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Topic: Young puppies such as me!

Posted By: Sean Trane
Subject: Young puppies such as me!
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 08:39

Well , guys! Thank you for your answers in the old dogs thread and I am glad the young lads have put their two cents worth in too!! I am still busy integrating some your comments!! I am happy that so many members thought the topic was interesting and contributed to it also to make it even more so!!

Well, this WE I went back to that record store and bought two albums without listening to them at all! Magma's new album and VDGG's latest!! Both majestic successes! I brought them home and sunk happily into those musical slices without a trace until this morning !!

Do I feel better, now? Well sort of because those two albums are awesome and will likely be in my top 5 of 2005!! But the fact that these two albums had all chances to please me, does not erase my unease at not appreciating those newer bands. Not that I feel guilty about not appreciating those bands, but maybe my expectations for newer groups are simply too high!!

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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

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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: April 25 2005 at 11:03

Sean:

I never had a chance to post to your original thread. However, rather than provide a long and tedious comment (which I could easily do!), the only comment I will make is this.

I do not really have a problem "getting into" some of the newest "prog" bands - whether prog-metal like Dream Theater, neo-symphonic like IQ or Arena, pop/electronica like Radiohead, or "punk-prog" like Mars Volta. Nor do I have a problem (as some do) with the production on most of these albums.

The only thing I find is that, even from an objective musical standpoint - and not just a subjective "taste" standpoint - most of the newer groups/albums are overrated by the younger listeners. That is, even if "seminal" prog did not exist - and thus we could not compare new prog groups/albums to Genesis, Yes, Floyd, ELP, et al - many of the newer groups/albums are, in my opinion, simply not as "great" (much less "masterpiece") as they are purported to be.

Still, there are some new groups/albums that are great, and even some masterpiece albums. It is just that there are far too many four- and five-star reviews for albums that simply do not merit them, even when not considered against the "greats" of seminal prog.

Peace.