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CCVP 
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 Topic: Are you a "progressive" listener?
Posted: May 30 2008 at 13:57 |
I wonder what is this site main user: the progressive or the conservative prog listener? If you guys keep discovering new bands, keep trying to find new things or if you listen only the same old bands. Another thing in this question is: do you guys listen more old school prog (70's prog and prog made today that sounds like 70's prog, such as Glass Hammer) or modern prog bands (neo prog, prog metal, new wave of symphonic, etc). In my case things are pretty balanced: i listen old school prog and modern prog almost 50/50. Now what about you  ?
Edited by CCVP - May 30 2008 at 13:58
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Padraic
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:03 |
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Not sure why one would need this website if they weren't in a mindset of discovery; at least that's my approach - progarchives has been the best thing to happen to my enjoyment of music in my entire life, the sheer number of incredible discoveries has been mindblowing. The particular genres I'm exploring now happened to have had their heyday in the 1970s like almost all prog, but there are a number of modern bands I do enjoy and I am certainly open to listening to exceptional music of any decade.
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Abstrakt
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:09 |
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I think at least 70% of everything i listen to is from the 70's. Not that i don't like the modern stuff.
But todays music can't beat Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Yes, King Crimson, Zappa...
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pianomandust
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:15 |
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I think that I have a nice balance, but tend to go with more modern and extreme types of prog. My ratio is probably about 70/30 for new/older. I do love to mix things up though and on my playlist, it goes from ELP to Messhugah, and from Genesis to Unexpect. There is something about progressive metal and tech/extreme metal that always catches my interest, but I still love and respect the 70's prog (ELP is pretty much the greatest IMHO).
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and then there was music...
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The T
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:20 |
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I have a decent amount of 70's prog and Genesis is among my favorite bands... But it's the era I hear the less prog from... I listen to contemporary prog much more, and come to this site also to find new music. There must be a reason why my cd collection keeps growing with no stop...
Edited by The T - May 30 2008 at 14:55
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Logan
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:24 |
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I'm always on the lookout for new to me music. The last few years
(I've been using this site since well before I joined) has been a
constant voyage of discovery, though it has slowed down somewhat. I've
discovered many old bands that were new to me as well as more recent
ones. I listen to many bands/artists from every decade represented at
this site.
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neo-prog, prog-metal, and neo-symph is not for me. Post '70s, it's
particularly Zeuhl and RiO/ Avant that has held my interest, but I also
listen to later Progressive Electronic, and bands/ albums from other
categories. I find the avant prog, chamber prog, scene very vibrant
today, still great Zeuhl coming out, and great modern Canterbury Scene
music.
I would have lost interest in this site if I had lost a
passion for musical exploration. I don't find myself trying to expand
my collection nearly as rapidly as I once did, though, and find myself
listening to albums that I've had for quite some time much more than I
did, but then I have a large and quite diverse collection.
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DJPuffyLemon
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:26 |
king crimson, gentle giant, jethro tull, pink floyd, and yes were my favorite bands about two years ago, but now I don't listen to them at all because I'm too busy with other stuff, old and new. i suppose that puts me under progressive listener.
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Padraic
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:27 |
 The T wrote:
There must be a reasons why my cd collection keeps growing with no stop... |
And why your pockets are always empty... 
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laplace
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:29 |
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I've heard a lot of the albums released this year. Hated most but I've discovered two or three albums I would have disregarded had I not been undertaking such a alarmingly noise-to-signal-ish endeavour. =P
also I listen to prog half of the time and other things the other, blah blah blah
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CCVP
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:31 |
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The T
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:36 |
CCVP wrote:
NaturalScience wrote:
The T wrote:
There must be a reason why my cd collection keeps growing with no stop... |
And why your pockets are always empty...
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true, i can never hold more than R$100,00 (something near U$62,6) in my wallet and i am constantly flat broke.
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Prog creates more poverty than the Bush administration... 
