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Poll Question: Please Select Your Three Faves
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34 [30.63%]
12 [10.81%]
6 [5.41%]
10 [9.01%]
12 [10.81%]
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    Posted: September 25 2024 at 13:00
I have devised this poll to compliment those recently created by David and Greg.

I'd like forum members to consider all the music (prog or otherwise) they listen to in an average week and tick the three boxes representing the most common eras/ decades the music would have come from. I realise how difficult this would be to do accurately, so take an educated guess.

This should depict when the music was originally created, not performed... so a Beethoven Symph would be Pre-1970, even if it was performed at the Proms a couple of weeks ago. 

I would be interested to see what overall trend is created...

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1970's
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Big Sky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2024 at 13:17
1970s, although the period would be 1967 - 1983. Classical music and some jazz would be the exceptions to that time frame.

Edited by Big Sky - September 25 2024 at 13:20
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2024 at 13:19
I often favour that which is newer to me regardless of when it was produced, released or conceived and I continue to discover great-for-me music from many decades (mostly from the 1960s up). I also like to my favourites a lot and can really obsess over releases, but I digress.

With my current listening habits, I would tend to say as my three choices:

2010's
2020-23
Then 1990's

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MikeEnRegalia Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2024 at 13:34
I would guess 2020s, then 2000s, then 2010s … but I‘ll check my playlist entries at AP to confirm 😊
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2024 at 13:34

This can be done quite exactly in my case, as I know how many albums I have from each decade in my collection, and roughly speaking, I listen to all my albums equally. So the result says:

1. 1970s
2. 1980s
3. 1990s 
                      quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mormegil Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2024 at 13:44
'70s and '80s mostly.
A smattering of everything else when the mood hits.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote verslibre Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2024 at 14:07
Are multiple votes allowed?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MikeEnRegalia Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2024 at 14:15
Ok, according to my playlist entries these are the numbers (first number is all listens, second number in parentheses is only counting releases which I listened to at least twice, so removing all "first listen and then lost interest" entries)

2020s: 1095 (476)
2010s: 488 (343)
2000s: 1778 (1427)
1990s:  414 (358)
1980s: 91 (67)
1970s: 172 (131)
1960s: 26 (17)

Disclaimer: These are full release listens, and of course I haven't tracked every listen (by a long shot), but the numbers are surely an approximation of what I'm listening to the most. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cosmiclawnmower Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2024 at 14:41
It has changed over the years but honestly (and particularly as i get older) the 1970's have stayed fairly central. After that.. i guess pre 1970's to include everything that came before.. then its a tie between 1980's, and the 2000's/ 2010. There's not much which resonates with me from the 1990's apart from a few notable exceptions. 

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2024 at 15:00
I'd say 67-73, but on a wider scale, 61-79 or 59-83

but let's play the game:

70's
60's



















00's
10's
90's

80's




Of course, I spend a lot of time discovering new stuff, so in a given week of 2024, 70% of my listening would be 2023 & 2024 stuff.


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Edited by Sean Trane - September 25 2024 at 15:04
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2024 at 00:06
Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

I'd like forum members to consider all the music (prog or otherwise) they listen to in an average week and tick the three boxes representing the most common eras/ decades the music would have come from. 


1. Current releases
2. 1970's
3. 2020-2022

I've been using streaming services for the last 3 years very heavily and put all new interesting (to me) prog an non releases in massive playlists for each year. I gobble up new albums and there has been a lot of great stuff in this year so far and with more to look forward to (Frost* and Opeth especially)
Of course I still go back to my 70's prog a lot although I can't say it's as much as I should. Other than ELP, Floyd and Gentle Giant I seem to have taken a bit of a 'rest' on this decade. I can't remember the last time I listened to Thick as A Brick although I do listen to Aqualung a few times a year. Close To The Edge also gets an occasional spin as well as those early PFM albums. I don't know with Genesis anymore. I sometimes wonder if they are now 'superceded' by Big Big Train. I was talking to an Australian fellow at a recent gig and he opinioned that Genesis were now 'out' and BBT were in for him. I kind of agree. In general I find modern prog a lot more interesting and diverse. I also like the harder edge that so many modern bands bring.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jared Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2024 at 01:02
Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Are multiple votes allowed?

Please vote for up to three... it'll flesh out a rough picture.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jared Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2024 at 01:13
Thanks everyone for your information and please keep them coming!

PA says over 77,000 releases have been included on the database, and it must be that a fair number of these have subsequently fallen into a void and almost been forgotten.

Flicking around online, it does appear that celebrated albums from the 1970's heyday, far from having lost any popularity thru the decades, seem to have only increased in their appeal over the past 10-15 years.

It does make you wonder therefore, whether most Prog music created in the 1990's gets much of a hearing now? I'm not talking about the likes of Spock's, PT or tFK, but I suspect that the music of many of the smaller bands at the time who perhaps never made it out of that decade, has become all but lost in time?

I wonder what will happen to the majority of prog music from the 00's and 10's... has much of it gone the same way? And, how many of the 2024 releases will still be being regularly played in 20 years time when there will be so many more albums created and vying for our attention?

Because, you can bet your life that in 20 years time, ELP albums will still be played regularly... ?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jared Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2024 at 01:15
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Ok, according to my playlist entries these are the numbers (first number is all listens, second number in parentheses is only counting releases which I listened to at least twice, so removing all "first listen and then lost interest" entries)

2020s: 1095 (476)
2010s: 488 (343)
2000s: 1778 (1427)
1990s:  414 (358)
1980s: 91 (67)
1970s: 172 (131)
1960s: 26 (17)

Disclaimer: These are full release listens, and of course I haven't tracked every listen (by a long shot), but the numbers are surely an approximation of what I'm listening to the most. 


I have to say, that is a very impressive list Mike... Clap
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MikeEnRegalia Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2024 at 01:29
^ Well, these data represent over about 20 years of listening. I typically manage to listen to one release per day Smile
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1970's. Smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2024 at 01:51
I'm not sure what a "listening habit" is. Is trying to listening to some music every day a listening habit? Tongue

Every decade has something to offer, I can't make just three choices, I would not do justice to a lot of artists/bands I enjoy. 

Good idea for a poll, no doubt, but I cannot choose. Embarrassed


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MikeEnRegalia Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2024 at 02:09
^ This is about what your habits are, not about what you would like them to be. Personally I'd love to be listening to lots of 1970s releases, but it's just not happening because I do not want to miss out on listening to new releases. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2024 at 02:17
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ This is about what your habits are, not about what you would like them to be. Personally I'd love to be listening to lots of 1970s releases, but it's just not happening because I do not want to miss out on listening to new releases. 

Like I said, i don't know or am not sure what a "listening habit" is. Most of the time it's my mood that is what decides what I end up listening to. It's not a matter of what decade the artist/band is from. 

I might have misunderstood what I'm supposed to be doing in this thread then. Embarrassed


Edited by Cristi - September 26 2024 at 02:31
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