I hope prog hasn't lost it's luster on me...
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Topic: I hope prog hasn't lost it's luster on me...
Posted By: E-Dub
Subject: I hope prog hasn't lost it's luster on me...
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 19:53
For the first time in a LONG time, I have hardly any interest in listening to progressive music. I've dusted off CD's housed in another section of my cabinet and become reacquainted with them. I normally listen to progressive music at work, but haven't even come close to dialing them up on iTunes. I even spent 3 hours listening to Rush...but not the band.  Anybody else going through bouts of just not wanting to listen to progressive music? E ------------- 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 19:56
| I suppose it's happened to me too, though my tastes have always been very eclectic. On the other hand, I am so busy discovering new music within the many subgenres of prog that I have no way to actually get tired of it. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 19:59
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mmmmmmmmm.................nope!
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 19:59
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That was one best things about being here was the discovery of new bands. I'd say over 65% of my prog section are bands that I discovered through ProgArchives. I just have zero interest in them right now, though. I've been listening to stuff like Chicago, Bruce Hornsby, U2 and Eagles lately. I think eventually I'll get sucked back in; however, for right now I think I'm needing a break. That's what it feels like at least. E -------------
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:01
| I think we've all been there Eric. Breaks are a good thing, hopefully one day your zeal for prog comes back strong and you can rediscover how much you love those treasured albums all over again. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:02
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Even Marillion's not doin' it for you??? Gotta be better than RL ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:03
Wish I could say the same thing, F2.  E -------------
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Finnforest wrote:Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:05
Haven't been listening to Marillion, either. Then again, I don't really consider them progressive anymore. I've always described them as modern rock with progressive characteristics. Even then, however, I'm taking a break from Marillion. I think I'm a victim of over saturating myself. I'd better get back in the mood because their convention in Montreal is a month away. E -------------
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:09
Kidding aside, Pat is right. Breaks are common among collabs, everyone needs a break now and again. It will return to you eventually I'm sure. Don't force it. 
------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:12
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yeah don't sweat it, listen to what pleases you |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:16
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Actually, I've been talking back and forth with a buddy of mine and we're both children of the 80's. Been listening to a lot of stuff that I grew up with. I'll be back from my hiatus. I'm sure I'll miss Genesis, Yes, and Pendragon here soon. E -------------
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:21
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I've taken breaks from MUSIC that have lasted years (in most cases because of personal circumstances), but I've always come back to it, my interest stronger than before. I'm sure it will happen to you too!
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:25
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I'm sure you just need a break, however long it needs to be doesn't matter. However, sometimes it may just be that you need something new. There is ONE album I must recommend for you when you're feeling up to it again: Still the Waters. That will most likely be right up your alley and is a wonderful, unique inclusion in modern Symphonic prog. It's becoming one of my favorite Symph albums... I even told Robert I was surprised at how much it's been growing on me.  ------------- 
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:26
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It will. It just amazes me how up until a week or so ago I couldn't get enough of it. Now....eh. Actually, if anyone whose spent time in the What Are You Listening To Now thread, a lot of my entries have been non-prog. Has been for a couple of weeks. I do have the Pat Metheny Group in the car's player. I suppose that could qualify as progressive, even though I still see it as simply jazz and only jazz. E -------------
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:28
It's funny you bring that up because as I was typing my response to Raff, I was thinking, "Maybe I just need something new." Feel free to pass along any information. Believe me...I'm not wanting this to happen. E -------------
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:32
QFT music is a personal journey.... why fight the tide.. let it take you where it wants to take you. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:33
If I eat papaya everyday it'll be quite sure that I'll get tired of it sooner or later...  
I try to keep a broad spectrum of musical styles, being Prog really important but not predominant, maybe 30%, being the rest divided among Brazilian music (all possible/audible genres), some erudite stuff, seminal & classic rock, pop & romantic, French chanson, tango, fado, and so on.
That's my recommendation, Eric.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 20:40
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I have had and currently have the same problem. My current lack of love for prog started probably a couple months ago. Then a friend of mine bet me to give up music for the 40 days of Lent so I decided I'd do that. I'm starting to miss it a bit after only a week. In due time the love of prog will reemerge.
