How many listen exclusively to prog?

Progosopher wrote: 59 year-old here. I was listening to Desolation Blvd. last week. I was in high school when the album came out and I have always enjoyed it. Both Ballroom Blitz and Fox on the Run were big hits and all over the place. Knew a girl we called Blitz because she somehow fits the song - savage on the surface but rather sweet (sic) underneath. I have always thought of Sweet as a good band despite all their bubblegum music and their Slade-light image. And no, I am definitely not all prog all the time. Wildly eclectic in musical tastes but I consider prog at the core, somewhere between all the other rock and the classical, as well as the jazz, that I listen to.

I am also big Sweet-fan, I think I was four or five years old when heard "Sweet Fanny Adams" first time that is still my fav album from them. But Desolation, Strung Up and Give Us a Wink are also really great albums! Liked also that first bubblegum album, I think two last songs in it showed what was coming.

Edited by Mortte - March 04 2020 at 02:07

I used to be one of those people who was just a prog elitist, but it wasn't until I discovered Swans that I branched out into genres like noise rock and industrial rock and neofolk and that. I've been missing out!

I have about 50% prog in my collection (meaning listed here, which includes the Beatles and Miles Davis ), and this is probably a good reflection how much prog I listen to. The other 50% are very mixed. I have a thing for experimental/avantgarde/modern composers, a good chunk of art and alt rock and post punk, some jazz and classic, some folk/singer/songwriter, some good stuff that normally files under "world music" etc.

Last night, whilst working out at the gym, a slew of 1970s Disco songs came on!  

Really? Who listens to ANYTHING exclusively? How boring that would be

I think that progressive rock is broad enough that one can listen to it exclusively and still have a broader musical taste than most people.

Pretty much all Prog for me. I wouldn’t have said so before I came to this site, because Prog to me was just Symph Prog. I listened to Zappa for a long time without considering him Prog. Now I do, so... I listened to Jazz like Kind of Blue, but Miles Davis is a PA Artist. I listened a lot to Shawn Phillips, but he is now Prog-Related. Other Folk? Gordon Lightfoot isn’t on PA yet, I don’t think. I listen a lot to a Classical radio station, but I don’t know one composer from another by and large, and I don’t know if it counts not owning it. I listen to who knows what when I’m put on hold. I like Japanese bamboo flute and Native American flutes. I listen to Peyote music fairly often. I like Ragtime too.

Nothing here become officially Prog in a way until it's added to the database even though that still doesn't make Kind of Blue Prog. ;) Oh that complete discography policy and not tagging individual albums.

There's a ton of stuff I listened to before it was adding to the database -- quite a bit of it I suggested or evaluated.

^Tinnitus is about 20% of what I hear lol