What makes people find Prog boring?

Prog is a genre meant for people who want to get the best out of their life through music, other people try to get the best out of their life by other means and music isn't as much of a priority as it is to prog fans.

I think for most people it simply isn't mainstream and accessible enough.  On top of that, I truly belive they don't have the patience for it.  Most prog songs take several listens to understand everything the artist is trying to convey in their music.  Also, most people like to dance to music, prog is impossible to dance to because it wasn't made to dance to.  Prog is supposed to make you think.  It was never a genre for the masses and it never will be.  Kinda like all the extreme metal I listen to.  Cannibal Corpse isn't meant for everyone to listen to.

As with anything in the world, it's absolutely impossibly to please everyone in a crowd. The fact that there is a community of prog fans, and that community seems to be the leper colony of the music industry, shouldn't affect your tastes and interests in the genre. If your family complains about it, then ignore them and listen to it regardless. My mom never understood prog, but she never complained about it. She's heard me listening to prog for years now, so that exposure has set off a small amount of interest in the genre and she actually says she likes things when she's walking by. My dad is a prog fan, though he may not realize it, and got me into several classic prog acts in my pre-teen/early teen life. 

Edited by LastDaysofParadise - November 02 2010 at 12:30

- The, mostly, missing possiblity of dancing on progrock. 
- Thats it is, mostly, not catchy enough.
- That you need at leat some concentration while listening.

   Ignorant people cannot find their path in life , Gladly few of us did , so thanks God for the last 41 years of my life , i've discovered new jets , new cars , new technology , new people , new pets . but , the best thing happened to my life , was the discovery of this kind of music , and don't care much about if people around , likes it or not !!

In my opinion, it's the same as with any other genre of music: Some people just don't get prog. Just like I don't get gangsta rap, for instance, or dance music. Prog requires patience and concentration, and while we may love to put that into our music, others just aren't interested in it enough to want to do that- some people just want to dance to their music. Some people aren't interested in music at all. 

Blackbeard wrote: - The, mostly, missing possiblity of dancing on progrock.  - Thats it is, mostly, not catchy enough. - That you need at leat some concentration while listening.

If you want to dance to prog, you put on some CAN

The Wrinkler wrote: Blackbeard wrote: - The, mostly, missing possiblity of dancing on progrock.  - Thats it is, mostly, not catchy enough. - That you need at leat some concentration while listening. If you want to dance to prog, you put on some CAN

...or Sledgehammer

I may have mentioned this before, but Fred Frith has made music for dance.  Also there's David Byrne's The Catherine Wheel.

In my opinion people go for the easy music-pop,MTV. Prog requires initiation, dedication, usually long tracks, you can't listen to prog as background while doing something else.