Pandora thinks Steely Dan is Muzak

"Prog" doesn't mean anything at all. It has its roots in "progressive" from the 70s. But as I mentioned on another thread, I was in on the original capitulation to the people who wanted to listen to simpler, though stranger, music "progressive" because listening to "orchestrated crap from the 70s" wasn't. Later I saw "ProgRock Radio" when streaming started on the internet, and I talked to Jerry, its original creator.

He told me he used to have Steely Dan on his site but the purists complained until he took them off. Same thing was true of the guitar virtuoso Eric Johnson. Johnson was coincidentally his favorite guitarist, he wrote to me "That tears it, Eric Johnson goes back onto my site tonight!" And he said that if he got one more email that suggested the Dan was prog, he was going to put them back on, too.

It's odd how people can listen to quaint pop from Caravan and include them, and want to exclude some of the finest crafted note combinations and incredibly-timed syncopation on vinyl. 

But that's what prog is about (to me) mixing it up. Making it interesting. 

Love the discription:

ITunes wrote: Formed in the 1980s, IQ is comprised of Martin Orford, Paul Cook, Mike Holmes, Peter Nicholls, and John Jowitt. This prolific band has released 14 albums, beginning with 1983's Tales From the Lush Attic.....

 

I always thought that SD would be better served in private, specially when those little pipes people were sucking on, with their band name on them, came around a few years back ... but what the heck! I know a lot of people thought was funny, and a lot of them didn't like it! I laughed way loud and hard because SD was not small!