Can it be Prog if I like it at 1st listen

I've gotten very quickly into most of the albums I love. Close to the Edge was VERY hard tho; I must have listened to it 20 times and thought it was utter sh*te, now I love it more than anything!

Mostly tho I don't bother with albums I don't like after a few listens.

hdfisch wrote: You're just repeating my question! OldFatherThames wrote: Can an album called a real Prog one, if I like it immediately at the very first listening?   .................Yes.........nothing else to say

No, I answer !

simple answer: yes

complicated answer: yes, but KC's dissonance can be a bit challenging

Can't claim to have exactly loved any prog records on the first listening. I would say that for me the most crucial period of listening takes place between the second and fifth time -if I still don't like the record by the fifth time I hear it, the chances of really growing to love it seem fairly slim. Not much empirical evidence yet to support this theory of mine but Relayer is the one example so far. What can I say, I have been lucky with my prog purchases! (*knocks on the wood just in case*)

Then there are records that I'm pretty certain I won't like any better with further listenings. (Images and Words -which a friend gave me- comes readily to mind, though I did give the record a second chance recently, out of kindness  No dice.) Yet I do try to listen to all the records I get and buy several times, with perhaps a lengthy pause in between. Occasinally the passing of time works wonders on one's ears...

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It's called a joke, cobb.

Is it prog if you like it the first time?

Absolutely not.

Love of prog must be earned like six-pack abs or an Olympic medal.

I never said it was gonna be easy...

From my experience, the first time you listen to progressive music in general you have to get used to it. If you listen to and end up liking a particularly challenging album, like say Larks' Tongues in Aspic or Close to the Edge, after that it becomes much easier to like other prog music. I liked Dream Theater's "Metropolis Part 2" and Jethro Tull's "A Passion Play" albums from the first moment I heard them, but that was because I'd already been listening to complex music for a while.

I liked this one as well at the first listen,maybe it's their best accessible one.I failed to like any other album by CAN (and I listened to couple by them several times). Think Krautrock is just not "my cup of tea" (as is "Post-Rock" or "Indo-Prog" (apart of Quintessence) or Electronic Prog).

Borealis wrote:  Yes... It got more chance to be pop (and probably is popier) but I doubt it is intantly pop music. I liked Tago Mago the first time I herd it, and I doubt it is pop...

 Yes... It got more chance to be pop (and probably is popier) but I doubt it is intantly pop music. I liked Tago Mago the first time I herd it, and I doubt it is pop...