Staying with your fav bands or looking for more?

I think I'm more of a fan of bands than genres. I rather listen to every album from a band I discover and really like than listen to 25 different albums from 25 different bands in a certain genre. This probably makes me a lot less rounded than I could be in terms of prog knowledge, but it never was a contest anyways. It also helps me from downloading more music than I can handle at once.

Frankly, I'm more interested in seeking out new favorites than staying with the old. On Last.fm, my no. 1 artist is Frank Zappa with 359 plays out of 26027 in total. 'Nuff said.

I'm sure it'll even out later in life, but as of now, I'm still naive enough to believe that there's too much good music out there to restrict yourself to the bands you discovered at 15.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming...

Im always looking for new music, although my alltime favorites never will be forgotten by me.

i dont have favorites. i listen to something for a week, form a highly negative opinion of it, and move on. 

I guess I'm a bit 50/50. I'd like to finish my Dream Theater collection someday, and I always try to get the latest release by the bands I love the most, but lately now I've been experimenting more, and the more I get the more I realize I have been missing so much good music. In the past year, I've gotten the newest releases by Meshuggah, Opeth, and The Mars Volta, and the last few albums I got were "Lift your Skinny Fists like Antennae to Heaven", "Tubular Bells", and "In the Court of the Crimson King", and I am eagerly anticipating the release of "Traced in Air". The thing is, these bands and even more other bands i'm hoping to listen to are part of the biggest groups of prog, and compared to the people who say they have barely scratched the surface, I have barely heard as much as they have.

Atkingani wrote: CCVP wrote:  But Guigo, do your sons have any influence in you still being eager for new things?   Yes!

The younger generation always helps

Tapfret wrote: I am a U.S. citizen, so whether its electronics, cars, women, houses or progressive music, I forever want more, more, MORE! No seriously, I am here on PA because I want to know more about different bands and feast on tasty new tunes. i still listen to the stuff i know, but the thirst ever lingers.

Do you mean that, when I become a citizen, I'll start wanting more too? And that reference to US citizens and women worries me a bit, to tell you the truth....

Now, speaking more seriously, I do like discovering new bands (even if not necessarily 'new', if you get my meaning), but with my life having been in a state of flux for the past year, my motivation for seeking out new music hasn't been what it used to be. Hopefully from now on I'll feel like exploring again. I'm still faithful to my old favourites, but that won't stop me from listening to any new stuff that comes my way.


Edited by Raff - November 10 2008 at 06:05

i am a dedicated eloy fan since eighties, so i stick to my fav band, yet i always look for new bands and sounds and love it when i discover great new music..like when i quite recently found beardfish/magic pie/ shadow circus/ephrat .it enriched my music library and my mind to a great extent..long live prog rock the classical music of our times!!.

Nerievsky wrote: toroddfuglesteg wrote: I too love ELP and listen to them a lot. But I am always searching for new prog to fall in love with. I guess that's why we have Prog Archives. I use it a lot to find new stuff. That's what make life/prog so interesting. Always searching, always restless.  (only 200 GB ? I got 450 GB.. )   Dude I only have 25 GB and I was thinking I'm an addicted