why do you listen to prog rock, /mu/ ?

>>71994158
Because I enjoy it

>>71994158
Because it's awesome.

>>71994169
/thread

>>71994189
>>71994169
>>71994196
excellent discussion boys. really made me think.

Rec me some essential prog. I'm already into genesis, kc, and yes.

>>71994158
fucking hell that album cover is dick garbage

>>71994158
It makes me laugh :)

>>71994599
camel is pretty good. their snow goose instrumental album is great.

>>71994158
I used to in high school, and used to reject stuff I actually like like pop punk. It's not that there aren't some really good prog bands, but the problem is that it's a genre that prides itself on pushing musical boundaries but most prog bands do the same wanky keyboard/guitar shit. It's formulaic at this point. Artists that actually deserve the label "progressive" don't have it, like Bjork.

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>>71994663
you ever listen to any prog groups that infuse jazz into their sound? its very interesting.

>>71994599
Van Der Graaf Generator, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Jethro Tull, Rush, Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, Camel.

Check out progarchives for all the essentials.

>>71994721
Nope, but that does sound interesting. Do you have some examples?

>>71994789
"giant" by gentle giant has a somewhat chill and jazzy part half way through the song.

>>71994709
Very nice thanks u

>>71994599
The Mars Volta

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prog rock is way to pretentious

>>71994709
>>71995021
>Avant-Math God
Disregard that chart, it was made by an illiterate Chilean tripfag with zero taste.

>>71994663
t. hasn't listened to King Crimson or Peter Gabriel

>>71995311
You can kinda see whereabouts his albums are and avoid them though. The first 50-60 albums look like they have nothing to do with him.

>>71994599
Rush

creativity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRWhNV35qo4

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>>71995337
True.
Do yourself a favor, go to his last.fm and look at the music he likes, then make sure NOT to listen to that music.
It's best to have as little common ground as possible with anime-loving fascists with autism.

>>71994158
'cause I'm a nerd who's never got laid

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>>71994158
Because it's more interesting thatn standard rock songs with formulaic song structures

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>>71994158
Because it's good.
Pic related is my King Crimson collection, fuck you OP.

>>71994158

I love classic sci-fi and fantasy.

>>71995473
>Do yourself a favor, go to his last.fm and look at the music he likes, then make sure NOT to listen to that music.
this is EXTREME salt

>>71995568
It's more like precautionary measures to ensure you don't catch shit taste.

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>>71994599
Gazpacho

because it's the funniest mudic ever

>>71995587
ex fucking dee you really blew that guy out, upvote

>>71995642
I know you love Reddit a lot, since it's your home website and you found out about 4chan from there, but there's no need to bring your customs from there to here.

>>71995673
go on man your jokes are simply epic

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>>71995696

>>71994158

I love the timbre of the classic guitar/bass/drum outfit, but rock, metal, and all their sub-genres I'm into get pretty dull after a while. The rhythmic diversity of progressive rock, and how that opens so many doors for melody, is the biggest turn on for me right now. I also like how there is literally nothing fashionable about prog, unlike literally every other form of rock, punk, or metal. For the most part, the artists seem to only really be concerned with the music, and not fitting into a rigid subculture or clique. It's rock music without all the bullshit that makes rock so fucking lame.

>>71995526
this guy ruined the live King Crimson shows in 2008... He was the sound engineer for the tour ,right?

I saw the next to last show of that Tour at the Nokia theater NYC and he had mic'ed the kick drums to such a senselessly loud point it was fucking with my heart.

ten rows back I thought it would destroy my hearing.

>>71995526
>mfw Xbox

>>71995337
>"his" albums
they belong to the bands that recorded them. if to you they're still so tried the fact that some trip that used to post here happened to like them you're way too obsessive
>>71995737
at the very least he was a more entertaining poster than this
i mean come on it's been what, almost two years since he showed his face here and you're still spewing salt? jesus how pathetic are you

>>71995916
lmao the last time he posted here was March the 31st. Also I don't think "salt" means what you think it means.

>>71995568
>>71995587
>>71995642
>>71995673
>>71995696
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>>71995916
Get a fucking life.

>>71995982
>he says on /mu/

>>71995957
eh then i guess he just hasn't started shit as much. too bad, though
but you do know what i was trying to say
chip on your shoulder, butthurt, let's put it that way if you will
seven idiots is a flawless album

>>71996072
I'm not butthurt, just wary of contracting shit taste.

