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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2015 at 11:42
Originally posted by ole-the-first ole-the-first wrote:


Loool, here comes the ultimate musical truth, I guess LOL
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2015 at 11:43
I want to like solo SW, but it seems like every release I get my hopes up and end up disappointed.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2015 at 12:27
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

If any of you think that not liking Wilson means one is against the contemporary prog scene, I am afraid you are sorely mistaken - at least if you are referring to Micky and me. I have spent the best part of the past six years supporting new bands and artists with my reviews (just click on either of the links in my signature if you want proof), and we both have spent a lot of money to attend concerts and festivals featuring mostly modern artists (including both Wilson and Porcupine Tree). So, rather offensive expressions such as the ones that appear in some of the posts above mine are out of place.

I'm not sure if you were talking about my post, but I was far from thinking that. I was making a point about bashing artists or bashing people who don't share your opinion, because you can love or hate an artist without insulting them or insulting people who don't like them.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2015 at 17:45
Ah, Homo sapiens sapiens! We love to deconstruct, fragment, and categorize. Accommodate and assimilate. Define and redefine. Analyze and synthesize. Create and destroy. We are gods, each and every one of us. Only, we've become so immersed within the web of duality that we forget the Truth. 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2015 at 18:07
Steven Wilson... My favourite album involving him has always been Sky Moves Sideways. HCE is not bad, but it is not even close to that in terms of musical style, and I know which one I like best. Whether it's prog or not, I don't care. I told someone earlier this week that I admire him more as a producer than as a musician/composer.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2015 at 18:46
Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Ah, Homo sapiens sapiens! We love to deconstruct, fragment, and categorize. Accommodate and assimilate. Define and redefine. Analyze and synthesize. Create and destroy. We are gods, each and every one of us. Only, we've become so immersed within the web of duality that we forget the Truth. 
 
I am just so grateful for music!


You forgot to mention our need to Index
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2015 at 19:41
Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Ah, Homo sapiens sapiens! We love to deconstruct, fragment, and categorize. Accommodate and assimilate. Define and redefine. Analyze and synthesize. Create and destroy. We are gods, each and every one of us. Only, we've become so immersed within the web of duality that we forget the Truth. 
 
I am just so grateful for music!

Nicely said. 

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."   -- John F. Kennedy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2015 at 11:55
Where I can certainly understand people having a hard time with Steven Wilson's music, I believe that is part of what makes him so unique. What is Prog anyway? Miles Davis? Supertramp? Godspeed You Black Emperor? Whatever it is, I dig it. And thank God for Mr. Wilson and what's he's doing to give progressive music a higher profile.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2015 at 13:45
At first, progressive rock-music was called progressive rock - then it became a genre and stopped being progressive.

Edited by lostrom - July 04 2015 at 18:47
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2015 at 21:50
I love his latest album---but let's face it---he rips off the best of the best prog and yet finds his "voice"---so yeah he's prog rock to answer the question.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 05 2015 at 06:02
I am not much into SW's music - it is mostly too gloomy and downbeat to my taste - and there were times when I doubted its "progness", until I realized that I once again had confused "prog" and "music I like" ;)

No, SW's music is prog, and despite not liking it much, I am deeply respectful of his intelligence and skill.  And what regards him denying his music was prog - Robert Fripp did the same.  But he indeed has a point in that few prog bands of our times are as literally progressive as the great classical prog bands were.

Yet, "progressive rock" is a label for a particular tradition within rock music, one that isn't always literally progressive, and has no monopoly on being progressive or innovative.  Well, it is just a label, and language isn't always logical but based on conventions.  I am an amateur linguistician, and I think I have a pretty good idea how language works and how not.  Like not every black bird being a blackbird.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 05 2015 at 07:11
I doubt Sectarian and Luminol are Pop-songs........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2015 at 19:19
Pat Metheny derided his group as being labeled as jazz-rock/fusion. 

Do you know what you are, you are what you is.

Steven is very influenced by past prog.  To deny it is ridiculous...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 07 2015 at 15:09
Of course he's progressive rock.....both PT and Wilson are on Prog Rock Archives here.
What other litmus test do we need?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2015 at 02:34
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

He's prog rock in my book and Bonnamassa is blues in my book.
The idea that you have to be Muddy Wters to be called the blues or Yes to be called prog rock is
well.....stupid.
 
 
 
 


Completely agree.. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w8SY_9yO8k

 If that's not prog ,what is it?
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