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    Posted: July 06 2005 at 13:45
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 13:53
Or is it a collection of genres, put under one umbrella?
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 13:57
It's a genre with a lot of sub-genres, innit?
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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 13:57
It is more like a mother that gave birth to a bunch of children. All of the children go off into different directions, some have similarities, some don't.
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 14:45
Or is it a load of refugees coming from the four corners of the globe of music, huddling under the crude shelter of Prog?
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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 16:29

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Or is it a load of refugees coming from the four corners of the globe of music, huddling under the crude shelter of Prog?

It could be interperated that way.
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Points: 6667 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 16:54
I think prog is just a (relatively) new name for symphnoic rock. The subgenres are out of place maybe. I think only bands like Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd are original prog rock bands. Should we change the name of the site?
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 21:45

if a genre is a category meant to overly simplify a group's musical explorations and lump them all together...then yep.

either that or i'm talking about prog's subcategories.
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Points: 1261 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2005 at 22:08
I think its a sub genre of avant-rock (as i call it) avant rock also contains post-rock, jazz fusion, krautrock, some electronica-rock. prog could also be considered a sub genre of art rock, but not the other sub genres the site has.
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