MY MOTHER DOESN’T LIKE (ALMOST ALL)PROG!!

My father said my music sounded like a broken vacuum cleaner, or several small mammals being strangled in a broom cupboard (I'd like to know how he could make the comparison). 

I felt this was quite hypocritical of him, being as I was forced to listen to Wagner, Bolero & Richard Strauss every time I went downstairs (I'm sure he deliberately chose the crappiest bits of classical music to pay, just to piss me off!)

My mom dislikes prog pretty consistently, but she likes Renaissance and some Italian bands I've introduced to her.

She hates Punk Floyd more than anything in the world, Yes, ELP, Crimson too.  She can tolerate Genesis cause she likes Peter Gabriel and Phil Collin's Genesis.

My mum reasonably enjoyed Judas Priest when i played it in the car, which surprised me greatly

fandango wrote: several small mammals being strangled in a broom cupboard

Isn't that a Pink Floyd song?

Cluster one wrote "Typical Prog fans...30+ years of age, and still living with Mother.."

I'm 41 yo prog fan and I'm not living with mother. I'm living with wife who does not like prog but accept it and with doughter (15) who is not sure yet what kind of music is worth of listening (she likes pop but also Blues Brothers, Metallica, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, some kind of standard jazz like Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra etc)

My favourite,  besides prog of course, is Ramones, Motorhead, Die Toten Hosen, Police  and modern jazz




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My dad likes Floyd, dunno bout anything else.
Dunno bout my mum, she thinks all my music is just noise even stuff like the eagles

And i'm 17 and still live at home, before you ask

I'm 21 and don't live with my parents, but the nice girl who lives in the apartment above mine for some very strange reason really doesn't like Magma She once asked me what weird sort of opera music with annoying voices I was listening to, and if I would be so kind to try to keep the volume down...

 

no way 

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My mom can like almost every symphonic progressive rock, if it's pastoral and melodic. However, she isn't an obsessive music fan like me and my dad, but dad likes only classic music.

Washing the car and listening to a King Crimson freak out is not a good way to get invited to the neighborhood barbecue

Neither is blasting "Free Hand" so that the angry roofers down the street can hear every last note. 

When I cook out on the grill, I always put something on that most people find obnoxius, just to spite my neighbors.

They especially hate Gentle Giant, Magma, KC, Primus, Captain Beefheart, Spock's Beard and Rage against the Machine

I hate neighbors

I love cruising the senior citizen's center with The Mars Volta blasting out my windows.  I've yet to try it with anything else, but they always can hear me coming past them on my way home from school

I never would have been into prog if my father wasn't such a great prog fan. He likes Yes (his favourite band), Gentle Giant, King Crimson, ELP, Marillion, Styx, Saga, Pink Floyd and the early Genesis stuff.
My brother listens to prog either, but not mainly.
My mother can't stand it.
When I'm together with my father in the car, we both listen to Gentle Giant or Yes.
Cool, isn't it?


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