A young prog fan here to say... we exist *shrug*

Today is my 20th birthday! I was born in this century but I like prog and I am here to simply state that. (I'm also a woman who likes prog but whatevs :D ). I was introduced to prog rock by my dad but I took it further than him... he only really likes Pink Floyd, Rush, Porcupine Tree and Steve Hogarth Marillion. I learned to appreciate this kind of music, and thus I never remembered once being on the same page, music taste-wise, as my peers and it was a bit isolating. I learned to not give a sh*t (are we allowed to use profanity here? *edit: I guess not) about what anyone else thinks, but it is funny having someone ask what my music taste is... they don't expect the answer to be prog rock, that's for sure.

When I harnessed the power of the Internet, forums like this, rateyourmusic and others, as well as the obvious music-finding apps/websites Youtube, Spotify, Pandora to a lesser extent, I found more and more music that fit my tastes, which I didn't know at the time, was more proggy and obscure than my dad, who introduced me to it in the first place So, now I like Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator, JTull, Camel, Renaissance, PFM and Banco and recently came across the beauty of Anglagard's Hybris thanks to this site. I am pretty sure my dad has never listened to half of those bands. This will forever be MY genre, and I hope to find even more bands that can rank as highly as those that I listed.


Additional note: it took a while for almost every band to really click, likely cause I have ADHD and zoned out too much in the long epics lol. VDGG and GG were especially difficult to get into but now have many highly ranked songs on my all time fav songs list

Edited by ClosetothSupperBrick - September 09 2020 at 01:26

Wait, you say you're a young prog fan but you're 20, you're not tooo young. I'm 14 and it's nearly impossible to find people my age. But yes we do exist. This is also my first post/comment here, pretty cool place! 

Nice to see all you youngsters posting here, happy to see the interest. One of my daughters is into prog since I infected her on drives to school, she doesn't post in forums but has been to a bunch of festivals. Always good to see.

dougmcauliffe wrote: I’m 19, lots of us over on the prog rock subreddit and in some of the discord channels.

Edited by Spacegod87 - September 09 2020 at 05:34

I'm glad to know young people like yourself are into this kind of music. Congratulations!!!! and a very happy birthday to you!!!!

ClosetothSupperBrick wrote: Today is my 20th birthday! I was born in this century but I like prog and I am here to simply state that. (I'm also a woman who likes prog but whatevs :D ). I was introduced to prog rock by my dad but I took it further than him... he only really likes Pink Floyd, Rush, Porcupine Tree and Steve Hogarth Marillion. I learned to appreciate this kind of music, and thus I never remembered once being on the same page, music taste-wise, as my peers and it was a bit isolating. I learned to not give a sh*t (are we allowed to use profanity here? *edit: I guess not) about what anyone else thinks, but it is funny having someone ask what my music taste is... they don't expect the answer to be prog rock, that's for sure. When I harnessed the power of the Internet, forums like this, rateyourmusic and others, as well as the obvious music-finding apps/websites Youtube, Spotify, Pandora to a lesser extent, I found more and more music that fit my tastes, which I didn't know at the time, was more proggy and obscure than my dad, who introduced me to it in the first place So, now I like Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator, JTull, Camel, Renaissance, PFM and Banco and recently came across the beauty of Anglagard's Hybris thanks to this site. I am pretty sure my dad has never listened to half of those bands. This will forever be MY genre, and I hope to find even more bands that can rank as highly as those that I listed. Additional note: it took a while for almost every band to really click, likely cause I have ADHD and zoned out too much in the long epics lol. VDGG and GG were especially difficult to get into but now have many highly ranked songs on my all time fav songs list

Prog fans (or any genre) come in many forms. While perhaps dominated by males over 40 (50, 60?), there is always a younger fanbase too.

Edit: Cool to see that you like RPI. If you haven't already, I suggest listening to the latest album by LogoS, released in 2020.

Edited by Zeph - September 09 2020 at 11:27

many happy returns, and great to see the enthusiasm of “da yoof” for this music, and intelligent comments and posts. Almost enough to give one faith in the future of the human race......