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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    These artists mostly suck.

    Maybe that at least partly explains why I've never owned any of their albums.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    Stevie B and PeterG - congratulations on never having heard Dust in the Wind. I'd like to know how you managed that (not that I want to avoid it - I like it).

    It's probably Kansas' most complex and hard rocking song - you should try it, really, the counterpoint is amazing.
    How the heck is "dust in the wind" their most complex and hard rocking song?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Digital_Man View Post
    How the heck is "dust in the wind" their most complex and hard rocking song?
    Ssh! I'm trying to smoke them out...

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    I *have* to know what you think would go over worse than walking out on that Genesis show. Walking out on King Crimson in 1969 or something?
    Well if you "have" to know, in the late 70s I went to a Rush/Blue Oyster Cult show. Arena venue, the Nassau Collisium. BOC was at the height of their popularity, Rush opened for them. I wont say which band my friend and I left for , but I will say we enjoyed Godzilla.
    I rarely leave a show early,the 2 shows mentioned were as a kid. A period I count separately from more recent times. Tastes changed, my extracurricular activities that I was convinced enhanced life experiances, changed. More recently I have left shows early ,I don't combine the early list with later ones. Most recently I left the KC show in NYC ,last year, after 45 minutes. Bored to death. I will say though, the range ,and type of music I listen to and go to see at present is fairly broad. I don't see myself as snobbish or narrowminded, on the the subject of music at least. But I wont sit through something Im really not enjoying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StevegSr View Post
    There are WWII Japanese soldiers still hiding out in remote South Pacific islands waiting for the Empire of the Sun to rise again who have heard Dust In The Wind. Wtf?
    I always find it rather quaint when a fan of an American band can't comprehend that people outside the USA haven't heard said band.

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    Well I've just YouTubed Dust in the Wind, and it is vaguely familiar. I presume I've heard it on The Simpsons or something, which is where I get all my American cultural references from...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stevie B View Post
    Well I've just YouTubed Dust in the Wind, and it is vaguely familiar. I presume I've heard it on The Simpsons or something, which is where I get all my American cultural references from...
    Great minds and all that. I just You Tubed it too and I recognized it immediately. And hearing it took me back to the early 80s and a colleague in the military who liked this type of AOR stuff as well as other AOR rock like Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner etc.

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    Did you guys find the song(DitW) to be "complex and hard rocking?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Digital_Man View Post
    Did you guys find the song(DitW) to be "complex and hard rocking?"
    In an Animals As Leaders sort of way?
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    Pop music - too many to count - let's just say 95% of them

    Bon Jovi (in fact, every hair metal band)
    The Doors
    Chicago
    Beach Boys
    Gentle Giant
    Saga
    The Zombies
    .38 Special
    Badfinger
    Frank Zappa
    Blur
    Stone Roses
    Elvis Costello
    Blood Sweat & Tears
    Jefferson Airplane/Starship
    Sex Pistols
    Kate Bush
    Steve Miller
    Journey
    The Go-Gos
    The Moody Blues
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    Interesting Jerjo. What is your favored genre?

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    I can understand the Moody Blues being labeled pop even though they did influence the prog genre. But Gentle Giant and Frank Zappa? That's just wrong. :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerjo View Post
    Pop music - too many to count - let's just say 95% of them

    Bon Jovi (in fact, every hair metal band)
    The Doors
    Chicago
    Beach Boys
    Gentle Giant
    Saga
    The Zombies
    .38 Special
    Badfinger
    Frank Zappa
    Blur
    Stone Roses
    Elvis Costello
    Blood Sweat & Tears
    Jefferson Airplane/Starship
    Sex Pistols
    Kate Bush
    Steve Miller
    Journey
    The Go-Gos
    The Moody Blues
    This list looks awfully familiar.

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    This is tangential, but I've never heard a single note of the Yes album "Open Your Eyes."

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterG View Post
    Interesting Jerjo. What is your favored genre?
    I bounce through genres all day: jazz to hard rock to blues to prog and on and on and on...
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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    This is tangential, but I've never heard a single note of the Yes album "Open Your Eyes."
    Consider yourself lucky. I haven't heard the latest but I've heard that is pretty lame too. Out of all the YES albums I have heard(all but the latest), OYE is imo the weakest and should have been a Conspiracy album(I'm not the only one who thinks that either).

    I will say though that I do like the opening track and there are one or two others that aren't that bad but for the most part it falls way short of the kind of album you would expect from YES. I'd say it makes Tormato sound like CTTE and that's no easy feat.

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    ^^ I like Heaven & Earth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    Ok, maybe not most of them but 10 of them by my count. How many people here really think BTO is good? Or Bon Jovi?
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    ^^ I like Heaven & Earth.

    So Do I....

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    I can understand the Moody Blues being labeled pop even though they did influence the prog genre. But Gentle Giant and Frank Zappa? That's just wrong.
    On the contrary, it's absolutely right. Both artists dwelled in an admittedly wide spectrum of popular music formats - i.e. pop music. The "prog genre" you're speaking of was never one but several parallell genres, if you go by the academic notion of "genre" as concept.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    On the contrary, it's absolutely right. Both artists dwelled in an admittedly wide spectrum of popular music formats - i.e. pop music. The "prog genre" you're speaking of was never one but several parallell genres, if you go by the academic notion of "genre" as concept.
    +!

    I agree. Zappa was most certainly "pop", especially in the 80s when he had several hits in several countries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Digital_Man View Post
    Did you guys find the song(DitW) to be "complex and hard rocking?"
    No, not at all. To me it sounds like lots of other basic soft rock AOR songs by bands like Styx and Extreme.

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    I've never owned anything by:

    AC/DC
    Jon Bovi
    John Denver
    Ramones (or anyone that sounds remotely like them)
    Any big hair arena metal band of the late 70s or 80s.
    Any hip hop/rap artist (not saying I hate it all, just never cared enough to actually buy any of it-too many great albums out there to buy)
    Abba
    Tom Petty
    Guns & Roses
    Elvis Presley

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    Quote Originally Posted by bill g View Post
    I've never owned anything by:

    AC/DC
    Jon Bovi
    John Denver
    Ramones (or anyone that sounds remotely like them)
    Any big hair arena metal band of the late 70s or 80s.
    Any hip hop/rap artist (not saying I hate it all, just never cared enough to actually buy any of it-too many great albums out there to buy)
    Abba
    Tom Petty
    Guns & Roses
    Elvis Presley
    ABBA is the only one of those I own anything by.

    I used to have no fewer than THREE John Denver albums, all lost in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy. As I said on another thread, though, his albums are very patchy, and I doubt I'll be replacing them. Maybe "Windsong" - that one had the fewest clunkers.

    I have a couple of Petty albums on cassette, but that hardly counts as I recorded them from other people's albums. Mind you I quite like Damn the Torpedoes, but probably not enough to actually buy it.

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