Seriously... prog is nefarious for my economy... It's like I'm buying all I can until one day I have a family and prog has to take the back seat to other more important expenses...
( what would those be?  )
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Padraic
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:39 |
The T wrote:
It's like I'm buying all I can until one day I have a family and prog has to take the back seat to other more important expenses... |
I have a family. Trust me, the prog expenditures have not diminished. 
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:44 |
I do listen to a couple bands every single day like Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, ELP, Opeth, Rush, a lot of BTBAM..but there are a lot of other bands I listen to a lot now.
Looking at the site right now, I listen to bands in the categories of:
-Prog Metal (A lot)
-Tech/extreme prog (A LOT)
-Folk prog (JT only really)
-Heavy Prog (A lot)
-Experimental/Post metal (a decent amount)
-Psychadelic/space rock (a decent amount)
-Cantebury (just got into Caravan, very good band)
-Italian prog (just started listening)
Also, I'm not positive what most of the common 70s prog (elp, yes, kc, kansas, genesis, etc) falls into but obviously I listen to them.
I'm pretty much exploring all these sub-genres of prog everyday and finding new music all the time.
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:49 |
I don't have to worry about a family for a long time, but when I do have one (if I do), I have a feeling I'll still be purchasing a lot of cd's, I'll still be on the forum, playing prog, buying tickets to prog shows all the time, but instead of going with my friends, I'll be dragging my wife and kids along .
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CCVP
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:51 |
The T wrote:
Prog creates more poverty than the Bush administration...
Seriously... prog is nefarious for my economy... It's like I'm buying all I can until one day I have a family and prog has to take the back seat to other more important expenses...
( what would those be? ) |
in my case, prog DOES makes me poor. on the other hand, more important expenses would be prog for your children. After all, the future of prog is in their hands!
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The T
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:56 |
CCVP wrote:
The T wrote:
Prog creates more poverty than the Bush administration...
Seriously... prog is nefarious for my economy... It's like I'm buying all I can until one day I have a family and prog has to take the back seat to other more important expenses...
( what would those be? ) |
in my case, prog DOES makes me poor.
on the other hand, more important expenses would be prog for your children. After all, the future of prog is in their hands!
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Truer words are rarely spoken...
So I better start a fund for the children.. not for their college but for their "prog education"... more and more cd's!
Edited by The T - May 30 2008 at 14:57
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Padraic
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 14:58 |
The T wrote:
CCVP wrote:
The T wrote:
Prog creates more poverty than the Bush administration...
Seriously... prog is nefarious for my economy... It's like I'm buying all I can until one day I have a family and prog has to take the back seat to other more important expenses...
( what would those be? ) |
in my case, prog DOES makes me poor.
on the other hand, more important expenses would be prog for your children. After all, the future of prog is in their hands!
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Truer words are rarely spoken...
So I better start a fund for the children.. not for their college but for their "prog education"... more and more cd's! |
You've hit on something here...let's go in together for a "No Child Left Behind" grant. 
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CCVP
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 15:12 |
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what about a "best prog father of the year" award?
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CCVP
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 15:20 |
The T wrote:
So I better start a fund for the children.. not for their college but for their "prog education"... more and more cd's! |
i will go a bit off topic here, but i have ever had a doubt and this may be the opportunity to kill the doubt: why you must have a fund to have college education on "1st world countries"? Is good college education only available in private colleges and is it so expensive that you have to save your money for decades so your children would be able to have that education?
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Padraic
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Posted: May 30 2008 at 15:26 |
College education in the United States is unbelievably expensive, to the point of lunacy. Public (state) universities are less expensive but still very costly. To offset these gargantuan costs, young people need to borrow an incredible amount of money such that the need for a good paying job after graduation is all the more pressing, as you are now in a lot of debt. And if you want to go to medical school, law school, or some other graduate studies...you could have education debt until you're 50 years old! Young parents like myself have already started college funds for their children (my son is not yet two years old), and even then I feel like there's no chance of me saving enough to cover the costs.
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