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cynthiasmallet 
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 Posted: January 21 2008 at 16:16 |
 Avantgardehead wrote:
Jethro Tull is the most overrated band on this site and don't even strike me as progressive in the least. Oh look, it's hard rock with folk influences and a flute! ZOMG progressive!!!11!Dream Theater is not fully progressive metal, more like metal with progressive influences/moments in my book. Plus I can't stand to listen to them in the first place...Progressive rock existed in the late sixties and early to mid-seventies, but quickly died out and has not returned in its true form since. I like most of the retro bands, but "modern prog" bands today don't sound like they're doing anything new, anything actually progressive. Avant-garde music is the new prog as it's actually progressing and sounding new/revolutionary to me.And speaking of avant-garde, if it doesn't have any melody or cohesiveness, I can't stand it. Seems like a good number of avant-garde music draws from Dadaism instead of the nice, melodic, classical avant-garde composers like Erik Satie, Francis Poulenk, and so forth. You don't have to be weird, annoying, and entirely dissonant to be avant-garde...
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Avantgardehead
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 16:13 |
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Jethro Tull is the most overrated band on this site and don't even strike me as progressive in the least. Oh look, it's hard rock with folk influences and a flute! ZOMG progressive!!!11!
Dream Theater is not fully progressive metal, more like metal with progressive influences/moments in my book. Plus I can't stand to listen to them in the first place...
Progressive rock existed in the late sixties and early to mid-seventies, but quickly died out and has not returned in its true form since. I like most of the retro bands, but "modern prog" bands today don't sound like they're doing anything new, anything actually progressive.
Avant-garde music is the new prog as it's actually progressing and sounding new/revolutionary to me.
And speaking of avant-garde, if it doesn't have any melody or cohesiveness, I can't stand it. Seems like a good number of avant-garde music draws from Dadaism instead of the nice, melodic, classical avant-garde composers like Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, and so forth. You don't have to be weird, annoying, and entirely dissonant to be avant-garde...
Edited by Avantgardehead - January 21 2008 at 16:19
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sleeper
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Joined: October 09 2005
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 16:07 |
Yes arent even among progs top tier.  Power metal based prog can be very good and not even slightly cheesy.
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Prince_Rupert
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 16:06 |
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the best yes album is Tales from Topographic Oceans. . . everyone know that!
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BaldFriede
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 15:56 |
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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puma
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 15:53 |
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My outrageous prog view is that none of these bands on this site sound a bit alike to me, and that progressive rock is a made up genre to make easier the task of collecting these strange and varied bands
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cynthiasmallet
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Posted: January 21 2008 at 15:48 |
OK, there's a lot of varied views here on the prog archives, but in this topic I really want to get things going. I want to here your outrageous prog rock views. I mean views that are so completely bizarre and near impossible sympathise with about the most legendary prog music. I'll get the ball rolling.
The Wall is better than Dark Side of The Moon, full stop.
Close to The Edge is no where near Yes' best album.
As Thick as a Brick is poor.
Any one care to vent their progressive views? 
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