Progarchives and the world of boxes

miamiscot wrote: It's all subjective. My favorite album of all time isn't even in PA's Top 100 so what do I know?!

What's a box?

I guess this is already dying away, but something came into my mind about this. I think we all build less or more boxes around us, just for the reason there is just too much music to listen. And to me it has been totally ok, the new music I search these days have to be absolutely great music, good music I have round me more I have time to listen. I think David´s point has been, that although we already "know" what´s great and what´s not, maybe we should try at least some situations to see outside that "box" we have build and if nothing else, we might meet some interesting people.

richardh wrote: BTW have we got round to trying to define prog yet? Perhaps need to run a few more pages...

No. Just nomore that "box".

That was a great post Maban, thanks man
You also touch upon a very important subject that I neglected to mention in my OP: gurus.
Most of the stuff that I used to snark at but now have developed a serious taste for was not something that just happened magically. I had friends taking my hand and leading me down pathways they deemed to align the best with my peculiar tastebuds...and it worked wonders too.
Conversely I’ve gone the guru route myself. I’m not entirely sure anymore but we’re probably talking 100s of punks here in Denmark who are into King Crimson, because I used to play Red a lot...and those guys have told me how they got their friends into Crimson..and so it goes.
Many of those guys are friends I’ve known since school or similarly from Ungdomshuset (a sort of home for the underground peeps in Copenhagen) and they went from hating an entire genre to vehemently exploring it...or some of it. I got most of em into Can and Art Zoyd as well.

Most of the reasons why we tend to scoff at entire styles of music are wholly nonsensical barriers we’ve conjured up in our own brains. It happens over time out in the perimetre with family, friends and the big wide world. Influences are constant. Again a guru, preferably a cool one at that, will most likely better help you tear some of those barriers down....but yes, most of the work is on you.

Edited by Guldbamsen - February 05 2020 at 09:53

Not many threads on here go over my head but this is one of them. 

Psychedelic Paul wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Not many threads on here go over my head but this is one of them.  I understand about not putting something in a box but I think maybe this has gone way beyond that(to be fair I haven't read every single sentence in this thread but just based on the first page I knew this would lose me. Lol.). I'm glad I'm not the only one who's confused about "boxes".

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - February 05 2020 at 11:18

I am happier listening to music than I am talking about it

is that so

Guldbamsen wrote: That was a great post Maban, thanks man You also touch upon a very important subject that I neglected to mention in my OP: gurus. Most of the stuff that I used to snark at but now have developed a serious taste for was not something that just happened magically. I had friends taking my hand and leading me down pathways they deemed to align the best with my peculiar tastebuds...and it worked wonders too. Conversely I’ve gone the guru route myself. I’m not entirely sure anymore but we’re probably talking 100s of punks here in Denmark who are into King Crimson, because I used to play Red a lot...and those guys have told me how they got their friends into Crimson..and so it goes. Many of those guys are friends I’ve known since school or similarly from Ungdomshuset (a sort of home for the underground peeps in Copenhagen) and they went from hating an entire genre to vehemently exploring it...or some of it. I got most of em into Can and Art Zoyd as well. Most of the reasons why we tend to scoff at entire styles of music are wholly nonsensical barriers we’ve conjured up in our own brains. It happens over time out in the perimetre with family, friends and the big wide world. Influences are constant. Again a guru, preferably a cool one at that, will most likely better help you tear some of those barriers down....but yes, most of the work is on you.

Yes, absolutely and it was a similar experience albeit via a different route for me. Around the time I got into rock music was when orkut came about and I found music communities there, discussing music from all sorts of genres. Being that most of us were hot headed twenty somethings, we squabbled a lot but many recommendations I received from these friends opened up my horizons in a big way. And given the current political situation in India, we are all on better terms with each other than ever before because one usually has to be a liberal of some sort to be a rock fan in India.

Edited by rogerthat - February 05 2020 at 18:45