[atlantaprog] Re: Give Me That Old Time Prog Rock

Allen wrote:

I recently went through my entire itunes library revising the genre tags in to something that meant something to me. When I got to The Flower Kings, I named a genre "new Prog". As I worked through the library, I realiazed how many recent groups do indeed have a very formulaic approach to prog - not much differentiation, not much innovations - the very things that made prog so special to me in the first place.

Maybe. But as a genre, doesn't it have as much "right to life" as any other? Reggae/ska? Country? Nu-country? Death-metal? Bluegrass? Indie-rock? What sort of "negative dispensation" has progressive rock been given that these weren't?

...the Flower Kings, Spocks Beard, Echolyn, Glass Hammer, etc. will eventually fade away.

Not Echolyn, please. *as the world* and *suffocating the bloom*, at least, will go down as acknowledged classics. Maybe the FKs' *Stardust We Are*, too, and Anekdoten's *Nucleus*. People keep talking about Anglagard's *Hybris*, too.

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