Can teenagers Enjoy early Genesis?

But it is not very fashionable, I'm afraid. If your daughter is not one who has to do like 'all the others' I can't see why she wouldn't like it. Guess it also takes a bit of a musical mind, a special interest in music. Prog is not background music.

I tried to introduce prog to my sons, but hip hop was their thing. 

They called prog medieval rock.

 

I was 12 when I first got into prog (I'm 19 now), and trust me I didn't just sit on the fringes of prog. The first three bands that put me under the prog spell were: Gentle Giant (I must stress this group above all), King Crimson, and Kansas. But prog groups that are easier to digest also played a big role in my prog world. These groups included: Angel (yes, they were prog!), Sparks, and Deep Purple (particulary those first three albums).

 

So with that said, I don't think you necessarily have to start with more accessible prog groups. Start with the more complex (and lets face it, even weirder) prog groups. Then work your way out until you get to the fringe of what makes a prog group.

 

And hopefully your daughter will, at the very least, appreciate the amazing world of PROG ROCK! (Whoo!)

 

Well, thanks for listening!

 

-AP

We don't have kids, my girlfriend is 43 (me 44) and any hope is lost, she hates prog as much as I hate Barry White...

 

 

 

I can see your point and complex prog like Giant and Crimson are not so bad for younger listeners but of course I am just hoping she doesnt get into Jonas Bros and Hannah too much. If she gets into Giant I will be wrapped of course, ANY prog willbe a good thing, but it is one stone at a time we are turning here, and with theoverwhelming response to my humble thread , which i thought would get about 3 comments and be ended by the way  , I am now educated - teens do INDEED listen to early prog such as Genesis and I think thats a fantastic thing. I am into a lot of weirder prog but dont expect my teens to get into that nor would I particularly want that. i think what attracts me to prog is the weirdness, that it is different, as soon as I heard Maudlinof te Well's Part the Second, I was amazed, or Astra's The Weirding, or Kraftwerk asa teen I knew I would love anti-radio music more than anything.

 

The radio is boring.

 

 

I will state that as a fact yet teens will be seduced by its spell. The lyrics too are disturbing when you hear things like London Bridge by Fergie - "And I’m like get up out my face, (oh s***) 'fore I turn around and spray your ass with mace. (oh s***) My lips make you wanna have a taste. (oh s***) You got that? How come everytime you come around, My London, London bridge, wanna go down like, London, London, London, wanna go down like, London London London Bridge" I would hate my daughter to be singing this.

or even Britney with her 'Touch Me'  style lyrics, or Beyonce, or ...... you get my point - its all sexualised and confusing for the mind as they are all about being seduced or touched and the world is not like that at all yet artists make it appear that way and i is accepted.

 

I know when i was young the radio was not so blatant and more subtle, in the 70s they wouldnt be allowed to air such lyrics oreven the 80s. It gt worse through the 90s till youhear expletives on the radio and sexualised lyrics. Prog rarely disturbs me in that sense, Genesis mostly sing about love or fun things. Ocassionally as in 'Lamb Lies Down' Gabriel has a 'Touch Me' lyric but it is the exception to the rule, and in context of the story of Rael.     

 

Rant over

 

This is also extremely broad, and sorta assumes that all teenagers think Miley Cyrus and Billy Talent are fantastic.