When was the game up for prog rock?

Cristi wrote: Cboi Sandlin wrote: Why isnt punk rock an option, because thats the right answer Punk did not kill prog, I don't see how it could have.  It was the lack of support from labels, ridicule from the media of the time, a lot of bands honoring contracts and delivering whatever (Love Beach is such an example, also Tormato), bands asked to make their sound more accessible (Gentle Giant, ELO, Yes), some bands going on hiatus or disbanding, bands tired of their former sound (Genesis, or at least Mike Rutherford said so), musicians tired of touring needing a break. Not that black and white...

I would sooner think that the rise of punk was symptomatic (a symptom/ evidence) of Prog's decline in health rather than Punk being the cause of it, and even then I think that would be too simplistic an analysis.

Cboi Sandlin wrote: Why isnt punk rock an option, because thats the right answer

none of the above

As recent annual polls showed, there was a substantial lull in the 1985-1990 period, but before that and after that plenty worthwhile stuff.  In terms of any degree of critical/mass acceptance, one could argue it was either punk in 1976 or arena rock around the same time that scuttled prog as a pop culture leader, with only a few exceptions like "The Wall", by which time Pink Floyd was known by all, and only seen by some as prog.  By the time Genesis were big they were for the most part not prog.  Ditto for the arena rockers like Styx, ELO, Queen, and others who never were prog but helped kill it anyway, like REO.

The invention of spaghetti sauce.

essexboyinwales wrote: Good grief, it isn't over! Stronger than ever these days😎 Some of you people need to stop living in the past! 🙄

I don't think I ever thought the best was over. I took each and every example you listed above in stride...ok, in disappointed stride. But I can remember exactly where I was and what I felt the first time I saw the Love Beach cover in the record store. It was not a good feeling, although side two kept me from out right crying.


Edited by JD - October 25 2021 at 13:12

Good grief, it isn't over! Stronger than ever these days😎

Some of you people need to stop living in the past! 🙄

There should've been an "Other" option because the thing that made me think that great music was coming to an end during the late '70s was the growing popularity of Reggae on the radio station I listened to.