Why do italians like prog rock but french don't - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Yes! My personal favourites : Tai Phong two first albums and En Regardant Passer le Temps by Carpe Diem. I really like the Anarchnoid album as well Wink

Anyway, the original poster has only one post (well, if we can call that a post, with one letter... lol) and didn't come back, did he? So...

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For the simple reason that Italians and Canadians(especially)are more progressive(in mind too) musically.Generally,the progressive minds exist in countries with good(mostly I mean the progressive way of thinking of a culture)culture,less suffering historically and the characteristings of people from a country or from a town e.t.c.(that maybe exist"a priori").But this subject is very strange and complicated in it's base.

When did this get moved to JFF, btw?

Two great prog bands from France that imediately spring to mind are Nemo and Nil.

Edited by Nightfly - November 18 2010 at 12:16

Nemo and nyl? sure! great ! and do you know about terpandre and shylock ?

thellama73 wrote:

Triceratopsoil wrote:

Why do Canadians like prog rock but americans don't?

What are you talking about? There are more American members and more American bands on this site than Canadian ones. I don't care how great Rush is, they don't make Canadians more prog friendly than the US.

I could be wrong, but I think that Triceratopsoil's intention in asking about Canadians and Americans was to draw attention to the absurdity of making huge generalizations about whole nations in relation to their relative preferences for a particular genre of music. It was not a serious question. Just a very good one.

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I always did like the French "laissez-faire" attitude, even with music and many of the arts ... and their experimental side is very good and a lot more fun than the English side. It's also weirder and a lot less "composed" ... just let it fly.

It was always weird to me that we consider Heldon "progressive" when it is quite clearly just an experiment in sound and to see where it takes one's fingers. It is as experimental and improvisational as things can come!

I also think that a lot of their other bands have a lot more going for their desire to do the work, than the London contingent that quite often is way too self conscious on becoming famous ... which makes the let it all hang out style of music much better and more interesting than otherwise. Too much of the English/London music is formulaic and sounds the same ... whereas we can not exactly say that about the French music ... and one of the best examples of total free form and lack of concern for a form, is how Alan Stivell can play just about with any style and anything and his many albums have it all ... but will never get discussed here!

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CPicard wrote:

Alan Stivell is not French.

Geographically speaking I think yes. If I'm not wrong he's from Bretagne so he's as French as Asterix, Obelix and Panoramix.

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CPicard wrote:

octopus-4 wrote:

CPicard wrote:

Alan Stivell is not French.

Geographically speaking I think yes. If I'm not wrong he's from Bretagne so he's as French as Asterix, Obelix and Panoramix.

You mean that Stivell is not real and is a character from a comic book? Confused

Ooooh, it would explain a lot of things...

IS ASTERIX UNREAL ??!!! Oh my god...... Geek

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