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Topic: What Music Genre is the opposite of Prog Rock? Posted: October 12 2010 at 12:01
I would say commercial techno such as our Belgian Milk Inc is very much the opposite of prog: - no new sonic inventions - no thematic development - nothing but 4/4 beats - very conservative and commercial approach
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Posted: October 12 2010 at 11:14
Textbook wrote:
I second the Asian music thing.
I lived in China for years and whatever the opposite of prog is, it's what they listen to. You think American teenagers are bad you ain't seen nothing yet. Imagine a world where Westlife is considered cutting edge visionary brilliance.
People who haven't lived there will think I'm being sardonic. The truely scary thing is that I am ABSOLUTELY SERIOUS.
You are right about Asian rock, Asian MUSIC - terribly wrong.
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Posted: October 12 2010 at 04:45
I second the Asian music thing.
I lived in China for years and whatever the opposite of prog is, it's what they listen to. You think American teenagers are bad you ain't seen nothing yet. Imagine a world where Westlife is considered cutting edge visionary brilliance.
People who haven't lived there will think I'm being sardonic. The truely scary thing is that I am ABSOLUTELY SERIOUS.
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 17:09
Punk -alot of punk rockers throw out the rules in music completely, and alot of them cannot play their instruments, when in alot of really progressive rock, such is not the case
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Posted: October 11 2010 at 13:46
paganinio wrote:
it's easy to beat that. Windows XP makes a "ding" sound when you click on certain places. Definitely less complex than your acapella music. The genre is called "simple electronic beep music."
Ha! But did you know who wrote that ding??
Robert Fripp!
....on vista at least, anyway. This makes it automatically very meaningful and complex.
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Posted: October 10 2010 at 02:12
it's easy to beat that. Windows XP makes a "ding" sound when you click on certain places. Definitely less complex than your acapella music. The genre is called "simple electronic beep music."
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Posted: October 09 2010 at 10:23
^ It's literally one, unaccompanied voice singing a simple melody (or many voices singing the same melody). And this melody isn't even complex enough to be a major or minor scale; it's a mode (only uses white notes on a piano) and generally only moves in single steps (so no semitones and no big leaps). The only thing complex about it is the fact they're singing in Latin.......
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Posted: October 07 2010 at 09:42
ten years after wrote:
I suppose it's either prog paper or prog scissor.
Best answer yet
https://soundcloud.com/why-music Prog trio, from ambiant to violence
https://soundcloud.com/m0n0-film Film music and production projects
https://soundcloud.com/fadisaliba (almost) everything else
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Posted: October 06 2010 at 02:31
Textbook wrote:
You are knocking punk when you say "unimaginative lyrics". It also suggests you haven't really listened to punk as a big part of the point was that these types of lyrics had never really been sung before so they were anything but unimaginative. Try The Dead Kennedys or Minor Threat for a start off.
And seriously, it's pub rock, end of discussion. Folk and punk and hip-hop require some degree of inventiveness to be considered good/great. With pub rock as in Status Quo or AC/DC it's sort of the POINT that you not do anything interesting.
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