Northern_Lad
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BBC4 Prog RockSo I was only born when it was dying off, I am middle-class, male, white and have a lack of friends. I'm really enjoying the programs they're showing at the moment.
So far I've caught the big long documentory on Friday night, the Genesis concert on sunday and So Which One's Pink last night.
Any one else tuning in to watch a time when music meant people playing instuments?
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bernie-woman
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Lord, I'd rather gouge my eyes out with paper clips than watch a Genesis concert   and Pink Floyd is for boys 
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Northern_Lad
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| bernie-woman wrote: | | Lord, I'd rather gouge my eyes out with paper clips than watch a Genesis concert and Pink Floyd is for boys |
You, you, you...girl, you. You'll be telling me next you've never heard Karn Evil 9 by ELP.
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Barefoot Andrew
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Bugger, forgot about this programme. Will have to head over to iplayer land.
A.
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jamsam
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i loved Still Crazy..might get the DVD
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bernie-woman
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| Northern_Lad wrote: | | bernie-woman wrote: | | Lord, I'd rather gouge my eyes out with paper clips than watch a Genesis concert and Pink Floyd is for boys |
You, you, you...girl, you. You'll be telling me next you've never heard Karn Evil 9 by ELP. |
ELP! - do you actually have leather patches on your elbows NL
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Northern_Lad
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| bernie-woman wrote: | | ELP! - do you actually have leather patches on your elbows NL |
No, got leathery skin due to bruises and scrapes though.
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Behemoth
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Please tell me you have a canvas schoolbag with an LP cover faithfully reproduced on the lid.
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Nick
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I do, somewhere. Suspect Device!
God. That's 30 years old this year.
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Behemoth
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Tubeway Army, also 30 years old, although the bag disappeared many years ago.
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Northern_Lad
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| Behemoth wrote: | | Please tell me you have a canvas schoolbag with an LP cover faithfully reproduced on the lid. |
Nope - I have the artistic ability of a particularly mobility-challenged dog, who's had all its legs removed, and has been blind since it was born.
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jocorless
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| jamsam wrote: | | i loved Still Crazy..might get the DVD |
I love that film as well - I have the DVD and the soundtrack  - Can I also admit I've seen it about 10 times (that was before I got the DVD! )
Can't stand Genesis though - Deeply dreadful stuff - Phil Collins - Urrrrghhh
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Behemoth
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| Northern_Lad wrote: | | Behemoth wrote: | | Please tell me you have a canvas schoolbag with an LP cover faithfully reproduced on the lid. |
Nope - I have the artistic ability of a particularly mobility-challenged dog, who's had all its legs removed, and has been blind since it was born. |
Surely you could have just painted it black.
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Northern_Lad
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| Behemoth wrote: | | Northern_Lad wrote: | | Behemoth wrote: | | Please tell me you have a canvas schoolbag with an LP cover faithfully reproduced on the lid. |
Nope - I have the artistic ability of a particularly mobility-challenged dog, who's had all its legs removed, and has been blind since it was born. |
Surely you could have just painted it black. |
Yeah, but that would have made it look like Metalica by Metalica: not the proggiest band in the word.
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Northern_Lad
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| jocorless wrote: | | Can't stand Genesis though - Deeply dreadful stuff - Phil Collins - Urrrrghhh |
You forget that they were fronted by the human-piles that is Peter Gabriel for a while.
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bernie-woman
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Good grief, Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP, Tubeway Army just need someone to mention they liked Kraftwerk next 
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bernie-woman
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| Northern_Lad wrote: | | jocorless wrote: | | Can't stand Genesis though - Deeply dreadful stuff - Phil Collins - Urrrrghhh |
You forget that they were fronted by the human-piles that is Peter Gabriel for a while. |
He eventually saw the light, thank goodness, and left
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Behemoth
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| bernie-woman wrote: | | Good grief, Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP, Tubeway Army just need someone to mention they liked Kraftwerk next |
Ja tvoi sluga,
ja tvoi Rabotnik
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mark
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I loved it .. i loved it... i loved it
and afterwards i started playing all my old records and even checked the internet to see if Wishbone Ash were gigging nearby for a guaranteed nostalgia fix !
