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Logan
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There are so many kinds of pop fans, I believe. Maybe the indie pop, art pop, alt. pop (and chamber pop and avant pop crowds)... Like the hipsters with their disparaging ironic comments about many acts. I generally might think the Indie music crowd. This is from over a decade ago...
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SleepingFinger
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Not on the list, but from my experience? Pop fans have to be number one in this regard. I know there are always exceptions, but again, just from my own experience.
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^And sometimes, they throw some minimalism in there!
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Personally I don't want to listen to 'minimalism' but is that close minded then. I enjoy the pomposity and grandiosity of prog and don't want it dialled down. The problem is that prog bands don't always play prog. We often have a hard time of identifying what is prog and what isn't though.
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Or they don't sound *exactly* like their old material and any deviation from that is seen as musical blasphemy.
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I think the worst type of the "close-minded proggers" imo is those who diminish all prog albums that were released after 1980 and aren't British (or British and Italian).
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Goths and Metalheads generally are more community orientated. I remember going to Whitby way back (the Goths spiritual home due to Bram Stokers Dracula) and they are completely harmless and just a little weird. The most famous Goth I can think of is Siouxsie Sioux but I never considered Siouxsie and the Banshees a 'Goth band'. They were very much part of the British punk scene of the late seventies but tracks such as Israel and Peek A Boo showed quite an arty approach as well. They were a sophisticated band with a great drummer in Budgie. Metal heads have loads of festivals and like to congregate. Prog fans are generally more nerdy and introverted and happy to be alone. I also see prog fans as more 'independent' minded and self reliant. They are like cats in that respect maybe!
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Rottenprogger
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Years and years ago I was part of a metal board and let's just say they were quite some of the most close minded (and regressive) people I've ever come across....and this was before Twitter was a thing!
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The first paragraph is so spot on I will applaud you The stuff about foreign language. Well I can only speak for myself but I would also rather bands sung in their own language. I was not always aware of this even being a thing though. I had no mentor to show me the way and to explain to me that PFM's original albums are so wonderful. I know this now. My first inkling of the potential and power of using one's native tongue was Anglagard's Hybris album. I still much prefer this to the other 2 albums they released which I think were mainly intrumental. I now listen to quite a lot of prog with non English singing. Bring it on!
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1) K-pop fans
2) Taylor Swift fans |
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I'm the most close minded music listener of all. I don't listen to anything I don't want to.
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Obnoxious to be sure... and unusually musically open-minded & sophisticated. |
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I would say maybe Paul Anka.
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I'm not sure why you would single out Bing Crosby. If anything I would say maybe Elvis Presely. Then again maybe you aren't being 100 % serious.
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disagree! most prog fans specially old fans of prog bands from 1969 to 1980. THEY ARE VERY OBNOXIOUS. Edited by DarksideofAbel - June 20 2024 at 16:50 |
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^ On the contrary, Prog fans are among the most open mined fans. They have to be or they wouldn't appreciate prog. Jazz, 20th Century classical, folk, blues. It's quite clear.
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DarksideofAbel
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Prog Fans are vote as #1 and I know why!!!!! .
For many years I was a very closed minded fan, even though I came from being a new wave and hard rock fan in the 80's, however I got into prog at age 13-14 by my early 20's, I did not listen to anything but prog or jazz ( love ECM and traditional Jazz). I was extremely hatefully for everything else!. them I got into Dream Theater, Symphony X, Meshuggah, Fate Warning due to the progressive rock reference them I started listening to Death, Thrash and Symphony Metal bands. I still can't get into Black Metal unless it is a mix of Doom and Symphony Black Metal. I can't listen to the singers. Again in the late 90's early 2000 I started getting into Post punk and alternative bands like the Smiths, The cure, The church. I don't know I just feel that it has helped to appreciate and respect all time of rock and music in general. Prog is still my favorite however, but I like to give a chance to music that is simpler and easy listening and has nothing to do with prog. Edited by DarksideofAbel - June 20 2024 at 16:05 |
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I'm not a fan of Bing Crosby, but count me in as a close-minded elevator music playlist designer, as I can count on one hand the number of Avant-RIO artists I actually like.
Edited by Psychedelic Paul - June 20 2024 at 15:05 |
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I think Bing Crosby fans are the most close-minded of all music fans with elevator music playlist designers a close second.
But then, who are the most open-minded of music listeners? Avant-RIO? |
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Cunning linguists!
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