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

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! 

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