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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 12:39
Originally posted by RaphaelT RaphaelT wrote:

 

Prog - bands who play songs longer than three minutes and who are on the radio after 3 AM.

It's not mine, it belongs to Polish progressive guru Piotr Kosiński.

"Kosa" is such a bastard!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 12:40
Prog is Brain Food.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 12:42
Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Prog is Brain Food.


Yummy brain food at that
"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 12:47

Originally posted by meurglysIII meurglysIII wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Prog is Brain Food.


Yummy brain food at that

My "large" interpretation of the word "prog":

prog is not a brain food, is a brain menu!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 13:07
My brain is hungry! Oh well, guess I'm gonna have to spin some Tull, then...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 13:08
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 13:19

Originally posted by Kohllapse Kohllapse wrote:

Thi is the exhaustive definition !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Prog in person, His Majesty Ian Anderson (and his bright flute)  (1977-1978  I presume...)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 13:21
Cool pic, Kohllapse.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 20:21
Originally posted by RaphaelT RaphaelT wrote:

 

Prog - bands who play songs longer than three minutes and who are on the radio after 3 AM.

Best definition I've ever heard. I've always tended to think of prog as more of a state of mind than an actual musical form, which is why I've loosely included genre-bending bands like Steely Dan and Kraftwerk in my personal definition. (please refrain from flaming me....pleeeze!!!Smile)

If its any consolation, I know people who only consider Byrds or mid-60s Beatles songs as "pop," rather than the broader connotation of popular music. I see the point in both instances, it just doesn't necessarily work in my own corner of the world.

"The frog was a prince, the prince was a brick, the brick was an egg, the egg was a bird."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 21:44
Prog for me:  Music that pushes forward whatever the mainstream music is doing. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 22:12
My prog definition: Get good recommendations and then listen, listen, listen!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 22:15
Too hard of a question.

You could have a thread describing each SUB genre of prog. Sheesh.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 22:20
Interestingly enough, today at stage crew for my school's fall musical ("Once Upon This Island", anyone heard of it?), my science teacher and I were trying to explain what prog was to a couple of those prep/hippie/happy people that run around wearing discordant colors and clothes.  Neither of us got very far, they kept thinking that we were referring to Prague (D'oh!).  So we gave up and started bemoaning the fact that no radio stations near us play any prog (except Roundabout, Lucky Man, and some various Rush songs on the local classic rock station- but you have to wait through all sorts of musical filth and meanless DJ-talk to get to it!). 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 14 2005 at 11:15
Traditional Rock  +  X = Prog, where X=....

An expanded level of intellect and innovation in the songwriting
A greater display of technical performance
An architecture borrowed from classical and/or jazz
A stronger integration of visual presentation, both in performance and in packaging
Songs that provide a feeling that you have gone somewher rather than just listed to music

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