Do you like most prog rock?

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Rocks are hard and they hurt when they're thrown at you. I should know better than anyone.

Thatfabulousalien wrote: WeepingElf wrote: So you prefer progressive music over prog. Once upon a time it was prog but I've come to love music of most genres. I'm interested in sounds I haven't heard before and the endless sea of possibilities music has to offer, aka not putting myself in a box. I explored a lot of "classic prog" in my teens but admittedly got bored with it after a while.  The past 5 years I've been especially obsessed with 20th century classical music and I've explored it's many facets.

I am intellectually interested in various kinds of "progressive" music, including not only prog but such things as free jazz, contemporary classical, Krautrock and what I call, for lack of a better term, "anti-prog", the dark yin to the colourful yang of prog (or is that the dark yang to the colourful yin?), the cynic and nihilist side of artistic rock starting with the Velvet Underground, Zappa and the like, and onward through noise rock and industrial to technical extreme metal and whatever label one may attach to bands like Tool. These kinds of music are for a large part more complex, sophisticated and radical than most prog.

But when it comes for listening to something for pleasure, I prefer prog, from proto and classic prog through neo-prog and heavy prog to prog metal, new prog and even that much-maligned retro prog.

Right now I'm actually starting to get in to hip hop/rap, believe it or not. I like folk music, metal, jazz, "early music" (medieval and renaissance), electronic, funk, etc etc without getting into subgenres.  But ultimately I'm more interested in the future than the past now

Fair. So you are very broad-minded when it comes to music; this is certainly a good thing. I am also more interested in the future than the past. But the past is what we have, the future is what we still have to make. I hope to contribute to the future of prog with my band, Path of Vision. Meanwhile, I have ideas that are too radical for that band, and may pursue them in solo projects later.



Edited by WeepingElf - January 08 2017 at 14:26

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Rick5A wrote: I am really more of a jazz guy and play guitar in a quartet, but I have always mixed in a healthy dose of prog rock and classical. I have been listening to prog since the early 1980s.  I recently got some excellent new suggestions here that I have been enjoying.  That being said, I find prog (broadly defined) to be a very frustrating genre for me. I absolutely love bands like Yes, Gentle Giant, Yezda Urfa, The Flower Kings, echolyn, and some Magma.   Right now, I am really enjoying some cuts from Seven Steps to the Green Door's Fetish, 3rdegree, Cheeto's Magazine, Moon Safari, Ampledeed, and Mad Fellaz. However, it's a pain in the neck to find this stuff!  Most prog sounds absolutely awful to me (e.g., terrible vocals, complexity for the sake of complexity). I have been sorting through the reviews here by year and trying to listen to albums with ratings of 3.5 or greater in a few subcategories (eclectic, crossover, symphonic, neo-prog). The vast majority of albums that are rated greater than 3.5 stars I find unlistenable.  I generally have to sift through 50 or so albums before I find something that I like (that's how I found Ampledeed, Mad Fellaz, and Cheeto's magazine - by probably listening to parts of 150 other albums that I didn't like at all).  So here's my question: Do you find yourself liking most prog, or do you have to listen to a ton of stuff to find a few gems?

Ain't dated. Jesus. Just isn't playdoh colored, like a Marvel film. We'd all be better off if popcul abruptly fell into the abyss. Ain't nothin novel in it, and never gonna be no more.

Edited by Asund - January 11 2017 at 16:51

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For me it's the diversity and virtuosity.
I'll never stop loving prog. I look at all my prog albums as my investment and retirement package.
Will listen to the day I die. Some albums are coming to the grave with me.