Why most prog fans are the most music haters?.

I found it easy enough to understand and come up with a response, but then I started teaching as an ESL teacher. I've been told here by an eloquent someone that he commonly couldn't understand a word I say. I assumed the problem was more the way I strung together the words, general sentence structure, than understanding the words themselves. I do make typos too often. I feel I have little excuse for not being coherent due to my background, so I would be resistant to judge the communication skills of someone without English as a first language.

I do take issue with the extrapolation that most Prog fans are such haters based on Abel's sample data. I thought it would be good for him to hang around the forums, including General Music Discussions, here more to better glean the wide variety of interests of the local to PA fauna. I wouldn't think that such hatred/loathing/dislike is uncommon, but I would not assume that it is the majority based on my observations. I won't dismiss the idea that it is "most" very easily either.

At one time I would see a lot of complaints that so-called Avant-Prog-oriented audiences would hate on Neo-Prog, and I have seen the disdain for Neo-Prog, and I have seen many on the more melodic Prog side dismissing Avant-Prog as just noise and nonsense. I have seen lot of disparaging comments towards metal too in my time here. Especially Dream Theater used to get a lot of stick, as well as the fans of DT.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: What a nonsense thread Pretty much. On top of that it's not even worded in a coherent manner. I don't expect everyone to have perfect English but I could barely figure out what the OP was getting at.

I'm not sure I understand the question but if I think it's asking what I think it is then I say no I disagree. I don't think all non prog is garbage and not all metal either. 

DarksideofAbel wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: What a nonsense thread I don't think so. I had made so many prog fans that hate everything! except jazz and classical.

Floydoid wrote: When it comes to so-called 'metal' I tend to stick with Deep Purple (Mark I and Mark II line ups) and Led Zeppelin who as I recall were embraced by the prog fans back in the day (in the sense they were quality non-commercial sounding bands), and indeed their albums were quite proggy in places. Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep probably should also be included but neither band could I ever get into.

When it comes to so-called 'metal' I tend to stick with Deep Purple (Mark I and Mark II line ups) and Led Zeppelin who as I recall were embraced by the prog fans back in the day (in the sense they were quality non-commercial sounding bands), and indeed their albums were quite proggy in places. Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep probably should also be included but neither band could I ever get into.

Edited by Floydoid - June 21 2024 at 01:49

I like good music.

What a nonsense thread

Atavachron wrote: Nonsense. I was into metal before prog rock, roadied for local metal bands as a teen, and though I always appreciated prog, metal was my first love.   I've also always appreciated good pop-- the Police, Prince, Beatles, U2. In fact U2 was among the best live acts I've ever seen. So your premise is incorrect and presumptuous.

I don't believe that "prog fans are the most music haters". Prog as a form can embrace and create fusions with any style of music. The Prog umbrella is very diverse and its relations are huge. In PA we find artists/bands that fall into pop stylings, metal, alternative... that can be described in any of those ways. David Bowie and Kate Bush are two much loved by many in PA that I would refer to as pop (or art pop), and I generally love their most popular music.

I don't interact with "Proggers" outside of this forum, and I have had some friends into some of it, so my experience is limited. My friends were into diverse music. If you look to General Music Discussions one can see the diversity of appreciation from many into Prog, and considering how diverse Prog can be, this is to be expected by me. Art Pop is a favourite designation of mine, and I love much music both considered alternative and pop that is in and out of PA.

As for metal, i tend to be more into the early classic heavy metal (before metal proper one might say), as well as stoner and doom, but there is much more extreme metal that I enjoy.