Prog Debate
 

After reading the very lengthy, yet enlightening "education" thread, I began to wonder....Can prog have the same mainstream appeal that it once had in the 60s & 70s?? It seems difficult to at times improbable to see that happening, even with my boys Coheed at the forefront of the 'movement' with great success.

Just wondering what it would take for it to happen, if at all possible.

It won't ever happen (at least certainly not in the foreseeable future). It isn't any longer a viable commercial format. It has no place in the mainstream.

The Mars Volta are hardly "progressive" imo. I'd call them pretentious (all though to be fair, I love the title track on Frances the Mute).

And I don't think progressive music will become mainstream again in the near future. The only Coheed songs to get any sort of media attention are the ones with pop hooks (A Favor House Atlantic, Running Free, The Suffering, etc.).

As time goes on it seems that music is getting better but it's being appreciated by fewer and fewer people. My post including the Cynic video being a prime example.

Porcupine Tree has hit the top 10 in a few smaller countries. Radiohead is huge everywhere.

I agree with that , i bet with in the next 2 years it will be very mainstream. Its ust going in a cycle like music always dose people are going to get tired of todays mainstream music night now is very pop/dance and trash(y) and very fast.

It will get very tried soon You guys may not think that the Mars Volta is not progressive but its has shares some similarities. and they are very main stream.

what I am sayng is soon the greater public will come to there senses on what they think "good" music is

It's unlikely that it'll ever have the same appeal. Though bands like Porcupine Tree could feasibly appeal to a more mainstream audience.

I think that prog's greatest break into the mainstream would probably be through prog which appeals to alt/indie fans... there are already a fair few bands like this; i.e. Dredg, Radiohead, Mars Volta, Muse (sort of)...

Oh c'mon, for heaven's sake, Radiohead aren't prog!



"Prog" is not some banner term that covers any sort of experimental/arty rock music.

Yes it is. How would you define Prog?

Well under your definition The Velvet Underground are a prog band.

No way would i call Radiohead a prog band, for they aren't at all