Swedish prog?

~~Baggs~~ · 04-13-2011, 07:39 AM

Baggs is here!

Baggs is THE Prog Masterman.

Baggs gots all the orig 70s Scandi vinyl in the collectro.

Why?

Because thats what makes a Prog Masterman.
..............
Lets talk about this "progg".

Here's something only a prog masterman would know:
Progg in Sweden was ANYTHING BUT UK prog-sound.
Foremost it was AMATEURISM. Hippy community-like.
Mainly it was political lyrics (in Swedish) - communism, feminism,workingclass revolutionists, baggism....

There were three divergencies of "progg". The most interesting to proggers is the one where there was a modicum of instrumental prowress and desire to create something different - bands like International Harvester , Arbete och Fritid and Trees,Grass & Stones.

Mainly though, "progg" is preachy, folky, verbose and sucks: Nationalteatern,Gunder Hagg,Dag Vag,Musikteaterngruppen...

Dotoar · 04-22-2011, 08:21 AM

^!

And that's why it's such a pain in the arse to explain to my less musically educated fellow countrymen what I mean when I say I listen to "prog". There are probably not two genres further away from each other than "progg" and "prog".

Just for a laugh, I did a spoof on the swedish "progg" thing just the other day, if only to stir up things a bit among my more left-orientated mates: Kampsång

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Dotoar Supernatural anaesthetist Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Örebro, Sweden Posts: 436	^! And that's why it's such a pain in the arse to explain to my less musically educated fellow countrymen what I mean when I say I listen to "prog". There are probably not two genres further away from each other than "progg" and "prog". Just for a laugh, I did a spoof on the swedish "progg" thing just the other day, if only to stir up things a bit among my more left-orientated mates: Kampsång __________________ - More is more -

04-13-2011, 07:39 AM	#1 (permalink)
~~Baggs~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Leutonia Proper Posts: 128	Baggs is here! Baggs is THE Prog Masterman. Baggs gots all the orig 70s Scandi vinyl in the collectro. Why? Because thats what makes a Prog Masterman. .............. Lets talk about this "progg". Here's something only a prog masterman would know: Progg in Sweden was ANYTHING BUT UK prog-sound. Foremost it was AMATEURISM. Hippy community-like. Mainly it was political lyrics (in Swedish) - communism, feminism,workingclass revolutionists, baggism.... There were three divergencies of "progg". The most interesting to proggers is the one where there was a modicum of instrumental prowress and desire to create something different - bands like International Harvester , Arbete och Fritid and Trees,Grass & Stones. Mainly though, "progg" is preachy, folky, verbose and sucks: Nationalteatern,Gunder Hagg,Dag Vag,Musikteaterngruppen...