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 21:06
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I haven't been bothering to listen to much progressive rock lately, and what I do listen to is RIO, but I have been listening to progressive music, it's just jazz because I hate rock at the moment. I tried to give up music for Lent, but I caved on Ash Wednesday. :/ In my defense, I had the Bee Gees stuck in my head. I was only a few moments away from suicide, which would have been worse! ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 21:15
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fortunately, it has not happened to me .....yet ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 21:28
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I may go off progressive rock, but I don't think I'll ever go off progressive music. There always will be so much progressive music to discover and grow into that I think it will be a life-long pursuit and passion. |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 21:59
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I think it's probably most profitable for us to keep our ears (and our heads) ready for anything. Prog is just a word to describe one of the styles I happen to like. ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/sleepers-2024 |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: March 03 2009 at 23:13
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its ok man. i recently got back into prog rock, after a long time of exploring jazz, blues, avant-garde, and rediscovering music i liked before i knew about prog rock. i might have listened to a random song or 2 every now and then, but was never craving it like i used to. Jazz-rock and Frank Zappa took over me. though yes Zappa is prog rock, once i was familiar with his music and a lot of the jazz records i was getting, all the GG, Yes, KC etc records i had seemed dull. i checked out other progressive bands and couldnt get into em. but after a while, your mind almost forgets the places you go when you listen to this great music. and then something sparks your interest again. maybe someone put on a classic prog rock epic while you were drinking. maybe a new album by a band you used to listen to (prog or not). either way it happens, rediscovering prog feels so good. Everyone goes in and out of the mood for prog rock. the best thing to do is dip into different stuff all the time. like today i listened to Miles Davis (jazz), Galactic(funk-jazz), Umphrey's McGee (Prog rock/jam band), Planet X (jazz-metal), Yes (symph-prog rock) T-Bone Walker (blues) and Barber (classical). you gotta mix it up sorry for the ramblin on, it happens sometimes ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 02:40
Spot on Guigo. If i was to listen to prog alone all day I'm sure I would have moved on long ago. Diversity is the key.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 02:54
That's pretty much my story too, Raff - although progressive rock is my greatest love music wise, it's by no means the only one (I'm such a tart  ); when there's so much out there to listen to, you'd have to be a mug to restrict your horizons to a single genre.
Currently enjoying the gentle soothing strains of System Of A Down's 'Mesmerise' album (thanks for the recommendation, KBT  ) after which, maybe some Weather Report 
Diversity, eh? Can't beat it. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 03:17
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^ as above, in spades.
I am of the firm conviction that peoples tastes do not change a great deal, stuff we liked at some point in our lives we will like again once we rediscover it at some other time - all that's needed is time. My playlist has all kinds of stuff on it, what I listen to the most is Metal, what I like the most is Art Rock, what I'm rediscovering at the moment is 80s & 90s Indie and Alt rock and the one band I don't 'play-to-death' is the one I love the most and have loved for the longest: Pink Floyd - I play their albums as a treat from time to time. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 03:40
With me, that'd be pre 1978 Genesis - never loses its appeal, especially since that box set of remasters came out a few months ago. -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 06:18
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I'd like to add something to what my esteemed colleagues and friends have already stated.... When it comes to listening to music, I don't really CARE if it's prog or not - what really matters is that it appeals to me in some way or the other. There is so much diversity in prog alone that it would already be enough not to get bored. Micky and I have recently gone on a couple or three of shopping sprees in our area, and the CDs we have found are so incredibly diverse... No one CD sounds like the other. And, of course, in our reasonably vast music collection we have lots of non-prog CDs, which we listen to with the same pleasure as the prog ones. As Jim said, diversity is really the key!
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 07:22
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I've never really tired of prog.
