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Ange is fantastic. I don't speak French which adds to the experience for me. If you like Ange, check out Pulsar (my favorite French group). If you can't handle vocals, try Arachnoid.
BTW, I have two daughters, ages 17 and 15. About 4 years ago took them both to see their first concert, by an incredible local band called ProgNation. In addition to a few original tunes, the band played spot-on covers of King Crimson (21st Century Schizoid Man and Court of Crimson King, if you can believe it), Pete Gabriel, Moody Blues, Genesis, Yes, ELP and other classics. I figured if they didn't like the songs of one group they might like another. They liked ALL of it, and after the show met the band who were very kind to us. In fact, it was guitarist Chris Cudo's birthday and my kids got a piece of birthday cake!
Anyway, about a week later we were in the car and I was playing an ELP compilation I'd made. They loved Lucky Man, From The Beginning and Take A Pebble, but then Tarkus came on. I figured that might be a bit too much for them so after about 30 seconds I switched to the next song.
My oldest daughter yelled at me. "What are you doing? I loved that! Put it back on!"
Probaby the proudest moment I've had as a dad.
BTW, ProgNation (from Cleveland) have reformed as Cuda/Schief/Cuda playing all-original (and fantastic) music. As soon as a CD is recorded I'll try to get it on ProgArchives. They are really great. Opening for Nektar next week and for Brand X in April.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

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Also, and I could be wrong(and hope I am)but it seems like most younger fans(20's)either aren't into or don't know about the somewhat lesser known older prog bands such as Barclay James Harvest, Eloy, Triumvirat, Starcastle, Strawbs, Nektar, Greenslade, PFM, Curved Air, Happy the Man, Grobschnitt, Banco, Earth and Fire, Ange, Finch, etc etc. 
 
I'm just about old enough to have heard of all of those bands., although I'm not sure about Ange. Smile

I'm not overly familiar but Ange were a French band similar to early Genesis.
That sounds promising. I'd probably like Ange if they sound like early Genesis. Smile

That will depend on how you feel about vocals sung in French. ;)
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Also, and I could be wrong(and hope I am)but it seems like most younger fans(20's)either aren't into or don't know about the somewhat lesser known older prog bands such as Barclay James Harvest, Eloy, Triumvirat, Starcastle, Strawbs, Nektar, Greenslade, PFM, Curved Air, Happy the Man, Grobschnitt, Banco, Earth and Fire, Ange, Finch, etc etc. 
 
I'm just about old enough to have heard of all of those bands., although I'm not sure about Ange. Smile

I'm not overly familiar but Ange were a French band similar to early Genesis.
That sounds promising. I'd probably like Ange if they sound like early Genesis. Smile
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Also, and I could be wrong(and hope I am)but it seems like most younger fans(20's)either aren't into or don't know about the somewhat lesser known older prog bands such as Barclay James Harvest, Eloy, Triumvirat, Starcastle, Strawbs, Nektar, Greenslade, PFM, Curved Air, Happy the Man, Grobschnitt, Banco, Earth and Fire, Ange, Finch, etc etc. 
 
I'm just about old enough to have heard of all of those bands., although I'm not sure about Ange. Smile

I'm not overly familiar but Ange were a French band similar to early Genesis.
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Originally posted by james_lagan james_lagan wrote:

I'm 16 and got into prog last year, with early Genesis as the gateway, then found Yes, ELP and some Italian bands. Definitely a minority and possibly the youngest prog head ever. Could someone to recommended some good modern bands because they seem underwhelming compared the 70s stuff?...

Two of my current favourite modern prog bands are Astra and Mostly Autumn, and also Blackmore's Night if you like a bit of proggy Folk. Smile
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I'm 16 and got into prog last year, with early Genesis as the gateway, then found Yes, ELP and some Italian bands. Definitely a minority and possibly the youngest prog head ever. Could someone to recommended some good modern bands because they seem underwhelming compared the 70s stuff?...
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Also, and I could be wrong(and hope I am)but it seems like most younger fans(20's)either aren't into or don't know about the somewhat lesser known older prog bands such as Barclay James Harvest, Eloy, Triumvirat, Starcastle, Strawbs, Nektar, Greenslade, PFM, Curved Air, Happy the Man, Grobschnitt, Banco, Earth and Fire, Ange, Finch, etc etc. 
I have 11 of those bands in my collection. I'm particularly very fond of Eloy, PFM and Finch. I also saw Curved Air live five years ago.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Also, and I could be wrong(and hope I am)but it seems like most younger fans(20's)either aren't into or don't know about the somewhat lesser known older prog bands such as Barclay James Harvest, Eloy, Triumvirat, Starcastle, Strawbs, Nektar, Greenslade, PFM, Curved Air, Happy the Man, Grobschnitt, Banco, Earth and Fire, Ange, Finch, etc etc. 
 
I'm just about old enough to have heard of all of those bands., although I'm not sure about Ange. Smile
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Also, and I could be wrong(and hope I am)but it seems like most younger fans(20's)either aren't into or don't know about the somewhat lesser known older prog bands such as Barclay James Harvest, Eloy, Triumvirat, Starcastle, Strawbs, Nektar, Greenslade, PFM, Curved Air, Happy the Man, Grobschnitt, Banco, Earth and Fire, Ange, Finch, etc etc. 
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I'm 25 and started listening to Prog through Pink Floyd, Supertramp and Yes in 2011. I only discovered the term thanks to this site the following year though. My parents grew up in the 80s and Prog wasn't that much popular here back in the day so I had to find it on my own. I started from my interest in recent Rock and moved backwards in time until I found out 70s Rock was the stuff I liked the most.
About album collections, mine is about 60% CD and 40% vinyl. For 70s Prog I prefer vinyl or early CD releases because I like to listen to them exactly how they sounded back then. For recent albums it's mostly CD, most don't sound that better on LP to justify the cost.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I'm curious as to how prog fans in their 20's listen to music. I doubt it's on cd so is it mostly vinyl, streaming or downloads?

