The Evils of Progressive Rock

[stuards_folly]

In all of my years as a music nerd, I have never once felt the need to explain my hatred of Prog Rock. Your average music nerd (of the Generation X and previous eras) innately knows the dangers of “too many notes”. The more recent variety music nerd (often classified, somewhat incorrectly, as an indie rock kid or emo kid) is really too young, in

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no prog rock you say?

[parkslopekali]

i think secretly, or not so very secretly at all, you are my hero. well done.

Re: no prog rock you say?

[freeslagg]

i'm glad you understood it, now could you plz explain it to me in layman's terms and music i've actually heard? :D

Re: no prog rock you say?

[parkslopekali]

ok...read the last paragraph again, because that’s really where he's going for the entire thing, honestly, music in a 5/8 timing a. does not rock, b. is really kind of annoying, and c. doesn't make anyone, ever, want to rock their hips to it. Prog rock is not music to make love to, no one screws to rush because you can't find a rhythm. Its this natural human need to be able to find a beat in things, its our iamb (iamb =heartbeat)( ever read Shakespeare in school? he's loved so much because he wrote in what’s called iambic pentameter, it follows the beat of your heart, badum badum badum....anyway...back to this) that sort of sets the bar for this. And the heart can't beat in 5/8 timing. It can, for all intents and purposes, beat at 4/4 though, and so it really comes down to when you were a kid being rocked to sleep by your mother, listening to the beat of her heart, in perfect even timing (if yr mum has a heart condition, sorry, hell, maybe those are the people who dig prog rock. someone should do a study). But really, sit down and

[hotwok]

Amen.