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>I sit at a somewhat different position.
yeah, it´s more humble and less elitist than one would expect. Don´t worry I am used to this and /mu/ has also dealt with people of this kind. It barely comes as a surprise

>some critics exclude all but the core British bands as not true progressive rock. There was some who could very well be argued to care nothing but the most extravagant as real music. I don't expect such music to reign ever alone, nor do I want to.
nor rock, I don´t want it to come back. And you will ask: why? Well mostly because the genres need to breathe, they need some room and let the artist experiment new things without any compromises because of corporate contracts, barely capable of advancing as musicians.
Prog rock was badly seen for some reviewers and used the term "pretentious" in order to mean that they simply didn´t like it. The word pretentious gets badly used most of the time. I would call a few prog albums pretentious(King Crimson or the insane album from Yes: Tales of Topographic Oceans, which was long and overly complicated). Nowadays, I think that people is used to listening to all kinds of styles so there is a chance that it finds its niche with a more open mind (conceptual rock could be a very good term for its tag). Why isn´t it more popular? Well, mostly because of nostalgia of the same bands and that there are very few releases that catch the attention out there and break through an invisible barrier of popularity that keeps you under the radar

>Maybe I just have a closed off negative perspective It just seems like these mainstream styles have dominated things. They still have a stranglehold influence on society.
that´s because the same companies are still in the multi billion dollar business with the same formulas repeated over and over. They don´t experiment, they simply study what appeals to the masses and the more people get together, the better for them. I mean, it´s not a bad concept in theory and for this very same reason, rock has faded in the mainstream eye because it no longer serves to those people who hold the right. They are using hip hop and pop divas for their squeezing out all the money that is out there(it worked for Madonna) and as soon as it doesn´t work anymore, they will make popular another formula that has the same intentions in the end. Now, that doesn´t mean all pop and hip hop suck. I am linking (after these posts) a pretty complicated pop song that is as upbeat as those but has a 5/4 rhythm in the first 2 minutes, changes completely in the middle and the last third pulls out a children choir in order to expose more emotions to the lyrics (from 2005 and it became AOTY and appreciated by /mu/)

>things that become popular just get that same dumbing down treatment (Modern Rock band being just more pop, look at mainstream dubstep

I hated dubstep and I hated electronic because of it and thought it was too artificial.I was a pleb and as soon as I discovered the actual subgenres and the beauty behind the sampling genre,I changed my mind especially these last two years. So look at that, a popular trend made me hate an entire world of music to discover. Glad that it died out and this is what I meant with the corporate staff, that fad ended as soon as they didn´t see the cash flowing as much as they thought.People moved on.
>I was being a little too pessimistic, because when you think about it, there is probably more people listing to more genres than ever before.
I simply cannot count the subgenres/movements that exist out there. You may not be a music critic but despite having lurking 4 years in /mu/ and music pages, I either feel too lazy to go further or it´s way too much to keep up. Hence I can´t say this generation sucks because I don´t know the panoramic view of its definition.