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Points: 5154 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2013 at 12:54
I couldn't care less, I'm immune to people bashing Prog, but it's a shame that the paper assigns a review to a critic who doesn't have the least appreciation about the subject, it's as if they would ask the review of 2001 A Space Odyssey to someone who hates science-fiction Confused
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Points: 5288 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2013 at 12:19
Can we expect more from a magazine that have more content in publicity than  on real writing...
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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2013 at 09:34
The review was dumb.  I could easily have overlooked all the snottiness if it had bothered to talk more about the book itself.  Typical self-serving trash journalism.   I shouldn't care (it doesn't affect my own appreciation of the music), but it frustrates me to see such laziness.

I thought your reply was quite good, thanks for taking the time to submit it and share with us.
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Points: 10841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2013 at 06:50
It's not even "mean", it's... snotty. 
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Points: 32531 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2013 at 06:27
That's a mighty mean article, I'd say.  It's like Chris Squire bullied him or something as a kid.  Confused
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Points: 1281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2013 at 00:59
Here is my favorite quote from the piece:

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But that oblivion seems entirely suited to prog, which at its best functioned as a shelter from school, from sex, from the frightful adult world.


In short, he just called guys who like prog man-children.

There's probably a grain of truth to that, but, meh, it could be worse.


Edited by KingCrInuYasha - June 15 2013 at 01:01
He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!
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Points: 2549 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 23:42
That's one of the stupidest things I've ever read (the review, not your letter).
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Points: 4671 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 21:40
Didn't Dean just say recently that this attitude went away after the 70s?
Guess it didn't!
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Points: 2632 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2013 at 18:04
The obnoxious review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/books/review/yes-is-the-answer-and-other-prog-rock-tales.html

My letter in response, to be published in The New York Times Book Review on Sunday, June 16 (mine is the second letter):

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/books/review/prog-rock.html
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