Prog elitists

Isn't this argument based on the fact that (e.g - Watched a BBC drama based in Ireland, where a bloke finds "Dark Side of the Moon" in this female science teachers basement - he asks her "you into prog-rock" , she replies "Yeah - My older brother got me into it") - The writer obviously wanted to get as many cliche's about prog rock in a thirty second scene as possible obviously ! Sooooo the writers assertion that DSOTM is synonymous with "seventies prog rock" - makes it an album that is definitely heard of outside of the prog-bubble! - so is that what lures an outsider into prog? DSOTM on the monday,  "Deloused in the crematorium"  discovered by the following friday?

Edited by M27Barney - June 22 2017 at 05:48

"OMGGG Look at all these obscure bands I listen to. They are so dark and complex and avant-garde. I am so f**king cool."

If your going to be elitist about anything, please make it about the protection you wear when you ****

The fact that some or many of a band's songs or albums do not belong to the progressive rock genre (for example Dust in the wind/Down the Road by Kansas or Bastille Day by Rush) makes some people doubt or deny even the progressiveness of such bands' progressive songs. I personally consider Kansas a hard, prog, folk, classic rock band, I classify them in several genres, and at the same time I don’t deny their progressiveness. They have written great prog tracks. 

Dean wrote: It's an ear-worm, I advise against listing to it

Tom Ozric wrote: What's this Human song ?? Never heard it.....

Was it the mention of Kraftwerk that produced the "I'm not a robot" test? And I had to select parking restriction signs in German. See how this meaningful coincidence business works?

2dogs wrote: I regularly visit a cafe where the radio plays the current UK pop chart. That 10% you mentioned is taking an awfully long time to come round .

Elitism boils down to two inter-related diagrams:

This is a tricky subject. I have occasionally been guilty of being a prog elitist, but I have recently opened my mind to a lot of other music outside of the prog-sphere. As you can see, my profile pic is the cover of Aurora's debut album, "All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend", which has only the faintest tiny hints of anything resembling prog, yet it has become one of my all time favorite albums. People need to realize that it's okay to like a multitude of different genres, and each genre is beautiful in its own way. We all know that Pink Floyd never reached the technical wizardry levels of Yes and ELP, but their music never really required that. It's okay if you don't like it that much, but it's not okay to say that they are obviously "worse" just because the music doesn't contain something your ears have grown to expect. Each band's style is unique and should be appreciated as such.