Prog As Substitute For Life

Enough with all this complaining about lack of mainstream acceptance, or "progsecution complex" as I call it.

This is a world where Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon stayed #1 on the charts longer than any other album ever released, Primus and Tool played Lollapalooza and Pitchfork Media gave Godspeed You Black Emperor's first couple of albums 9/10 reviews.

Certain people here are acting like progressive rock is about as popular as power electronics... bonus points for anyone here who actually knows what power electronics is without looking it up on Wikipedia? That's before we get into how that genre's fans are mostly satisfied with it being a niche.

Then again, I can get along fine with people who don't like the same music as I do. As time goes on, I spend less and less time talking about music be it in real life or on the net. Hell, I spend less time listening to music because, guess what? Music feels more rewarding when you listen to it in the more life experience you can relate the music to because nothing can be appreciated outside a context, that's pretty much a basic fact of artistic interpretation.

I can unfortunately say that uptight nerdiness about metal sub-sub-subgenres it not an invention of Wikipedia's. That said it's pretty funny when people invest time and energy into making ridiculously narrow definitions of "depressive black metal" or "epic doom metal"...

hehe .. in fact, depressive black metal is quite good subgenre of black metal .. there are many  great bands that play it .. but i'am against inventing sub sub sub genres of metal..black metal doesn't need 1000 diferent sub categories although all that bands have differences in sound, cannot make a category for every band that deviate from the normal scheme ex. Symphonic black, Folk viking, Raw black.. and what was most funny to me is UNBLACK METAL  

Christian black metal..

Stop mocking genres that never really took off or arguably existed!

Hey everybody, Block dislikes rap music. This means he has superior taste and is on the cutting edge of life itself. Does that get it out of your system?

Yeah... who the hell is wondering about rap and hip hop...???!!!! we enjoy prog and that's what this is about... and prog is not matchable with rap... so.. sorry dude... go somewhere else...

The Block wrote: jampa17 wrote: Yeah... who the hell is wondering about rap and hip hop...???!!!! we enjoy prog and that's what this is about... and prog is not matchable with rap... so.. sorry dude... go somewhere else...   Seconded

This is why people don't like prog fans. :/

Textbook wrote: Hey everybody, Block dislikes rap music. This means he has superior taste and is on the cutting edge of life itself. Does that get it out of your system? We don't care man. I can't stand Magma but you don't find me running around Magma threads telling people that.

Henry Plainview wrote: angelmk wrote: Textbook wrote: Hey everybody, Block dislikes rap music. This means he has superior taste and is on the cutting edge of life itself. Does that get it out of your system? We don't care man. I can't stand Magma but you don't find me running around Magma threads telling people that. Not only Block dislikes rap, but the majority of PA members.. and You are just running around PA and praising Rap..on many different threads you glorify rap..I don't get it..are you a prog lover or rap fan ?? and remember this is PROG archives..for Rap archives go somewhere else..  Somebody can like both rap and prog! :O

Is one of the brothers smacking my prog up ? Yep, albeit like a good Scottish football goalkeeper, not beyond the realms of possibility. I have a buddy whose 3 favourite artists are King Crimson, Ice T and Slayer.