Favorite ProgArchives Tendencies

Jim Garten wrote: And if you only knew how many arguments & flame wars such a simple statement can/does cause

Well, it wouldn't start so many arguments if you weren't so close-minded.

Well, let's review the options:

The first one I've never seen here.

The second one is really annoying and sadly stupid, and also rather amusing.

The third is like the second, only more annoying and stupider, and of course more amusing.

The fourth is a waste of time, but not really noticeable enough to be a valid option.

The fifth is actually relevant because of how close-minded so many members of this forum are.

The sixth is probably the biggest blight on this site right now, so it's far too infuriating for me to be amused enough by it to vote for it.

The seventh is both pathetic and stupid when it applies when the user has only heard one of the options.  Because the poll option does not limit itself to this situation, I'm not going to vote for the perfectly rational case where the voter has heard multiple bands/albums (but not all) in a poll.

The eighth is probably the single funniest part of this site, though it's been so toned down recently...

The ninth... well... prog still is relevant today, but it's not the retro prog bands the poll option seems to imply.



So either Dream Theater discussions or the Band X is better than Band Y, so add them.

probably DT discussions, remembering old times.

Phil Collins threads. Always original.

My favorite ProgArchives tendency is the meta-tendency. One example is this thread.

My point being that complaints about tendencies basically take up as much space and are as dumb and annoying as the tendencies themselves.

But then again, I'm complaining about the complainers, so don't listen to me.

I like that whole discussion of when the first prog song was actually penned, because people can really take it further than one can ever imagine. It's infinitely pointless, but at least they usually are somewhat varied, always reaching further and further back in time while DT and "more prog than"-are scaringly similar, of them.

debrewguy wrote: Hirgwath wrote: My favorite ProgArchives tendency is the meta-tendency. One example is this thread. My point being that complaints about tendencies basically take up as much space and are as dumb and annoying as the tendencies themselves. But then again, I'm complaining about the complainers, so don't listen to me. Er, I think we're actually reading you. If I heard anything, I'd get my head checked

You've just demonstrated my Second Favorite ProgArchives Tendency. The tendency to take things too literally. 

(By "take things", I mean "interpret", not mugging someone and taking their things.)

1800iareyay wrote: Jim Garten wrote: And if you only knew how many arguments & flame wars such a simple statement can/does cause Well, it wouldn't start so many arguments if you weren't so close-minded.

Why you....

I've gone for option 2, with the recent Stratovarius thread being a classic example...sooner or later, these metal related thread ALWAYS get around to the subject of Metallica's inclusion....