Prog is dead, so dead

Oh come on... there is nothing...NOTHING that is vaguely listenable that goes under the heading 'prog'. God know what 'avant gard, post math, indo raga extreme' etc means... all I know is that it's all awful. The whole point is that you take the stifling limits of basic rock music and take it further... longer... MORE melodic. I am so sick of bands that describe their music as 'influenced by the 70's greats with a new twist'. It all comes down to compositional ability... spending time writing a tune...duuh! Please tell me I'm wrong and name some modern exceptions.... in all honesty i bet you can't.

I could list lots that I enjoy, but I suspect that you'd just say it's awful.

mlkpad14 wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Discipline - To Shatter All Accord (2011) That one's quite the masterpiece! Absolutely amazing!

Oh Yeah !!!

Roger, be warned, you might very soon have to revert your opinion just by hanging around here - do yourself a favour, just keep your mind (and ears) open, please


Edited by Quinino - July 21 2017 at 14:25

I can't agree with that, just because I know nothing in music. 

In the words of progaholic the first:

In the hearts of prog lovers, prog never went away. It looked desparate but we always believed... and were proved right!

Strangely enough, original prog had heart.  It had genuine soul and feeling, which warmed an otherwise technical music.

Tapfret wrote: <span style="font-size: 14.0078px; line-height: 19.611px;">Saying stuff is dead is dead. Get over it.</span>

Don't I know it. My mother-in-law died recently and the funeral director seemed uncomfortable when I used the term dead, and would instead repetitively use the passed away phrase. I think that some coroners and forensic pathologists might still say that some stuff is dead, but never Prog that I've heard.

Dr. Larry Pines: No matter what you think of me, I am not a murderer.
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: Tell that to those seven de..., erm, delivered unto heaven people.

People say this about most genres, I guess most genres are dead

OK, as I understand, it is modern prog that you dislike so much, but you do like 70's prog. I do like many modern bands/albums, but I guess I understand what you mean, and yes, there is something lost from the 70's that just doesn't seem to work anymore. I guess most of the albums I have come to love from the last years would bear the same problems for you that you already mentioned, but I might try and sugest "The Final Breath Before November" from Edison's Children. That one might just as well work. Otherwise, just keep looking for music from the 70's, there's a fair ammount of it that you would not need any more music anyway.