Do you try to hide the fact that you like prog?

Mascodagama wrote: Mortte wrote: But I think the most popular times of prog here in Finland was in the end of nineties and begin of 2000. You know prog really wasn´t that big thing in Finland at seventies as it was in UK. That's interesting to learn! I had figured that with all the great seventies bands from Finland the progressive thing must have been pretty big there. Maybe more of a big cult?

Well, I think Wigwam and Tasavallan Presidentti have a little, but very excited fanbase. Others really haven´t got fans and also gigs, so that´s was the reason, why many bands just made one album. I think for example Haikara´s Vesa Lattunen would have creativity a lot more than just those five albums they made, but here just wasn´t a big interest to Haikara. The main reason why Iso Lintu is so different than those two first albums is that they try to make it more commercial (but failed). Lattunen just had to do something else that compose great music for his living. Also, I think that will give you picture how famous prog was seventies here, that only Wigwam got one gold album, from "Nuclear Nightclub". Also I think Wigwam would have ended earlier if they hadn´t got that Virgin deal and gigs from UK and other European countries.

I don´t hide anything in music. I don´t understand guilty pleasure term at all. I like what I like.

I tried to hide the fact that I loved Saturday Night Fever... but I can't anymore.

Nope, I'm proud of the fact that I think I'm more intelligent than the millions of modern pop music lovers out there demonstrated by the fact that my ears prefer stimulation to brain melting cr@p. 

Rock culture is not what it used to be.  I mean Tull and Yes and ELP were popular, even chart-topping.  A grand and glorious time.

^ If you get as far as obscure band names you're way ahead of the game -

Only when I think the person won't know what the hell I'm going on about.   Still, the reaction is often something like, "Oh, with the flutes, am I right?"

Mortte wrote: It´s still not very cool to like prog in certain music listeners groups. Also, in the end of seventies and begin of eighties no-one in the record companies and music magazines didn´t want to hear anything about prog. They think it was so out of date that time.

In the UK this carried on throughout the eighties and into the nineties. Saying you liked prog wild get you looked at with pitying scorn at best, and in certain 'hip' circles it would have been the next thing to admitting you were into necrophilia. Actually in some of those circles it may have been viewed as worse

And this is a worldview that is still held by many fiftysomething and sixtysomething British trendies - greying now but still possessed of their youthful certainties - for whom “I hate prog” is one of the eternal verities.

Edited by Mascodagama - February 07 2018 at 01:59

hide it? most people don't even know what it is. 

Hide from who?

Edited by awaken77 - January 04 2018 at 08:40