Before I begin this scrotum crushing rant I'd just like to say perfectprog.com is easily the best metal website I've ever come across and it's contributors should be praised for it's depth, wonderful design and superior content. Having said that I couldn't help but notice the newly adopted slogan proudly sat atop of the website: 'intelligent music for intelligent people'. Some of you might think 'yeah right on', two words come to my mind here, pretentious and assholes (or is that 3?).
Do we have in our mists the sort of bourgeois sons-o-bitches that sit in coffee bars wearing berets discussing the pro's and cons of abstract expressionism (usually two sticks of dog turd on a plain white canvas)? Do you consider yourself the 'avant guard type'? Perhaps you enjoy saying things like 'Pier Paolo Pasolini previous production was distastefully lacklustre in comparison to his magnum opus Boccaccio's Decamerone' in an annoying loud and wheezy voice? If yes I hear there's a great post-modernist exhibition in downtown Baghdad next week, you may have to ask the taxi driver for directions, tell him Uncle Sam sent you. If no, which I would say is most of you here, welcome to the human race.
Why then, in some, is there this need to boast about the 'intelligence' of progressive music and then wear it as a shield of honour used to deflect the uncultured tastes of those little people on the street? The real intelligent people have the sense and class to realise the individuality of their tastes and not feel the need to boast about how 'cultured' or superior their own interests are. Are these particular prog fans compensating for some inferiority complex? Perhaps they can't get the girls like the regular guys/girls and so section ourselves into this pretentious little safe house as some kind of protective mechanism. The outside world really couldn't give two shits if you can spot the time changes in Erotomania, they're too busy having a life.
So anyway why do some people feel the need to label prog and consequently themselves intelligent? Perhaps prog is more complex but IMO complexity does NOT = intelligence. Either way I resent those who label prog music ‘more intelligent’ when it is really only a stylistic difference.
Do we have in our mists the sort of bourgeois sons-o-bitches that sit in coffee bars wearing berets discussing the pro's and cons of abstract expressionism (usually two sticks of dog turd on a plain white canvas)? Do you consider yourself the 'avant guard type'? Perhaps you enjoy saying things like 'Pier Paolo Pasolini previous production was distastefully lacklustre in comparison to his magnum opus Boccaccio's Decamerone' in an annoying loud and wheezy voice? If yes I hear there's a great post-modernist exhibition in downtown Baghdad next week, you may have to ask the taxi driver for directions, tell him Uncle Sam sent you. If no, which I would say is most of you here, welcome to the human race.
Why then, in some, is there this need to boast about the 'intelligence' of progressive music and then wear it as a shield of honour used to deflect the uncultured tastes of those little people on the street? The real intelligent people have the sense and class to realise the individuality of their tastes and not feel the need to boast about how 'cultured' or superior their own interests are. Are these particular prog fans compensating for some inferiority complex? Perhaps they can't get the girls like the regular guys/girls and so section ourselves into this pretentious little safe house as some kind of protective mechanism. The outside world really couldn't give two shits if you can spot the time changes in Erotomania, they're too busy having a life.
So anyway why do some people feel the need to label prog and consequently themselves intelligent? Perhaps prog is more complex but IMO complexity does NOT = intelligence. Either way I resent those who label prog music ‘more intelligent’ when it is really only a stylistic difference.
