Treatment of Prog fans in 70s

Someone had posted a topic about an emo video not too long ago.  Here's the link to it:

http://www.somethingdirectory.com/main_emo.htm

It's freakin' hilarious!

Scrambled_Eggs wrote: Someone had posted a topic about an emo video not too long ago.  Here's the link to it: http://www.somethingdirectory.com/main_emo.htm It's freakin' hilarious!

yeah i watched that, it was quite good

I was a 1970s grammar school boy in the North of England in the 1970s, and from what I remember most of us who were into music listened to prog up until 1977/78. From what I remember and from conversations with friends this was the norm at the time - the racks of record stores were full of ELP, Yes, Tull, Genesis etc. By the time I reached University in 1980 hardly anybody would openly admit to liking prog, despite the fact that probably 75% of them had been ardent progheads a couple of years before. Personally I enjoyed quite a lot of punk/new wave and some disco, but I could never quite understand why it was seen as impossible to enjoy both that and prog. Punk and disco were about singles, and was great music for parties and nights out. Prog was about albums, and was perfect for nights in and getting stoned to. They weren't in competition for the same audience, the whole divide was fostered by the holier than thou attitudes of the music press and, by extension, the wider media. Only in the last couple of years, ages after the critical re-evaluation of some of the lamest 70s and 80s pop, have a few mainstream critics dared to admit that prog was innovative, adventurous and produced some superb music (along with some prize turkeys, of course, but what genre hasn't?).