Punks Hate Prog.

boo boo wrote: At worse whimsical and lyrically embarrassing.. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds....wow LSD. They were clever boys to write that !

Well... the person who wrote this didn't knew much, I found incorrect information in all the discriptions of the bands above though this one about the Beatles I thought everyone knew... right away I saw it I laughed like a madman.

The lyrics is crazy though it had absolutely nothing to do with LSD at all.

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds was a picture drawn by Julian Lennon and when John asked him what it was Julian said: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.

Then John made a song out of it... I don't think little Julian had LSD on his mind, I've seen the picture too... looks like a flying woman surrounded by stars...

Can also say that www.allmusic.com often is wrong with band information, saw the info of how Iron Butterfly came up with the title: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and they're so wrong on that side... though this song is about LSD and tripping... though everyone knew this.

nevermind this post.

Man Overboard wrote: Some metalhead forums are absolutely atrocious...  I do have to agree with that.  But you can't generalize that...  there are a lot of extremely intelligent metalheads.

agreed, i guess that wouldnt be any more rational than that jerk i quoted on the first post who basicly classifies all prog fans as losers.

Man Overboard wrote: I would have to disagree.  Maybe I know the wrong group of metalheads...  I post on another forum, where metal is the main topic (instead of prog), and while metal is the most-discussed music there, among the regulars, we talk about everything we're into, be it prog, punk, pop, indie, or otherwise, and anyone who balks at the non-metal discussion gets a dirty look.  We love our metal there, but we can recognize when it's a bit silly, and have no problem takin' the piss.

i guess it depends on the enviorment, i used to post on other forums where metalheads were the most abrasive...so much that a lot of people got fed up and left for other forums.(including me)

Rattail wrote: Others just feel they are superior to everyone else.

no offense to any metal fans here, but metalheads seem to have that kind of attitude the most.

boo boo wrote:   Jethro Tull. Even the most hardened nostalgic will wince at memories of Jethro Tull. They started out as a blues group but quickly developed a taste for the theatrical and portentous at which point the groups megalomaniac leader started dressing up in riding breeches, hair like catweazle, sporting cod pieces standing on one leg while puffing into a flute and conducting the group through the hard labors of pieces like Thick As A Brick Aqualung and Passion Play. What these were all about was anyone's guess. A mystery to me.

Ian Anderson addressed this kind of feedback years ago...

"Brain-storming, habit-forming, battle-warning weary winsome actor spewing spineless
chilling lines.
The critics falling over to tell themselves he's boring and really not an awful lot of fun.
Well who the hell can he be when he's never had V.D., and he doesn't even sit on
toilet seats?
Court-jesting, never-resting he must be very cunning to assume an air of dignity and
bless us all with his oratory prowess,
his lame-brained antics and his jumping in the air.
And every night his act's the same and so it must be all a game of chess he's playing,
but you're wrong, Steve. You see, it's only solitaire." - from Solitaire

It's obvious the author cannot handle prog's greatness. He feels alone, insecure and ashamed at the fact that he cannot comprehened a mere 6 (count it, six) minute song. So naturally, he will attack it.

Poor guy.

Like what was stated above, he certainly seems to know much about prog. A student doing research on something he loathes? I doubt it. My guess, from the reading, is that this guy was a prog fan at one time as well and got disillusioned with the whole movement when the bigger bands started to commercialize a bit. Then he saw the light and became part of the punk movement.

I will give him credit, though. He wrote a cohesive, articulate article. Most punkers I know have difficulty spelling their names. More proof that he was a product of the prog era who became disillusioned with his heroes.

Also, as Baldfriede stated above. Punk became the beast that he loathes. Funny that he doesn't notice that. Perhaps he has gotten too old to see the truth about a genre of music that has become far more big business than prog ever was. Afterall, music is for the youth....his words.

Funny thing is, the writer keeps talking about pop-music, and how Prog altered the pop-music world, so i can only guess he thinks punk = pop.

I think Sid vicious is turning in his grave over this.