Prog Debate (dance, house, indie, pop, rock) - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > The Music Forums > Rock & Metal > Prog & Psychedelic Rock
Register Blogging Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 01-18-2008, 04:05 PM   #1 (permalink)
Groupie
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1
Default 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.
Dying at a Desk is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-18-2008, 04:11 PM   #2 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 2,221
Default

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.
Rainard Jalen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-18-2008, 06:11 PM   #3 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
riseagainstrocks's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: DC
Posts: 3,320
Default

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.
__________________
One note timeless, came out of nowhere...
riseagainstrocks is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-18-2008, 09:29 PM   #4 (permalink)
Reformed Jackass
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 3,964
Default

Porcupine Tree has hit the top 10 in a few smaller countries. Radiohead is huge everywhere.
ProggyMan is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-18-2008, 10:07 PM   #5 (permalink)
I'm a figure of forgotten
 
lucylamppost's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: canada
Posts: 349
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by riseagainstrocks View Post

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.). .
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
__________________

lucylamppost is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-18-2008, 11:01 PM   #6 (permalink)
Fish in the percolator!
 
Seltzer's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Hobbit Land NZ
Posts: 2,870
Default

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)...
__________________
Seltzer is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-19-2008, 01:20 AM   #7 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 2,221
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by ProggyMan View Post
Porcupine Tree has hit the top 10 in a few smaller countries. Radiohead is huge everywhere.
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.
Rainard Jalen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-19-2008, 03:32 PM   #8 (permalink)
Reformed Jackass
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 3,964
Default

Yes it is. How would you define Prog?
ProggyMan is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-19-2008, 04:35 PM   #9 (permalink)
The Sexual Intellectual
 
Urban Hat€monger ?'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Somewhere cooler than you
Posts: 18,605
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by ProggyMan View Post
Yes it is. How would you define Prog?
Well under your definition The Velvet Underground are a prog band.
__________________



Urb's RYM Stuff

Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.
Urban Hat€monger ? is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-19-2008, 04:47 PM   #10 (permalink)
Diskobox
 
Lizzie's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: vancouver
Posts: 660
Default

No way would i call Radiohead a prog band, for they aren't at all
__________________
white and black, are you looking for the sun boy?
the sun doesn't shine down here, no, not in the shadow
Lizzie is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.