What makes people find Prog boring?

That's the thing: I do know a handful of people my own age who take an active interest in 1970s progressive rock. Don't forget that more people in metal circles are developing a working appreciation of at least the heavier groups from that movement, since that's what traditional heavy metal - which is also experiencing a revival - evolved out of. Both Deep Purple and Judas Priest came from that milieu.

It's probably more of a thing in Sweden, though. That country seems to be the epicentre of the current prog rock revival movement. Probably does not hurt that Sweden had by far the largest prog rock milieu of any Scandinavian country back in the 1970s.

Edited by Toaster Mantis - October 23 2015 at 05:29

The Thread That Will Never Die!

By the way, Guldbamsen, interesting namedrop of Swans a page ago because a long while ago I saw someone on RateYourMusic in a review of To Be Kind remark that group is "basically Pink Floyd for goths" at this point in their career. The argument went that this was something very few people notice, because there's not much overlap between those two groups' target audiences.

Toaster Mantis wrote: That's the thing: I do know a handful of people my own age who take an active interest in 1970s progressive rock. Don't forget that more people in metal circles are developing a working appreciation of at least the heavier groups from that movement, since that's what traditional heavy metal - which is also experiencing a revival - evolved out of. Both Deep Purple and Judas Priest came from that milieu. It's probably more of a thing in Sweden, though. That country seems to be the epicentre of the current prog rock revival movement. Probably does not hurt that Sweden had by far the largest prog rock milieu of any Scandinavian country back in the 1970s.

^ Amen!

I still come across young college students in Oklahoma who are Pink Floyd fans. I don't think they know what Prog in general is, but if their favorite group is a Prog band from way back there that still says something.

Toaster Mantis wrote: By the way, Guldbamsen, interesting namedrop of Swans a page ago because a long while ago I saw someone on RateYourMusic in a review of To Be Kind remark that group is "basically Pink Floyd for goths" at this point in their career. The argument went that this was something very few people notice, because there's not much overlap between those two groups' target audiences.

Mascodagama wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: Norway and Sweden are among the most interesting countries for experimental music at the moment....at least for my tastes.  I get everything I can possibly get my hands on from Fire! Orchestra, Dungen, Necromonkey, Ulver, Jaga Jazzist, elephant9 and everything else Ståle Storløkken is involved with (Supersilent, Motorpsycho etc).   Sweden and Norway punching so far above their weight in terms of progressive / experimental music it's unreal.  With a good amount of interesting stuff coming out of Finland and Denmark too, it's like Scandinavia is the new Italy at the same time as being the new Belgium

Embrace the new Belgium!