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Originally Posted by Comus
For my two cents, The Mars Volta today are leading the forefront for progressive rock as it has come to be known, however progressive music can be found in many different forms. Opeth are enjoying relative success right now, and black metal, itself a progression is getting more popular by the day.
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Don't get me wrong, I love The Mars Volta and they get an unfairly bad rap here (or anywhere else where Indie fans are present). But when you think about it, they often sound like they could have been an authentic 70s prog band, its just airbrushed a little for younger music fans, really. I'd say they are reviving prog, which is great because it needs reviving, but I wouldn't quite say they're doing too much that a lot of 70s prog bands haven't done before.
As for black metal, I personally can't stand most of it, primarly the vocals.
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Radiohead are in no way progressive as they are contributing nothing new to music.
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Do you
really mean that?
I could understand saying they're not prog, but not progressive at all? Thats just crazy, you need to double check your facts and listen to Kid A and Amnesiac, yo.
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I've never heard a band like The Mars Volta, and I don't think I'll ever hear another one like it, that in my book definitely earns them the badge progressive.
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They're original but IMO so are Radiohead, in fact I think Radiohead have been more progressive somewhat because every new album tends to be very different from the last. While with The Mars Volta its the same old sound they did before, just turned up another notch.
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Also before I get flamed for despising Radiohead because I'm an alt rock fan, I basically listen to the big 70's rock and prog bands and some very obscure **** from the heydays of prog as well as the odd black metal and such. And I quite dislike alternative rock as a whole.
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Well if we are going to get along I will have to adjust to this, because I'm a huge prog fan (who mentions Yes on this forum WAY too much) but I'm also a big fan of alternative rock (Radiohead, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins are among my favorite bands and I also love older Indie bands like Sonic Youth, Pixies and My Bloody Valentine) and generally I see the two as having a lot in common. The point of both was to do something different from what was mainstream at the time, so in that sense I think prog rock is also alternative, and alt rock is also progressive. Not saying its the same thing of course, don't make it out like that.
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Anyways on to the point:
Progressive rock DOES have a chance to re-emerge back into the mainstream but it will take time, and it won't happen overnight, it's not a genre that's run its course and it's not a genre without appeal to a mainstream audience.
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I really don't see that happening, nor do I really want to, because it will probably just die again after some new genre emerges, in the same way prog died out when punk rock got popular (which I also love, I like everything) and I don't think the mainstream will ever be ready for prog (again), aside from the prog community, most other music circles/sub-cultures hate (or are just plain ignorant of) prog and will never accept it.
Besides, I think prog is just fine where its at, the underground. Things got a little out of hand when it was mainstream.
05-02-2008, 01:13 AM
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