Keep The Kids off Crap this Christmas

As a very devoted musician with love for an enormously varied selection of music, I have found that there is a lot of crap out there in a number of guises. There is even bad prog, and good pop !

I feel that people are generally exposed to quite a lot of music when they are growing up, and although they're not necesarily listening to it or analysing it, that music becomes comforting to them. I was lucky enough that my mum used to play me Mozart when I was a baby, and when I was 2yrs old I kept asking her to play me Tschaikovsky's 1812 overture over and over again!

When you listen to a lot of similar music (say if you love pop-punk ()) then after a few years you get bored. There is very little one can do of musical interest while sticking with a repeated 3-chord or 4-chord pattern. If someone ventures outside this creative black-hole, they find there is so much you can do with music. This is where prog comes in... what I term the good prog is where the music is 'progressive' because it's musically interesting (as opposed to bad prog that is 'progressive' because of what the band does, rather than the music they're playing). I haven't got bored of early Genesis in the same way that I got bored of most of Iron Maiden for example.

I think I've completely lost the plot as I was originally going to say something about me performing "But Who May Abide" from Handel's Messiah arranged for a metal band.  Good music is good music.

deviation, repetition, and just plain talking bollocks

threefates YOu aren't by chance related to Certified are you???

Would that be a good or a bad thing?

Being a newbie to this forum I don't know the ProgArchives family . Still, I am quite capable of posting nonsensical drivel in preference to churning out nonsensical java3d.

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.....you and Certified are going to get along well.

Let's just wrap all of this up by categorising the presents that should be given (drum rolls):

1. 12-14 year-olds: Wish You Were Here

2. the same age, but with horrendous tastes, like Britney or Eminem: Trans Europa Express

3. for all kids, but with a higher IQ ,who already listen to good stuff, like Sonic Youth, Nirvana or The Beatles: The Pros And Cons Of Hitchiking

4.for 14to 18 yr-olds: Tago Mago or Mekanik Destruktiv Kommandoh