Outrageous prog views

Somehow this thread has become less fun now that it's been moved to Just For Fun. 

schizoid_man77 wrote: Heres my two cents...   Post Rock is the new prog rock

1. To me Dream Theater isn't very progressive, they're more mimicking whatever's popular. Mike Portnoy himself claims to be more of a fan than a musician, and their songs are often (if not always) structured as "a Muse-part here and a Metallica-bit there" etc.
2. the original progressive rock (early 70's) was so called because it WAS progressive (see other threads) as in pushing the boundaries of music, and it died a slow death in the mid-70's. since then most groundbreaking stuff happened elsewhere (extreme metal, electronic stuff, rap etc until that lost its progressive too). and the so-called modern prog is hardly progressive and groundbreaking, just the mixing of styles is not groundbreaking because it has been done a zillion times before since at least the 60's. it might still be enjoyable.
3. the most progressive current band on PA would be Meshuggah as they are progressive with rhythm (progessive melodic as been done to death apparently) and with their sense of rhythm they are closer to Stravinsky than anything else. just my 3 cents