How much of your music library is prog?
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Topic: How much of your music library is prog?
Posted By: condor
Subject: How much of your music library is prog?
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 13:08
| I wanted to find out if anybody comes to this forum for music in general rather than prog. |
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Posted By: condor
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 13:09
| This is not a purity test. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 13:11
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17.4482359% ------------- |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 13:15
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^Surely you mean 17.4485581% ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 13:17
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I really can't see too many coming to this sight if they weren't gaga over prog, but you never know. I like folk, folk rock, some hard rock and metal also. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 13:19
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I'm only here for the wings (60-80%) |
Posted By: Ozark Soundscape
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 13:25
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Prog is probably the most significant part of my collection/musical knowledge, perhaps second only to general pop rock, but I'd still say the first option. I listen to so many different genres. In regards to SteveG's comment I mostly come here for the shred and to an extent the community as a whole. I rarely come here looking for prog or music at all. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 13:28
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^Yes, there's always an exception to the rules, as they say. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 13:41
| First option. I love prog but there's a lot of other great music out there. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 13:58
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I'm guessing around 30-40% |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 14:10
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Oh, boy, something in 55%... so, 40-60% Thats interesting, I havent noticed how much I have (and I discounted all "prog Related" and artists that I believe are prog but are not in PA). I'am doomed!  ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 14:12
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I went with the first option and would say that about 15% of my collection is Prog. While I have several albums by each of the top Prog bands on PA I seldom listen to them anymore. Between playing them and hearing them on the radio so much in the seventies I just don't seem interested in hearing them now. I've been discovering and playing so many new bands that are not Prog that I just never reach for one of the classics.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 14:14
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Probably around 75%. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 14:20
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69.1% |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 14:24
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Probably around 70% if you include all the ambient, krautrock, electronica, avant, zeuhl, fusion, nu jazz, chamber rock, post-rock, & space I count in prog. I actual tend to go to PE more for discussions on non-prog, they have a long running on jazz and knowledgeable sources on classical, indie, psyche and the like. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 14:58
Same here  . We also have a lot of stuff that is classified as Proto-Prog or Prog-Related (The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, Iron Maiden...). |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:Posted By: The T
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 16:07
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I haven't been coming to this forum in a long time and yes I've stopped coming for the music mostly but for the forum in general. Prog in my collection is about 12%. ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 02:55
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40/50, but this is on the slide, sinceI buy a lot of jazz (and JR/F) nowadays |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 03:20
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about 35-40% or something like that. ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 03:49
| About 50% I think. My purchases during the last few years have been about 90% prog though, including jazz fusion and some space or kraut rock. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 04:14
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Between 80 and 90%, I guess. ------------- 
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 08:04
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About 30 per cent is prog, mostly 70s European groups in the symphonic prog and fusion genres, the rest is classical music, mainly symphonic works of the Classical and Romantic, and Modern (20th Cent.) periods, along with other orchestral music, piano concertos and piano sonatas from the same periods. Quite a bit of my classical collection are what are known as "Historical recordings", those recorded before 1960.
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Posted By: twseel
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 09:52
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39% from what I counted on my phone, but including some stuff I wouldn't consider prog myself but is still on PA ------------- 
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 11:03
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Probably 50/50 methinks. Krautrock, Progressive Electronic, Psych, Avant and RPI use up a lot of space in my apartment. Then again so does everything else labelled electronic, funk, 60s rock, punk, post-punk, Motown, hip hop, jazz and everything else under the sun (Romanian folk album included). All those LPs and CDs are of course shuffled together like a big tumultuous set of cards so as Amon Düül ll and Bob Dylan get to stand neck and neck...... just like Wu-Tang Clan and Lynyrd Skynyrd do. Is there a method to the madness? Nah not really. Every search for an album is an adventure in itself. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 11:25
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I'll check later but I do know that out of my 160 favourite albums, 90 of them are prog. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 11:35
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About 50%........I listen to classic rock, folk rock, and some jazz and classical also. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 11:42
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Before I discovered progarchives in 2006 and progstreaming later on it was probably on the upper end of 60-80%. Probably close to 90% now. Jazz and classical come in a distant second and third. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 12:36
6000+ tracks..95% plus prog..addiction. 
