Keep The Kids off Crap this Christmas

Prog is a difficult music to be interested in. Me and a few friends decided that most people with music just want to be entertained and not blown away.

Movies for example, the majority of people would watch "There's something about Mary" over "Citizen Cain"

And before you refute me with "Movies arent music!" please take into consideration that both are a leisure activity, and both have the capacity to be art rather than mere filler for time. In the world of arts the closest thing to music is film(movies and i suppose even television)

So I think its just best to accept that the majority of people wont ever like prog as a genre (although liking a band or two isnt out of the question) and buy them something they would enjoy.

Edited by Hangedman

Yah, lol get them something K00l! (Lol), like maybe Duke (I think Dennis Got me thta) Lol, I looked! Anyway, I downloaded some of the stuff form kazza and its good. The picture on the froont is realy funny 2!

Let's just wrap all of this up by categorising the presents that should be given (drum rolls):

1. 12-14 year-olds: Wish You Were Here

2. the same age, but with horrendous tastes, like Britney or Eminem: Trans Europa Express

3. for all kids, but with a higher IQ ,who already listen to good stuff, like Sonic Youth, Nirvana or The Beatles: The Pros And Cons Of Hitchiking

4.for 14to 18 yr-olds: Tago Mago or Mekanik Destruktiv Kommandoh

Indeed.

It is difficult to get people to give prog a chance more than anything else.  Most folks would probably find something to like in prog if they actually listened to it.  However, not many people are willing to sit through ten minute plus masterpieces.

One day, lads, one day.

threefates YOu aren't by chance related to Certified are you??? [/QUOTE wrote: Would that be a good or a bad thing? Being a newbie to this forum I don't know the ProgArchives family

Would that be a good or a bad thing?

Being a newbie to this forum I don't know the ProgArchives family . Still, I am quite capable of posting nonsensical drivel in preference to churning out nonsensical java3d.

Dont worry ive done that kind of thing before, typed up a long post and just as i clicked to post my internet mucks up and i lose it all.

Welcome to the forum anyhow

is it just me or is the above post^ invisible

Edit: oops im a bit late

Edited by will

you didn't put anything

I have converted some of my friends to prog. The Teenage Progger Ranks have been Raised!!!

As a very devoted musician with love for an enormously varied selection of music, I have found that there is a lot of crap out there in a number of guises. There is even bad prog, and good pop !

I feel that people are generally exposed to quite a lot of music when they are growing up, and although they're not necesarily listening to it or analysing it, that music becomes comforting to them. I was lucky enough that my mum used to play me Mozart when I was a baby, and when I was 2yrs old I kept asking her to play me Tschaikovsky's 1812 overture over and over again!

When you listen to a lot of similar music (say if you love pop-punk ()) then after a few years you get bored. There is very little one can do of musical interest while sticking with a repeated 3-chord or 4-chord pattern. If someone ventures outside this creative black-hole, they find there is so much you can do with music. This is where prog comes in... what I term the good prog is where the music is 'progressive' because it's musically interesting (as opposed to bad prog that is 'progressive' because of what the band does, rather than the music they're playing). I haven't got bored of early Genesis in the same way that I got bored of most of Iron Maiden for example.

I think I've completely lost the plot as I was originally going to say something about me performing "But Who May Abide" from Handel's Messiah arranged for a metal band.  Good music is good music.

deviation, repetition, and just plain talking bollocks