The Arrogant Proggie

I hate to break it to myself, but my impression of the boards when I read the posts is a large, conservative arrogance.  And I despise conservative notions.

I've never felt arrogant about being a prog listener - just superior to those who listen to masses of rap/hip hop and today's pop music!

Atavachron wrote: I find quality pop is among the most difficult to pull off well; ever tried just writing a good song?  It's an art and requires as much skill and natural talent as anything does.  Less is often more, indeed.

Oh man is that true! The other time I wrote a prog-pop song that I think is actually catchy... first time I got it right! It´s not simple to be simple

Slartibartfast wrote: JJT9/8 wrote: I don't think anybody is saying pop is better. What I'm reading is that music is subjective and doesn't have to be prog to be enjoyable or good. There are good and bad features in both genres. I would never presume to tell others what they should or should not listen to. If all you want to listen to is un-aesthetically pleasing music, cool!.. I like some of that too, but in small doses.(how much of Satriani or Dream Theatre can one take before thinking, OK, enough already, I get your point.) (By the way, someone tells you that 2 girls that you know nothing about want to go out with you.One has boobs and the other doesn't. Who are you going to choose?..I think I know the answer... I'd go with the other one...

Well, since it's obvious to anyone capable of thought that prog is far superior to all other forms of music, I don't see how someone who likes it could be called arrogant.  I mean, if it wasn't so superior you wouldn't read about it all the time and hear it on the radio all the time and in clubs all the time and .......................... oh, wait, never mind. 




But seriously, I went through a phase where I felt I was in some special uber intelligent secret society because I listed to PROG and the rest of the world was ignorant and just didn't understand REAL music.  I have since recovered, largely when I realized that putting on Univers Zero and Van der Graaf Generator was having a negative effect on the outcome of my dates with women   Though actually, I have met several women over the years that enjoyed quite a bit of prog, which always surprised me.

But the truth is, if you are a progger for more than a couple years, you start to realize that any arrogance or superiority you may feel is obviously misguided.  We are a definite (and relatively small) minority of the music listening world (though there is overlap, of course).  The only thing that might be true of proggers and might not of many other listeners is that the very nature of prog makes us tend to be more open to other genres of music (though in my own case it was other genre's of music........jazz, classical, and rock.........that led me to prog).

No, I do that often...

Thanks for making me relevant!

Now there's an idea for a whole new topic...how about listening to Bjork while thinking about Diana Krall..

LOL...I knew it!..You are as much a swine as I am...

Perfect answer..I have to admit that you are a better man than I am..

I don't think anybody is saying pop is better. What I'm reading is that music is subjective and doesn't have to be prog to be enjoyable or good. There are good and bad features in both genres.

I would never presume to tell others what they should or should not listen to. If all you want to listen to is un-aesthetically pleasing music, cool!.. I like some of that too, but in small doses.(how much of Satriani or Dream Theatre can one take before thinking, OK, enough already, I get your point.)

(By the way, someone tells you that 2 girls that you know nothing about want to go out with you.One has boobs and the other doesn't. Who are you going to choose?..I think I know the answer...