Farewell to Prog Rock

To borrow a phrase, you don't leave prog, prog leaves you!

Edited by jammun - December 17 2008 at 22:17

holla at u later prog

 ^ I remember adding them.. I don't remember all their stuff being tech/post hardcore but I think that mix of things probably helped them get our yes vote

I see no reason why my feelings for prog, classical, jazz, classic rock, etc cannot coexist.  Sometimes I'm in the mood for Chopin, sometimes for Crimson, sometimes for Coltrane.  I love it all!  I do go through periods where I listen to more of one than the other, but I'm never too far to come back.

Slartibartfast wrote: While I like classical I see no need to retreat to just listening to one form of music.  I see you didn't mention my favorite decomposing composer, Debussy.  Also partial to Holst and Mussorgsky.  And non decomposing composers, Philip Glass and Steve Reich.

amen.

and double amen re: Glass + Reich.

progressive music will not die so long as it progresses

As I stated, it is not a complete departure.

Thank you all, for the condolences! :-)

I do not feel less appreciation for prog but I must acknowledge that now since more than a year I am listening to almost only classical. Mahler in particular.
I am aware of temporary changes and phases that occur in preferences and listening habits. However, I know that in my case it is the undergoing of a soul journey in finding something more than a refined listening habit. More of something one may call destiny and it can be identified in how profoundly it can shake the grounds on which you build your identity. It is finding a reflection of your own inner truth that is being expressed in a piece of art.

What I start getting "into" is then center of my own creativity and my own being. So to speak when I listen - or create - music I am this music, this sound in this moment. For some people this may be too intense, but I have never known it any different.


To: "The T": It is really not about "intellectual" music. I do not claim one kind of music to be "better" than others. Each person derives something out of what they like that may be of equal value across any borders of style.
The expression of anger is a good point and there are rare moments when you need a blast of "Rage Against Machine"  :-) however, I do not carry anger with me anymore, I got rid of it some years ago and it was a very healthy decision.

To "Henry Plainview": My low post count does indeed stem from being not very active, but it does not mean i am not present. In fact I am a regular visitor of progarchives with interest. In the beginning I started doing a few reviews as well until i realized that I don't really want to judge other people's art - too personal are the different tastes...

If you ever really cared for prog, I think your farewell will be temporary. I grew up with most of the 1970s U.K. prog bands, but I didn't listen much to rock between 1985 and 1995. I was too busy discovering loads of jazz, as well as Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Handel, Wagner, Bruckner and, yes: Mahler... I now know the likes of Bach, Haydn and Schubert have given the world much more great music than any rock band, BUT in the past ten years or so I've also returned to prog. These days, I enjoy most of my proggy favourites as much as ever, and I keep discovering new ones.

It's all in the Bible, isn't it:

Man can't live on a-simple-rock'n'roll-beat alone.
Man can't live on an-intricate-rock'n'roll-beat alone!
Man can't live on subtle-18th-or-19th-century-classics alone!!
Man can't live on adventurous-improved-music-alone either!!!!

Praise the Lord, for man doesn't have to chose: he can taste of the fruit of ALL trees he can find.
And the same goes, of course, for woman.

burritounit wrote: Prog-jester wrote: I'm deeply in sludge/post-metal/post-hardcore now. What prog? C'mon That's me now, along with post punk. But I think I haven't stop listening to prog 100%. I do every now and then but not so regularly like before.

exactly post-punk and some prog too

Henry Plainview wrote: I hate to be blunt (that is a lie), but you have 25 posts: do you really think your presence on this site warrants a DRAMATIC GOODBYE thread?

Slartibartfast wrote: If I say farewell to prog rock, what the hell am I going to do with all this?  VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

I can give you my adress, if you want.

Seriously, one cannot simply quit. You need rehab first.

If I say farewell to prog rock, what the hell am I going to do with all this? 
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