Even in the early 90's when I was frequenting raves and clubs, if anyone asked me about my tastes, I would always say I liked progressive music. Although, at that time, I was listening to mainly dance music, ambient and the best Indie bands of the day. At the moment I'm listening to a lot of classical music; not something I do very often, and very little rock. The last rock I played was Opeth, that was about two weeks ago. But, progressive rock will always be my favourite music overall. |
Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 08:36
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I have to take a break from music every now and then, especially after buying tons of cd (which happens way too often...). A couple of years ago I was so nauseated that I spent a month without intentionally listening to music, after that I came back to artists I had nearly forgotten about: Motorpsycho, Fleetwood Mac (the Buckhingam/Nicks line-up) and also discovered Dungen. Anyway, it wasn't long before I was drooling again on Anekdoten, Genesis, Gentle Giant etc... I just needed a short holiday! P.s. despite the ever growing heap of prog still waiting for a first listen, tonight I might decide to spin some Al Stewart, I've had Year of the Cat on my mind for too long... |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 08:42
Same here ! Got their fourth album in a secondhand store here in Northern Virginia (I'm Italian too, and you should know my story...), and that's GREAT stuff! And I LOVE Year of the Cat too... |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 10:12
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 10:43
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As with some previous posters, prog was my first love and remains my favourite music. However, I too have diversified a bit more over the years, from metal to folk to "mainstream rock" such as Fleetwood Mac to some of the indie bands. Diversity is the key, because I could never actually go without listening to music for much more than a day or two.
You'll be back, believe me.
If not, any chance of an all expenses paid trip to the Marillion convention??  ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 11:26
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As others have said, variety is the spice of life. I don't just listen to progressive rock (though I'd say I mostly listen to progressive music), but I find that there is so much variety of music, such diversity, that we include under the prog banner that it's not easy for me to grow tired of it. Mind you, I've slowed down with "prog umbrella" discoveries. In 2005 and 2006 particularly I was so busy discovering music from all the categories here (branching out into different styles); now I don't get that many new albums, but generally prefer to go back to ones I already know. I commonly listen to different forms of prog. Listening to, say, Aranis, is a very different experience from listening to, say, Dream Theater but one may enjoy both in their own way. If one's tastes are very diverse when it comes to progressive music, then I think it much less likely that one will tire of progressive music. *currently listening to Doctor Nerve with the Sirius String Quarte's Ereia, which will be followed by whatever I feel like, which may be some Miles Davis, or Funkadelic, or Boredoms, or whatever...*. I mix it up. Of course another problem for team members is that they are expected to evaluate so much music that the joy of listening to music can be lessened, and listening to new stuff can feel like a chore. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 12:23
Blasphemer!  For me there is a broad umbrella covering progressive music which makes that impossible. Also, I have a rotation scheme for listening to my collection that ensures everything gets listened to sooner or later independent of what I interested in at the moment or even if it's prog or not. How long is your LONG time anyway, if I may ask? ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 13:25
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No! The day I stop listening to IQ, Camel, Genesis, Mostly Autumn and Gentle Giant will be the day I die. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: AlexUC
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 15:03
Once only. Just played some punk and never happened again  nop! just kidding!Happens very often to me. Sometimes I want some easy relaxing music, so I play Jairo, Julio Jaramillo, Braulio, Camilo Sesto... Yes, guilty. You know, prog is beautiful and everything to me, but that classic romantic music brings me back some childhood moments, for example, that prog just... can't... So, my point is that different music styles give you the chance to explore different experiences, of course it depends on everyone...------------- This is not my beautiful house... |
Posted By: Fleetway
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 15:07
| Last year I listened to prog 24/7 for afew months. That made me take a break for a few months afterwards. But today im listening to it 24/7 again :P maybe ill need another break after this overdose. But im sure ill be back. All my fav bands are prog. |
Posted By: Captain Capricorn
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 15:08
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I get tired of just about everything after a certain point - but I just go onto something else equally fantastic...if you're bored with prog, move over to jazz or classical...I juggle those 3 constantly.
