[atlantaprog] Re: From the London Times

I've heard of the Mystery Jets, but not their  music.  I'm at their website 
now, though, listening to stuff and  it sounds pretty good to me.  Yep, a 
mixture of indie-rock and  English prog-- some Peter Banks Yes.
  
  The conservative publication tolerance of prog is interesting.   Any ideas 
why?  My guesses would be a) older audience (people tend  to get more 
conservative with age if anything); b) the ideas of  Romanticism and virtuosity 
may be more aligned with conservatism than  liberalism's philosophical bent 
toward youthful rebellion, image and  novelty.  Just a guess.
  
  Brian

Jeff Blanks <jblanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:    [atlantaprog] Re: From the 
London  Times    the Mystery Jets,  Mew    
  Anybody heard either of these  acts?  

  I hadn't heard of either of these before, I don't think, and  that's what's 
so funny.  We talk about, say, Spock's Beard, which  the London *Times* would 
never think to cover, and they talk about the  Mystery Jets, who are off our 
radar screens completely.   Something tells me these bands actually sound a lot 
more  "alternative" than they're letting on; it's just that this  is the music 
of indie-rockers who actually *like* Yes (and of course  Bowie, as the article 
relates, but then it's *always* been safe to  like Bowie).
  

  (NOTE:  Salem Hill's *Be* was apparently named Rock Album of  the *Year* by...
  

  *National Review*.  :-/  I notice that publications  with a relatively (but 
not rabidly) conservative bent (like the London  *Times*) seem more likely to 
be open to newer classic-style prog or  neo-prog.  (OTOH, the *Independent* and 
the *Guardian*, also in  the U.K., have been more open to progressive-rock 
recently, too--a  real turn-about in the case of the *Guardian* (sometimes 
known as  "the Grauniad" in the U.K. for its apparent abundance of  typos).
  


                
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