Gentle Giant gets ripped apart

goose wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: Neo-Prog to Symphonic Prog I don't know that that's all that ridiculous, neo prog is after all influenced by '70s symph more than it is anything else (it's just not as good )

we shall flog you into liking neo-prog Goose

 

Mike wrote:

I think it's funny that everyone here says that it's not appropriate to compare GG and Bach. Yet such inappropriate comparisons are done all over this website and no one takes offence.

I agree that such comparisons are inappropriate.     Bach explored counterpoint in a very methodical and scholarly manner.    Gentle Giant, by contrast, explored and expanded rock music though various means, which included the use of counterpoint.     They each had entirely different aims.

I like classical music a lot, but I have to say that classical composers have been responsible for some of the most boring music ever created on earth.   Even Bach had his less inspired moments.     We shouldn't have to apologize for liking advanced forms of rock music.

 

 

Hangedman wrote: Man Overboard wrote: Hangedman wrote: hes kidding complex for complexities sake and he LIKES the flower kings, haha, when the flower kings write something original and artful i will throw myself out of a window in shock go bugger yourself , not saying they are bad, just not very interesting

You can say that you don't like something in many ways ... your comment on TFK goes way beyond that. You're making fun of them and people who like them ... and yes, you ARE saying that they're bad.

Gentle Giant kicks f**king ass.

I think Bach surely wouldn't have any trouble with some parts of "Think of me with kindness" and "Why not" and I think he even would have loved everything from their debut until Interview.

Sir Hogweed wrote: Odd24 wrote: I think Bach surely wouldn't have any trouble with some parts of "Think of me with kindness" and "Why not" and I think he even would have loved everything from their debut until Interview. I think he would be in the band, if they could agree on the wig-issue.

Oh, come on.  Proggers have worn just about everything else on stage, why not let Bach wear a powdered wig?

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Hangedman wrote: Man Overboard wrote: Hangedman wrote: hes kidding complex for complexities sake and he LIKES the flower kings, haha, when the flower kings write something original and artful i will throw myself out of a window in shock go bugger yourself , not saying they are bad, just not very interesting You can say that you don't like something in many ways ... your comment on TFK goes way beyond that. You're making fun of them and people who like them ... and yes, you ARE saying that they're bad.

More than anything its a joke, using an extreme exageration of my opinion. If it hurt you at all, Im sorry. Its a kind of humor that I didnt expect anyone to take the wrong way, why i led it up with the lame smiley faces. If i was serious i would have tried to tear the flower kings apart in response to that dont you think?

He sounds like a jerk and the type of conceited man that I could not stand being around. I hate people who put down modern non-orchestral music as music for morons and idiots. They make classical composers like gods and give no one else a chance. Then on top of that- they make you look like a FOOL for even listening to such "commoners" music! Let me tell you, I HATE feeling like an idiot with no taste, and my jerk music teacher made me feel just that way after he put down "Heart of the Sunrise" as teenager music and unrefined! I felt like I was gonna explode! Errr. This is one of my pet peevs indeed! 

Your music teacher is right, in a sense.   Prog rock is indeed a young person's music, and this is coming from someone who still enjoys prog at 40 years of age.

Prog is a youthful, naive, romantic form of music and, for me, that's precisely its charm.    Although it obviously champions good musical technique, prog isn't really concerned about the scholastic aspects of music, and that's a good thing.   If I want to revel in the scholastic side of music, then I listen to classical music.   But a lot of the time I don't want to do that, just as I don't always want to visit libraries and museums all the time.   Sometimes, I want to enjoy the energy and youthfulness of prog (and jazz) instead.  

So I wouldn't pay all that much attention to your teacher, if I were you.   Until classical composers can recreate the moods and atmospheres that prog bands can create, they have no right to diss prog as a genre.    

 

OK, GG broke the rules. Naughty them. Slap wrists!

But does it sound good? No, it sounds great! End of argument.