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 15:17
(the bolded) Definitely, that's been happening to me, this last month, and still continues.. Though I'm not THAT saturated, though I'm back in my heavy mood, all because of DT!!! Though I still listen to Prog in the computer, and when I go to sleep, but you must know, that these are the moments, that you less pay attention to the music.... |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: March 04 2009 at 21:44
This is all good advice, Why worry... it's the music of your life. I am noodling around with some opera and may incorporate it into my own silly experiments... Whatever makes us happy! ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/sleepers-2024 |
Posted By: Darklord55
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 07:45
| I consider myself as having eclectic or well rounded tastes in music. I not only like prog and it's numerous genres, I also listen to Death Metal, Black Metal, some Thrash, and a little alternative. I also listen to Jazz, Jazz Fusion and Classical. So, I never really get bored or tired of prog. I will totally avoid like the plague certain types of music. Which includes Country, Rap, most pop and your basic "Classic Rock" music typically played on those type of radio stations. You know the ones. They over play Free Bird, Bob Seeger, Aerosmith, yada yada yada! |
Posted By: Barla
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 08:32
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Wow, E-Dub, you read my mind. I was about to star a thread similar to this one, but I think my problem is worse. In fact, since one year and a half ago, approximately, I started to lose any interest in MUSIC. Not only I listen to less and less music, and now my interest is rounding ZERO, I actually don't fell the need of listening to music: some years ago, I couldn't imagine a simple day without playing one album, at least, in my hi-fi component. Now it's turned natural not to listen to music for long periods of time, with very few exceptions of rediscovery, or certain bands, like Pendragon lately. Help, please, I'm worried! Help, help.....!!!   ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Barla/?chartstyle=LastfmMyspace">  
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Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 11:51
| Don't worry man , that sort of situations happen. There was a weekend in which I didn't play Brain Salad Surgery , so I can understand how you feel. It's better to listen to different stuff like Trilogy or Tarkus for a change. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 11:57
As I wrote in an earlier post, I spent YEARS without buying CDs, or basically listening to any music. I bought my first CD player at the end of 1997, when I was living in Finland, and from that point I started buying records again. This is how I became a PA member in the summer of 2005.... My interest in music, especially in progressive rock, had been rekindled. Little did I know that simple act of registering for the site would change my life ... |
Posted By: openair83
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 12:37
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I don't listen to music because it's *prog*, but rather because I *enjoy* it. I just happen to enjoy progressive rock more than the average music fan, and therefore it takes up a nice chunk of space in my cd collection.
I happen to have "Hittin" The Note" by the Allman Brothers Band playin' on the house stereo at the moment, and I don't feel the least bit guilty
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Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 12:38
Aint that the truth
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Posted By: Astrodomine
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 16:31
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It happened to me too, I cycle through music styles and it always comes back! |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 19:58
| I'm always listening to new albums, so I can't say that I do get bored of it. But I also listen to things outside of prog a lot, so whatever. There are definitely times when I'm not in the mood though. |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 20:25
Talking about progressive music will help. I have to admit to talking a lot with a buddy of mine about music he and I grew up with. Bands like Kansas and Rush are a part of that, but that was before I was aware of this genre. To my prepubescent ears, it was just music. Plain and simple. I'm enjoying going back and re-discovering albums that I literally haven't heard in 25 years. Today, for example, when I spun Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down after receiving it from SwapaCD (Excellent site, if anyone's interested). It was like I was hearing it again for the first time. A band that I loved as a kid, but have gotten away from is Iron Maiden. I bought Somewhere In Time and that was cool to become reacquainted a particular 'sound' that made such an impact on me at a very influential time in my life. Earlier in the week I spun 'Til Tuesday, Mr. Mister, Toto and Jackson Browne and it was such a breath of fresh air. I'll still spin my prog; but, I will begin looking at a very neglected section of my CD shelves from now on. E -------------
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 20:34
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We all go through cycles, depending on our personal circumstances. Up until my kids were born, I had some sort of music playing constantly. Once I had kids to deal with, well surely there were weeks where I never listened to a song much less an album. Now the kids are away, so I have a bit more time to enjoy. However I still find myself going back to the old favorites (call it senescence setting in if you like) more often than exploring the new. But then I suppose the Top Rated on the site are there for a reason, which is that they have almost unlimited potential to continue to entertain, as well as provide nooks and crannies for new discoveries with each listen. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 23:26
I felt that way for a little while, but then I started listening to jazz instead of boring rock. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 00:20
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Once in awhile I won't listen to any prog for a day or two, but usually just because there's other music in my collection that I feel like listening to. I usually rotate what I'm going to listen to everyday depending on my mood and what appeals to me at the moment.
