Dodo, I'm sure everyone here can handle Pink Floyd - but the fact that you didn't mention Wish You Were Here instantly ruins your prog cred.
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i never got into wywh that much D:
i never saw what all the fuzz was about
piper at the gates of dawn is still the best thing the floyd ever did
gonna have to say that stupid dream/lightbulb sun both have a lot more traces of pop than in absentia does.
would really like to see this not be a sw wankfest but alas, he's writing a 55 min song about some more dumb shit. he needs to stop trying to be meshuggah and stop writing about xbox, and start writing good songs (like on stupid dream/lightbulb sun) or jump back to the sky moves sideways/voyage 34 type shit (except without thelyrics).
stupid dream was probably his lyrical peak, everything before that was psychedelia stoner stuff and everything after that has been just retarded honestly (except for arriving somewhere...). "like a cancer scare, in the dentists chair"? "xbox is a god to me my mother is a bitch my father gave up ever tryin to talk to me"? seriously steven?
You missed the point of Fear Of Blank Planet.
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make a band page on soundclick
make a "logo" for your "band" with a photoshop swirl filter and a badly cut out picture of you playing guitar and text with a shitty glow filter
make songs with guitar pro drums and a zoom multi-fx pedal
cover your guitar tone in chorus
sing out of tune
call it a "rockin tune"
internet prog credibility
gogogogo
make a "logo" for your "band" with a photoshop swirl filter and a badly cut out picture of you playing guitar and text with a shitty glow filter
make songs with guitar pro drums and a zoom multi-fx pedal
cover your guitar tone in chorus
sing out of tune
call it a "rockin tune"
internet prog credibility
gogogogo
I really don't think I did, because the point is that he sucks at writing songs about "modern issues" or whatever you want to classify FoaBP's lyrics as.
From Wiki...
The concept of the album was heavily influenced by Bret Easton Ellis' novel Lunar Park[26]. The novel is told from the perspective of a father, who bears the name of the novel's author himself, whereas the album is mostly from his son's perspective, an eleven-year-old kid named Robby[27]. Many of the lyrics for Fear of a Blank Planet are lifted directly from the novel, particularly "My Ashes", which is a homage to the last chapter, in which the ashes of Bret's father are scattered and cover the memories of his life.
The lyrics deal with two typical neurobehavioural developmental disorders affecting teenagers in the 21st century: bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder, and also with other common behaviour tendencies on youth like escapism through prescription drugs, social alienation caused by technology, and a feeling of vacuity product of information overload by the mass media. In an interview with Revolver magazine, Wilson described the main character of the story as "...this kind of terminally bored kid, anywhere between 10 and 15 years old, who spends all his daylight hours in his bedroom with the curtains closed, playing on his PlayStation, listening to his iPod, texting his friends on his cell phone, looking at hardcore pornography on the Internet, downloading music, films, news, violence..."[28]
I think Steven is a great lyricist overall. I never had a problem with the lyrics on FOABP, but I will also admit that music takes more of a precedent with me than the lyrics.
I want to have Prog Cred....
If you want real prog cred, then these are the bands to listen to:
-Camel (Snowgoose and Moonmadness are my personal prog favourites)
-Comus
-Eloy
-Focus (yes yes, the Hocus Pocus band
)-Van Der Graaf Generator
-Wigwam (from Finland)
-Celeste (from Italy)
-Semiramis (Italy as well)
-Tasavallan Presidentti (from Finland)
-Genesis (Peter Gabriel era)
That should sort out your prog cred!
All of these are actually bands that I personally love, since I am a huge fan of the 70's prog movement.
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