[atlantaprog] Re: From the London Times

Ah, that.  Well that explains the National Review but what about the other 
publications Jeff mentioned-- same reason?
  
  Brian
  

Allen Welty-Green <agmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  >  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.

Nope. Salem Hill has evangelical Christian leanings, or so I've heard. 
They don't necessarily proselytize in their music, but some of the 
members are apparently plugged in to that community and include them in 
their promotional campaigns! How many prog CDs - or rock CDs in general 
- do you think the National Review gets to review??


>
>  Brian
>
> Jeff Blanks  wrote:the Mystery Jets, Mew
>> 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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