Do foreign vocalists ruin your prog experience?

 

I'm in it for the music, man.  I don't care what genitalia the vocalists have or what language they sing in.  As long as it sounds good to me and fits with my personal taste, I'll buy it for a dollar.

 

As for this "man's world" crap, my eyeballs couldn't be rolling more.  I'm soooo sick of that bs.  I was trained and spent a few years working as a sound engineer.  I can't tell you how much of that nonsense 've had to put up with.

 

And I kicked the ASS of quite a few male sound engineers.  And the type of music handled was technical death metal.

 

So I guess this whole "man's world" thing gets the bird from me.  Big time.

 

But I'm not going to get in profanatio's face about what he likes or doesn't like.  That's entirely his taste.  You have to go with what pleases you.  But to imply that Hammonds and Mellotrons belong to the realm of the scrotum is a bit much.  Plenty women on the planet make heavy goddamn music by playing drums, bass, guitar, mellotron, you name it...the options don't start and end at vocals.

 

Anyway, what I like about prog....well....as stated, the music first and foremost.  And I have to say, I don't like all forms of prog, but I will give things at least a listen before I decide how I feel about it, as even the band falls in a division of prog I don't like, they might be the exception that I end up loving.  I love extreme music, heavy, technical, complicated, moody, pretty, etc.  My sister (well, half sister) doesn't seem to have much of an opinion on music at all.  Just not her thing.  Movies are more up her alley.  And my friends, well...I don't have many female friends.  But one's in a good prog band playing Mellotron (rebel! ), another prefers things like Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris, and yet another listens to whatever her husband is playing, and dances with her 2-year-old.  So it can be anything from Radiohead to Cornelis Vreeswijk.  I know a few who have sot spots for death metal and grindcore.

 

I think it all depends on what circles you move around in.

 

And now I guess I should read the rest of the thread .  I got this far and felt I had to hit reply.

 

Others have mentioned strong accents. The accents that really make me cringe have nothing to do with prog and are in English: The Proclaimers. I cannot stand these guys! Thankfully I am only exposed to them occasionally on the radio.

 

 

 

How about: Italian has long been renowned as the language of song, so maybe all Prog should be sung in Italian.

 

Now I think about it, Welsh is also a fantastic singing language, as is French - quite honestly English is one of the clunkiest languages to sing in, and tends to interfere with the music, IMHO.

 

 

I'm an English speaker (American, so some would argue otherwise), but aren't Jon Anderson's lyrics, although written in English, essentially foreign?  Isn't that part of their appeal? 

 

"A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace"...etc.

 

If that didn't ruin the prog experience (and it didn't in my case), why would anything else?