Losing interest in prog

BaldFriede wrote: I must say I lose interest in prog. It just does not interest me anymore what new albums come out, with the odd exception. Jazz and classical music  are much more interesting, in my opinion.. There is so much music to discover which expands my mind more than prog; why, completely exploring the works of Johann Sebastian Bach lone seems to be a task that would take a lifetime but would be much more fulfilling than wasting my time with so-called "new" prog albums which are more or less just an endless repetition of what has already been said.

See what you mean there. I lost interest in prog a few years back, and then i went on into alternative rock, then electronic music and post-punk ad lately it's jazz. But during those periods of listening, i always played some prog album here and there (almost only old ones, though), and the interest slowly came back. Some newer prog bands are amazing, especially in the post-rock area, but other than a few, i'm not very into "modern" prog eiter.

I really shouldn't have such a long break from the site in future. Four days away, and i have to plough through all of this lot

OT Räihälä wrote:   (Happy New Year to everybody!) I guess a lot of prog fans are more fans of progressivity, i.e. not of prog as a music style, if we mean with prog all rock-related music that goes beyond the most common features of rock/pop music. That progressivity was more often found in the old prog rock of the late 60's / early to mid 70's, when artistic thinking in rock was not ridiculed by the music press, than nowadays when 9/10 bands sound unimaginative. Nowadays I think there are even more prog bands than there used to be 40 years ago, but very few of them are progressive in their thinking - and I think that is the thing that makes you lose your interest. I agree with you that there's so much more to find in jazz and classical music. For example the new generation of Nordic jazz musicians (esp. Norway, Sweden and Finland) are nigh on revolutionizing the genre. And contemporary art music has stylistic and musical richness that pop/rock music can only dream of, but very few know any of these works because art music has become too marginal phenomenon; that music is seldom performed live and there are even fewer recordings. Of course there is still a lot to find in old classical music (and I believe the early 20th century music will speak to many prog fans) and I urge everyone who doesn't puke at hearing for example RIO/avant-prog to start listening to the art music of the last century.

Slartibartfast wrote: Grendel does borrow heavily from Supper's Ready but I don't hold it against the song.  I still like it.

Edited by progprogprog - January 02 2012 at 17:28

I tend to prefer electronics when it's not simulating acoustic instruments.

I'm not that into Prog proper, but I do love a lot of progressive music and a lot of music that is in and that relates to the music that PA puts under the Prog umbrella.  I'm more likely to be listening to 60s and 70s library music than Prog genre music.  I'm still extensively into various categories at PA very much such as RIO/Avant (my infatuation with Art Zoyd never seems to go away), Krautrock, Electronic, JRF, Canterbury and Zeuhlish music. And  I do love a lot of musique concrete, jazz, folk, ethnic music, and classical (using the term generally).

Included in the 'chives, I tend to return to Art Zoyd, Wakhevitch, Hancock and Davis the most, but also Cos, Spirogyra, Magma, Tangerine Dream, Can, Area etc.

^ you need to change your username.

Personally I like the sound of a synth just as much as much as the sound of any acoustic or normal electrified instrument.

Snow Dog wrote: progprogprog wrote: Dean wrote: ^ you need to change your username. ^ Any suggestions!? Dickhead?