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 01:01
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Yeah I go through bouts of not listening to 'prog'? Does it matter? No one goddamn bit. No one has an obligation to 'stay troo 2 teh porgz'. It's just music at the end of the day. ------------- 
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Posted By: Einsetumadur
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 11:34
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Of course this happens to me very frequently ... at the moment I am really interested in alternative rock and psych, the classic progressive rock is nothing that I would like to hear right now.
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 14:35
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Not exacly what you asked, but today at work I listened to the whole How the West was Won by Led Zeppelin. WOW!!! I really re-fall in love with it and Led Zeppelin in general, which I honestly haven´t paid that much attention in the last three years... good to be back!
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Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 15:12
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Do not worry. Try listening to anything but prog for a week or two and sure enough you will hear a prog tune,hear an interview ,read an article or see an album cover and you will be back. I am always swapping it around. I don't know what I am going to play next myself ------------- Matt |
Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 15:56
| Actually.... F*CK PROG!! I am listening to Live at the Fillmore East by the Allman Bros. and it's amazing stuff |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 20:36
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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 21:22
| I can't get tired of prog cuz to me it's not a genre, but an approach to making/listening to music. Genre-wise, tho, I do switch it quite a bit. Primus to GG to Cynic to Beefheart to Beardfish to Neal Morse to Mahavishnu Orchestra. So I never get tired of one particular type of progressive music. The progressive mindset, however, I'd have to be a different person than I am to get tired of that. I will always hold orginality and creativity to be the defining characteristics of good music. Just my two cents. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 22:34
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I started a last.fm profile a few months ago, and recently DT and Tool have been battling out for the number one spot on my list. Now Tool is by far my favorite band ever, but I have far more DT material and I haven't listened to my latest purchases of them as much. So I've been intentionally playing Tool more so it would appear that to me they're far better. However, I've listened to tons of Tool before, so I know what all the songs sound like, there are considerably fewer surprises in the music, and the only things I still haven't gotten used to are the polyrhythms in "Rosetta Stoned". So a couple weeks ago, I really got sick of Tool. Then I realized it doesn't really matter.
After a couple of weeks of not listening to them constantly, I can still say I love them. They're awesome.
Moral: Listen to whatever. Set up a Britney Spears station on pandora radio and get out your pink scarves and high heels and unleash your inner female.  ------------- 
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 22:59
Indeed. I went through what E Dub seems to be going through right now with metal. I discovered all the classics too soon and ran some genres like death metal and thrash metal to the ground and at some stage lost interest in discovering more artists. It's not like I began to dislike the genres as such, but just that I was already spoilt for choice for masterpieces whenever I felt in the mood for either. I keep my antennae open for any real gems but I am wary and choose carefully, because the average metal fan is more easily satisfied than I am and what may be f***ing awesome for him may well be, God forbid, f***ing awful for me.
