punk v prog

Taking Sides: Punk Rock Vs Prog Rock. (And Which Side Was The Biggest Influence on Post-punk/Post-Rock?)

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punk music nerds never looked down on me the way prog nerds did.

the bullying was intense

Not surprised.

But what I came to post was:
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Are we talking strictly 70s music? Or are the Smashing Pumpkins prog? Green Day punk?

punk music nerds never looked down on me the way prog nerds did.

I was going to say I feel like I experienced the reverse but then I wasn't sure how to classify people who were into math rock and post-rock.

Voted prog anyway.

prog nerds are so mean compared to the punk rock cheerleaders in the music press. it's terrifying bros

Its,best when they bleed into each otger, so: no vote!

they are the same thing. lock thread & fuck off

feel like prog nerds are less conservative than punk boosters

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Good prog and good punk are equally great.

Bad prog SO MUCH WORSE THAN bad punk.

Therefore punk wins.

QED, so let it be written, so let it be done.

hmmm I dunno I've heard lots of bad punk, and it's pretty bad

some friends of mine are in a bad punk band right now, if they were in a bad prog band I could at least give them brownie points for trying, but this thing they're doing now they are calling "gutter thrash" and it is just dire

Voted punk based on hairdos

mohawks are cultural appropriation

new poll, cultural appropriation: punk or prog

I kinda prefer to consider each as a playing style: original prog was just "stretching" rock as it can stretch other genres, punk is a "raw, rocking, primitive" take on rock. By which I mean I listen more to bands that have received a little influence from one or the other, and only exceptionally to the original incarnations. I let the 'ideological purity' to the people who care enough about music scenes.

prog: generally gets me, likes my music, can play my notated charts, might be on the older side so don't count on attracting younger draw, doesn't want to rehearse past 8pm, might tell lame jokes or stories about kids, might rep for lame world music, tends to be a bit set in ways

punk: generally doesn't like me or my music, doesn't read music, might be on the self-destructive side so don't count on being on time to show, can't rehearse before 9pm, will mutter lame retorts under breath to mask hangover and/or current drunkeness but will sometimes actually be funny, might rep for lame reggae and/or their girlfriend's folk/ecology project, tends to be a bit set in ways

feel like prog nerds are less conservative than punk boosters

― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, February 27, 2016 10:10 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea

my position on this hasn't shifted

Bad punk is usually talentless, dogma infused, unmusical and will never offer any surprises the way bad prog might.

Bad prog = may contain cool guitar solo

Prog

prog nerds are so mean compared to the punk rock cheerleaders in the music press. it's terrifying bros

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, February 26, 2016 4:22 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not the experience of anyone who grew up with the UK music press of the eighties & nineties. The default position during that time was that prog = "worthless, pretentious crap that punk came along and saved us from." I'm sure it went on beyond that as well, but I'd stopped reading by then.

As far as the NME was concerned, anything with even the vaguest hint of capes would get chased out of Kings Reach Tower with pitchforks and flaming torches.

punk = plays out of tune
prog = purchases 3000 pound keyboard built to constantly be out of tune

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capes prevail

No surprise there.

really if you don't love both then you're doing music wrong

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