Dream Theater - Prog or not?

oh god not this again

Yeah, it's been done a few times before *chuckles*

Catcher10 wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Olav, you should make this thread vote only with no comments, with a link to the other thread where comments can be made.  That way the comments are kept together.   Agree 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yikes......

Poll only is always a bad idea simply because the thread will never be bumped and it will get lost very quickly.

And that is a bad idea why?   He could always add the comment, bump the thread, and close the comment again.

Olav i vote for the first option, i only participate in the "heaten" debate only because i do not consider them a "legend" right now.

First option for sure.

Dream Theater creates Prog music, it does not exclusively create Prog music to my knowledge.  I consider it part of the greater Prog scene.  I consider metal to be a subset of rock, which makes its music both Progressive Metal and less narrowly Progressive Rock.  I do not think of bands as Prog per se as I do music as Prog (though if one is shortening this from being part of the Prog movement, creating Prog-styled music, or part of the greater Prog scene then I might let this lie -- I know it's implied).  Also, it rather bugs me somewhat since many bands deemed Prog also make non-Prog music so the dichotomy does not work for me much of the time 

Further down the  list, I don't believe that bands under the Prog-scene umbrella need be progressive (as an adjective), nor are many bands/artists that make progressive music Prog (many have been outside of the rock/metal universe).  I'm not sure how progressive (as in moving music forward, innovation, and expanding the lexicon of what rock/metal music can be, or music generally) Dream Theater is (of course being progressive infers innovation rather than pure invention) but I find it quite conventional in approach (so not very progressive -- more Prog by style than Prog by approach to use the ratingfreak terminology). 

Ultimately, no vote.  The music does not strike me as terribly progressive (but that's not to say that it hasn't progressed metal).  I do think the band makes music fits the greater Prog scene, but as I said, I don't really consider bands Prog; I consider music itself Prog or not, or Prog by degree commonly.

Edited by Logan - February 18 2010 at 19:40

Oh give over folks, they are a prog band through and through. Doesn't mean they are any good though does it

Yeah go on fanboys, flame me. Please.

If you discount Dance of Eternity then... Oh wait nevermind

Wow i'm surprised that anyone could think that dream theater is not Progressive.