So when I got interested in prog again, I consciously decided to mix it up with jazz, fusion jazz, blues, hard rock, even some good pop - not because I get bored of prog but because I don't want to exhaust good bands too soon. And once you take that approach, you find yourself enjoying music from all sorts of genres just as much prog or metal, the idea that one needs to listen to a specific genre to enjoy himself is fundamentally flawed. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 23:23
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I'm with you E- I have been listening to a lot of different stuff lately, or should I say non-prog- indie rock, adult alternative, classical, heavy and death metal. I also listen to a lot of sports radio, because I am a sports dork, SOmetimes prog music just seems so....well, I don't really know, but.....maybe you do
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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: March 09 2009 at 00:50
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I'm still confused as to how you can make blanket statements about prog music. Hth do Captain Beefheart and Gourishankar have anything in common?! I think you guys really need to diversify. To me saying I'm tired of prog would be like saying I find the milky way galaxy is a bad place to live. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: March 09 2009 at 01:19
This. I never get tired of 'prog' per se, because there is zillions and zillions of bands in heaps of different genres. Within the main genres, there is another 20-30 sub genres within. If then, it still bores you, then christ you must have like, 100 000 songs on your computer that you've heard over and over. -------------
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: March 09 2009 at 02:00
All the time. I'm always going through some phases in my listening habits, sometimes I'm all about punk rock, sometimes indie, metal, pop or anything. Right now I've been having the longest prog phase in a long long time, enjoying the old favourites and discovering some gems from my collection that never really hit me that well before (Locanda Delle Fate, Harmonium and Ange come to mind first). When this prog phase ends some day and I'll start listening to grunge for example, I won't be worried because I know prog always comes back. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: proghog
Date Posted: March 10 2009 at 05:48
Breaks are good but seriously stay away from Rush! (not the band). That is way too dark. 
Try The Source to bring you back into the fold.
http://www.TheSourceRocks.com/music.html - www.TheSourceRocks.com/music.html
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: March 10 2009 at 09:52
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Not that I'm tired of prog, but many of the modern bands don't really get to me. Old school prog, I'm for it, maybe because I grew up with it, but lately, very few bands get me going and lately, I've been listening to Jazz a lot, like Michel Petrucciani, Charles Lloyd, etc.
If bands were a little more inventive, and not so yes/genesis/gentle giant influenced, I probably would enjoy them more, and prog metal is so repetitive, the Dream Theatre sound, that it gets boring after a while, so I look for other options, some world music or sometimes new age artists for example.
Still, prog is my first love, and since I prefer music to listen to and not to dance, prog will always be my first option.
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Posted By: XunknownX
Date Posted: March 11 2009 at 03:03
| No big deal if you have realy, that's lots of good music in other styles, so don't work against progressing your taste in new directions, it only makes it worse. |
Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: March 11 2009 at 04:16
Couldn't agree more. I can go a whole WEEK without prog, but I might be hitting on any form of metal, punk, grunge, even powerpop
 Then it might be my all-time faves The Faces or The Kinks, possibly a bit of Beethoven or Bach or some obscure proggy cr*p from the 70s that only I and the band own
, then that squares the circle and I think: let's make up this week's mp3 list: could contain anything from Guru Guru to Cream to Pendragon to David Bowie to Crimson to the Pink Fairies to Tangerine Dream to Roxy Music to Manic Street Preachers Orange Goblin to Spiritual Beggars - that's actually roughly what I've got on at the moment. Oh and The Black Parade by MCR - must be the emo in me. I hate their image but am wierdly addicted to this album.Purists would disagree, but IMO man cannot live by prog alone. ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 11 2009 at 05:14
It's a damn fine album - and the live version, The Black Parade is Dead, is good too. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: March 11 2009 at 05:36
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These threads pops once in a while, and I just don't get them. How is it possible to worry about growing tired of something? Its a gift, not a problem. Just explore music, genres and artists you don't know yet. Here's your chance to grow. Did you worry when reading comics about superheroes or playing in the sandbox stopped give you the same enjoyment as it used to? ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: TN
Date Posted: March 12 2009 at 16:39
+1 on everything! ------------- Don't wait for tomorrow because you'll never get today back. |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 12 2009 at 17:48
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I'm having a healthy mix, which is probably the way to go. I did listen to the magnificent Blomljud by Moon Safari today. My goodness, that disc gives me the warmies! E -------------
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 13 2009 at 14:23
The new Wishing Tree album will make you feel a whole lot better - got it yet? ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: jplanet
Date Posted: March 13 2009 at 15:02
Eric, this is highly disturbing news. As one of the 8 people who listen to my band, you MUST continue to listen to prog! ------------- https://www.facebook.com/ShadowCircus/" rel="nofollow - ..::welcome to the shadow circus::.. |
Posted By: MrEdifus
Date Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:21
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Sometimes I have phases where I'll want to listen to power metal, straight classic rock, some Soundgarden, stuff that isn't necessarily prog. (Yes, I've even partaken in the guiilty pleasure that is The Black Parade.) I'm never ashamed of anything I decide to listen to though, and I often find something new that I enjoy. ------------- 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:36
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If it's music, and you like it, listen! Hell, we're not married to prog, are we? Are we?  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:38
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I'm already married, and don't practice bigamy, so....
