Hands up! Who likes Prog rock?
Who's brave enough to admit they like this music?
I was ploughing through the cds and came across a few that could be defined as Prog rock. Did I really slump that low?
With my brother being 12 years older than me and my sister 16 years, I was weened on a musical diet of the Kinks, Who, Small Faces, Motown, Otis, SKA...
I quite like the Glam rock era: Although serious musicians and performers, they were musical caricatures, with their silly face paint, glittery chops and strange hair. This was the polar opposite to the 'Proggers' who gave the impression of "We're serious stars..." So I suppose my musical tastes somewhat shielded me from such dross like Pink Floyd, Wishbone Ash, Free...
There's probably only a handful of 'Proggers' that came through the 70s - musically - unscathed: Thin Lizzy and Quo, to mention just a couple.
Mention Prog Rock and immediately I think Bob Harris and the 'Old Grey Whistle Test'.
I'm sure I'll make some feel really peeved, but I want to know whether I'm in a minority?
Who's brave enough to admit they like this music?
I was ploughing through the cds and came across a few that could be defined as Prog rock. Did I really slump that low?
With my brother being 12 years older than me and my sister 16 years, I was weened on a musical diet of the Kinks, Who, Small Faces, Motown, Otis, SKA...
I quite like the Glam rock era: Although serious musicians and performers, they were musical caricatures, with their silly face paint, glittery chops and strange hair. This was the polar opposite to the 'Proggers' who gave the impression of "We're serious stars..." So I suppose my musical tastes somewhat shielded me from such dross like Pink Floyd, Wishbone Ash, Free...
There's probably only a handful of 'Proggers' that came through the 70s - musically - unscathed: Thin Lizzy and Quo, to mention just a couple.
Mention Prog Rock and immediately I think Bob Harris and the 'Old Grey Whistle Test'.
I'm sure I'll make some feel really peeved, but I want to know whether I'm in a minority?
Thin Lizzy, Quo and Free "Proggers"? . If anything characterises progressive rock, it is long, complex songs, I hardly think Rockin all over the world fits the bill. But to answer your original question, yes I like prog amongst other things. I also like Otis and the Kinks as well as Tom Waits, 10cc, Queen, John Coltrane and Stravinsky. I do not understand why musical taste should be treated like supporting football teams. As Ivor Teifenbrun said (approximately) there is merit in all types of music, apart from country obviously.
I like prog which is getting slightly less socially unacceptable these days I feel so have taken my yes albums out of the cupboard and put them back with the rest. Definition is difficult as recent album "Essential Progressive Rock" included Status Quo which is clearly not right. Basically as an earlier poster said prog means having somewhere in your catalogue a track that usually lasts a whole album side, is divided into several sub-tracks and contains an overlong keyboard solo.
"Slump that low"?
If writing complex and diverse tunes, and being able to play your instrument to an advanced level are wrong. I don't wanna be right.
I'm a fan, but more into prog metal than prog rock. With new albums by Dream Theater & Opeth out next month, it's looking like a great time for prog-ists. Long may it continue.
I'm in!
Rush
Porcupine Tree
Tool
Pink Floyd
....
Just to mention some of my favorites.
Yup. Love it! I have slumped the lowest around here I reckon 
If Wishbone Ash is dross, then bring on more dross I say.
As a matter of interest, what Non-Dross do you groove to PP?
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Ps: I've heard Status Quo referred to as many things in the past, but Prog is a first.
Next month ;
Dream Theater - a dramatic turn of events
Steven Wilson - grace for drowning
Opeth - heritage
September 2011 will be a great month 
Hated prog rock as a teen.
Couldn't dance to it and girls went nowhere near it so nor did I.
Still don't like it.
It should never have included the word 'rock'.
Who's brave enough?? Its only music and we each have our own tastes and preferences, if you believed you slumped low then that surely is a reflection of your nature and not generic for those who would gladly listen to the following to name but a few:
ELO
Rush
Genesis
Peter Gabriel
Pink FLoyd
The Moody Blues
Procul Harem
Porcupine tree
I used to quite like you PP, but with comments like that... 
I used to quite like you PP, but with comments like that...
I like PP a bit more this morning.
I also never understood all the praise for Pink Floyd. Boring as hell.
Who's brave enough?? Its only music and we each have our own tastes and preferences, if you believed you slumped low then that surely is a reflection of your nature and not generic for those who would gladly listen to the following to name but a few:
ELO
Rush
Genesis
Peter Gabriel
Pink FLoyd
The Moody Blues
Procul Harem
Porcupine tree
TB, you have been peaking at my list. I also like stuff from Rick Wakeman and OMD......I'm too old to be embarrassed about my taste.
I used to love prog rock, Yes, Genesis, Crimson. But then I grew up and discovered e.s.t, Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber, Tomasz Stanko - same complexity, less pomposity, more brain. In short, music for people who can spell LOL.
Interestingly though, at the same time as I loved prog rock, I also listened a lot to Richard Thompson, June Tabor, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Bert Jansch, Pentangle and still do... make of that what you will. 
Thin Lizzy and Quo aren't prog rock!
But no I don't particularly like it. Mind you at this time of the morning in don't particularly like anything much...
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