Prog Rock Sucked!

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Many bands survived long after Punk, and still do.Punk didn't finish anything, even during punk other rock bands had big selling albums and tours.

Punk finished plenty of shit mid 70s bands, fortunately.

 

[blueparrot]

Punk finished plenty of shit mid 70s bands, fortunately.

Like who? Post punk all the number albums 1 of 1980
DATE TITLE ARTIST WKS AT NO.1
12/01/1980 GREATEST HITS VOLUME 2 ABBA 1
19/01/1980 PRETENDERS PRETENDERS 4
16/02/1980 THE LAST DANCE VARIOUS ARTISTS 2
01/03/1980 STRING OF HITS SHADOWS 3
22/03/1980 TEARS AND LAUGHTER JOHNNY MATHIS 2
05/04/1980 DUKE GENESIS 2
19/04/1980 GREATEST HITS ROSE ROYCE 2
03/05/1980 SKY 2 SKY 2
17/05/1980 THE MAGIC OF BONEY M BONEY M 2
31/05/1980 MCCARTNEY II PAUL MCCARTNEY 2
14/06/1980 PETER GABRIEL PETER GABRIEL 2
28/06/1980 FLESH AND BLOOD ROXY MUSIC 1
05/07/1980 EMOTIONAL RESCUE ROLLING STONES 2
19/07/1980 THE GAME QUEEN 2
02/08/1980 DEEPEST PURPLE DEEP PURPLE 1
09/08/1980 BACK IN BLACK AC/DC 2
23/08/1980 FLESH AND BLOOD ROXY MUSIC 3
13/09/1980 TELEKON GARY NUMAN 1
20/09/1980 NEVER FOR EVER KATE BUSH 1
27/09/1980 SCARY MONSTERS AND SUPER CREEPS DAVID BOWIE 2
11/10/1980 ZENYATTA MONDATTA POLICE 4
08/11/1980 GUILTY BARBRA STREISAND 2
22/11/1980 SUPER TROUPER ABBA 9

 

[Protein Junkie]

I’m not sure if anyone is a fan of Prog rock as it implies your taste encompasses all bands of that genre.
I do like groups that are Prog however - Yes, Genesis, Frost, Starcastle and UK being some.

 

[ZenHalfTimeCrock]

Hawkwind were good. But maybe they don’t deserve to be categorised as prog.

 

[blueparrot]

Hawkwind were good. But maybe they don’t deserve to be categorised as prog.

Categorising prog is impossible anyway, I'd throw The Stranglers into any prog /not prog argument. Prog punk?

 

[Bill Walker]

Limp lyrics. The endlessly boring instrumental sections. Minimal emotion or energy. Terrible sounding keyboards and musical combinations. Just keep noodling until no one can remember who they are or where they came from. Make every song 10mins plus for no reason.

Like making a meal out of condiments.

Don't forget Wizards, gotta have wizards lad..

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I always thought that but apparently one of my favourite albums of all time is classed as progressive rock. So it's perhaps too wide a genre to simply dismiss. It's certainly far from being my favourite genre on the whole though.

I grew up listening to Pink Floyd, Genesis, Rush, Yes etc and only the final one was a band I remember thinking of as prog rock at the time.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Categorising prog is impossible anyway, I'd throw The Stranglers into any prog /not prog argument. Prog punk?

The Stranglers were the only band I had time for from the Punk era.

 

[ZenHalfTimeCrock]

Categorising prog is impossible anyway, I'd throw The Stranglers into any prog /not prog argument. Prog punk?

Been trying to think of examples of punk or post-punk bands doing covers of prog songs.

The Fall certainly did two: ‘Strangetown’ by The Groundhogs and ‘War’ by Henry Cow.

 

[BlueHammer85]

It’s a genre I would like to love - but I’m just a basic melody man at heart

Interestingly though we’ve had very few Prog rock nominations in the Album nominations