Progressive vs Prog

Since this site claims to be English only, then it seems to me we should use correct English (I know, my spelling is horrendous). Progressive is a real word that is defined in the dictionary so that it can be referenced to clarify things or settle an argument.
Making up words like Prog (or prog) and giving them arbitrary definitions is confusing and no help to those who are new to English. Besides, I don't mean to be dramatic, but arbitrarily rewritting definitions seems a bit Orwellian and is an easy way to distort history.
It just seems silly to say that prog is anything but short for progressive.

Here in Germany the big stores stock most of the new prog releases by larger labels like Inside Out ... but only like 1-5 CDs of each new release, and except for some rare exceptions (Porcupine Tree for example) they don't re-order when they're out of stock. 

darqdean wrote: HMV has a section called Metal - 60% of what's in there I do not consider to be Metal at all (when does Green Carnation come just before Green Day in Metal?) - I would not trust HMV to correctly classify anything as Prog for they would have a section in there for Solo Phil Collins and GY!BE would reside alongside Sigor Ros in the Dance section.

I wish that in record stores they would just sort *all* the artists/bands alphabetically and leave it at that. Not because genres suck, but because they simply don't know the artists well enough.

cacha71 wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: no no no you`ve got it all wrong  progressive rock is more progressive than progressive rock . But sometimes progressive rock can be more progressive. Sometimes. But only when it`s more progressive.   Good point.  If you didn't know that it was called Prog or progressive, what would you call it?  Why don't we all just enjoy the music and not worry too much about what label to attach!

Prog simply doesn't exist as a term for me. In  spanish, if I say "prog" I'm saying nothing. The terms here can be "Rock (...) Progresivo" o "Rock sinfónico". Due to society's lack of interest, the subgenres discussed here are nothing but labels for iTunes or winamp that everybody laughs about.

Check out my Kraftwerk Computerworld review, I asked some of the questions about what is progressive in the forums there in the review.

I've never, ever heard anyone refer to prog as Prog with a capital P, now all these definitions are based on whether or not the word is capitalized. It's getting ridiculous! Why can't prog just be a short form for progressive rock?!

 ^ tell that to the good people of Prague              

Unfortunately there's another type of "progressive" music getting around its a techno dance type thing and its really starting to steal our title (crap is king and the good don't last long)  anyway my point is calling what we like "prog" is the best solution the term progressive has been hijacked by something almost as bad if not worse than punk. I couldn't believe the audacity when I first heard about this progressive dance crap  like how dare they !  

HMV has a section called Metal - 60% of what's in there I do not consider to be Metal at all (when does Green Carnation come just before Green Day in Metal?) - I would not trust HMV to correctly classify anything as Prog for they would have a section in there for Solo Phil Collins and GY!BE would reside alongside Sigor Ros in the Dance section.