What do the people you know think of prog?

Who gives a damn what other people people think of prog? They don't like it, they can get out of the car and walk.

My father played an important role getting me into prog playing Manfred Mann's Earthband's Watch on the car tape deck to me. He also had some good albums, Aqualung, some Novalis (local heroes), ELP and Deep Purple. But soon I found out that he didn't really care about rock music; I think he rather bought this stuff because some friends of him found it cool. When he played the MMEB tape that initiated my passion for music, he didn't even know what band it was, he had just grabbed something that was flying around in the car. He is an amateur choir singer these days and only listens to classical music, same his wife.

My brother is mostly into rock/pop stuff that is more easy going, but he has his moments. For him Talk Talk's Colour of Spring is the best album ever, which shows some taste, I'd say. He never was remotely as much of an Earthband fan as I am, but still likes Nightingales & Bombers, which is their best for me, too. Most prog leaves him cold, though.

I have some friends who listen to good music including some prog. A good friend of mine doesn't like the label "prog" and "prog fans" because he thinks that making a label of it means trying to go back to the seventies (he has a point there...). He looks for qualities in today's music that are new and contemporary (whatever that means) but is quite knowledgeable and very keen on good 70s prog such as Zappa, Can, Pink Floyd, several RPI bands. Another friend of mine loved "crossover" prog when we were 15-20, like Supertramp, Alan Parsons, end 70s Genesis etc., but disappointingly changed his taste later to pure charts music. Another friend is one of the world's biggest David Bowie fans but will happily join when I ask her to see for example Jaga Jazzist or Steve Hackett live. By and large, friends of mine who care about music love at least some prog.

Sardonite Calamity wrote: My mother hates prog, and wonders why it's called prog if it sounds like it's stuck in the 70's.

When we're driving in the car, and I ask my daughter what music she wants to hear, her answer is "Anything but Yes."

My family tolerate it. My sis loves Floyd, Yes, Genesis, select Zappa, Sabbath, Marillion etc. - she hates VDGG / Hammill and the handful of Extreme bands I listen to with a passion.
My Dad puts up with it, including when I blare Gorguts at full volume. I once got him to watch an interview with Jens Kidman and Tomas Haake (Meshuggah) and he said that they come across as 'intelligent guys' for headbangers.
A young lady at my work was already familiar with Floyd, Opeth, Karnivool, Lamb Of God and had seen Tool live. I was lending her many CD's and got her into, of all things, VDGG - she kept Present for at least a month. She also fell for Rush, Anglagard and the Ozrics.
I find the majority of folks just haven't got the attention span to sit through most Prog though.
Some even say it's 'crazy music'.....

Edited by Tom Ozric - June 11 2016 at 21:41

moshkito wrote:  Some folks seem to think that rock'n'roll is music and classical and anything else isn't!  How's that for weird?

my GF - that's the crap my BF listens to
my brothers - yeah, that weird kind of jazz-rock stuff you play
my colleagues - that avant-garde stuff you like (some of it is indeed avant-garde)
my parents - you could at least listen to stuff that is easily understood
my non-music friends - that weird uncommercial stuff we only get to hear when you're around
my music friends - prog; jazz & jazz-rock/fusion

the others - they don't know (I don't speak about it) and they don't care (and I don't care of theirs and will not tell them mine)

Tom Ozric wrote: A young lady at my work was already familiar with Floyd, Opeth, Karnivool, Lamb Of God and had seen Tool live. I was lending her many CD's and got her into, of all things, VDGG - she kept Present for at least a month. She also fell for Rush, Anglagard and the Ozrics.

Sh*t, Tom....at no point you thought `I should probably be asking this girl to marry me....'?! This sounds like the girl we all dream about!

Ha, even my Italian ex HATED the Italian prog stuff, I remember getting her to explain the lyrics of Le Orme's `Felona e Sorona', and after a minute or two she said "I don't know...some nonsense about planets...and brothers and sisters...I don't have time for this crap...."

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - June 12 2016 at 05:51

Manuel wrote: The most accessible songs, short and melodic, are liked by many, like "Cadence and "Cascade" for example, or songs that became popular, like "Living in the Past", or "From the Beginning", are remembered and liked by older people. The younger generation, the ones who like Usher, Beyoncé, etc, don't really care much frankly, but appreciate some of them as oldie-style music. Very few have ever tried a whole album, since not even the music They liked is presented to them in that format; in fact, hardly anyone downloads a whole album from iTunes these days, so our loved "whole album concept music" is not a very popular idea for modern day musicians,

My wife hates it, she calls it "guy music."  
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Edited by cstack3 - June 12 2016 at 16:31