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Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: March 13 2009 at 18:58
| Listen to whatever you want, as long as you're not under the impression that one genre is inherently 'better' than all the others, which happens far too often. |
Posted By: MrEdifus
Date Posted: March 13 2009 at 19:42
That'd be kinda weird I think. Especially since you can't get intimate with prog. -------------
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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: March 20 2009 at 04:59
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Progressive rock is both beautifull and interesting, but there's a lot music around that's just beautifull. Sometimes I listen to Simon and Garfunkel or perhaps some jazz.
This 'you have to listen it progressive thing' could be of influence of bands being added on PA that aren't really progressive.
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Posted By: Hootywho
Date Posted: March 22 2009 at 22:54
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This happens to me every once in a while, with the exception of Yes, most Genesis and a large part of the beatles prog stuff. It happens to other things as well, too much of something generally kills your taste for it.
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Posted By: InvisibleUnicorns
Date Posted: March 22 2009 at 23:05
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I generally go through cycles in my music listening. Been on a huge hip-hop binge lately, and have just recently moved on to post-punk and other 80s alternative music. I'm sure I'll work back around to prog sometime. |
Posted By: Prospero
Date Posted: March 29 2009 at 00:29
| Prog? Not really, I'm a casual prog fan (I devote myself to Zappa principally). The percentage of listening time I dedicate to prog is always the same (25~30% I guess). I do have on and off relationships with both jazz and metal music though. Sometimes, we just don't get along. I believe it's because I play drums. Listening to Jack DeJohnette or crazy metal drummers can easily discourage you when you try to imitate them. |
Posted By: adammcdorman
Date Posted: March 30 2009 at 13:55
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I'm just coming back from a several-months-long hiatus from progressive music.
For me, the motivation to come back was a couple of newer releases that I just couldn't help being excited about.
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: March 30 2009 at 14:11
| Still beats 95% of the crap that they are playing on the radio these days. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 30 2009 at 15:00
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HI,
I'm tired of the term ... not the music ...
And I am not a great fan of the connotations of the music "type" ... I don't listen to types of music ... so in this sense ... I've been tired of prog for over 30 years when the term first started showing up!
Is the music better than before? NO
Is the music worse than before? NO
It's different music ... and what is going to bore us stupid is the fact that we are only listening to one style, one type and one combination of instruments ... and that is not a good definition of "prog" at all ... in fact, it is the definition of regressive since it can not "grow" and "progress" if it is stuck in a bottle!
Any new music? Nope
I'm finally looking to start dumping the record collection ... and replacing only the lp's with cd's that matter to me ... it's simply too much weight and I need to lose about 25 to 30 more pounds!
That said ... I have not heard anything new ... although I have enjoyed listening to Porcupine Tree's last 2 albums, none of the stuff mentioned here is even playing on LIve365 ... which pretty much tells you how much WE ... all here believe in it ... but I have not enjoyed a new Gismonti, or Jarrett or anyone else either ... so maybe some kind of feeling has been lost in there somewhere ...
So if you are losing it ... you are not the only one ...
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Posted By: WileyMarshall
Date Posted: May 03 2009 at 18:58
| This actually happened to me around the time Phideaux's "Doomsday Afternoon" came out. After I heard it, I was back to my usual prog appreciation. It's been great since then. |
Posted By: SgtPepper67
Date Posted: May 03 2009 at 19:58
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I also go through cycles listening to music. I've been in a prog mood in the last few weeks and even getting into some bands I've never liked before, but sometimes I get bored and listen to other stuff. I'm a fan of classic rock mainly, prog or not, and I'm also a big fan of brit pop and some grunge stuff since I was a teenager, I like a lot of different rock or pop bands besides prog and eventually I got tired of prog and listen to some of them depending on my mood.
