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well in a way .. they are sort of are mandatory..  not that one has to like them.. but you best know them and their albums and know them well enough to discuss them and have and hold opinions on them.  As yeah they can be a bit divisive in terms of the view of them.. much like I say of some prog albums.. like or not..  if you don't know the album well enough to have an opinion either way.. you can not consider yourself a prog fan and in that.. that makes them more important.. inherently greatest albums that universally beloved .. often flavor of the month albums and groups.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

well in a way .. they are sort of are mandatory..  not that one has to like them.. but you best know them and their albums and know them well enough to discuss them and have and hold opinions on them.  As yeah they can be a bit divisive in terms of the view of them.. much like I say of some prog albums.. like or not..  if you don't know the album well enough to have an opinion either way.. you can not consider yourself a prog fan and in that.. that makes them more important.. inherently greatest albums that universally beloved .. often flavor of the month albums and groups.

Sure, if you assert to be authoritative about prog it is almost mandatory to know Pink Floyd well. Same for Metallica on metal, Dream Theater on prog metal. Yet things weren't that simple here. People were overwhelmingly imposing to respect and/or like them in all ways, and their musical and historical values were not exhaustive concerning respect.
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I see what you are getting at..  well you found the right site here. Here we have both types as I see them... the authoritative type.. and those who care little to nothing about prog per se.. and just like what they like and that is the end of it.  

What you saw there there I have never really seen here..  no single band that all agree that one must like. There are simply too many different types and flavors of prog and progressive rock and the really great thing about the site is there are many fans of all the different types of music and bands within the site. Easy to find a place.. a niche within what you like.. and yet if ones want to be the 'authoritative' type as you call them.. there is a lot of opportunity for that. See what you call that .. we had special names for.  Genre team members whose job was to know and evaluate the music.. regardless of whether one liked it or not.. and were expected to 'know' prog .. not simply be a fan of it or the groups they liked.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

I see what you are getting at..  well you found the right site here.


I've been following here for a loooooooooong time, perhaps from the first half of the first decade of the new millennium. Wink

I guess I may be counted amongst the semi-authoritative type. I follow the knowledge like an authoritative, yet spend somewhat less time and concentration on the ones that doesn't do it for me.

I've always liked PA, so cheers. Star
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oh you missed out of the fun days of the site...though you might have observed it... and it was a very different site than we had today. There were some that were hard core..  hard and brutal and God help you if liked some particular groups LOLWink.. or worse.. had opinions that they didn't like. 

It is a much nicer site today. Much more polite.. even if not quite as exciting or interesting.  Anyhow.. nice to talk at you.  I don't really post as much as I used to but have the time since I'm on a bit of vacation from the job.. the best of of one.. a semi permanent one...  but a stay at home type of vacation.. and it is fun to just shoot the bull here. 


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