Very "intelligent" comment about ELP...

I don't like ELP anyway. Or Yes. :P

The fact that they're pretentious is what I love about them.

I'd like to know where the D&D comment came from since it seems to be a popular thing to rag on prog for. But who had those lyrics? ELP and Rush had some, but most prog bands didn't. Oh well.

Sure, ELP often sound arrogant, but I just can't help it, I find some of those "fifteen minute" Hammond organ solos incredibly exciting! If you're going to hate all long and intricate instrumentals, you might as well write off 95% of all jazz recorded during the past sixty years. As for the Moog synthesizer, I know it sometimes sounds daft, but in Keith Emerson's hands it was, of course, far more than a gimmick. But anyway, there's no need to waste our time and take the writer of those "very intelligent" comments seriously. All he does is rant. You could bury ANY artist under invective, if you wanted to!

It's all a matter of taste. I do not pay attention to these "The X Worst Bands of All Time". I like ELP, and that's enough to me. I don't mind if there are lots of people thinking they're crap, this is the kind of thing that does not bothers me. There are lots of artista praised by critics and I can't see why - e.g., in the 80s lots of people called Prince nothing less than a genius and, although I pay some respect to his work, I must say that he's not a genius IMHO!

The more people bash ELP the more i love em.

The fact that ELP is even on such an inane list proves that any mental midget with a crayon can express an opinion on subjects that he has absolutely no knowledge of.  In 100 years their music will still be played while this idiot will be fertilizer.

The best Heavy Prog band in Symphonic Prog!!!

Kim Ankara wrote: The T wrote: jikai55 wrote: Pretentious, yes, but amazing, yes! What were the other 24 bands?   Well, our only other "representative" is Kansas.   18 was Yes."18. Yes The hate affair with prog rock continues. This band is famous for having written a song comparing a relationship to a game of chess. You heard me. Freakin' chess. There is a reason that the phrase is not "chess, drugs, and rock and roll." It might be an apt literary analogy, but rock and roll is not literature. But then that was the problem with prog rockers in general; they were all pretentious forks who wanted to provide an education in the classics with their rock. Remember in Good Will Hunting? The "Barney" with the sweater and the blond ponytail who tries to embarrass Ben Affleck in front of Minnie Driver, only to get shown up by Matt Damon? That ponytail guy is the kind of guy who was into prog rock. He's the kind of guy who was in Yes. A bunch of Barneys, they were. Freakin' chess... how do you like those apples?"

So let's see what we can learn from this:
The process of writing lyrics to music is devoid of metaphors that range from genius and/or intelligent analogies to just sounding kinda neat (like love and chess, maybe)...or maybe just nerdy themes, well, the progheads will decide on their next assembly at the Dungeons and Dragons' tournament.
Second, progressive rockers are pretentious because prog itself isn't what good ol' rock n' roll's about. Yes, infact, progressive rock should've been called "special/different" rock, rather than sounding so lofty.
Which brings us to the third act of enlightenment. Let it be a lesson to all you prog artists: you may act superior in your aristocratic ostentation of talent, but it's the underdog outputs like Bon Jovi and Green Day out there that are breaking the rules and daring to write songs about jacksh*t, so whenever you stroll by in your fancy cars waving your huge wads of money, remember the little guys that are struggling to survive to maintain their ideals of selling out.

Solution? Luckily, while all of you were composing/listening to quality music, I came up with the plan to balance the force: we'll use our gargantuan intellect - that drive us so pretentiously to want to provide education in the classics with our (well, the artists') rock - and build a time machine to pick up Axl Rose from his peak in musicianship and drop him in the 70s on a Yes tour. Think about it: there's no resistance to Axl's fashion tips with that much amount of acids, and what do you think you're gonna write about when those shorts are constantly reminding you of what goes on below the equador? I predict that we'll have a new meaning to the song South Side Of The Sky.
Sex? Yes. Drugs? They were always there. Sex + Drugs = Rock and Roll. Problem solved. Musical evolution...Nullified.


Edit: Ok, well, this was uncalled for and the time wasted could've been spent in something constructive, thus I apologize for letting myself go in the midst of laughing it out...but come on, "Barney" from Good Will Hunting?      

Edited by Aspiring hope - September 23 2007 at 14:35

The guys entitled to his opinion, but the fact that he insults people who listen to ELP and Yes just makes him an arsehole.