>>3826 >what I said wasn't based on progressive rock vs punk/everything else more so a lament of the decline of mainstream music as a whole. yeah....I mentioned it as the saddest part of it. But not only that event caused this and it´s more like the music industry roadmap for milking cashcows. Mainstream music works like that because of experts at manipulating the feelings of the masses and trying to cover all their material for every situation. Pop music was the easiest way and it will stay like that. I, like Bowie, would sing to Ground Control: "Planet Earth is blue and there is nothing I can do"....except giving recs on my own.
>Even if there is more choice than ever, it just feels right now that the mainstream is just rotting in the same repetitiveness was the main gist of my point. Corporations always wanted to make money regardless of decade but now there is no soul there. I don´t watch the TV nor the radio. I basically don´t care what they bring onto the table at this point. For me, they can put out white noise in their music channels or whatever, I am not going to care unless I notice it in the news or someone close to me tells me about that. I don´t consume that music because I will always hear it every time I go into a shopping centre or any public area and my apathy would get even bigger to the point I become numb and barely feel anything about it. Background music for me if anything. >You can still find stuff on the net but sometimes I almost have a glass is half empty view do to the lack of variety on top and me considering it a bit unhealthy for society in several ways.Like a lack of real political variety ad meaning, the disappearance of folk music, country being turned to radio friendly, etc hey, that happened to disco as well and trust me that there are voices out there that are sick of that trend. You don´t know how many people are desperate of it. So I will say that despite your pessimistic take on this topic, you are far from the only human being getting tired of such saturation.
>I"m just a bit of a fool who lives under a rock, as this has been only my impression over something I can say has been scientifically verified well, I prefer not explain today but if you ever hear about a X band will remind you of Led Zeppelin (to the point the singer copies Rober Plant´s vocal range), remember what I said. They are not bad musicians technically but conceptually, it´s not what I am looking for.
>most of my knowledge comes from my father from what I've seen in the times I've peaked my head out there there is the 70s circlejerk and then there is various smaller circle jerks with an ever tighter definition of what prog is and can be especially dismissive to other progressive/art and experiential rock of similar spirits from the 70s or otherwise. oh yeah, the problem of tagging and considering X band prog or not. Those were the days as I see from your posts. That also happens constantly to the metal community even though I haven´t been involved in it.
>You went all out on that list. Y9u didn't have to put so much time in that endeavor! Anyway I can reply ya? I felt like that because I see that my generation doesn´t get a chance to express itself properly. April Fools or not, the 21st century has a lot of things to offer out there in this world and people still complain because of not bothering and searching a little bit under the iceberg. Steven Wilson with his Porcupine Tree band, Tool, Opeth, The Mars Volta and Phideaux (the first two rows in general) will most likely guarantee some of that material. The rest were completely unknown to me.
