Inactive Poll

I've been a bit inactive on the polling front just lately, so here's a poll to find out what you'd all like to see more of, or even less of.

Whatever you want to do, Paul. Thank you for all of your hard work. Some of us really appreciate it and look forward to whatever direction you go next. You should consider writing a book called: "Proto-Prog 1968-1971."

miamiscot wrote: Whatever you want to do, Paul. Thank you for all of your hard work. Some of us really appreciate it and look forward to whatever direction you go next. You should consider writing a book called: "Proto-Prog 1968-1971." I'd buy a copy.

The general consensus so far seems to be that there are too many polls already.

Any twonk who tries to claim that the beastie boys is feckin prog, or that Simon amd Garfinkel are Genius or that the fickin beetlez is worth listening to...😎

To each his or her own. What sometimes put me off at this board is when you look at active topics and there are whole bunch of very similar topics going on at the same time. I do appreciate variety and wish there was a greater variety of topics and active discussions. Sometimes I want to engage with people in the moment, sometimes I want more time to explore and reflect on ideas. I definitely am more of an ideas driven person, even if they are not good ideas, than pragmatic.... I do like music polls where I discover new and interesting to me music and hopefully others do the same with my choices which is why I love the concept of the Interactive polls. I'm not interested in the umpteenth Genesis or Yes poll. I'm guilty of doing the same kinds of music again and again and not keeping it fresh (say with Magma, Comus and Robert Wyatt). I do like those polls and topics commonly where the topic poll starter tries to keep engaged with those who post in the topics no matter the topic as long as the OP is reasonably open-minded and cordial, and preferably has a sense of humour.

If doing music polls, I would like more focus on obscurities and less Prog ones. I'm not into contest type polls or topics generally (where it matters to anyone who is in the lead) -- making sport of art so to speak.

Edited by Logan - June 25 2020 at 12:18

^^ I'm guilty of posting my own share of Genesis and Yes polls too.  The threads where I've generally discovered the most new music are the whole album threads, such as the "A-Z of Japanese Psychedelia" thread which I'm currently working on right now. I've listened to every album I've posted so far, most of which I'm hearing for the first time. ProgArchives is an endless resource for discovering new music and there's hardly a day goes by when I don't discover an amazing "new" album from the archives that I'd never heard before. I'll soon be entering my sophomore year here at the University of Prog, when my second semester begins in September.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - June 27 2020 at 17:40

Non-Prog Polls, man (and woman) cannot live by prog alone.

As Monty Python would say "now for something completely different." 

Ok. Its a prog site. For prog people. We will have no trouble here!!!!