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Posted By: twalsh
Date Posted: October 21 2015 at 12:44
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Over 50% only if you count proto-prog and prog-related, which i have in abundance. 20-30% if you don't include those. The balance is hard rock/heavy metal, recent indie rock, blues, pop and jazz, likely in that order. ------------- More heavy prog, please! |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: October 22 2015 at 19:12
| I'd say about 80% as long as we count Zappa, Henry Kaiser and other Avant as Prog. Is Steve Vai's album, Flexable, Prog? Other things I have are stuff other Prog fans would typically like. I was just listening to Shawn Phillips (folk) last night. Some pure Jazz like Brubeck. I'm sometimes unsure whether some Jazz-Rock Fusion is Prog or not. |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: October 22 2015 at 22:10
I have counted all progarchives listed bands (except in proto section) as prog. |
Posted By: David64T
Date Posted: October 27 2015 at 06:52
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CD's: Probably around 30% I guess - almost as much again classical... LP's: maybe 40/50% or thereabouts - my LP collection is rather like a time capsule, accumulated many years ago but rarely added to in recent times... ------------- Seasons Of Change - weekly programme on community radio: https://seasonsofchangeradio.blogspot.com.au/" rel="nofollow - http://seasonsofchangeradio.blogspot.com.au/ |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: October 27 2015 at 08:28
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5% by my itunes tagging. Probably closer to the 10-15% range though. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: October 27 2015 at 17:46
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Close to 80%, I'm guessing -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: October 27 2015 at 22:43
| Probably 20% or so, the majority of my music collection is metal and hard rock. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 27 2015 at 22:46
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When I joined, maybe 60-80%; now, 20-40%. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: October 28 2015 at 00:57
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87% prog, the balance very close to progressive standards (creative synthpop, electronica, rock and jazz) ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 01 2015 at 01:03
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60-80%......it should be 20-30% -------------   
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: November 01 2015 at 04:41
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around 30% most of our library is in the area of classical music (around 40%). about 20% are in the area of jazz. then there is some normal rock and some ethnic music, around 5% each. that seems to add up to 100%, but these are not exact figures. there are some odd albums which hardly fir anywhere. all in all there are about 5000 albums in our collection. most of them are stored on computer meanwhile -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: November 01 2015 at 10:41
| I really have no idea but I think 60-80% |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: December 02 2015 at 07:03
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Pretty good question. I guess I'll be at about 40% counting everything as prog that's on PA. Enough to be the strongest genre. Although quite a bit of this is from the fringes where people are argueing over whether it's prog or not. |
Posted By: scruffydragon
Date Posted: January 18 2016 at 01:21
| About 70 per cent of my archive is prog as I currently understand the term Prog, the rest is either proto prog or prog related i.e. Deep Purple, Beatles, Hendrix ,psych etc.. |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: January 18 2016 at 01:29
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I'd say 20-40 percent. I still prefer a few other genres, such as alternative rock and hardcore punk. Either way, I've still been a huge prog fan since I was a kid and many of my favorite bands are progressive rock-based. ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 18 2016 at 07:17
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Around 40% I guess. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: January 23 2016 at 07:29
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60% I'd say. ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 23 2016 at 08:15
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I'd say about a third.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 23 2016 at 08:20
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Hmmm...I've got more Muddy Waters than Gentle Giant. I don't know, maybe 20%. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: January 25 2016 at 10:31
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Probably about 40-60%. Might calculate the actual percentage if I get bored enough. ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 20 2018 at 03:50
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third option probably I also got a little bit of blues and jazz, classic rock, 80s rock, all sorts of metal and some pop, pop-rock.
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 20 2018 at 04:13
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60%-80%. Lots of early 90's extreme metal in my collection. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: February 20 2018 at 04:23
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Taking an educated guess ('cos I am not one for keeping any kind of track of the huge mess that is my 'collection') I'd say it has gone from below 30% to above 40% over the last few years. The trend continues. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |