooth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:45 PM
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19. New Country sucks a lot more than prog rock
At least most of the prog rockers were great technical musicians. Personally, I think bubblegum pop like Britney or the godforsaken boy bands are even worse than New Country.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:47 PM
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22. I agree about the boy bands
Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 11:47 PM by mvd
They always bored me. There's a difference between a genre being bad and a genre not being your type of music, and I don't think DUers realize that enough. But I see no value in the boy bands like New Kids, BSB, and 'N Sync.
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:48 PM
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24. That's the problem, though - Great technical musicians.
The more technically proficient, the more difficult to keep the ability subservient to the song.
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FrankBooth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:53 PM
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27. Yep
I think most of the prog stuff is really impersonal and doesn't do much to inspire me. I'd take the three chords/three minutes songs from CCR or Nirvana any day over an 8 minute jam by ELP - even then, I have a grudging appreciation for how well those prog players can manipulate their instruments.
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:52 PM
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26. Hey, there are lots of great technical players in Nashville, crankin' out
the dreck and making 300 thou a year. But the front guy is usually a minimally-talented pretty boy with a standard George Jones break in his voice; just another brand name, like a NASCAR dude.
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FrankBooth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:54 PM
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28. Good point (NM)
NM
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 11:48 PM
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23. Sorry, but there is only one form of music that DU posters
should listen to, and that is, of course, the BLUES!
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:03 AM
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29. Main, since las' November we been LIVIN' the Blues...
and we cain't be sassified!
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Machiavelli05 Donating Member (335 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:26 AM
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30. I like Country
Oh well :shrug:
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fnottr Donating Member (365 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:39 AM
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31. ....and I like prog
/Huddles in the corner with a Dream Theater album....
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 02:06 AM
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32. Aiiiiieeeeeee!!!!
You just made my head explode, you nasty man. I'm never going to be able to find a doctor at this time of night! :mad:
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 10:34 AM
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38. All part of the service, ma'am.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 03:29 AM
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34. Oh c'mon noodling frop rock is a guilty pleasure
whereas what could be found pleasurable in Garth Brooks or Toby Keith?
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 04:15 AM
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35. Ya'll need to listen for a while to Americana Music...
It captures the purity of the peoples music without falling into fake maudlin and sentimental reflections by MBA's who control Nashville's famed and defamed Music Row,,,

Head to Austin and San Antonio to hear where the future of country, America's true music, is headed..
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 10:33 AM
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37. Oh, I know proper country - and I like it.
I'm talking about the pop music with twang here.
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