"New Prog," the genre - A MUST READ

[Hawksun]

Come on, just call it Prog. There's enough hair-split genres in music, we don't need more. In a few months we'll probably end up with Indie Prog, Post-Prog, Canterbury-Revival, Power Prog, New Wave of British Progressive Rock Music and Progcore if the trend goes on. Just call it Prog. And if it's not then call by it's real name rather than inventing another crap term (World music anyone?).

P.S.: This is adressed to the music press, not my fellow monners.

[mossy]

RM, I was also surprised to read that the writer considered Mew to be a "new" Yes. My skin crawls when I read that sort of categorization anyway. Take each artist on their own merit.

I like Mew, but it's Michael who is really into them. And he thinks "they're nothing like Yes".

But it's all subjective isn't it.

[kirk]

Originally Posted by Hawksun

Come on, just call it Prog.

Hey...just call it "Rock" for all I care.
It's not like Borders or B&N has a "Prog" section.

As I said to someone else, probably before you joined- in the 70's we didn't
see Yes, Crimson, The Who, Deep Purple, Led Zep ect. as being
anything other than Rock.

Comparing bands as diverse as Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Procol Harum,
lumping them into a category is ridiculous IMO.

It's evolved from a device for making store navigation easier,
to a device for appearing artsy, I.E.- We play " Triphiphousemetalfunk ".
It goes along w/ those junked out Brit dudes on MTV saying
"We recorded the entire album in 3 hours..."

As a listener, I agree it's out of hand. As an artist, I'll take every
advantage available to point someone in the right direction,
or help lead some Goth salesgirl to my music when asked.

Kirk/Zenpool
www.songplanet.com/zenpool

[Hawksun]

Originally Posted by kirk

Hey...just call it "Rock" for all I care.

I was refering to Prog as the whole spectrum of progessiv-ness (Progressive Electronic, Prog Folk, and on and on...) not just prog-rock.

You could also split it into the Aphex Twin categories: Music you like, music you don't like.