"Retro Prog" - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Could you give some examples?

I don't really have a problem with it. I'm not a big fan of the term, though - it seems like a lot of people just look at the number of vintage keyboard sounds they use and dismiss it as retro prog. But if a band starts using hi-gain metal guitar sounds, or electronic synth stuff, wow, they're so new and original! Even though those sounds have been in use since the 80s...

I remember people labeling All Traps On Earth as retro prog - although it doesn't quite sound like any one band out of the 70s. Sounds a bit like Anglagard (because they share members...), and even they don't really compose like many bands from the 70s either. They just use some of the same equipment.

My prog band - Boreal Kinship

Love it.

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I don't care if it's retro, modern, classic, etc. If I like the music, the label is not important to me.

Manuel wrote:

I don't care if it's retro, modern, classic, etc. If I like the music, the label is not important to me.

I wholeheartedly agree with these sentiments

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No issue here . . .

Welcome to the middle of the film.

I've tried so hard to like Wobbler and All Traps on Earth, but after a hundred spins can't just get over them.

So I wonder if it's the "sub-genre" of "retro-Prog" what I don't like. Because someone in a previous post mentioned Spock's Beard, but I don't find that to be retro. Maybe I would put The Flower Kings in that category, but not everything they play sounds retro. (And I like TFK)

I like it...most of it anyway....fan of Wobbler and Astra...though they haven't done anything for 7 years.

Also like most of the ones above.

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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ExittheLemming wrote:

Apart from say, the Whirlwind by Transatlantic which I think represents a victory for the memorable over the aural memorabilia served up by the likes of Black Bonzo, Wobbler, Anglagard, the Samurai of Prog, Phideaux, Spock's Beard, Beardfish, Big Big Train, Anekdoten, the Flower Kings etc. Most of whom are but a pale imitation of what was borderline anaemic in the first place. Maybe it's my deep seated and prejudicial aversion to post modernism that makes me balk at much of this music.

We no longer, many of us, believe in the idea of musical progress. All the more reason, perhaps, to savor the music of those who did. (Kelefa Sanneh)

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Edited by Psychedelic Paul - December 23 2019 at 12:28

"I like it but it cant compete with the classics"

Lovely music those bands you mention, but can't find albums in there that would compete with the best from 70-75, especially considering what technical advantage they got over a 1974 production.

Edited by tamijo_II - December 23 2019 at 13:26

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Poll Question: Whats your opinion
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
I have no issue with it and like a lot of it	36	[63.16%]
I like it but it cant compete with the classics	8	[14.04%]
Generally don't like it with a few exceptions (Specify)	6	[10.53%]
Don't like it at all	2	[3.51%]
Other (Specify in Comments)	5	[8.77%]
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