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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Meh. It seems to be a bit light on anything past the seventies. Also, that's the first time I've seen the Enid referred to as "neo prog."
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Not bad. Not great. The writer probably did a better job than I could have done!!!
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It's a noble attempt to create a coehesive mini-history of prog but just doesn't capture the magnanimous and diverse nature of prog's origins.
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The Anders
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No mention of Italian prog?
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moshkito
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Hi, Thx. My biggest worry with the identification with "songs", is that it is not exactly looked at as "art", unless, of course (how van we miss that?) it is a huge number one song in all the polls from here to the moon! While I believe that many folks, even here, are really well versed in the quantity and quality of the music, my concern is that an article like that can not even look at BANCO and realize ... wait a minute ... there is no indulgence there! And even AD2, which was different in almost every album. Their indulgence? Not giving a damn about what we thought which is an artist's prerogative. Thus I look at all the music as valuable and important, not just a song that got a number 55 years ago, and that we NOW think was indulgent. I don't think that term will go far in the annals of music history!
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Instrumental? I thought they had vocals! |
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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I don't find myself agreeing with you often, but yeah "indulgence" definitely caught my eye in the wrong way. Prog is art. It can be about "indulgence," but even Rush sounded pretty tongue in cheek when they gave that subtitle to La Villa Stangiato.
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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Interesting read, but aside from those rarities listed at the end, nothing really new for anyone who's already a pretty decent prog fan. Might be a good introduction for someone getting their feet wet though.
I will say, they incorrectly listed Hipgnosis as the artist on Rush's Hemispheres. Any major Rush fan knows Hugh Syme has done all their album covers from Caress Of Steel through the present. But any article on a major website attempting to cover that much ground is bound to have mistakes.
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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Progishness
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I sometimes define prog as 'music you endure and enjoy in equal measures'.
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I'd also chuck Stockhausen and Cage into that mix, along with other avant-garde 20th century composers.
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Exactly, same as the rock and roll of the 1950's evolved out of jump blues, with strong influences from jazz, R&B, country, gospel, country, swing, boogie-woogie etc.
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I took a look at this, and much gets glossed over and neglected, which makes me realise how big a world "everything" you need to know about prog rock really is.
That is just my feeling on it, as one of my feet is in the "known world" of progressive music, with another foot planted just as firmly in the appreciation of obscure and overlooked artists.
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No, you're absolutely right - prog's main roots were 60's psychedelia, but it depends how far back you want to go. After all, several classical composers could have been modern-day prog musicians..... For instance:- Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Ravel's Bolero & Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet suite have all now become prog epics.
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"...progressive rock is about musical indulgence."
Probably about as simple of a definition as I've seen.
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A good analysis would explain how Soft Machine and Caravan were instrumental in the prog scene Mentioning a band or two out of context is lazy |
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The thing that makes prog what it is, is that it comes from all kinds of influences; rock, psychedelia, jazz, classical, world music, folk music, etc, etc, etc. That's what makes it progressive is combining all of these influences, and then throwing in unpredictability and new ideas in composition and instrumentation. The article mentions some of this, but then fails to include artists and albums that take influences from a lot of these influences. A lot of people do the same thing. That's why there are so many opinions about what makes music prog and what doesn't.
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well, a lot of prog is rooted in psychedelia. You are not wrong.
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Progishness
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Damn, I've lived under a misapprehension for the past several decades in thinking prog's main roots were 60's psychedelia.
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Hi,
I really do not think that all of Progressive Music is about indulgence. I'm of the opinion that the person that wrote that was simply trying to find something to say to get our attention. All the arts, in their history have always had some form of what many considered indulgence, but it was never a fair comment, when the artist did it again and again, and it became an expression. It could be said, by those around Mozart in the courts specially that they would think of his work as indulgent ... but 50 years later and certainly today no one really looks at him as indulgent! Poor start and just another fan speaking out on social media like situation. Sad, because we will never elevte our music beyond the pop idiocy that it is described with.
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