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		Ex-singer of meandering, pompous, sterile-sounding prog rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer claims punk rock was just a "fashion movement" with "No real music there" (montrealgazette.com)		26
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rickythepenguin		2012-03-20 06:04:10 PM

7 votes:

meandering, pompous, sterile-sounding prog rock band

Hey, some people really dig Radiohead

B.L.Z. Bub		2012-03-20 06:49:50 PM

3 votes:

Does not approve.

jj325		2012-03-20 02:27:49 PM

3 votes:

Pretty big words from a guy partially responsible for this

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Rapmaster2000		2012-03-21 12:04:20 AM

2 votes:

Nina_Hartley's_Ass: HappyHarryHardOn: The best rock n roll, from its beggining to now, has always been based on simplicity, the simpler, the better... some of those prog rock bands are good, but really doesn't hold a candle next to a really good 3 chord song

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The best thing about KISS ALIVE is the Paul Stanley banter.

"AW YEAH! I was talking to somebody backstage before, and he told me there's a lot of you people who like to drink vodka and orange juice! Alright!"

mat catastrophe		2012-03-20 07:31:27 PM

2 votes:

zvoidx: FTA: "The punk thing wasn't a musical movement," he said. "It was a fashion movement. It was a hyping, marketing movement. There was no real music there, no cultural revolution there. Punk was (Malcolm) McLaren trying to whip up some media hype to create a genre so that everybody could ride on the crest of another marketing wave.

ELP had some great songs:
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But, let's face it, now matter how hard he tried, Greg Lake could never write a song like this:
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karmaceutical		2012-03-20 06:43:45 PM

2 votes:

ELP is like the Winger of prog rock.

qsblues		2012-03-20 06:29:51 PM

2 votes:

Nina_Hartley's_Ass: CASEY KASEM'S AMERICAN TOP 40 - 10/28/72

Nina_Hartley's_Ass:
2: BURNING LOVE - ELVIS PRESLEY
1: MY DING-A-LING - CHUCK BERRY

Irony, thy name is this entire thread.

LewDux		2012-03-20 06:00:25 PM

2 votes:

"The punk thing wasn't a musical movement," he said. "It was a fashion movement."

Come on, just because music was essentially on the Paris Hilton/Kim Kardashian level of talent and everybody was required to dress according to dress code... Wait..

antidisestablishmentarianism		2012-03-20 04:14:29 PM

2 votes:

I have no idea who this guy is but I'm pretty sure he is wrong. I see an old rocker yelling at clouds.

konigsforst		2012-03-22 04:10:41 AM

1 votes:

Gunny Highway
Henry Holland:
Disagree. I like Sandinista! the way it is. I would have taken another disc if they offered.

"It's too short.

The problem with Sandinista! is that lurking within this triple album, lays an ambitious sextuple album that would of been truly remarkable. The Clash wimped out and only gave us 36 songs. Strummer and co. deserve some credit though; they relinquished all their profits on the first 200 000 copies sold if the great men at Columbia Records would price the album as a double and not a triple. The suits agreed, because record executives are swell guys, all integrity I tell you. I digress. Enough of the history lesson and back to my disappointment:

What could have the Clash put on Sandanista! sides 7-12? How 'bout some babershop harmonies, a bit of doo-wop, a charity single (heck, why not two?), arm pit fart noises, a cover of Stiff Little Fingers' "Nobody's Hero" LP, a sequel to "West Side Story", one of those duo - 'Michael Row Your Boat Ashore' deals, a xylophone solo(s), some spoken word poetry by Topper Headon about his love affair with needle drugs, some Latino disco, a how-to-win-at-blackjack self-hypnosis track, a couple of knock-knock jokes, and re-recorded the second side to Give 'Em Enough Rope.

I mean seriously, you're the freakin' Clash! Get creative, fellas! These 36 songs are alright, but would it have killed them to even try and be a little more prolific? Think of Sandinista! as a short teaser to what could of been a Homeric styled epic of an album."

