Agreed. Though album 1 is awful really.
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All of the titles on Roger’s Cosmic Furnace are equally absurdly pompous. “Queene Enfineska: Serenity of the Lion in Summer,” “Hermetic Enigma: The Fixed Volatile (The Answer Is but Another Riddle)” and “Tensegrity: A Dymaxion Triptych” are examples.
The titles of Cultural Noise and their sister “band,” Bizarre Ko.Ko.Ko, are all immediately recognizable pretentious, incomprehensible word salad. “Pursuing the In Time Disintegrating Reality,” “Retracting the Reflected Consciousness of All Having Come to Into Being,” usw.
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Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
as far as TRSOG... to me it comes across as 'the things science reveal are but a drop of water in an ocean compared to the knowledge that God possesses and as humans, if we live 5 billion more years we can never attain that level of knowledge. That is how amazingly complex and vast the created universe is'
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
At least some prog artist seem to be parodying stupid pretension. A lot of Zappa titles fall into this category. Utopia's "Singring and the Glass Guitar (An Electrified Fairytale)" would fall under this category as well.
Then there's my beast of a title:
https://tonyandthetonechasers.bandca...e-conversation
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Thing is though, when the apparently offending title was released, I had never heard the term 'prog rock'. Maybe others had back in the mid 70s.
So does the offending title even qualify for this thread. Progressive rock was what it was all about back then, not 'prog rock'.
Shout out for Godspeed You! Black Emperor (formerly Godspeed You Black Emperor!), with album titles like Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada and F♯ A♯ ∞. Or, expanding to some of their spin-offs, there's He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms..., including the track "Lonely as the Sound of Lying on the Ground of an Airplane Going Down" (a great track).
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Try this for size: Red Sparowes "Oh Lord, God of Vengeance, Show Yourself!", featuring tracks such as "The Great Leap Forward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like a Mighty Storm Suddenly and Furiously Blinding Our Senses" or "Finally as That Blazing Sun Shone Down Upon Us Did We Know That True Enemy Was the Voice of Blind Idolatry; and Only Then Did We Begin to Think for Ourselves".
Thank the deity of your choice for CDDB databases that save having to type all that in when you're ripping CDs.
OMG, I mean, with Tody D. even his very name is profoundly provocative and preposterously pretentious. Me myself I can hardly sit still at all when I hear that name of his, especially when pondering his music along with it. He surely could have learnt a thing or three from Jon, Keiji Haino and those saucers in GY!BE.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
^ I couldn’t help myself with that quip, particularly knowing it would only have relevance to a handful of people!
How about some of the song titles by The Mars Volta? Like:
"Intertiatic ESP"
"This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed"
"Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore"
"Meccamputechture"
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow is also a contender
Yup, king of offensive prog stuff
That was my first thought
Isn'tthat what Canterbury is mostly about??
Silly =/= offensive, though
for those old/ancient enough:
Just in case it goes to PM land.
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Has 'Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night' been mentioned yet? Back in the days when people had a sense of humour...nowadays everyone wants to take offense at everything.
Can't believe there's hasn't been a mention of the full title of Fiona Apple's sophomore album, When the Pawn.... As it broke the previous record for longest title, that's pretty freakin' pretentious.
When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might so When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right.
Outside the realm of English: Io non so da dove vengo e non so dove mai andrò. Uomo è il nome che mi han dato. (I don’t know where I came from and I don’t know where I am going. “Man” is the name they have given me.) by De De Lind.
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If we Bungled in the Jungle, what would we be doing and would it be alright?
The older I get, the better I was.
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