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Originally Posted by Crowquill
No I completely understood the point of the post it was just stupid and repetitive with not very well thought out generalizations. See you basically said my opinion on prog isn't true, i'm all for arguing opinions but to flat out dismiss it in that manner? Pretty stupid especially without even bothering asking until after telling me I don't understand and my opinion is already untrue.
I think prog is pretentious because every prog band i've heard has been boring, overly technical to where it just sounds like they're trying to be technical, and most of them think they're the best thing to happen to music. Like Dream Theatre for instance. Prog fans thinking prog is the only good genre of music doesn't help either.
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The generalisations are meant to be stupid, to match the original comment and general criticism of prog. I.e.
Prog songs are long for the sake of it. Punk songs are short for the sake of it. Both are stupid generalisations.
Some people would soon criticise jazz and say that jazz musicians use 'exotic'/unusual/non-rock chord progressions for the sake of it, but that's obviously not true.
Some people think prog is pretentious for having long songs. Not all prog has long songs, therefore stupid statement. In the same way, many think alt is pretentious for having long song names. Clearly a stupid statement as not all alt has unnecessarily long song names.
I assure you those generalisations are stupid, and were very well thought out to match the 'quality' of the original comment on prog.
So is anyone going to tell me why all prog is pretentious? All prog, every prog band that is. Because if you're using Dream Theater as the prime example of a prog band, I don't think you've listened to a hell of a lot of prog. Radiohead is a prog band which isn't technical - didn't have to look far to find that...
Why can't you accept that some music is very technical? Calling it pretentious because the musicians have a lot of technical skill is stupid. And don't try to tell me that all prog fans only like prog - that is a ridiculously idiotic statement.