Prog is Fashionable
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Topic: Prog is Fashionable
Posted By: Topographic Oce
Subject: Prog is Fashionable
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 07:28
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An article in The Times (Of London) at the weekend states that Prog is now the in thing and even journalists and publications that have sl*gged off our beloved genre for years are now admitting the quality of 21st Century prog So we were on the cutting edge 30 years ago and we are again now |
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Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 07:36
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You shouldn't need journos to tell you that. Haven't you taken note of the explosions of new bands producing compositions, not just songs, of late. Personally, I think the internet is the sole vehicle that has helped this. Or maybe, as DT pointed out in Octavarium, we have come full circle. Or is it just that fashions tend to go in cycles... |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 07:39
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I assume this is the article you're referring to http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22875-2007511,00.html - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22875-2007511,00.htm l |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 07:42
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Shows you how much the press can miss on things. I would've said this was good news some 10 years ago, but in 05, the second boom is over (creatively anyway), and they missed it. Now I suppose that the Times says Prog is getting more accepted critically and therefore will get more attention and airplay. But IMHO, this will not last because everything the second wave of prog bands (in my estimation from 93 to 2003) has been said long ago Too bad this comes 10 years too late. Better late than never though! ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 07:58
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That's sad, Sean, that you think the creative explosion is over.... I am still finding brilliant bands out there pushing the envelope. |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 10:16
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I don't think its over Sigur Ros, Taal, The Mars Volta are still going strong, hopefully giving us good stuff this year. And Ahvak, from 2004, is possibly my favorite band since the 70s. ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 10:20
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I never said it was over, but it is past its prime. I also wrote my remarks before I read the article, which is quite a hard read, stylistically speaking. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
NetsNJFan wrote:Posted By: Hemispheres
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 10:40
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Who are the Mystery Jets ------------- [IMG]http://www.wheresthatfrom.com/avatars/miguelsanchez.gif">[IMG]http://www.rockphiles.com/all_images/Act_Images/TheMothersOfInvention/mothers300.jpg"> |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 10:47
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I second that. Have we been missing something? ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 11:13
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Checked out the link to Mew - can't say they ticked any prog boxes for me... http://www.mewsite.com/site_fr.html - http://www.mewsite.com/site_fr.html |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 11:16
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http://www.mysteryjets.com/flash.htm - http://www.mysteryjets.com/flash.htm there's a couple of soundbites on there. Hmmmm... they sound kinda ordinary to me, like Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand etc though a little more rocky with added Hammond |
Posted By: thefalafelking
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 11:31
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Yes, I too didn't think that Mistery Jets was anything special, surely not prog. It could be equally 'pretentious', but more in a Darkness kind of way I think. Overblown article. I think The Times want to run away with the discovery of modern prog! They know nothing! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ozrictesticles/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/artists/ozrictesticles.gif - |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 12:23
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That article looks like someone ordered it. Ah, the always reliable music press.... ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 12:38
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I don't mind. I like music, and I have choosen Prog as a personal preference because of it's absolute lack of comercial boundaries. If a Newspaper says something like "prog is the new thing", maybe they are trying to reach or open another market, in order to sell things I don't want. ------------- ĦBeware of the Bee! |
Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 13:03
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Ah, does it mean that chicks will go to prog concerts instead of discotheques And I think that the creative end of second wave of prog is not a drawback for it to become popular - since when quality was main reason to sell music?? ------------- yet you still have time! |
? Too good to be true.Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 13:42
They have a couple of prog elements. Either way, I think they're a pretty good band. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: Page to Squire
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 15:18
Girls didnt like Prog in 73 they wont like it now. Have you seen DT or sigur ros, not hot stuff
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Posted By: chromaticism
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 15:21
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I'm doubting the intelligence of this writer since it appears he does not have a good knowledge of what progressive music is. He appears to not understand what progressive music is, much less progressive rock. He seems to think that if you throw a little Hammond here, some Mellotron there, vintage sounding guitars/basses and a few analog synth lines you get prog. Man, this person's mind is so shallow that he couldn't even mention Dream Theater, a band that had a lot to do with the resurgence of prog rock starting the 90s. It looks like he is unable to appreciate complexity and depth of the structure of prog that he might as well go back to his record player and rewrite it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22875-2007511,00.html - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22875-2007511,00.htm l |