I can answer this from my own personal experience! YouTube (and probably Spotify, but I don't use Spotify) is excellent at recommending music. I'd always play games and let music play in the background and it would autoplay into recommended songs. I LOVED keyboard solos and would listen to songs with them, and it eventually took me to prog.

I have a vinyl collection worth quite a bit, I bought all the prog classics and then some rare LP's like Egg, Flower Kings Stardust we Are (which seriously was about $120 because it's out of print).

I don't really listen to vinyl so much though, I just love the collection. YouTube is my go to and I discover music through that platform.
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Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

I'm 25 and have been a prog fanatic since I was 18. Much like BunBun, my gateway into it was listening to my dad's classic rock collection which naturally contained a lot of Rush and Pink Floyd, and upon reading on Wikipedia that these apparently belonged to a genre called "progressive rock" I decided to immerse myself into it as much as possible. Nowadays I don't really listen to either of those bands anymore and while I still very much love a lot of the more "mainstream" symphonic groups such as Genesis, Yes and ELP, I'm usually not too interested in new music that tries to emulate that style. Most of the prog I currently seek out tends to gravitate towards the more harmonically and structurally complex regions of the Canterbury and RIO scenes, often verging against jazz and modern classical.

I've been happily collecting CDs for eight years now but I've never had any interest in vinyl because I think it's too expensive and too impractical in terms of space and durability.
That's the same reason I no longer collect vinyl too, besides which, there's no need to flip a CD over halfway through the album. Smile
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I'm 25 and have been a prog fanatic since I was 18. Much like BunBun, my gateway into it was listening to my dad's classic rock collection which naturally contained a lot of Rush and Pink Floyd, and upon reading on Wikipedia that these apparently belonged to a genre called "progressive rock" I decided to immerse myself into it as much as possible. Nowadays I don't really listen to either of those bands anymore and while I still very much love a lot of the more "mainstream" symphonic groups such as Genesis, Yes and ELP, I'm usually not too interested in new music that tries to emulate that style. Most of the prog I currently seek out tends to gravitate towards the more harmonically and structurally complex regions of the Canterbury and RIO scenes, often verging against jazz and modern classical.

I've been happily collecting CDs for eight years now but I've never had any interest in vinyl because I think it's too expensive and too impractical in terms of space and durability.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I'm curious as to how prog fans in their 20's listen to music. I doubt it's on cd so is it mostly vinyl, streaming or downloads?
 
I know vinyl is trendy amongst some 20 year olds (and has been for a while since I noticed students snapping up some of my old vinyl at a jumble sale) but my 2 sons listen to music, go to gigs etc but don't own a single CD between them (not counting the Bob The Builder single that I bought for them about 20 years ago).
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I'm curious as to how prog fans in their 20's listen to music. I doubt it's on cd so is it mostly vinyl, streaming or downloads?

If my neighbor is an example, then I would say, he does not listen to music ... he just plays the songs he likes, and I'm not sure that "music" has anything to do with anything at all. 

And he does this via his friends, and the suggestions he gets from Google or somewhere else in his smartphone ... but for you and I ... the thought that Google, or Microsoft, or Apple can decide what you should listen to?

That's when I want to throw up! Ad Nauseum!


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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I'm curious as to how prog fans in their 20's listen to music. I doubt it's on cd so is it mostly vinyl, streaming or downloads?


When I was a teen, CDs were still in, so I certainly got in the habit of buying them. I remember I could go somewhere like Best Buy and they'd have CDs from mainstream prog bands - Rush, Yes, ELP, Dream Theater, etc. I remember iTunes coming out when I was in my early teens, but I always thought the idea of buying a single song was kind of dumb... If I liked one song from a band, why wouldn't I get the whole album to find more songs that I liked? I could buy the full album from iTunes, sure, but it costed about as much as the CD, so what was the point? Then again, I'm 27, so people in their early 20s may have had access to streaming earlier in their life.

I still prefer buying CDs, but these days it's harder to find a store that sells them, let alone the stuff I want to listen to. Getting them shipped from online can get rather expensive.
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I'm curious as to how prog fans in their 20's listen to music. I doubt it's on cd so is it mostly vinyl, streaming or downloads?
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Originally posted by hugo1995 hugo1995 wrote:

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I haven't met any prog fans aside from prog death metal fans at Opeth, and the guy at my local music shop likes modern prog like Plini, King Gizzard etc. I haven't really heard these bands yet. It's taken me years to get through all of the classic prog acts and their spin offs.

I would suggest, as an old foggie, that music appreciation, has nothing to do with tastes and what you like and don't like ... listen to or don't listen to. If you love music, ALL of its aspects will color your imagination, however, in this day and age, the whole thing is so commercial that finding someone that doesn't care about this or that ... is not a surprise ... but one could state that their ability to enjoy and listen to music is very limited, and might die away completely as they get older ... not like many of us, that went out got the albums, and still collect the music ... and I have no problems listening to new stuff whatsoever ... which makes me want to comment ... that it's not "music" that many folks are really listening to!
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