Did Prog Kill Prog?

And I ""WAS" the Queen of the Street  (what a piece of meat)

Memory, all alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember a time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

MIAOUUUUU ouinnnnnnnnnn

kleenex ?

Oddly enough, Phil Collins appeared on the Oscars last week.

Perhaps he is considered 'cool' by society. if so, why? because he sold out a talented prog rock giant  to appease the unintelligent and tasteless masses? maybe he, too, 'jumped the shark' musically.

Anyway, I ought to do a rant on society, and it's destruction of talent in music... but it's late.

Fashion.  Does anybody find it amusing/disgusting that punk is considered mainstream now, almost 30 years after it appeared?  How many covers of Rolling Stone have been devoted to bands like Blink 182?  Then you have the new garage rocking bands like The Strokes, Vines, etc.  All of this has been done a billion times before, and many times better by the old bands.  Mick Jagger is looking at his own grandchildren in these Vines like bands.  Yet this stuff still gets slathered upon with great critical reviews by "in-the-know" music critics.    Two of my favorite types of music, Prog and Metal have never been critics choices.  They're not "cool" enough.

Punk first appeared as a reaction to the excess of '70s rock.  One was the excess of opulent rock star lifestyles and egos gone out of control (let's say Rod Stewart), and then musical excess (a lot of Prog).  Both of these moved rock away from its birth place in the garage, and took it some place else.

Back in the day, it took me a while to get into punk, but I got there.  I loved the big bands of the times, The Clash, Ramones, The Jam, etc.  I love rock 'n' roll, and I love dirty rock 'n' roll.  However, my fixation with punk didn't last that long.  I moved on to the underground Metal scene of the '80s, where so much cool music was made.  I still absolutely love The Clash.  They appear to be the only punk band from that era that to survive as one of my all-time favorite bands.

What really amuses me today is that if punk partially evolved out of rebellion against music like Prog, then today Prog is the perfect rebellion against the boring, mainstream, water-downed punk that is considered cool today! 

Peace,

Ulf

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Maybe it's time for you to find a new joke

Peter Rideout wrote: Speaking of punk, do you know the Damned tunes "New Rose" and "Under the Floor Again?"

Surely Pete !!!

I have seen a jig of The Damned (and The Stranglers too) in "Le Gibus" (a small hall in Paris) and I had the chance to speak with 'em after (in fact only Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible and Lu*, the guitarist).

I have even their autograph !!

Dave Vanian : a little cold and reserved

Captain Sensible : Folish guy, very funny

Lu* : Human and very friendly (he just went out of jail)

Yes I know "New Rose" but no "Under the Floor Again"

 Eloquently and movingly put, Tauhd. I like tons of types/eras of music -- "new" prog too! Only change is constant.... Waaaahh!

I'm really enjoying Porcupine Tree -- Lightbulb Sun lately. (Review soon!)

It's nothing really like classic prog, but a solid, intelligent album that is a product of its time.

Speaking of punk, do you know the Damned tunes "New Rose" and "Under the Floor Again?" 

To be played as loudly as possible, please!

I'll go for 'Option B' - Creative Burnout

Prog rock came from the sixties and was a part of the natural evolution of rock music.The original bands (ELP,Yes,King Crimson etc) were talented enough to make there way without having to be tied to having radio airplay or clever marketing.They could 'do it' in the live arena.To some extent it just ran its course.Once the classic prog albums were 'in the can' there was nowhere left to go (apart from down). Most modern prog is really a tribute to the music that was made between 1969-1975.That was a special era in music history.