If this carries on I'll even be I've be plugging in my guitar (long abandoned after my son got better than me - and he loves to play all the old classics) and hammering out a few old riffs
Mark
(definitely living in the past and Listening to Cream - Disraeli Gears as I type - ok a bit pre prog rock but seminal)
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Northern_Lad
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| mark wrote: | | (definitely living in the past and Listening to Cream - Disraeli Gears as I type - ok a bit pre prog rock but seminal) |
Certainly is. Bought the remastered copy for my dad (along with the DVD) for last Christmas. I may have been accused of borrowing it a bit too often...
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Slim
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I love that album
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Helen_A
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I've been watching these  Really enjoying them...
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mochyn
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| mark wrote: | | ... living in the past ...) |
Wasn't that Jethro Tull?
I went to see Wishbone Ash about 20 years ago...
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sean
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| mochyn wrote: |
I went to see Wishbone Ash about 20 years ago... |
They must have been in their sixties by then.
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gil
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| bernie-woman wrote: | | Good grief, Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP, Tubeway Army just need someone to mention they liked Kraftwerk next |
I like Kraftwerk
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sean
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| gil wrote: | | bernie-woman wrote: | | Good grief, Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP, Tubeway Army just need someone to mention they liked Kraftwerk next |
I like Kraftwerk |
One of them's just left the band apparently.
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jocorless
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| bernie-woman wrote: | | Northern_Lad wrote: | | jocorless wrote: | | Can't stand Genesis though - Deeply dreadful stuff - Phil Collins - Urrrrghhh |
You forget that they were fronted by the human-piles that is Peter Gabriel for a while. |
He eventually saw the light, thank goodness, and left |
I hadn't actually forgotten but just can't see past the small bald one
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baldybloke
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Each to their own, but the Lamb lies down on Broadway by Genesis is still one of my favourite albums. Actually wore out my original vinyl copy, replaced it, then got it on CD. Know what you mean about Phil Collins though. But a bloody good drummer, it has to be said.
Saw most of the BBC 4 footage, some of which made me cringe, some I really enjoyed.
Maybe I need to drag out and play some on vinyl. Maybe a bit of Gentle Giant or Camel to start with perhaps.
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LynneA
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However much he should be lauded for bankrolling The Action's reunion, it is hard to see past the crime of being Phil Collins.
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Sherbs
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Goodness!
Aren't girls allowed to like Pink Floyd then? I had the Dark Side of the Moon album cover done in felt pen on my army surplus bag when I was in college, surrounded by assorted badges, embroideries and quotes, and those strange decorations made from beads threaded onto a safety pin.
Speaking of Kraftwerk makes me think of the Art of Noise. Anybody else going to admit to listening to that?
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dpack
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was that between big brother and the holding company and punk or between punk and acidhouse ?
im quite wide in my musical tastes but some things should not be done
jeff wayne ,war of the worlds
flayed ,the one with the floating pig balloon
anything by elp
rest my case
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bernie-woman
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| gil wrote: | | bernie-woman wrote: | | Good grief, Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP, Tubeway Army just need someone to mention they liked Kraftwerk next |
I like Kraftwerk |
 you are not alone gil - I had dinner at my brothers the other week and I was the only one there that didn't like them - I swear you must all have a different inner ear to me
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bernie-woman
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| Sherbs wrote: | Goodness!
Aren't girls allowed to like Pink Floyd then? I had the Dark Side of the Moon album cover done in felt pen on my army surplus bag when I was in college, surrounded by assorted badges, embroideries and quotes, and those strange decorations made from beads threaded onto a safety pin.
Speaking of Kraftwerk makes me think of the Art of Noise. Anybody else going to admit to listening to that? |
Of course girls are allowed to like Pink Floyd - just makes you another one with a different inner ear to me
Seriously I don't know many girls that do - my OH is a huge fan and I have tried and tried and just cannot be doing with them in my ear
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Northern_Lad
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| bernie-woman wrote: | Of course girls are allowed to like Pink Floyd - just makes you another one with a different inner ear to me
Seriously I don't know many girls that do - my OH is a huge fan and I have tried and tried and just cannot be doing with them in my ear |
In my experience girls don't really listen to music, the react more to how it makes them feel, rarely analysing how or why.
It's rare for a girl to say "I can apreciate that, but I don't like it" wheras I know many men who can (and sometimes do) go to great length about how this bit works because of x, and the y is simply brilliant before stating that they don't like the piece.
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bernie-woman
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| Northern_Lad wrote: |
It's rare for a girl to say "I can apreciate that, but I don't like it" wheras I know many men who can (and sometimes do) go to great length about how this bit works because of x, and the y is simply brilliant before stating that they don't like the piece. |
I do that all of the time actually - I can appreciate the talent of Floyd, ELP, Kraftwerk etc.. but they sound dreadful to me - bit like Bob Dylan - I absolutely love Dylans song writing but hate the sound of his voice - hey I must be a rarity then
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LynneA
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| Northern_Lad wrote: | In my experience girls don't really listen to music, the react more to how it makes them feel, rarely analysing how or why.
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Well you haven't had my classic lecture on Friday On My Mind and its status as one of the greatest songs ever (Guitar interplay, vocal pauses, etc.) At the end of which I list the three songs by the band that are even better.
But then I also understand the offside rule.
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Behemoth
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| Northern_Lad wrote: | | bernie-woman wrote: | Of course girls are allowed to like Pink Floyd - just makes you another one with a different inner ear to me
Seriously I don't know many girls that do - my OH is a huge fan and I have tried and tried and just cannot be doing with them in my ear |
In my experience girls don't really listen to music, the react more to how it makes them feel, rarely analysing how or why.
It's rare for a girl to say "I can apreciate that, but I don't like it" wheras I know many men who can (and sometimes do) go to great length about how this bit works because of x, and the y is simply brilliant before stating that they don't like the piece. |
You do realise that this is NL's stock excuse for his Girls Aloud and S Club 7 collection.
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ros
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| bernie-woman wrote: | | Sherbs wrote: | Goodness!
Aren't girls allowed to like Pink Floyd then? I had the Dark Side of the Moon album cover done in felt pen on my army surplus bag when I was in college, surrounded by assorted badges, embroideries and quotes, and those strange decorations made from beads threaded onto a safety pin.
Speaking of Kraftwerk makes me think of the Art of Noise. Anybody else going to admit to listening to that? |
Of course girls are allowed to like Pink Floyd - just makes you another one with a different inner ear to me
Seriously I don't know many girls that do - my OH is a huge fan and I have tried and tried and just cannot be doing with them in my ear |
I love Pink Floyd. (and Camel, Cream, Deep purple, Hawkwind, Motorhead, Metallica and old Genesis)
hubby can't stand any of them
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mousjoos
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| ros wrote: | | bernie-woman wrote: | | Sherbs wrote: | Goodness!
Aren't girls allowed to like Pink Floyd then? I had the Dark Side of the Moon album cover done in felt pen on my army surplus bag when I was in college, surrounded by assorted badges, embroideries and quotes, and those strange decorations made from beads threaded onto a safety pin.
Speaking of Kraftwerk makes me think of the Art of Noise. Anybody else going to admit to listening to that? |
Of course girls are allowed to like Pink Floyd - just makes you another one with a different inner ear to me
Seriously I don't know many girls that do - my OH is a huge fan and I have tried and tried and just cannot be doing with them in my ear |
I love Pink Floyd. (and Camel, Cream, Deep purple, Hawkwind, Motorhead, Metallica and old Genesis)
hubby can't stand any of them |
Ahhh, old Genesis......... just where did they go wrong?
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sean
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| mousjoos wrote: |
Ahhh, old Genesis......... just where did they go wrong? |
Errm, when they formed at school?
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jamila169
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I had the cover of dark side of the monn on my schoolbag as well, Either theres a preponderance of girls with different inner ears to the rest of womankind on here or Pink Floyd are indeed also for girls. I was watching the guitar heroes thing last night with the eldest jamlet and he was most impressed at my being able to name and give better biogs than BBC4 of most of the guitarists- fittingly it stopped at 1980 so we were spared Yngwie Malmsteen
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resistance is fertile
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Altogether a dark and disturbing period in our musical history! (imho )
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