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I find punchy synthesizers and 80's midi patches cheesy. Conventional resolution to major chords. Platitudes are cheesy. Just to name a few.

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Cheesey means a bit 'over ripe' to my thinking. So most great symphonic prog is 'cheesey'. Also most of it is pretentious and pompous. ''Progtastic'' is the word I would use.
The problem with prog is that you can enjoy it perfectly well on a superficial level but many would prefer to put great meaning to what they listen to. So Tarkus is something that is undeniably cheesey and will always divide opinion. To me the very fact that it divides opinion makes it better anyway so I don't see cheesey as a criticism.
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whenever a prog band releases a hit single, it's usually cheesy. why sell out when you can sell cheese?
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When I think of cheesy, over the top theatrics don't come to mind. I would sooner associate cheesiness with Neal Morse's vocal delivery, or something like that
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Someone say...cheese?



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Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by Gallifrey Gallifrey wrote:

It means it's hard to take seriously.

Something like this.  Trite, an insufficiently simplistic or clique-ridden treatment of a serious topic, etc.  "Cheesy" music does exist, but it's my theory that the word "cheesy" is often used by people to describe something that is profound beyond their understanding, and thus considered by them to be unrealistic, overblown, pretentious, or simplistic.
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Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

I think the only truluy cheesey/pretentious Prog band I've heard is ELP. Still like em, though.

Hmmm...I'd agree with that!  Emerson wrestling with a Hammond organ onstage, plunging a dagger into the keyboard with great drama, would seem to fit the bill.  

However, many of the greats seemed to wallow in a sea of cheese!  Sir Richard Wakeman?   This photo reeks of prog cheesiness!  
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I think the only truluy cheesey/pretentious Prog band I've heard is ELP. Still like em, though.
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Originally posted by Gallifrey Gallifrey wrote:

It means it's hard to take seriously.
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It means it's hard to take seriously.
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In a few recent threads (Dio and Glass Hammer), there are numerous references to "cheesy prog."  

I think I understand what is implied, but am not sure....what, exactly, is "cheesy prog"?  A new subcategory perhaps?  

And, what is YOUR favorite cheesy-prog band?? 
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