'More Prog'

puma wrote: "progressive" is a term used to talk about the progressive rock MOVEMENT, not a GENRE. The movement ended in the 70s and there have been countless revival bands, reformed classic bands, and bands who play in the spirit of the old ones. But this crap where everyone uses the word "prog" like it's a genre bothers me. It's just another method of pigeonholing, and in turn it trivializes the music.

I think the discussions about prog as a genre description (indepedent of that being as inventive or regressive as can be) and progressiveness in the sense of invention have been done to death. There's no real consensus and for that matter I prefer to only use the abbrevation "prog" when describing the genre and to avoid the word "progressive" if I describe the inventive music of a band that I don't consider part of the prog genre. Just a personal approach, but take it if you like it. :)

There are two kinds of music- what you like and what you don't.

I don't listen for a band's "progressiveness" in the context of the 70's movement or any other cult prog movement in the past 20 years.

I agree with Ghost Rider on this. Rating a band's "proginess" is impractical and detracts from their music. I wish people would spend less time categorizing and judging and more time listening and thinking!

This site is a resource to those wishing to explore the music of the big 70's bands put in the progressive rock category as well as those that have been influenced by them to create their own evolution (or just as often, nostalgic stagnation) of music.

You can't judge a group's "progressiveness" because it can be interpreted in a million different ways. We'll never come to a consensus as to who's "more prog" and I hope we never try.


Edited by MajesterX - November 03 2007 at 14:18

Really don't know, for me, EVERYTHING I WANT is prog, and f***-*** everything about, i think Prog is a state of mind, not a style of music, and for me, and for me, Prog has all the styles in one. It's it!