Blackfield are considered prog, and yet the sound is not much different from what most people think of as pop. Blackfield are not a million miles away from Coldplay.
How about Muse? Admit I've only heard a few songs.
Since when are genres mutually exclusive? I love genre hybrids! This is how we often get "new" genres in the first place - - -
Good point! Hear hear.
rcarlberg: Is there anything sadder than a song that has never been played?
Plasmatopia: Maybe a song in D minor that has never been played?
bob_32_116: That would be a terrific triple bill: Cyan, Magenta and Yello.
trurl: The Odyssey: "He's trying to get home."
No, that's just me parodying what I interpret as her (or even their) attitude towards it. This being said, I can tell you that "symph" prog does in no way focus more on composition than the various musical forms that are for equally varying reasons referred to as "avant-garde". You should remember that the one term refers to a specific genre of music, while the other is a general binge of countless approaches to a whole and wide array of different musical medias. As for the term "avant-prog", it is often applied as nothing but an overall category of that which seemingly - and on wholly subjective grounds - escapes the most popularized definitions of "prog" altogether. It can thus be fully or semi-improvised, partly written or extensively through-composed on a level I still haven't experienced during my decades as a keen enthusiast of other "progs" - and this is not a polemic in the "Battle of the progs"-discourse.
Poppy progressive rock music exists. "Prog" only exists to the degree by which there is a definition at hand. And there still isn't. Which is probably just as well.
Last edited by Scrotum Scissor; 12-09-2014 at 11:13 AM.
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