I hope prog hasn't lost it's luster on me...

I think it's probably most profitable for us to keep our ears (and our heads) ready for anything. Prog is just a word to describe one of the styles I happen to like.

Atkingani wrote: If I eat papaya everyday it'll be quite sure that I'll get tired of it sooner or later...   I try to keep a broad spectrum of musical styles, being Prog really important but not predominant, maybe 30%, being the rest divided among Brazilian music (all possible/audible genres), some erudite stuff, seminal & classic rock, pop & romantic, French chanson, tango, fado, and so on.   That's my recommendation, Eric.

^ as above, in spades.

I'd like to add something to what my esteemed colleagues and friends have already stated.... When it comes to listening to music, I don't really CARE if it's prog or not - what really matters is that it appeals to me in some way or the other. There is so much diversity in prog alone that it would already be enough not to get bored. Micky and I have recently gone on a couple or three of shopping sprees in our area, and the CDs we have found are so incredibly diverse... No one CD sounds like the other. And, of course, in our reasonably vast music collection we have lots of non-prog CDs, which we listen to with the same pleasure as the prog ones. As Jim said, diversity is really the key!

I have to take a break from music every now and then, especially after buying tons of cd (which happens way too often...). A couple of years ago I was so nauseated that I spent a month without intentionally listening to music, after that I came back to artists I had nearly forgotten about: Motorpsycho, Fleetwood Mac (the Buckhingam/Nicks line-up) and also discovered Dungen.  Anyway, it wasn't long before I was drooling again on Anekdoten, Genesis, Gentle Giant etc... I just needed a short holiday! 

Finnforest wrote: mmmmmmmmm.................nope!

As others have said, variety is the spice of life.  I don't just listen to progressive rock (though I'd say I mostly listen to progressive music), but I find that there is so much variety of music, such diversity, that we include under the prog banner that it's not easy for me to grow tired of it.  Mind you, I've slowed down with "prog umbrella" discoveries.  In 2005 and 2006 particularly I was so busy discovering music from all the categories here (branching out into different styles); now I don't get that  many new albums, but generally prefer to go back to ones I already know.

I commonly listen to different forms of prog. Listening to, say, Aranis, is a very different experience from listening to, say, Dream Theater but one may enjoy both in their own way.  If one's tastes are very diverse when it comes to progressive music, then I think it much less likely that one will tire of progressive music.

*currently listening to Doctor Nerve with the Sirius String Quarte's Ereia, which will be followed by whatever I feel like, which may be some Miles Davis, or Funkadelic, or Boredoms, or whatever...*.  I mix it up.

Of course another problem for team members is that they are expected to evaluate so much music that the joy of listening to music can be lessened, and listening to new stuff can feel like a chore.

No!

The day I stop listening to IQ, Camel, Genesis, Mostly Autumn and Gentle Giant will be the day I die.

Last year I listened to prog 24/7 for afew months. That made me take a break for a few months afterwards. But today im listening to it 24/7 again :P maybe ill need another break after this overdose. But im sure ill be back. All my fav bands are prog.

E-Dub wrote: Finnforest wrote: Even Marillion's not doin' it for you??? Gotta be better than RL Haven't been listening to Marillion, either. Then again, I don't really consider them progressive anymore. I've always described them as modern rock with progressive characteristics. Even then, however, I'm taking a break from Marillion. I think I'm a victim of over saturating myself. I'd better get back in the mood because their convention in Montreal is a month away. E

(the bolded) Definitely, that's been happening to me, this last month, and still continues..

Though I'm not THAT saturated, though I'm back in my heavy mood, all because of DT!!! Though I still listen to Prog in the computer, and when I go to sleep, but you must know, that these are the moments, that you less pay attention to the music....