Why do music critics hate prog?

>>72127617
Listen to it man.
You will know why right away.

>>72127617
it's overproduced as hell, repetetive and pretentious

technicality and theatricality are just easy to dismiss with non-academic critic-lingo
popular music criticism is pure rhetoric

>>72127617
Despite its name, progressive rock is actually extremely reactionary, and critics don't like reactionary things. They like the program and things that progress the program and that's what they're paid to say they like.

>>72127617
Porcupine Tree seems out of place in that image.

its pretty cheesy and uncool, a lot of it is fun as shit but critics could never appreciate that

>>72127702
>progressive rock is actually extremely reactionary
[citation needed]

>>72127925
> I don't, however, feel myself to be a jazz guitarist, a classical guitarist, or a rock guitarist. I don't feel capable of playing in any one of those idioms, which is why I felt it necessary to create, if you like, my own idiom. ~Robert Fripp, Guitar Player, May '74

>>72127956
How exactly does that make him reactionary?

>>72127956
>citing an interview from when Fripp was going down the spiritual rabbit hole.

>>72127925
Check out the Rock In Opposition movement