Your Prog Rock Hot Takes

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Cristi, on occasion you enjoy lighting a fire. I'm no better. Cheers

Edited by Cristi - November 30 2023 at 15:32

Cristi wrote: Frets N Worries wrote: Watcher of the Skies is the worst song off of Foxtrot There is no bad song on Foxtrot.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Fictitious Sports is a close second to Gilmour's debut in the Floyd solo standings for me, followed by Rick's Wet Dreams. Fictitious Sports is really a Carla Bley album. richardh wrote: Zappastolethetowels wrote: Yes made nothing great post-Relayer. Agree Canterbury prog is underrated and Camel are not Canterbury! Agree ATOTT by Genesis is a snooze fest! Agree Soft Machine's Fourth is their masterpiece! Agree You are hard pressed to find a M. Davis record you can sit through and thoroughly enjoy! I love J. Johnson though! Love Miles and sit through loads of his stuff Most Krautrock is aimless goofy noodling or just pathetic! Wonderful stuff love it Canterbury is a snooze fest as are Camel most of the time (prog's equivalent of elevator music) Booo Soft Machine have a lot of noodling, even on PA no one really cares about them! I Do! 5,000 ratings say different! No one really cares about Gong either I Do! > 5,000 ratings! Miles Davis is not prog (not a hot take) He's released at least a few prog albums (jazz fusion) Krautrock - don't know why anyone listens to it (even Germans hate it mostly) Love It!

Not many opinions here that I would vehemently disagree with, though I only read about half the 14 pages. 


Edited by Tapfret - December 01 2023 at 11:45

Cristi wrote: Zappastolethetowels wrote: I have no shame in justifying my picks and giving my opinion on why I think someone else missed something important. I'm not sure I understand what you say here.

Tapfret wrote: Not many opinions here that I would vehemently disagree with, though I only read about have the 14 pages.  I'll try some: Queen's first 5 albums are the definition of crossover prog Disagree, only some songs deserve that cred A Passion Play is the best Jethro Tull album It's def up there  Canterbury is a geographically local music scene and similar sounding bands outside of the locale are basically just fusion with a silly streak (I like many of those albums) Can't argue with that tbh Interview is a superior GG album to Free Hand NO!! Steven Wilson's worst engineering is infinitely better than his best music Yes!! Never Say Day is a quality Black Sabbath album, as well as their most prog I say look to first 7 for the latter part Vangelis' 70's albums have stronger prog cred than Peter Gabriel's solo albums. I agree

Tapfret wrote: St. Anger is the only listenable post-Master of Puppets Metallica album

Zappastolethetowels wrote: Camel are bubblegum prog

Edited by Cristi - December 02 2023 at 02:23

Hrychu wrote: Camel are bubblegum prog How is this statement negative in any way? 70's bubblegum pop music was enjoyable imho. I'd take 70's bubblegum pop over 2020's over-autotuned trap pop music any day. B)

^I agree with that, and there can be a band that overlaps the two, they should be separate categories. I don't think it's really much of a hot take. Also, I don't think either are actually subgenres of prog rock. Also not much of a hot take.