I'm not even upset. I can't get this song out of my head.

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I’ll go first: ELP’s Fanfare

I've been listening to more post-rock lately and have thought up an idea of classification that I thought could be of some interest to fellow prog rockers out there. Essentially, active music could be defined as music that has a main vocal or instrumental lead part where the instrumentation and music itself is in focus. Passive is essentially the opposite, where the ambience and lengthy duration the key feature. While typically less complex, it still has musicality worth listening too. An example of a song that features both is Out-Bloody Rageous by Soft Machine, which has a 5 minute "passive" intro which transitions into the complex jazz portion of the track. It switches between "passive" and "active" throughout.

While I think this could be interesting, it makes me wonder what other types of prog would be considered under such labelling: what would a long Krautrock jam song be considered? Songs like Halleluwah by Can have incredibly long jam sections, yet is less passive, but does not require the same kind of attention than something like Firth of Fifth. I find modern Indie music like BC,NR to utilize more ambient drone-y sections and switch to other shorter complex sections. I think terms like "passive" and "active" could have use to describing things. What do y'all think?

Also let me know if something similar has already been discussed or exists to label this.

Few cool progressive/math rock shows happening in California this week. Come check out Gingsu and Stereosity on tour!

" I've been mistreated" by Deep Purple, 1974 and "Shine on you crazy diamonds" by Pink Floyd, also 1974.

Has anybody ever noticed the striking similarity of that slow passage in "Mistreated" at about from 3.00, but mostly from 4.00 until 4:34 minutes,

and the long intro of "Crazy diamonds" part 1, until the start of part 2, when the singing starts?

I'll post two short recordings, hope it will get through...

Thanks so much for your suggestions!

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hi prog fans, i'm what you might call a prog addict, i've always been a fan of genesis, pink floyd, yes, marillion iq among others.

but for the past 2 years i've become a big addict to new album releases, prog, jazz fusion etc. but for some time now i've noticed that more and more "artists" are using ai and releasing albums every month.

it's not necessarily bad, but we feel a lack of soul in the music.

in short i'm afraid that in the future, there will be more and more of them and that i won't enjoy listening to this music anymore.

every time i listen to a new release from an unknown band, i always have this thought: is it ai or not ? 😅

what do you think?

Make them as niche as you want. I’ll have lots of time and will try to get back once I’m done. No double albums please.

For any Genesis fans who really like Steve Hackett and Firth of fifth.

¡Hola a todos!

I was just checking with my best friend one of her favorite albums, which is Vida by Sui Generis and I want to know more about the argentinian prog rock scene.

So, could you please recommend me albums from the Argentinian Prog Rock Scene?

Going For The One is amazing, and I don't get why people don't like it. Sure, Bruford isn't here, but does that have anything to do with the music? Alan White plays amazingly on this album, and he fits in well with Howe, Squire, Wakeman and Anderson.

Moving to the songs themselves, the title track is a catchy, groovy song with a harder, rawer sound compared to most Yessongs. Turn of the Century is a soft acoustic ballad that's nice and chill, a great song to vibe to. Parallels is reminiscent of earlier Yes but fits in with the album's other tracks quite well. Wondrous Stories is another chill ballad-type song that's also a great time to listen to when you want to chill out, the little synth lines pulling it together. And finally, Awaken is an amazing 15 minute prog epic that I'd think most Yes fans would put in their top 10 Yessongs.

So why all the (perceived?) hate? I get the impression people don't like this album, but never found an explanation. It's a clear evolution of Yes's sound progressing towards their eventual Tormato and Drama releases before their sound took a drastic change on 90125, and it signals a new era of Yes that I think holds up against earlier Yes albums.