How to define and classify "Progressive Rock"? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

progaardvark wrote:

My typewritten rumblings are a double-slit experiment. Paul just happened to be a random observer and out popped a gibbertron, a particle I'm known to emit during certain hours of the day when the helix of the moon is eclipsed by steamed waffle bags. The more you observe my experiment, the more gibbertrons you're going to see. I would recommend observations in moderation. Like most subways, salt intake should be monitored.

Whatever, I'd like you to be aware of that payback time has come. Stern Smile

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David_D wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

That reminds me of one of Prog Aardvark's enigmatic forum posts. Tongue

only one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????????????

DtR

Edited by David_D - May 18 2022 at 13:06

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Jaketejas wrote:

David_D wrote:

Jaketejas wrote:

If it were a rotary assembly, prog is music that does not having its axis placed centrally.

I'd like to get it explained further, Jake.

Have you ever eaten Cheerios in the morning and you run across the slightly burnt torus of toasted oats with added flavor? That's prog.

That reminds me of one of Prog Aardvark's enigmatic forum posts. Tongue

Jaketejas wrote:

If it were a rotary assembly, prog is music that does not having its axis placed centrally.

I'd like to get it explained further, Jake.

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That was wonderful. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[EDIT] For clarification, as someone has asked me privately, I am under the impression that the above was intended as satire, and not ridicule, or I would not think it were wonderful. As much as David and I may disagree on a lot, that doesn’t mean I think he should be ridiculed. So, if I am wrong, and the above was not meant as satire, then I will redact this post. I do not want to applaud anyone if they are ridiculing another. I realise there is a fine line between ridicule and satire, but one is meant with malice, and the other is not.

Edited by nick_h_nz - May 17 2022 at 08:41

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progaardvark wrote:

I know I won't be satisfied with any definition if it doesn't contain the words "submanifold," "diplodocus," and "covariant" in it.

The geology of yogurt might put my sounds in a tennis ball container (remember when they were made out of metal and you could build a guitar out of one? (endorsed by a frame bundle (a derivation of C^∞)).

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David_D wrote:

But let my give you one example of what I mean which I remembered well, as I'm fond of Hybris:

suitkees wrote:

Oh boy oh boy, how can a symph prog clone beat one of the most (if not the most) original and successful neo-prog bands?

I must be getting old...

written in the poll "Modern Prog: First Album", 15 April 2022, page 12.

If anybody should be in doubt about which bands and albums suitkees refers to, they are

Anglargård's Hybris vs Marillion's Script for a Jester's Tear

while more objectively speaking, one can consider Neo-Prog as Neo-Symphonic, and maybe analyse more thoroughly the artistic values of these two albums.

Edited by David_D - May 17 2022 at 01:49

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Nick, as I have told you before, I neither read nor respond to your posts anymore.

Edited by David_D - May 16 2022 at 11:24

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David_D wrote:

Well, suitkees, as I see it,

Ah, and there is the problem. So, let me quote myself, as it is even more appropriate now, than it was before:

I wrote:

There is nothing in what you’ve quoted from Kees there that shows any influence of definition upon his appreciation. You do seem to understand things very differently from most people, and I think you infer from what they write your own understanding. There is nothing wrong with understanding things differently, but it is important to recognise that not everyone will think the way you do, so to frame their words by your own reference will often result in something quite different from what was actually said.

The only lack of understanding here, comes not from Kees (who appears to understand just fine), but from you. And this lack of understanding seems to come from having a very different understanding of how other people think, and being unaware that the way you think is very different from the way other people think.

Please stop trying to take the opinions of others and make them fit your way of thinking, because every time you do this, you misconstrue them. You’ve done it to Greg and Kees recently, and they are been extraordinarily gracious in the way they have taken it. One day you will do it to someone who doesn’t take it so well.

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Well, suitkees, as I see it, what I have quoted of you shows that you have a certain understanding/definition of "progressive rock"

which has a negative influence on your appreciation of music.

And if you're not aware of that, it's a lack in your understanding of your approach to music.

Edited by David_D - May 16 2022 at 07:52

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