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Gerinski 
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 Topic: Listening to well known Prog or new unknown stuff
Posted: July 10 2014 at 06:51 |
For me it seems to go in periods, rather long periods actually. For some periods I am not really attracted to listening to new stuff and I just enjoy listening to music I know I love. Then there may come a period where I am curious to listen to new stuff and I prefer discovering new things than listening to my well-known albums.
Currently I am in a period where I do not feel much like discovering new stuff, I simply enjoy playing albums which I know very well and I know I like. It's fine but I hope that a new "discovering period" will come again soon. It's weird, I realise that discovering new music is great, and yet right now I have no drive for it, when it comes to playing a CD I choose for a well-known album rather than trying some CD's I have not yet listened to, or I have but I do not know well.
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Posted: July 10 2014 at 06:58 |
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I have been feeling more like discovering new stuff during the last years. But now and then I'd like to hear some old familiar 70's prog.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: July 10 2014 at 08:00 |
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I'm constantly discovering "new stuff", but only a very small percentage of it is prog. Typically, when I'm in the mood to hear prog, I'll go to the old standbys. But there are exceptions, and the occasional new prog band can be really exciting.
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Stool Man
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Posted: July 10 2014 at 08:44 |
PA lists over 44,000 albums. That's an average of almost a thousand albums per year over the 45 years since 1969 (yes yes, I know...1968, 1967 etc etc) That's more than two albums a day, every day, for forty five years. Assuming we never have a day off, what are the chances of anyone bothering to listening to two new albums every day for fortyfive days let alone fortyfive years? Professional music journalists aside, I doubt anyone would do that.
I much prefer to listen to old prog that I haven't yet heard - if I may generalise and say "those were the days" then I'll chose to explore the pre-1976 era forever thanks very much. If I myself have yet to hear a well-known album then I don't care how well-known it is - it's new to me. I've still only heard two studio albums by ELP, two by King Crimson, four by Yes, and six by Jethro Tull. I've heard plenty more songs by these bands, but not the entire albums
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Gino 1959
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Posted: July 10 2014 at 09:04 |
I love discovering new prog bands just like http://machinesdream.aurovine.com/
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HackettFan
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Posted: July 10 2014 at 10:21 |
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It's funny, the fashion that how our minds work. At times I may be anxious to get out of the house, then I wonder how I can feel that way when the day before I was so happy to get home. What changed? I've thought of it as a nice subject for a song lyric, if I were any good at writing lyrics. I've been spending lots of money on guitar effects devices, so I've been very slow at keeping up with new stuff for quite some time.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: July 10 2014 at 17:44 |
^ I'd like to hear that song. The character could be someone like Janus or a werewolf ... except he isn't any of those things. You get the idea. Having a change of heart.
 Gerinski wrote:
For me it seems to go in periods, rather long periods actually. For some periods I am not really attracted to listening to new stuff and I just enjoy listening to music I know I love. Then there may come a period where I am curious to listen to new stuff and I prefer discovering new things than listening to my well-known albums.
Currently I am in a period where I do not feel much like discovering new stuff, I simply enjoy playing albums which I know very well and I know I like. It's fine but I hope that a new "discovering period" will come again soon. It's weird, I realise that discovering new music is great, and yet right now I have no drive for it, when it comes to playing a CD I choose for a well-known album rather than trying some CD's I have not yet listened to, or I have but I do not know well.
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Exactly the same attitude here. Right now I feel like I need to open up a bit once again, go for something less diverse in style (even the music I write is very eclectic, and I need to take a break from that). I'm going for punk/-rock and jazz, something from 'Trane or akin to his sax-playing style. Enough Genesis and Gentle Giant for now.
Edited by Dayvenkirq - July 10 2014 at 17:47
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Barbu
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Posted: July 10 2014 at 23:55 |
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Old unknown stuff and completing discography for me the last couple of years but also checking out new stuff by old favorites (Oldfield, IQ, I.Anderson) and , of course, listening to a few classics each week.. So, discovering a lot but not much from recent bands.
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Mirror Image
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Posted: July 11 2014 at 00:05 |
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I always have my ears open for new sounds from bands I haven't heard before, but it seems like I'm much more interested in exploring music of bands I already know and love. For me, there are so many albums that never wear out their welcome and that will reward the listener time and time again.
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richardh
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Posted: July 11 2014 at 00:48 |
It depends what 'new stuff' means. There is a lot of new old stuff out there (ie ''retro''). I would like new stuff as long as they understand that prog is ELP, Yes and Genesis. 
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N-sz
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Posted: July 11 2014 at 00:52 |
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So many of the old classics are still new to me, so I've been listening to a lot more older music, but recently I've been trying to be more conscious than I have been of what good stuff is coming out so I'm not too far out of the loop. I like new music too, but most of it is not really prog.
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tawny ant
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 07:15 |
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I try to listen to as much as possible, knowing that you can't always define a band's sound by the first cut you hear. Crate delving is still more satisfying than staying on the cutting edge, though, since a lot of new prog-rock seems to happen in the spheres of post-rock or DT-like prog metal, which repel me, or simply be alternative rock dressed up in the trappings of pseudo-profundity and extended play length.
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Gerinski
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 08:26 |
richardh wrote:
It depends what 'new stuff' means. There is a lot of new old stuff out there (ie ''retro''). I would like new stuff as long as they understand that prog is ELP, Yes and Genesis. |
Well in the OP by "new unknown stuff" I was meaning simply unknown, even if it's something from the 1970's which you have never heard yet, so "new to you" even if not actually new.
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paganinio
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 22:26 |
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nowadays, I get tired of most songs after 10 listens.
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hearing more new stuff. I'd rather listen to a new album and be
disappointed, than listen to an old favorite, because the latter is
certainly disappointing, while the former has a chance of being
good.
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admireArt
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 23:08 |
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Been listening to UNKLE. not exactly prog, but amazing!
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Gerinski
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Posted: July 13 2014 at 00:46 |
paganinio wrote:
I'd rather listen to a new album and be
disappointed, than listen to an old favorite, because the latter is
certainly disappointing
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That's odd for a progger
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Watcher of the Sky
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Posted: July 13 2014 at 00:57 |
I'm always looking for new albums to hear, but as a prog fan, I always listen to the old 70's classic albums.
I was looking a good unknow Symphonic Prog Rock from 2000's, would be nice if someone recommend something :D
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richardh
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Posted: July 13 2014 at 02:26 |
Ok that's good. There is tons of RPI I don't know I've only dipped my toes mainly with PFM and that's it apart from one album each by Banco and Le Orme (and the relatively new band Three Monks who are classed as RPI)
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: July 13 2014 at 08:19 |
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I'm probably split equally between old stuff I know well, old stuff that is new to me and new stuff. I pretty much buy a mix of old and new stuff. My moods vary & I just put on what I'm in the mood for.
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Ian
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Posted: July 13 2014 at 08:24 |
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I am all over the map. I have periods of everything between prog early and modern, obscure 70s live albums to jazz binges to IDM and electronica to post metal to whatevs.
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