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

No.  I even foist my love for prog onto others, such as my dear wife (she calls it "guy music").

Not at all! Prog and proud!

Why would anyone have to hide liking prog? It has the beautiful quality of hiding itself. Either you understand it and like or others think it sounds like noise.

Hide from who?

Edited by awaken77 - January 04 2018 at 08:40

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

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 They think it was so out of date that time.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

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?"

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

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.

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.