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    Confess! Great Prog albums that you have been neglecting lately (or even for years.)

    Ok, I'll come clean. I haven't listen to a single album by Yes in over a decade and all Floyd albums that follow Meddle, with the exception of PatGoD. And ELP has been vacant from my turntable for over 15 years.

    What are some of great prog groups that you have ignored playing for an extended period of time?
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    Yes, Tull, genesis, even King Crimson have all been collecting dust for a long while... All my classic favorites I would never part with... But I've been on a classical and opera kick for the last year or so. Go figure!
    Still alive and well...

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    To this day I have no trouble listening to the prime-period work from the Big 5 (or 7, or whatever), though there are some areas in their discographies I avoid (anything post-BSS ELP or post-Abacab Genesis, for example.)

    Also, I have a really hard time with Fish-era Marillion these days, but then I've never been the fan of Misplaced Childhood that many others are. Conversely I still really dig mid-80s IQ.
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    I tend not to buy stuff I am not going to listen to, and continue listening to. Conversely, once I have bought something, I generally continue to listen to it - some more, some less.

    there are exceptions.I have a handful of CD's that I have grown tired of, and have considered whether it's worth the trouble of bothering to sell them, but there are no "prog" titles among them.

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    most of bthe 70's classic prog or classic rock I own.... Cos I know them by heart
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    There is so much good quality music being released today I find I spend most of my listening time to modern releases rather than the classic 70's releases. call me a sucker but the Steven Wilson remixes are the main reason I have listened to close to the edge say in the past year. Listening to the blu Ray hi versions really do give these albums a new lease of life.

    I've just bought the 4 disc versions of tull's warchild and too old to rock and roll, 2 albums I haven't listened to a great deal ever. I expect I will give them some serious listening.

    I've kind of turned things on their head so to get back to the OP I have a large Barclay James harvest collection that I can't remember having listened to in years. I hadn't listened to the fish era marillion albums for a long time but as I will be seeing fish later in the year Doing misplaced childhood I have been doing some catch up listening recently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post
    most of bthe 70's classic prog or classic rock I own.... Cos I know them by heart
    Exactly. No need to ever put on CTTE or SEBTP or ITCOTCK anymore. I can just hear them in my head from start to finish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arturs View Post
    No need to ever put on CTTE or SEBTP or ITCOTCK anymore. I can just hear them in my head from start to finish.
    could you turn that down? Im tryin to sleep

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    Haven't put on a Genesis or King Crimson CD for years!

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    Quote Originally Posted by arturs View Post
    Exactly. No need to ever put on CTTE or SEBTP or ITCOTCK anymore. I can just hear them in my head from start to finish.
    LOL, so true! I still spin the classics from time to time. When I'm in the mood, there's really nothing that scratches the itch for me better than the classic Yes, ELP, KC, GG, Genesis, etc. albums. But they constitute a very small part of my listening now. But they get a lot of play in my head as I'm walking along with nothing better to think about!

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    I usually spin the big names in Prog at least two or three times a year, Genesis being the most played (but not all - From Abacab onward), then Yes, Jethro Tull and King Crimson. The least heard is Emerson Lake & Palmer. For some reason their music has not aged to well (IMHO). But thing have changed quite a bit since I suscribed to Spotify & Tidal in my Bluesond System. Now I'm hearing more music than ever, and that means constantly revisiting the Prog Classics of the 70's more frequently.
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    Quote Originally Posted by StevegSr View Post
    What are some of great prog groups that you have ignored playing for an extended period of time?
    I stopped listening to Genesis in 1982. They were one of the first bands I got into and I was a massive fan for a couple of years but went off them/got bored with them as I discovered more music. I still hear them from time to time on the radio and at gatherings with friends and it always surprises me how well I know the music after all this time. I even quite enjoy it at the time but I have no desire to re-acquire their stuff on CD nor to play any of the vinyl I have kept. For some reason I've always retained much more of a soft spot for other music I liked around that time, such as Mike Oldfield and Yes, and I do return to them every few years.

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    I rarely reach for KC, Yes, Genesis, Tull or Floyd these days, I just know them all too well & I'm spending more time exploring gaps in my collection & new stuff.
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    I've never once owned a Pink Floyd album, and not because I dislike them. I quite enjoy them.
    Growing up they were always to be found on the radio. Later in life they were often in someone's car or home stereo. Then there were the many stoney laser shows at planetariums. I'm deeply familiar with them, I just have never had to buy an album because they saturated the world so deeply for so long.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rufus View Post
    Haven't put on a Genesis or King Crimson CD for years!
    Well Crimson and VdGG are a bit different from the classic 70's field...
    First, both of them are still active
    secundo, in Crimson's case, there are still some interesting 70's archives coming out, while the two VdGG release of last year proved rather interesting enough to get regular rotation.
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    Most of Yes output...Only because I played them to death when I was younger. In particular, listening to "Tales" in one sitting, which I just don't have the available time to do currently

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post
    Well Crimson and VdGG are a bit different from the classic 70's field...
    First, both of them are still active
    secundo, in Crimson's case, there are still some interesting 70's archives coming out, while the two VdGG release of last year proved rather interesting enough to get regular rotation.
    Yeah... I did listen to orpheum a lot for a bit come to think of it.
    No VDGG or genesis though.
    Still alive and well...

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    The biggest albums I couldn't get into or take the time with are Thick as a Brick and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. I'm a major Genesis fan and a bigger Tull fan but those two albums leave me cold. I'm almost ashamed to admit it in a "prog" forum but here is the thread so I'm coming clean. My favorite band is Yes and there are no Yes albums I dislike but Tormato is an album that is sort of just "there".

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    When you have at least 6000 cds it's not that hard to do.
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    I listen to 70's Yes and Genesis--classic line ups---all the time---in my car and at the gym working out. Other favs like Gentle Giant , Focus, KC not as often.

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    Because my turntable bit the big one a couple of years back, I’ve been neglecting most of my King Crimson collection (i.e.: all of the 70s classics save for the ones I own on CD—Lizard and Islands).

    Similarly, some of my VdGG albums have been overlooked (Least We Can Do, H to He and World Record).
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    Quote Originally Posted by llanwydd View Post
    The biggest albums I couldn't get into or take the time with are Thick as a Brick and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. I'm a major Genesis fan and a bigger Tull fan but those two albums leave me cold. I'm almost ashamed to admit it in a "prog" forum
    but here is the thread so I'm coming clean. My favorite band is Yes and there are no Yes albums I dislike but Tormato is an album that is sort of just "there".

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    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    I listen to new prog(ressive) music as opposed to old prog almost exclusively, and the older music I listen to tends to be doo-wop,The Who/Steely Dan/Love, and other 60s psych besides Love.

    Since I know that the "prog classics" I loved back then are getting short shrift, I consciously throw in the odd TFTO, Lamb, Acquiring The Taste etc. into rotation, but, like most here I suspect, when giving props to older prog it's based much more on nostalgia than on recent listening.
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    So, "active" listening - defined by me as what i specifically select to listen to - is probably 95% newer stuff. but "passive" listening - such as while driving home and having my music player select random albums - continues to give me exposure to the "classics" since that's still the majority of what i own. listening to auralmoon.com while at work gives me exposure to both worlds...

    the funny (?) thing is, when i listen to a lot of new stuff, i feel guilty about "neglecting" what i grew up loving. and when i listen to old stuff, i feel bad about not broadening my scope and supporting (more) new bands.

    i can't win.

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