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Key for me is inventive musicality, which could take many different forms. I love all kinds of music, and listen to progressive forms more often simply because I find there to be disproportionately more inventive musicality among those artists that might be considered progressive than among other genres. Musicality takes so many different forms though, and there is great music in other genres too.
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With prog it can't be just weird for weirdness sake, I like song structures. I do like weirdness but with a purpose and a theme.
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^I donīt like in any music any element to be just because it have to be there. Really hate for example in todayīs electro pop that same beat sound and also autotune vocals.

Mostly weirdness is a thing that facinates me, but of course I have heard also really boring weird music. For example Throbbing Gristle.

Also, I really love mellotron, but Barcley James Harvest Once Again could have been better, if they hadnīt use mellotron as much as they used into it. But itīs not just mellotron, itīs also that too bombastic production.


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Originally posted by starless2112 starless2112 wrote:

With prog it can't be just weird for weirdness sake
 
On a similar note, music can be experimental but the experiment has to be successful. Releasing crap in the guise of being experimental doesn't cut it for me.
 
 
 
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If the band can't write a decent damn song, all the 20 minute instrumental noodling doesn't mean a thing to me.

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This is a very thought-provoking thread. I spend time looking for new prog that I might like, but what am I actually looking for, beyond the name of the genre?

I guess I'm hoping for music that creates a soundscape, that creates its own world. A world where emotions and ideas surge and flow. Where the music is complex enough to embrace two or more things going on at once.

I found it interesting to think of singles from the pop world that satisfy the same itch, because it helps to isolate the things that make prog interesting. I have dozens of them and they're really varied: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, Birdhouse in your Soul, Mony Mony, Someone Saved my Life Tonight, All These Things that I've Done... 
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I'm not sure why I like prog. I like plenty of music that is not that complex or 'clever' but I guess it's that 'other worldly' quality in prog rock that appeals to me. It's the kind of music you may hear in a dream, and I don't always mean in a pleasant way, but it has an element of organised chaos about it, that to many ears, and in the cold light of day wouldn't make any sense.

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