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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Topic: What statement do you get most tired of hearing? Posted: April 11 2018 at 09:54 |
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Kind of an odd poll topic but I'm curious anyway since sometimes I hear the same things from people who maybe don't know any better.
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Manuel
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 09 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12295 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 10:13 | |
"The best musicians are Prog musicians" is probably what I'm tired of hearing from many prog fans. "What is that stuff you listen to called?" is probably what I'm more tired of listening from non-Prog fans.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Offline Points: 16040 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 10:14 | |
Wow, I didn't even think of those but you are right. Good ones.
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ForestFriend
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 23 2017 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 680 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 10:21 | |
Basically any variant of "It's been done before" or "This music is not "progressing" rock, but it fits into the genre of prog rock, therefore it's bad".
As far as I'm concerned, as long as a band is making good music, it shouldn't matter if they've got a brand new sound, or if they're going for a retro vibe. And on the other hand, just because someone is pushing the envelope or breaking barriers, it doesn't mean their music is any good. |
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ReactioninG
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 26 2017 Location: Massachusetts Status: Offline Points: 156 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 10:23 | |
I picked Eighties Yes and Genesis suck.
Owner of A Lonely Heart! Much Better Than An Abacab! Isn't anywhere doesn't really care Big Generator! Hands upon the wheel Moving to the left (Moving!) Land of Confusion! This is the world we live in and these are the hands we're given eh? eh? |
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Tapfret
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 12 2007 Location: Bryant, Wa Status: Offline Points: 8571 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 10:28 | |
Any statement with the words "musical masturbation". Tends to say more about the speaker than the intended target.
"I don't like complexity for the sake of complexity." Well la-dee-da Carnac the Magnificent. Thank you for having your finger on the pulse of artists and interpreting their true motivation for me. Also, any "...overrated....underrated..." narrative.
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verslibre
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 14879 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 10:57 | |
Other: "Sounds like they're making it up as they go along." (!!!)
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Hrychu
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 03 2013 Location: poland? Status: Online Points: 4004 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 12:46 | |
Other.
Any modern band, that's very derivative of 70s prog is bad. That statement has come up a buncha times in some PA reviews. I can't recall any particular instance unfortunately. IMO that's a narrow minded way of thinking. EDIT: Oh, okay! Here's a great example of this! Edited by Hrychu - April 11 2018 at 12:57 |
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Bez pierdolenia sygnał zerwie, to w realia wychodź w hełmie!
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AFlowerKingCrimson
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Offline Points: 16040 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 14:20 | |
Well, if I read something where a review tries to degrade an album by saying it sounds like Yes all that tells me is that I would probably like it since Yes are one of my favorite bands. Also, I've never heard Wobbler described as a copy band before. I doubt they are more of a Yes wannabe band than Marillion was to Genesis. Anyway, "it sounds too much like such and such band" is a good example of a statement that is used a lot in the prog community. I find that sometimes it's true but more times than not even if it has a passing resemblance to an older band(which is sometimes more or less inevitable)people will make that statement.
Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - April 11 2018 at 14:20 |
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Man With Hat
Collaborator Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166178 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 14:34 | |
option 2
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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Quinino
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Posted: April 11 2018 at 15:12 | |
"Music shouldn't be complex - after all it's just meant to entertain while one is doing something else, right?"
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Tillerman88
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 31 2015 Location: Tomorrowland Status: Offline Points: 495 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 15:12 | |
Other:
"Pink Floyd are prog." "The Who are proto-prog." "Deep Purple are proto-prog." "Led Zeppelin are proto-prog" "Grateful Dead are proto-prog." Doh........... |
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The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories...
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Upbeat Tango Monday
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 10 2015 Location: Buenos Aires Status: Offline Points: 1189 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 15:21 | |
I'm tired of the "prog rock is not progressing" as well. It's a musical genre that's almost free form since its inception. You can play any instrument, do whatever the f*** you want, even a didgeridoo solo. So that statement is fairly idiotic.
Steven Wilson, for instance, adhered to that quote instead of saying he wanted to make a pop record. That's cowardice and fear telling it how it is, fear of alienating the fanbase and losing sales. |
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Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement.
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Squonk19
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2015 Location: Darlington, UK Status: Offline Points: 4687 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 16:46 | |
"How can you like them? ..they're sooooooo mainstream!"
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“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
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Frenetic Zetetic
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 09 2017 Location: Now Status: Offline Points: 9228 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 17:27 | |
OTHER, for a variety of reasons:
"This sounds incoherent" "This sounds like they're making it up" "This sounds like they're not even trying" "This is pretentious and too busy" "Musical masturbation/complexity for the sake of it" (usually said by a person who doesn't have a definition of what constitutes complex, but insists that the music is too complex for their liking anyway)
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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verslibre
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 14879 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 17:42 | |
Got another one: "Who listens to the bass in a song?"
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Progosopher
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 12 2009 Location: Coolwood Status: Offline Points: 6393 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 17:42 | |
Pretty much what I was going to say. The 'progressive' in rock has always been more about progressing the basic song with variation rather than doing something that hasn't been done before. There is room for that, of course, and we have to allow our artists to follow their own vision - whether that vision was conceived 50 years or 50 days ago.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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maryes
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Posted: April 11 2018 at 18:56 | |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Offline Points: 16040 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 19:31 | |
I see a lot of posts on youtube when I watch GG videos or KC or any old seventies band and almost inevitably I will read someone say "there aren't any bands like this anymore." I just changed it to prog in this site. I get tired of having to point out to these guys that prog still exist. Seriously they are typing on the internet how can they still think prog died? I don't get it.
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ProgMetaller2112
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 08 2012 Location: Pacoima,CA,USA Status: Offline Points: 3145 |
Posted: April 11 2018 at 21:03 | |
Out of the ones here and I will get hate for it too
"In the court of the Crimson King was the first prog album"
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