Prog is Fashionable

You shouldn't need journos to tell you that. Haven't you taken note of the explosions of new bands producing compositions, not just songs, of late. Personally, I think the internet is the sole vehicle that has helped this.

Or maybe, as DT pointed out in Octavarium, we have come full circle.

Or is it just that fashions tend to go in cycles...

Shows you how much the press can miss on things. I would've said this was good news some 10 years ago, but in 05, the second boom is over (creatively anyway), and they missed it.

Now I suppose that the Times says Prog is getting more accepted critically and therefore will get more attention and airplay. But IMHO, this will not last because everything the second wave of prog bands (in my estimation from 93 to 2003) has been said long ago

Too bad this comes 10 years too late.

Better late than never though!

I don't think its over

Sigur Ros, Taal, The Mars Volta are still going strong, hopefully giving us good stuff this year.

And Ahvak, from 2004, is possibly my favorite band since the 70s. 

Who are the Mystery Jets

Checked out the link to Mew - can't say they ticked any prog boxes for me...

http://www.mewsite.com/site_fr.html

Yes, I too didn't think that Mistery Jets was anything special, surely not prog. It could be equally 'pretentious', but more in a Darkness kind of way I think. Overblown article. I think The Times want to run away with the discovery of modern prog! They know nothing!

I don't mind. I like music, and I have choosen Prog as a personal preference because of it's absolute lack of comercial boundaries. If a Newspaper says something like "prog is the new thing", maybe they are trying to reach or open another market, in order to sell things I don't want.

arcer wrote: Checked out the link to Mew - can't say they ticked any prog boxes for me... http://www.mewsite.com/site_fr.html

They have a couple of prog elements. Either way, I think they're a pretty good band.

I'm doubting the intelligence of this writer since it appears he does not have a good knowledge of what progressive music is.  He appears to not understand what progressive music is, much less progressive rock.  He seems to think that if you throw a little Hammond here, some Mellotron there, vintage sounding guitars/basses and a few analog synth lines you get prog.  Man, this person's mind is so shallow that he couldn't even mention Dream Theater, a band that had a lot to do with the resurgence of prog rock starting the 90s.  It looks like he is unable to appreciate complexity and depth of the structure of prog that he might as well go back to his record player and rewrite it.

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22875-2007511,00.htm l

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