FeedTheCollapse		2012-03-21 05:59:25 AM

1 votes:

Ghastly: I like Prog Rock, and I like Punk Rock. But so many Prog Rockers are absolute pretentious fark-wits. Definitely a case of "stop liking what I don't like".

pretty much this. I do like some prog, but I find other prog fans to generally be condescending twats. Talking with them invariably involves a circle-jerks about time signatures and how Pink Floyd isn't Prog (I think they're closer in style to the Krautrock axiom, fwiw).

Harry_Seldon		2012-03-21 03:02:07 AM

1 votes:

I kind of liked ELP...

Don't bring me down, Bruce...

poot_rootbeer		2012-03-21 12:26:01 AM

1 votes:

Is it ironic that the kinds of classical pieces that Lake is so proud that ELP covered are derisively considered "popular music" by the stuffy violins-and-cummerbunds classical music community? (Except for maybe the Ginastera Toccata.)

"Pictures at an Exhibition" is what orchestras pull out for the free concert at the bandshell in the park, with just one rehearsal to make sure everybody still remembers it from the last 100 times they all had to trudge through it. (The audience is mainly just there for the fireworks display that follows.)

HappyHarryHardOn		2012-03-20 10:19:37 PM

1 votes:

tarkus1980: Snapper Carr: Lake's still bitter about being the least talented member of two bands.

Greg Lake is prog rock's Ringo.

I really disagree with this. Lake was a legitimately talented "conventional" songwriter whose "normal" songs were an essential part of making early ELP albums enjoyable. He was a fantastic vocalist if you like the style he used (which I do). His guitar playing made for some of the most dramatic and emotional moments on their early albums (he's really really underrated just because he didn't use his guitar to play a zillion notes a minute).

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No, because that was Keith Emerson's job

/So many notes...

Snapper Carr		2012-03-20 10:03:01 PM

1 votes:

Lake's still bitter about being the least talented member of two bands.

Greg Lake is prog rock's Ringo.

HeartBurnKid		2012-03-20 09:59:11 PM

1 votes:

So if I'm reading this right... Greg Lake is Batman?

Ebenator		2012-03-20 09:52:36 PM

1 votes:

I went through a mercifully brief ELP phase in high school. Luckily, it was short-lived, and I was smart enough not to talk about it with any girls.

nocturn		2012-03-20 09:47:43 PM

1 votes:

Solid Muldoon: I thought the whole point of punk was that there was no real music there.

Most punk musicians (Siousxie Sioux in particular) admitted that punk music was what they played while they were learning their instruments. Then they moved on to better music.

Gulper Eel		2012-03-20 08:50:47 PM

1 votes:

Third_Uncle_Eno: good thing Prog never became a fashion movement....

*shudder*

Now, now...any kid who grew up in the 70's would've killed for one of Rick Wakeman's capes, except for the ones whose moms already dressed them funny and just wanted a plain Tony Banks rugby shirt for the simple reason that it wasn't made of polyester and didn't itch like everything else mom bought. No issues here, none at all.

rhiannon		2012-03-20 07:50:10 PM

1 votes:

happydude45: Clearly the dimwitted submitter was never able to see ELP live. Sterile-sounding? Not at all. Incredible, yes.

See them live? A doubt subby has heard any ELP song other than Lucky Man playing on his mom's car radio.

elev8meL8r		2012-03-20 07:32:58 PM

1 votes:

cig-mkr		2012-03-20 07:30:52 PM

1 votes:

3: NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN - THE MOODY BLUES
Most profound lyrics ever?
Was it performed by Boris Karloff I believe.

Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy spent

Impassioned lovers wrestle as one
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young

Cold hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey and yellow, white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion

t3knomanser		2012-03-20 06:52:31 PM

1 votes:

I love ELP, but he's still completely wrong.

Dahnkster		2012-03-20 06:26:10 PM

1 votes:

AWESOME

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AWESOME

Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one and they usually stink.

Nina_Hartley's_Ass		2012-03-20 06:24:56 PM

1 votes:

HappyHarryHardOn: The best rock n roll, from its beggining to now, has always been based on simplicity, the simpler, the better... some of those prog rock bands are good, but really doesn't hold a candle next to a really good 3 chord song

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