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Triceratopsoil View Drop Down

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Posted: July 01 2010 at 20:08

"it's prog, just not as we know it"

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Posted: July 01 2010 at 20:34

blah blah blah

I'm 21 and I DO NOT listen to modern music """PROG"""" OR NOT

if you take from my winamp a few months ago (and I just got a new CPU in mid-March) my artists origin decade and minus supergroups and solo artists you get:

1960s	16
1970s	24
1980s	5
1990s	2
2000s	1

Edited by RoyFairbank - July 01 2010 at 20:35

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Posted: July 01 2010 at 20:56

^ Which artist for the 2000s? ...curious

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Posted: July 01 2010 at 21:19

Justin bieber or lil wayne xD!

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Posted: July 01 2010 at 21:26

a band called Umphrees McGee (spelling?) my sister suggested. I've only listened to them once. I shouldn't have been so strict but these were internal tabulations (I have more if you want them Tongue

). The two nineties bands are Muse (If I remember, who I listened to a few times, that's it, just one album) and Phideaux (spelling?), who I've listened to a little and quite like so far. You can guess the 80s bands. IQ, Pallas, Marrillon are three.

For a brief while I had three other nineties bands on my winamp, but I thought I better minus them because they're not on anymore and I never listened to them: Echolyn, Jadis and Enchant.

Edited by RoyFairbank - July 01 2010 at 21:29

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Posted: July 02 2010 at 00:14

Well if you dig a little deeper on this website you'll find lots of good prog stuff from the past 25 years or so. The last two decades have actually been very good for prog.

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Posted: July 02 2010 at 00:18

I actually expect prog to die out immediately one day. There will simply be no more prog bands

Ever.

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johnfripp

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Posted: July 02 2010 at 00:55

i have a band and we are progressive or heavily influenced by prog so that count and i maybe a topic stating my oppinion on the rebirth of prog in bands such as dreamtheater porupine tree and others maybe you should check it out Tongue

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Posted: July 02 2010 at 02:09

I think that if we force children to study Genesis in school the apocalypse will be averted.

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Posted: July 02 2010 at 06:36

Textbook wrote:

I think that if we force children to study Genesis in school the apocalypse will be averted.

Teach them flute too, and how to play piano whilst stabbing it with knives and riding it like a horse.

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Posted: July 02 2010 at 08:28

RoyFairbank wrote:

a band called Umphrees McGee (spelling?) my sister suggested. I've only listened to them once. I shouldn't have been so strict but these were internal tabulations (I have more if you want them Tongue

Umphrey's is excellent IMHO. But I've said before that the beauty of sticking to previous decade(s), is that you don't have to bother with all the good new stuff out there so there's a good chance you will save yourself from bankrupcy. Tongue

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Posted: July 02 2010 at 18:35

RoyFairbank wrote:

blah blah blah

I'm 21 and I DO NOT listen to modern music """PROG"""" OR NOT

if you take from my winamp a few months ago (and I just got a new CPU in mid-March) my artists origin decade and minus supergroups and solo artists you get:

1960s	16
1970s	24
1980s	5
1990s	2
2000s	1

I'm ok with this. But it makes me sad to see it.

The main reason why, is that it's like you and I saying something like this ... my child is stupid and he doesn't know music! ... and you only say that because you are in a bit of a time warp, and saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show one too many times!

There is good music today. A lot of it. However, the Internet tends to show everyone and their ma and pa and granny and chickens ... and this means that there is so much stuff out there that it will be very difficult to come up with a concensus as to what might be considered better or worse.

In general, all generations have music in one form or another ... we just prefer something over another and that's that ... but please ... do not go tell your child that he/she can not date someone because they have spiked hair and you don't like the music they play ... that hurts the ability to get better and create better music or art!

We need to give all generations their chance ... we had ours ... and it is "progressive" and then some ... and it was by far some of the best stuff of the whole century ... we got nothing to complaint about! But please, don't prevent your child/generation from getting into music and doing their own thing ... we got into "ours" with drugs (originally), a little mystic here and there and some people fighting the establishment that stood out ... most generations do not have the benefit of a counter culture to work and learn with! And simply become ants in an ant farm as a famous American writer said, or another judge used an even rougher term!

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Posted: July 02 2010 at 20:15

As long as there are people who truly care about the music they create, whatever name we give to it, there will be Prog. But it may not be a form that we oldtimers (I am now 50) easily recognize. We will always have artists. New generations will use tools that older generations did not have. These tools often take the form of technology. Yes, there will be, and currently are, programs that will help the amature sound better - and some of them sound absolutely awesome, but ultimately creativity is not up to the tool but to the individual using it. The next generation will find it themselves if they really want to, with or without our help. But again, we may not recognize what they do. . .

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

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