Why are we greedy?

CryoftheCarrots wrote: I'm not greedy,I just love music.While I still have my hearing I will continue to buy music (prog or otherwise).Luckily my wife shares the same philosophy as do my 2 teenagers.The only problem is not having enough time to listen to our collection.Last year our new years resolution was to listen to every cd in the collection at least once.Didn't quite get there due to all the new additions taking up listening time.

Agree with u totally, carrots.  I tend to be a fan of a lot of music, but finding it is difficult as I have a limited income and the fact that I live in a town where many of the inhabitants see (for example) Led Zepplin as too heavy...... I know there are stores over the net, but the credit card is a little too over burdened (I wonder why...).  Feeding my curiosity is therefore a slow process.  I too made a new yrs resolution to listen to my CD collection at least once..... but the evils of this website introduced me to krautrock....(Im tempted, what can I say).

I try to have a revolving door policy with my cds as to ridding them once i am sick of them, but i like what ive got too much.  Curiosity will send me broke, but I c me revelling in my poverty, as it keeps me sane (...I really like this jacket, but the sleeves r much too long....).

In short, greed - not that i'll admit it... Insanity - sure!

Nothing to do with prog, or music in general- it's just human nature to want more things, better quality, and higher excitement. But we eventually can't find that and become attatched to our material possessions (such as cds); possessive and unable to let them go, but at the same time disgusted by what we have.

Music eventually becomes like a drug. You hear it once, then you love listening to it. It gets you to a state of bliss, perhaps upon discovering a new song or band. Then, you listen to it just for happiness. You listen more regularly and it eventually gets boring. You try listening to more, and different kinds, and start discovering more "intense" music (for me it was the spaciness and demented beauty of DSOTM, and the awesome post-grunge of Our Lady Peace's Clumsy), and you get to a point where you have listen all the time. Then, like a drug for a daily user, listening to it just brings you to "normal". So then you keep listening, but don't really enjoy it as much as you used to.

You can buy as many cds as you want, but it still won't fill the void in your soul that desires what they can only bring for one or two listens- happiness.

jojim wrote: I have the feeling that prog has found it's end after 40 years - similiar to classical musc.

I am afraid I have to disagree, you might just need to really progress, as the taste for the genre implies. That is, there are some neo prog bands just following the same lines that have been, at this point in time, done to death. And anyway, were, at least, already done magnificently in their time [Crimson, GG, Genesis, Yes, VDGG...]. Try expanding into 'avant-prog.'  Even if a given work may be somewhat derivative/have derivative elements, it is often in paying tribute to a given genre of inspiration, but the artists are moving in ways of their own; as creative musicians, not just parrots [however adept/tight/hot the musicianship]. Now, avant-prog has a tendency to veer into areas that may be a bit much [experimental and/or inventive] if you're only used to traditional [e.g. symphonic] prog, or if you have pop inclinations, but try some and give it a chance. Allow your tastes an open ear & mind maybe...? Or, if you want to stay in a trad. [70s] prog vein, have you explored any Italian prog? I just learned about it in the last few years, and there are really some masterpieces out there!

Good luck! And I say: never give up on prog!

Best,

Cleo