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: May 03 2009 at 20:05
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Since I started this thread a couple of months ago, I've been getting back into it. Still try to sprinkle in other genres, but I'm still proggin'. E -------------
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: May 03 2009 at 21:11
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Well, I must admit I found recently a lot to like in the 'alternative' genre and in instrumental funk-jazz/soul : alternative : 16 horsepower, calexico, tarentella (very original band), Curtis Eller's American Circus (alt country), Hyacinth house (alt country from...Sweden, excellent)
instrumental funk-jazz/soul : Booker T + MG's, The Meters, Lefties soul connection, speedometer, sexteto electronico moderno, Eddie Hazel, ethio-jazz (jazz from Ethiopia melted with soul)
But at the same time as I dig other musical realms, I never lose sight of prog. However, find gems nowadays becomes more and more difficult in the "rock" field of prog (as opposed to "metal", see below) : I prefer to dig the long lost obscurities such as some rare folk (Fuchsia, Olivia (with A Barco do Sol as backing band, see my sig), Linda Perhacs (best discovery of the year), Folkdove, Anacrusa..). It seems that the most interesting and prolific prog comes currently from the metal world : bands such as Akphaezya, Electro Quarterstaff, Unexpect, Scale the summit, Blotted science, Atrox (the first line-up with female vocals), Ansur, Flametal, Stolen Babies... ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: May 05 2009 at 06:45
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Hapens to me all the time, try take a break from prog and listen to some other music and you will soon return hungry for prog again. ------------- 
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Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: May 09 2009 at 08:27
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I have recently come back to Prog (the last 6 months) after a gap of about 10 years. I got heavily into jazz, and it is such a broad, diverse genre that I listened to little else for a decade. Then for some reason I just had a burning desire to listen to early-to-mid 70s Genesis, Yes and Pink Floyd. My hunger grew when I watched the Prog documentaries shown on BB4 just after Christmas. Since then, I can't get enough of it. I am buying at least two prog CDs every week (thank god for Amazon), usually based on recommendations from this website.
I take my dog for a long walk every night (about 4 or 5 miles) - I'm a school teacher and it's good to get the classroom out of your system for a while - and I listen to my latest prog acquistions on my MP3 player - and I love it. I guess I've become a 'born again' prog listener. So for me the prog luster faded for a while but is now shining like a crazy diamond. ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: May 14 2009 at 01:16
I had a short dip recently. Fortunately it lasted one or two days. I was very relieved I can tell you.
Last year I had a break for about 5 months but that had more to do with reviewing than with listening to the music. I agree with those who say: don't force it. I hope for you it will come back again. ------------- A day without prog is a wasted day |
Posted By: Necromancer
Date Posted: May 14 2009 at 03:27
Same thing happened with me and folk metal. Can't stop listening to it again now! Hopefully, the same will happen to you.  ------------- http://www.myspace.com/aikaband"> 
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: May 16 2009 at 05:47
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[QUOTE=Green Shield Stamp]
I take my dog for a long walk every night (about 4 or 5 miles)
What does he/she listen to - Seamus? The intro to Indigo off Pendragon's Pure? ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: Fieldofsorrow
Date Posted: May 16 2009 at 08:49
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Hell, I couldn't imagine only listening to prog. My favourite genre by far, with plenty of soul searching and enchanting music. But a bit of light relief is good for everyone, and there are three minute pop songs that fill a void I don't think prog ever could. And that's great! ------------- Groovy teenage rock with mild prog tendencies: http://www.myspace.com/omniabsenceband |
Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: May 16 2009 at 09:05
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Never get tired of listening to prog music, they're so much good bands coming out. I don't have time to listen to another style of music. I am not the kind who thinks that today, there's no bands that do better than those of the 70's (golden age). It's just different, you have to know where to go to find those good new bands. Internet is the best way to discover good music from around the world.
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: May 16 2009 at 09:27
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When I originated this thread, I was just so tired of concentrating on a single genre (which I did at the time). I make it a point to 'mix it up' a bit. It's still my favorite, though. E -------------
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