The Open-Minded Music Fans Club

Avantgardehead wrote: Figures that this degenerates into prog-bashing, anti prog-bashing bashing, and unrelated arguments...

The T wrote: Avantgardehead wrote: Figures that this degenerates into prog-bashing, anti prog-bashing bashing, and unrelated arguments...   Because people who appear to be confused come here to attack prog... I'm sure there's an "Anti-Prog forum" somewhere on the web that can suit those needs...

Interesting, I might have to start going there!

World music is amazing. If I had more of it, I'd probably listen to it almost as much as prog, but my supply is lacking at best sadly.

And Animal Collective is still amazing.

Lets see which are the non Prog bands I really like:

1. Meat Loaf
2. Cranberries
3. Fleetwood Mac (Buckingham and Nicks)
4. Journey
5. REM
6. U2 (Early)
7. OMD
8. Bob Geldoff and the Boomtown Rats
9. Jackson Browne
10. George Harrison
11. The Mamas & The Papas
12. Blind Melon
13. Neil Young
14. Crosby Stills Nash & Young
15. Eagles
16. Grand Funk Railroad
17. Bachman Turner Overdrive
18. Bob Dylan
19. The Travelling Wilburys
20. Cat Stevens

I could follow for long, the only two genres you would never find are Rap and Disco.

I think I've tended to avoid things described as 'prog' mostly, because I'm very wary of pretension/pomp... but often, don't you find that the stuff that you have assumed to be achingly pretentious and unlistenably complex turns out to be so much more sincere and interesting than its reputation suggests?  Assumptions about music... double-plus ungood, methinks.

It would be great in some ways to ditch the P-word, because often it's used in a derogatory way, but what else could we call it?!

But anyway... NON-PROGRESSIVE MUSIC!!!  Stay on topic, yes?

Some of the things I like... (and I think all of these might appeal to people who like 'progressive music'...)

Sparks (Those lyrics!  Priceless!  Their music is so intelligent and so catchy!  If Noel Coward started a glam pop band...)
Snakefinger (I need to hear more of him!  He's a little uncategorisable, and of course ineffably barmy!  In some ways it's almost like a PARODY of prog...  RIP.)
The Stooges ('Fun House' is just unendingly brilliant.  Blistering rock music with just the merest sniff of - dare I say - avant-jazz...)
The Ramones (Tired of all things epic?  Refresh yourself with the musical equivalent of toilet wall graffiti... in a GOOD WAY I mean!!)
Judee Sill (Poetic lyrics, metaphysical subject matter, ravishing orchestrations... and your girlfriend will like it!)

Eclectic Alabama, that's me...

Avantgardehead wrote: But back to the topic of open-mindedness, I find myself loving Gypsy music recently. Stuff like Estradasphere, DeVotchKa, and Gogol Bordello. I've always enjoyed ethnic music like that, especially Italian folk.

There's a Gypsy band I kind of know called Paprika Balkanicus (I've met them while they've been busking in Covent Garden and also performing at a Gypsy festival). Try them out on MySpace, they're pure Gypsy folk. Their violinist also plays in a Classical violin quartet, but I'm not sure what they're called.

dimu borgir!!!

inpraiseoffolly wrote:   punk/hardcore punk   emo (the real stuff, like Rites of Spring and At The Drive-In)

The T wrote: Avantgardehead wrote: Figures that this degenerates into prog-bashing, anti prog-bashing bashing, and unrelated arguments...   Because people who appear to be confused come here to attack prog... I'm sure there's an "Anti-Prog forum" somewhere on the web that can suit those needs...

You know T, sometimes that is PA. "This prog isn't prog because prog is ..." ; "Prog hasn't been made since 197? ..."; " what so prog about genre x or y ... "; " i like some prog, but some prog is simply just noise ... ";

Now there is an objective case that I have unsuccessfully tried to make about krautrock. But then, some people who think they know more than me ( and wouldn't you know it, that is just not a rare happening here that many actually do) come up with arguements that I cannot refute.
So i save my best shots for boosting Ange & Klaatu to the top shelf of prog acts.

debrewguy wrote: You'd be surprised how much indie music shares commonalities with prog.  The prog metal sub genres likely include some of the genres you mention.

Oh I know, that's part of what drew me to the genre in the first place. And finding progressive metal that has absolutely nothing in common with Dream Theater is something I look for everyday.