Introducing a friend to prog,

[Yesspaz]

So I've got this friend Lori that I've introduced to prog, and she loves it. I let her borrow a bunch of music, and she wrote me a message on Facebook and I thought I'd share a bit of it. My copy of Amarok, by the way, I edited into sections for easier searching. In fact, it's the identical editing I did for Amarok for the AM library. Here's what she said:

"Anyway, I kept it running at work this afternoon, so today, I've gone through Asia, Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, In the Court of the Crimson King, Amarok, and through The Doge's Palace on The Millennium Bell. I like "The Doge's Palace." I really like the Amarok album; this is great for listening at work. I think I heard something like a frog croaking "Happy" at random. I liked the random speech like "Do you know, I think I cold dance" and the random Irish music.

Amarok II was particularly interesting. About 3 minutes into Amarok II it goes into something like a rock cross between bluegrass and Renfaire music, and that bullfrog croaky sound that sounded like it was saying "quantum physics," and in the last 4 minutes there's that Spanish guitar bit. Then III has this sort of spacy carnival polka at 6:03 that turns into an African-safari space rock or something.

Does this mean I'm an Oldfield fan now?"


I told her yes.