Share Your "Top Reasons" to be a Prog Fan!
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Top 10s and lists
Forum Description: List all your favourites here
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=66497
Printed Date: February 22 2025 at 13:46
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Share Your "Top Reasons" to be a Prog Fan!
Posted By: progpositivity
Subject: Share Your "Top Reasons" to be a Prog Fan!
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 14:36
|
It is the only genre in which keyboardists get to wear a cape! ------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Replies:
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 14:37
|
Better value: Purchase 1 progrock song download for 99 cents and get 20+ minutes of music! ------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 14:41
|
Enjoy asking your Country Music loving friends if they would like to hear a song by "John Anderson" and then playing Olias of Sunhillow for them! When they look dismayed, earnestly reply "What's wrong? and show them the Jon Anderson album cover..." ------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Posted By: g0rd0nb0mbay
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 14:52
|
That's three reasons...
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/g0rd0nb0mbay/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
|
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 15:43
|
I apologize for not being clear with my intention on the initial post.
I meant this to be an invitation for everyone to share their own reasons to be a Prog Fan in the style of a "Top Ten List" (as made famous/infamous by David Letterman)
Please add reasons to the list. I'm sure there are many funny responses already swimming around in the Prog-brains of individuals far more witty than myself!  ------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 15:45
OK - I changed the Title to "Top Reasons" to be a Prog Fan.  ------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 21:46
|
reason #56: "...because sometimes I like to hear musicians who can actually play their instruments." (Although in honesty I do enjoy a lot of the punk/post-punk/alt rock bands to emerge over the past 30 years, too. Sometimes I'm in the mood for The Pixies, other times I want Gentle Giant.) |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 22:54
|
Getting laid!
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
|
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 22:58
|
Because bassoonists get to play something actually audible!
------------- 
|
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: April 13 2010 at 01:20
| I love the combination of theater and music (Genesis, and VdGG) |
Posted By: Lodij van der Graaf
Date Posted: April 13 2010 at 08:04
|
Because there were Keith Emerson, Peter Hammill, Chris Squire, Bill Bruford and Robert Fripp associated with the word... :D ------------- Grace is a name, like Chastity, like Lucifer, like mine!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: April 13 2010 at 15:24
In the early 1980's, I met a Rush fan whose father was a music teacher. He played oboe growing up and had really enjoyed it but kind of dropped off because he was really into rock music and there just wasn't much of a vehicle for him to play oboe in that context. Obviously, we were ignorant of the far reaching greatness of Prog! He should have been in a Prog Band!!!
------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
thellama73 wrote:Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: April 13 2010 at 20:50
|
It makes you think you're smarter than most typical music fans. (and generally speaking, you are)
------------- 
|
Posted By: June
Date Posted: April 13 2010 at 21:24
|
Speaking as a woman: No line up in the restroom at concerts. |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: April 14 2010 at 19:20
epic! haha |
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: April 15 2010 at 20:17
|
Drum solos that *count*! ------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 12:52
|
1. Because the music is 'something completely different'.
2. Because it's clever, and gives me a little air of intellectualism, who doesn't like that?
3. Because it puts me into another dimension if I get utterly smashed and listen to it when I'm splayed out on the floor like a dead cat.
4. Because it can be used to annoy and freak out anyone who isn't into it, so I can have a good laugh.
 5. Because I've met some bizarre and interesting people as a result.
6. Because it has given me all sorts of new ideas when I'm creating my own music.
7. Because it proves the superiority of rock above all other genres. (yes, that's how good I think it is...)
8. Because I never, ever tire of it as there are too many sub-genres for that.
10. Because it gives me a break from Slayer. ------------- "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself" - Sartre |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 12:54
|
^ ...Whoops!
9. Because it's really bloody good.  ------------- "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself" - Sartre |
Posted By: idiotPrayer
Date Posted: April 16 2010 at 15:50
|
- because for the amount of money one prog album costs you get the amount of stuff that normally 10 allbums would contain |