What’s your "specialty"? (Subgenre) - Progressive Rock Music Forum

BaldFriede wrote:

Sean Trane wrote:

Let's just say I punched in the Folk prog, but I would not call it a specialty of mine

I prefer saying that I have a good notion of most styles but excell in none

I will say that I am definitely weaker in Progmetal and neo-prog, mostly because those two genres are not my cup of tea

Neither are they mine, Sean. Neo Prog is usually just plain boring, and Prog Metal just seems so - well, how shall I describe it? There is a movie with Tony Curtis ("The Great Race"), which ends with a big pie-throwing fight. It is all very messy, but somehow the flying cakes don't touch him at all, and he stays perfectly clean, while all the others become covered in pie. Prog Metal is like Tony Curtis in that scene - just too clean. It is loud, yes, but I miss the dirt. Maybe it is the production for most of these albums, but this cleanliness makes Prog Metal somewhat ridiculous. Also there is too little music in the medium dynamic range - they are either quiet (I will grant them that; Prog Metal is not all about banging) or loud. But what is in between is usually very underrepresented.

I feel the same way about the cleanliness of sound but out of neo-prog>>> no dirt or grit

Progmetal is a different matter, I had my metal years when Judas Priest released Sad Wings Of Destiny (76) and I was into Sabbath, but I stopped liking it when most NWOBHMB groups (bar Iron Maiden with DiAnno on vocals) where simply not appealing to me. I shut out the radio in the early 80's and discovered the 60's in rock, jazz, blues etc...

Neo is simply tooooo clean a sound, too slick also, never a hair out of place all of them have a déjà vu. I refer to the neo-prog like Pendragon, IQ or Arena, Collage etc..

Retro prog groups like Anekdoten , Anglagard, Sinkadus and lately Wobbler really kick my gut in so far, i cannot help but love them

even if they appeal to a proghead's lower instincts a bit like Harlequins novels do to lonely housewives or pornography to bored husbands

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Italian symphonic progressive!!!!!

metal, metal, metal

TheProgtologist wrote:

Peter wrote:

Ermm None, really.

I listen to lots of stuff, but I do tend to "specialize" in cruelly, unreasonably and persistently bashing any and all "prog mental." Dead

What fun!

It's sure makes me laugh when you do that...

I can't stop now, Prog Toe -- I have to please my public....

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

Hmm, interesting demographics here.

I mean, BUMP!

Come on people, keep weighin' in!

Pure Brilliance:

BaldFriede wrote:

If I have a specialty at all, it is Krautrock. I always had a soft spot for it. The weirder the Krautrock is the better. I've been a weirdo all my life. When I was 16 I wanted a tame bat as a pet

, but sadly (and sanely

) my parents were against it.

you sould be a krautrock specialist. do we have a krautrock specialist?

true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants.

I like Zeuhl. Magma and Weidorje are wonderful bands

Nice, finally some Zeuhl! No fusion-heads, or electronic prog specialists? I'm surprised. Oliverstoned, I'm looking in your direction...

Pure Brilliance:

Poll Question: What subgenre do you consider yourself the most well-versed in?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Art Rock	3	[3.23%]
Canterbury Scene	3	[3.23%]
Jazz/Rock Fusion	0	[0.00%]
Italian Prog	4	[4.30%]
Indo-Prog/Raga Rock	0	[0.00%]
Krautrock	1	[1.08%]
Experimental/Post Rock	5	[5.38%]
Electronic Prog	0	[0.00%]
Neo Prog	6	[6.45%]
Prog Folk	1	[1.08%]
Psychedelic/Space Rock	8	[8.60%]
Progressive Metal	20	[21.51%]
RIO/Avant Prog	6	[6.45%]
Symphonic Prog	33	[35.48%]
Zeuhl	3	[3.23%]
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