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Pan's People dancing to Spirit Of Radio or Fanfare For The Common Man. That could never happen..
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I preferred hot gossip....
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Originally posted by M27Barney M27Barney wrote:

If you can dance to it without looking like a lunatic scarecrow on columbian marching powder then its not prog...

Oh have Joy Division been added?
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Progressive rock? Prog rock. Uhhh ... hmmm ... erm ... <cough> ... umm ... well ... do ya like Progresso Soup? Yes? Me too. It's got bits of carrot, over-cooked potato, extremely slimy pasta, lentils, garbanzo beans, favavavava bean, various members of the pea family, salt, broth, onion, celery, spinach, green beans, olive oil, balsamic vinegar. It's kinda like that but with music.
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I've always used the word "transcendental" to describe prog in general, so I obviously approve of said word.

In all honesty though, I think overall people just like categories and arguing over what's what. Metal forums in general are some of the most hostile places, and that's just sub-genre discussion. You see it everywhere, lol.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
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iTunes keeps telling me all the Tangerine Dream CDs I've bought recently are "New Age". Maybe I should get a load of those Pan Pipe albums from the 10 CDs for a pound shelves in the charity shop Sleepy.
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Originally posted by WeepingElf WeepingElf wrote:

Because I feel that genre classifications are (or should be; they are not always) useful guidelines to finding music one would probably like. So if someone tells me that a band does prog, I conclude that it is worth giving a try (not that I'd automatically like it; there is some prog that I don't like much - prog can be bland and mediocre - and these days there is quite some music that is labelled "prog rock" but I don't get what is prog about it). Of course, there is music I like that isn't prog, but when I read that band XY does, for instance, blackened death metal (or gangsta rap or EBM), I know that I probably won't like their music, and can discard it beforehand.
 
Yeah. In my opinion trying to combine black and death metals together is practically a contradiction and I would automatically distrust any band identifying as such.
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