What happens when...

 

Never ... there is always something else to listen to ... I might stick with that one album a few more times, but generally, I'm so open to new and different things, that it does not interfere with my natural curiosity for music and the arts.

 

You have to be quite artistic oriented, to not get stuck on one thing, and become just a fan. It's your choice in the end, but one of the nice things about learning anything about progressive music, is that ... tomorrow there is always new and more music ... but you have to be open to it!

 

As they say in the spiritual areas ... everything you need and want is right in front of you ... you just have to get at it and on it.  The problem is you and I being able to identify those ... when we are conditioned to commercial, social ideas,  social standards, and of course, the devil himself ... and advertising. We can blame Peter Cook for that one!

 

The rest is easy! And lots of fun, but I think that most "proggies" here don't enjoy some fun with a cement mixer!

 

Agree, but its real difficult to imagine that an album such Larks Tongues in Aspic could fall in obscurity. Genius stuff always emerge, even if the artist doesnt want to get known!

 If you "have already listen to all genius and brilliant Prog albums" then I suggest you haven't actually heard them. This is the reservation I have about people who have reviewed hundreds (or even thousands) of albums here in a short space of time. Prog is not an immediate experience, it takes time to appreciate, to listen and really understand what you are hearing. I am an avid Pink Floyd fan, but it took me 30 years to "get" Atom Heart Mother and the same for Tales From Topographic Oceans (though I never was a real Yes fan).

 

I suspect that modern Prog and Prog Metal is exactly "that" and "that" is what we subconsciously recognise when we hear "it", but "it" hasn't had time to register precisely what "that" is. This is why we can say "this is Prog" without knowing specifically what we mean by "this", or by being able to give an accurate "definition" of what "this" means - it is not the "Prog" part we have problems with, it is the "this" part. Only time and proper listening will reveal the secrets.

 

Modern Prog and Prog Metal also does not have the age of experience to filter the wheat from the chaff - what we recognise as genius and brilliant from the past has been filtered by countless music fans and countless hours of listening, modern music has not achieved that yet. There are no undiscovered old Prog gems only undiscovered new Prog gems and time is on their side - the risk is that we are so preoccupied in looking backwards to see them.

 

Of course, this is a knife that cuts both ways - it does not matter how old or how new something is or when it was created/recorded/released, what matters is when the listener heard it, how long ago and how many times. A new listener hearing it for the first time hears it with preconceptions and prejudices and will bias their judgement accordingly - no one would listen to Larks Tongue In Aspic today if it hadn't been elevated to 'genius and brilliant' status over the past 35 years by countless Prog fans and the same will be true in 35 years time for some of the modern Prog and Prog Metal albums of today.