Prog Sub-Genres You Just Don't Get
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Topic: Prog Sub-Genres You Just Don't Get
Posted By: Xonty
Subject: Prog Sub-Genres You Just Don't Get
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 14:02
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Has anyone looked into some of the prog sub-genres on PA and you just can't get into them at all? Just looking to see if you have any. For me, there's quite a few really (although with some exceptions): Experimental/Post Metal (except Tool - Lateralus) Indo-Prog/Raga Rock (except Mixtus Orbis) Jazz Rock/Fusion (except "Kind Of Blue" and Colosseum) Tech/Extreme Prog Metal (except "Still Life" and some Mastodon) The main one for me though is Zeuhl. It's best albums I find OK, but nothing at all stands out  Anyway, thanks for any feedback
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 14:37
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^ Kind of Blue, of course, isn't JRF -- it's modal jazz.
I haven't appreciated Neo-Prog or most of the music in the Metal categories (especially the Prog Metal category). There's lots of music I love in all the other categories. |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 14:48
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How much Exp/Post Metal, Indo-Prog, Fusion and Tech/Extreme Prog metal have you listened to? ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 14:53
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Neo ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 15:14
| I don't know if this is going to sound strange, but there's stuff from every genre here I can get into. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 15:22
It doesn't sound strange. I wish I could say the same thing!  I have tried for many years now to appreciate and enjoy the old Canterbury Scene. I don't think I ever will. Ditto Zeuhl and Krautrock. I still love the old classic rock and heavy metal bands of my youth, but I cannot for the life of me appreciate the tech ANC extreme metal bands I hear nowadays. Must be getting old!  ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Prog Sothoth wrote:Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 15:23
Basically about 15 in each I'd say. Not quite as much in Indo-Prog because I can't ever find full albums on YouTube, but a more in Experimental/Post Metal (pretty much all Tool, Maudlin Of The Well, Devin Townsend, etc.) and I'm always having to play the sort of Jazz/Fusion stuff in school. As with Tech/Extreme Prog Metal, I have to be in a very open-minded mood. First time I put on "Crimson" by the Edge Of Sanity (I think the first one I listened to with death growls and all that), I'd just finished listening to Ommadawn or Hergest Ridge, or something, and I found it unbearable. Took me about a month to return to it, but I still struggle to listen to a lot of them all the way through without finding an excuse not to
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 15:28
+1 ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 15:54
I highly doubt you had to play anything that sounded like Brand X or Mahavishnu Orchestra in school. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 17:01
And most avant/ rio etc ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 17:04
------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 17:14
| Post-Rock. WTF is this ??? When I read a review of an album I own an the writer states that there's a 'bit of a Post-Rock flavour in the guitars' I just don't get it !?! |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 17:28
Not really. ------------- |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 18:13
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ramza1316" rel="nofollow - www.last.fm/user/ramza1316 https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845 |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 19:48
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I have my favorites and less favorites, but I like all of the subs, except know little of Indo/Raga. I'm honestly always surprised at the dislike some here have for some of the subs. Ah well!
------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 19:56
Cheers from another old fart across the pond. I agree with your musty assessment. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 21:25
| Neo, Prog Metal, and Symph are my least favorite, but Prog Metal is the only one which, upon looking at the top albums list, I cringe without any consolation. It is not distaste for metal. I really dig some Exp/Post and Extreme/Tech and even Heavy Prog, but I am deterred by Prog Metal for some reason. I don't really like anything I've heard from DT or Riverside or Ayreon. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 21:48
| It's not that I don't "get" it, but neo prog all sounds like the exact same inane sh*t to me and I don't see why people are so into it. Also most prog metal is awful. |
Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: April 05 2014 at 23:57
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I hate music ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: April 06 2014 at 05:44
Maybe not as far as Brand X, but you'd be surprised
We've done a bit of Mahavishnu Orchestra stuff in a school band, and even though their great musicians, I just couldn't listen to them in my own time... Quite fun to play though!  I get what you mean though, but I am familiar with the more technical fusion stuff through uncles and that, but no |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 06 2014 at 13:14
same tbh |
Posted By: Kentucky_Hawkwindage
Date Posted: April 06 2014 at 13:40
| can't handle full blown canterbury |