Subgenres Knockout Poll Pt7

I predict the next 3-4 polls will consist of all the best genres getting knocked out 

Logan wrote: Hercules has mentioned a shift in tastes at PA towards more experimental music, which has alienated a certain kind of Progger (hope I'm getting that right), but I don't think that shift is enough to save my favourites.

That's because said shift doesn't exist, it's just his persecution complex talking.

Been a user here almost 4 years and it's still only the same very small group of active users who actually listen to that kind of (good) stuff


Edited by Triceratopsoil - January 07 2014 at 15:11

Triceratopsoil wrote: I predict the next 3-4 polls will consist of all the best genres getting knocked out

ture

Except that symph has a chance of getting knocked out, so the poll has got that going for it, which is nice.

Post/Math

Yeah, best this not get any more personal than it already is (or it's really already past that point, so less personal...).  * PA, the impersonal forum for impersonal people*. ;)

I do regret bringing up your name, Hercules, and wouldn't have had you not posted in this thread already.  I think PA should have space for all sorts of different tastes and opinions, but I guess it's not always that easy to come across as respectful when talking about our tastes. Did your friends leave the site because they felt persecuted and maligned by PA users, or was it more just because the focus shifted for a lot of users from the kind of music (Melodic Prog, for instance) they liked best?

 I have seen changes here in tastes -- Dream Theater, for instance, once seemed far more popular than it is now.  In fact, at one time every poll on the front page was a Dream Theater poll  (mind you, that was a joint effort by DT appreciators and detractors).  There's no use dwelling on the past, though, if PA has changed, so be it.  I'm glad that this site embraces more music than it once did (its expanded in scope and so has the user-base from my observations since I was first visiting here).  I think people are generally pretty respectful in their musical opinions here.  I really don't see as much bashing as I once did, at least not from me (that's a little rather egotistical joke, by the way).  I think it's okay to express that you don't like certain music -- especially if you try to give reasons, and are open to other opinions (just as one should feel free to praise music but be open to different opinions) but I digress.

On a side-note:  I thought the value of a poll series such as this would b getting all PA tastes under one roof and hopefully exposing people to music new-to-them that they might like -- maybe someone will come to appreciate a category, or at least music from it, that they didn't like or know before thanks to these polls.


Edited by Logan - January 07 2014 at 18:00

Kazza3 wrote: Strategic vote for Zeuhl, to help save RIO.

Hercules wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: Logan wrote: Hercules has mentioned a shift in tastes at PA towards more experimental music, which has alienated a certain kind of Progger (hope I'm getting that right), but I don't think that shift is enough to save my favourites. That's because said shift doesn't exist, it's just his persecution complex talking. Been a user here almost 4 years and it's still only the same very small group of active users who actually listen to that kind of (good) stuff What an obnoxious person you are, casting insults at anyone who disagrees with you.   I've not got a persecution complex at all - I've been here a lot longer than you and know loads of users personally who've gone off the site (I used to use the site through my late partner's account since 2003 before I registered in my own right after he died).

How is that an insult?  It's a sofa diagnosis.  "Obnoxious," on the other hand, certainly is an insult.

See also for reference -

Horizons wrote: Even if it was bad, why go to the extreme to 1*, it's that thinking that just baffles me.  Might as well call this Spite Archives seeing every post you make now is just spitting venom at people and then crying over Neo-Prog. Get over it.

I'm not the problem here.


Edited by Triceratopsoil - January 07 2014 at 19:45

Padraic wrote: Logan wrote:    I think PA should have space for all sorts of different tastes and opinions It does.  I welcome any argument that states otherwise.

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it" (Dwight D. Eisenhower).

^ I used to dislike Krautrock when I got into prog but changed my mind over the years when I gradually discovered a few exceptional gems, and of course with some help from a few respectable gentlemens here.

octopus-4 wrote: Why does people dislike Zeuhl so much? Never visited Kobaia? I vote for Heavy again.

Maybe they've only visited a airly small suburb of Kobaia and haven't visited the non-Magma worlds.  Magma wasn't the first Zeuhl band I got into.  These may be the first three tracks I heard that hooked me when I first started to explore the category (not to say that it would hook others):








Edited by Logan - January 08 2014 at 00:58