What makes people find Prog boring?

emigre80 wrote: Gerinski wrote: Most women like it long, except when it comes to songs    I'm going to take exception to that remark on the grounds that it perpetuates the "women don't like prog" stereotype.  Because they do.

There's a difference between "long songs" and "prog songs".

Gerinski wrote: ^well sorry if that was a bit too rude a joke for posting in PA

Don't worry, I've said worse.

There are definitely many more male prog fans than female prog fans. I know it is an unfair when this is generalised, but the stereotype does have foundation in truth.

zravkapt wrote: Terakonin wrote: There are definitely many more male prog fans than female prog fans. There are also way more male murderers than female ones. Coincidence?

emigre80 wrote: Pastmaster wrote: zravkapt wrote: Terakonin wrote: There are definitely many more male prog fans than female prog fans. There are also way more male murderers than female ones. Coincidence? Looks like these albums need some sort of warning on the backs. 'Warning, listening may cause homicide'.    well, that depends.  Have we yet established a link between prog and murder?  and if so, will someone write a 20 minute neo-prog epic (complete with keyboard solos) about it?

^Great, can't wait to hear it. I'm sure it'll instantly get on the top 100. 

zravkapt wrote: Terakonin wrote: There are definitely many more male prog fans than female prog fans. There are also way more male murderers than female ones. Coincidence?

Pastmaster wrote: Terakonin wrote: zravkapt wrote: Terakonin wrote: There are definitely many more male prog fans than female prog fans. There are also way more male murderers than female ones. Coincidence?   I don't get what your intention was by saying that. We know that there a more male murderers than female murderers, we know there are more male prog fans than female prog fans. There doesn't need to be a direct link. I think it was just meant to be a joke.

Edited by Terakonin - March 16 2015 at 22:18

I think the revulsion to odd time sigs also goes back to what Toddler was saying in his comment. If you wean people off complexity for too long, they may not know what to make of it as they will find it unfamiliar. The rule of thumb is people don't respond well to whatever is outside their comfort zone and prefer to assume it is 'wrong'. Ideological dogma is dangerous, in music or otherwise. That position held in mainstream music since the 80s is that complexity of any kind is bad. What is bad is an excess of complexity where it is not apt. Taking all complexity to be bad is only to restrict your options. You can see the presence of dogma in the way Police strenuously deny the sophistication in their music and call it accidental, so that they can maintain their anti prog stance. Called poseurism in metal parlance.

Svetonio wrote: I remmember that at the time when I was a kid in middle 70s that people who didn't like to listen prog rock that they were about it as "it's a sad music" or "too psycho", rather than "boring". I think the reason is that back then all young people were listening to some rock music; if not prog, it was Rock, Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Southern Rock... and all of that was more of less a good stuff although not prog as the most artistic rock genre ever. Today, the music is ghettoised so much that all the kinds of music are more and more "boring" just if it fall outside of our own personal taste and (or) our circle of friends.