What makes people find Prog boring?

I believe that Prog is made for people with especial disposition.For example it needs a very especial disposition to enjoy Klaus Schulze.I bet 9 out of 10 will find him utterly impossible to enjoy.Pink Floyd are the most popular Prog band because their music can connect emotionally with more people than King Crimson for example.Music you love is directly connected with the disposition you have not your intelligence as someone mentioned few pages back.

Tom Ozric wrote: A lack of patience and attention........

And a lack of an unsatiable thirst to try and listen to something new outside of ur comfort zone.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Different tastes.

great answer so did it really take 36 pages to come to that conclusion.

The problem with a lot of prog is that it lacks things like cohesion, feel, space, and relatability - IMO.

There is an old saying " if you are bored its because you are boring" . My take on that as far as prog is concerned is that a lot of people find things that make you use your mind and actually think "boring". Like science for example. They would rather have something that is dumbed down and simplistc where they don't have to make any effort to understand It in their lives then something that challenges them intellectually.
The same goes with music. I find people who think prog is boring to be boring...at least musically.

Maybe it´s the fact that it is boring. People who think it´s interesting have such boring lives that they would think that... well im not even gonna bother finishing this thought because... that´s the way i am. i always quit half way


i farted as devin would say or at least my brain did

I think one reason for it is that many people think of the lyrics and vocals as being the most important part of a song, and the music and instruments is just a background. So when the instruments take centre stage during a long break, people get bored waiting for the next vocal part to begin. Whereas to prog fans, the instrumental sections can speak just as much on an emotional level and communicate the feeling of the song as any words sung by a singer can.

^ Yes. Getting to the nub. Thing is unless a music fan is not used to listening to reasonably involved - and possibly lengthy music pieces they are conditioned understanding short ones. Radio oriented folks I mean.


Of course this might be ultra-presumptuous and arrogant of me to think of people in this hierarchical listener context but this is all part of the burden of being a prog fan. Still, I've known opera buffs I could quite happily feature in the starring role in so many operas - Tosca springs to mind; get rid of the patronizing swine forever...

It's the conditioning of environment (musically speaking) and the reactionary nature of the human psyche. Apparently there is progressive rock made outside of the '70s by people who were not making prog rock in the 70s. But it's only what I've read on this site. Might not be true... other than being true that it is rumoured...

Well, we have 36 pages of threads - which sort of answers the question. ;-)