...They spit on the face of Rock, No?

Arsillus wrote: I saw on the cover of a recent "Entertainment Weekly:" "GREEN DAY SAVE ROCK." From Entertainmentweekly.com:   Jolly Green Giants How Green Day saved rock -- and their own career. The elder statesmen of pop-punk talk about longevity, Grammys, and crafting their smartest album yet: ''American Idiot'' by Tom Sinclair var mainImgWidth="400"; FRUITFUL EFFORT With ''American Idiot,'' Dirnt, Cool, and Armstrong have rocketed to the top of the charts.                 I vomited.

Aha! So the Mars Volta aren't REALLY the saviours of rock after all!

It really gets to me when prog fans are denounced as arrogant and elitest for saying that they think a particular type of non-prog music is sh*t.  We're all entitled to our own opinions.

Personally, Green Day don't do anything for me at all, musically speaking.  I like some stuff from the hip-hop, folk, jazz and blues worlds, but nothing I've heard from such artists (for the most part) has ever affected me in the same way that the "prog" bands I listen to have.  To me, they are superior both intellectually and musically, but that's just me.  Does this make me a snob?  No, only human.

I'm elitist, but not in terms of prog. For me to like something it usually has to have something considerably original/unique. Apart from lots of drone and funeral doom metal, which for some reason I like regardless.

Prog is more obviously appealing to those of us who like to evaluate...as a group, we're probably more focused on the musicians' skills than many music fans. This approach does tend to make us more appreciative, on possibly a deeper level, but it can also lead us to believe that skill and complexity is more important than the ultimate effect of the work.

Personally, I believe that objectively "better" music doesn't always have to be your "preferred" music. You can appreciate a well-done work without having any real personal enjoyment. You can also dislike something which is obviously superior in construction but doesn't do for you what you want a work of music to do.

Whiners.