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>>71994599
Gentle Giant: s/t, acquiring the taste, octopus, free hand, In a glass house
Alan Parsons Project: I robot
Pink Floyd: Meddle
Jethro Tull: Aqualung, Thick as a brick, Minstrel in the gallery

also pic related, should be enough

>>71996120
yes you have to keeping your scrobbles and your topsters chart presentable to not be excluded from the intellectual elite society that is 4chan's music board don't you, i worry about it every day myself

>>71996178
Not really??? I don't even use topsters or care about last.fm.
Are you seriously that sloppy that you can't imagine why somebody would want to maintain themselves intellectually for themselves, and not for others?

>>71994709
>Kingston Wall
That band is shit. One of their songs is even a direct rip-off of Echoes

>>71996217
well that's certainly not what i got from your posts
violently shutting yourself off from influences you had some sort of knee-jerk, gut-based resentment towards isn't really intellectual. intelligent people should be capable of entertaining a line of thought and learning to understand it without completely giving themselves to it. imo, generally speaking

>>71996300
Well, the way I see it, it's like how you want to keep yourself away from smokers to maintain your lung health.

>>71996329
terrible analogy, "bad" taste does not pose a threat to your health in any way

>>71995858
Not sure, I know he remasters a lot of classic prog albums and they sound great

>>71995916
>they belong to the bands that recorded them. if to you they're still so tried the fact that some trip that used to post here happened to like them you're way too obsessive
Sorry Officer Semantics
>>71995311 said he didn't like his taste. So I pointed out that it's pretty obvious where his recommendations for the chart are cause there are a bunch of albums he used to shill all in one location. I didn't mean to imply that he recorded Seven Idiots or whatever it is you think I was implying.

>>71994709
there's 1 Rush album on that whole list. And that one album is Moving Pictures. You sir, are a pleb

Why not
>math rock
Why would anybody listen to that?

>>71996461

>listening to or caring about Rush in a serious prog thread

Come back when you've been here for more than a week

>>71994789
lots of stuff by zappa. listen to hot rats and uncle meat.

Unpopular prog opinions


>my favorite Gentle Giant album is the s/t

>>71996459
i just attacked his
>hating music just because you hate its fans
-type mindset and played off of your wording because it was convenient
it wasn't the best idea to bring you into our bickering just to make that point though, so sorry i guess

even if it's called "essentials" naturally a chart is going to be more or less influenced by the taste of whoever made it, because it's impossible and stupid to try to be objective about music, which is something avant never got. or he did and stopped starting shit because of that

is Kansas considered Prog rock?
I'm listening a lot of them recently and really enjoying

>>71996461
Rush is a pleb-tier prog band, my friend.

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Give me some instrumental prog rock, vocals ruins music

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>>71997093
how can everyone in /mu/ have such a bad taste and be so obnoxious at the same time
i love it

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>>71997093
>implying they should be passed over

>>71997238
They have some good songs, but for the most part, they're non-essential and mediocre.

>>71995540
Very nice. Only missing Islands, really...

>>71997166
Dedalus - Self Titled 1973

>>71996249
What are you even talking about?

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>>71994709
>Ozric Tentacles

BASED

>>71997315
Yeah. I ordered these all from Amazon, which is pretty fucky with its entries. I was trying to order the 40th Anniversary editions of all the King Crimson albums (which all exist, btw), but since Amazon is so frustratingly vague in its titles for stuff, I accidentally ordered in the incorrect version of Islands (30th Anniversary as opposed to 40th Anniversary). So I returned it and haven't bothered to order the correct edition yet. I will some day.

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>>71994158
Regular music is simply too boring and not intellectually stimulating enough for me. I've found that only progressive rock is able to hold my attention and keep me interested nowadays

Dream Theater is simply the best when it comes to this

>>71997343
This band was the first band I have ever been recommended but ironically I've never listened to them

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>>71997194
thanks lads both were bretty good

>>71997252
They're the most accessible band in the genre, of course they're essential. Hemispheres, 2112, and A Farewell To Kings are great albums to bridge the gap between classic rock and prog.

>>71997166
camel - snow goose

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>>71994599
gazpacho
mystery
airbag
steven wilson/porcupine tree
chroma key
osi
>>71995602
mfw somebody beat me to it. MY nibba

>>71997481
Ok well I don't like them and that automatically means they're bad. My opinion is supreme.

>>71997481

Nobody on /mu/ is getting into prog from a classic rock background

>>71999326
I got into prog from an "I only listen to videogame music" background

>>71999326
right, because there definitely isn't ever multiple pink floyd threads on this board every day

>>71997166
A guy in another thread told me to check this out, i'm about halfway through and loving it so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRera802pUU