Old Prog Hands Listening Habits

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Forgive me if I've posed this question before, I've been a prog nut for
over 30 years now, so this is directed to old farts more than newbies. 
I will of course probably make this over complicated.  

You can choose to include yourself as long as you've been enjoying prog for a few years and I leave it up to you to define exactly what that is.  

Newbies feel free to tell us what you think you'll be doing when you slip into the old fart's club.

Most interested in folks who have been into prog music since the '70's.

Edited by Slartibartfast - July 30 2009 at 17:51

Poll Question: If you actually have a habit, what is it?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Just stick to the old and familiar stuff.	2	[3.85%]
Keep a rotation going with old and new mixed together.	37	[71.15%]
Stick to the new with some visits to the oldies but goodies.	11	[21.15%]
Just the new, heard the old stuff enough.	1	[1.92%]
Any option I've missed, I am getting old you know.	1	[1.92%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted

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Slartibartfast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29625	Topic: Old Prog Hands Listening Habits Posted: July 30 2009 at 17:46
	Forgive me if I've posed this question before, I've been a prog nut for over 30 years now, so this is directed to old farts more than newbies. I will of course probably make this over complicated. You can choose to include yourself as long as you've been enjoying prog for a few years and I leave it up to you to define exactly what that is. Newbies feel free to tell us what you think you'll be doing when you slip into the old fart's club. Most interested in folks who have been into prog music since the '70's. Edited by Slartibartfast - July 30 2009 at 17:51
	Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Progosopher Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 12 2009 Location: Coolwood Status: Offline Points: 6393	Posted: July 30 2009 at 18:24
	The newer stuff gets more play when it is new, but once it gets absorbed into the greater morass of my collection, it becomes older stuff. My wife kids me that I play a new album once a day for a week, and then it gets placed onto the shelves, where it can remain hidden for some time, depending on how much more new stuff comes in. I was just writing about when I first discovered Prog, but realized that the exact date is neither important nor discernable. My first taste of it, or something related, may have been as far back 1968 or 1969 when I heard Deep Purple's version of We Can Work It Out on the radio - even before I heard the Beatles. Is that weird or what? Or maybe it was Smoke on the Water or Stairway to Heaven, or Money, or even Roundabout on the radio. Or when I got seriously turned on to Yes and Tull in 1977. But prior to that I was a big Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin freak. No matter how you figure it, I'm one of those old farts.
	The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

Snow Dog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995	Posted: July 30 2009 at 18:31
	Thje second option for me. I like new stuff, but am still exporing old stuff that I mised the first time.


The Truth Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 19 2009 Location: Kansas Status: Offline Points: 21795	Posted: July 30 2009 at 19:05
	I don't know if I'm an old fart yet, but my view on what I listen to is just this: I loved all the classic prog and I've made it my neverending journey to find a new band that gives me the same tingly feeling all the classic prog artists gave me. If that makes any sense.


jammun Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: July 14 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3449	Posted: July 30 2009 at 20:02
	Old fart chiming in...I hit 14 years old in the fall of '67, that Summer of Love year I guess that means I've been listening to prog (or proto-) for 40 years. I keep the rotation between old and new, not just prog but all types of music, but I suppose a bit more emphasis on the new. I'm not all that adventurous any longer...Tool, TMV, Decemberists...good enough for me. As for the old, I seem to be driven by when the mood strikes or more likely when something new I've recently heard (say, Eli, the Barrow Boy) sends me scrambling for something old (say, the song John Barleycorn Must Die) which always reminds me just how good the old stuff is. But then again there are those very few albums (my 5 star ones) I'll listen to any time. Sometimes a guy's just gotta hear LTIA or TAAB or GZD, though most of the prog classics I probably listen to only once a year, if that. So pardon my essay, but this brings up another point. I want some new music. Hmm, I see Rush has a new album, Snakes & Arrows. So I buy it. Is this old or new music I am purchasing? The old farts here should appreciate, if not have an answer to, the conundrum.
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SaltyJon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 08 2008 Location: Location Status: Offline Points: 28772	Posted: July 30 2009 at 20:45
	I mix old and new together in the rotation. Sometimes the rotation stops rotating for a while and I stick on a specific album/artist/genre/time period/new/old material, but in general everything gets mixed in.


manofmystery Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 26 2008 Location: PA, USA Status: Offline Points: 4335	Posted: July 30 2009 at 20:49
	I maybe be young and may have only been into prog for a couple of years now but I can say all the really great and interesting music was created well before I was born. 99% of newer prog is either boring* or metal, both of which are major negatives. *Boring - A) overly produced music sounding so perfectly clean, even vocally, that it lacks any character B) stretching a potentially brilliant 4 minute song concept out well over 12 minutes, leaving it punchless (also known as "Flower Kings syndrome" )
	Time always wins.

valravennz Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: March 20 2005 Location: New Zealand Status: Offline Points: 2546	Posted: July 30 2009 at 21:14
	I generally keep rotating between old and new prog - though I have to say that there is so much interesting new progbeing produced in the last few years, that it is grabbing my attention more than the old.
	"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp

b_olariu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: March 02 2007 Location: Romania Status: Offline Points: 5524	Posted: July 31 2009 at 01:44
	Keep a rotation going with old and new mixed together is what I like

A Person Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 10 2008 Location: __ Status: Offline Points: 65760	Posted: July 31 2009 at 01:48
	I find a few new albums that I like and will listen to them until they have I have digested them, and then I go back to older stuff. I should start a rotation to help keep it all sounding fresh.

mono Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 12 2005 Location: Paris, France Status: Offline Points: 652	Posted: July 31 2009 at 02:47
	Being born in '85, I couldn't vote on this one. But I think in a few years, I would probably choose "Stick to the new with some visits to the oldies but goodies."
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fuxi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: March 08 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2459	Posted: July 31 2009 at 03:52
	I mostly listen to new discoveries in classical music and jazz, but I'm still exploring prog (this week, for example, I discovered TWO RAINBOWS DAILY by Hugh Hopper and Alan Gowen) and other popular music (am now listening to Ry Cooder's CHAVEZ RAVINE). I return to some old favorites (prog or otherwise) a few times a year.

friso Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: October 24 2007 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 2505	Posted: July 31 2009 at 04:12
	For me this is rather hard to answer. I'm twenty years old, so all the 'old' prog is totally new for me. And I like to stick to the seventies prog. Modern prog doesn't interest me much.

Roj Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 02 2008 Location: Manchester, UK Status: Offline Points: 3126	Posted: July 31 2009 at 08:02
	Option 2 and 3 combined for me!!

Blacksword Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130	Posted: July 31 2009 at 11:11
	I listen to mostly old stuff, and bit of new-ish. I should probably explore more, but dont seem to to get the time...

infandous Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 23 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2446	Posted: July 31 2009 at 11:46
	Well, I took old and new to refer to old and new TO ME. Hope that was what you meant. But either way I would say I listen to a mix. I've been listening to to prog at least 20 years now, probably more like 22 (the exact moment I discovered prog is probably impossible to pinpoint, since I recall kind of liking Roundabout and Carry on Wayward son when I heard them on the radio in my single digit years.......also I liked Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2 when it came on the radio in 1980......but I was not a prog fan by any stretch in those days). I find I buy more modern prog than older stuff these days, and I rarely listen to the 70's giants anymore (though sometimes I still do and they still sound great to me). But I also pick up 70's stuff that I missed or wasn't even aware of from time to time and a lot of that stays in rotation for a while (Comus First Utterance gets played every month or two for instance, and I just bought it 2 or 3 years ago).