What is it about prog that makes critics seethe so much?

Todd Rundgren's Utopia was the best prog band and yet would have been 10x better had they removed the prog parts

fucking retard lmao

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Christgau

Because critics either never touched an instrument outside of highschool band or are failed musicians. So they suck at music and are bitter.

christgau is a writer who likes to write about musicians. not about music. his taste is non-existent, bottom-tier "critic"

Literally no one wants to hear your 20-30 minute cringeworthy science-fantasy concept piece with operatic vocals, Tolkienesque lyrics, highly confident technical prowess, jazz-influenced interplay, classical quotations, odd time signatures while using unusual eastern instruments and top-of-the-line synthesizers of that era. Fuck off.

He explicitly admits to disliking metal and prog, among other genres

the hall of fame is a ridiculous money grab that hasn't been relevant in your lifetime, and could never qualify as 'critics'
if thats what you are mad about, you need to go outside once in a while

That's why I think he's actually a pretty decent critic, because he's open about what he likes and dislikes, so you at least know what standard he's judging an album by

sounds fine to me, i think you got filtered.
its ok, there is a kanye thread around here somewhere

>i think being biased makes him a decent critic
wut?

kek

Everyone is biased. It's literally impossible not to be. And music criticism is nebulous because of how difficult it is to nail down what defines "good" music. So if RC says he likes an album, I at least have a fairly decent idea of what to expect from it because I know what he likes and dislikes.

thats only useful if you have the same bias

Blatant yet inadvertent *racism aside, I'd have to agree with him.

It's like Jazz Fusion. The musicianship is often top-notch, but unfortunately the musicians have no taste.

*The dumbfuck critic doesn't even realize it's racist towards POC. I mean, why is it the "whitest music ever"? Of course he'd say it's because it's square, or something along those lines. But the real reason he thinks it's the whitest music is because it involves complex compositions made by skilled musicians who also happy to be rather nerdy. But if there's a whitest music, what's the blackest? And what defines the blackest music ever? I think most of us can agree on the answers, and they would come across as a hell of a lot more racist than saying prog is "white".

other way round
prog is and always was shit

P-Funk?
Sun Ra?
Herbie Hancock?

>white music = bad
thank you shlomo, very cool!

Oh you're doing the thing where you pretend you're against something but you're actually speaking highly of it lol I got ya :)

the mars volta

sounds like shit

Lol nice try

1. The critic was using "whitest" as a derogatory way to describe the music. So, it's only fair to use "blackest" in a negative context.
2. There is a fraction of a percentage of black musicians with the ambition and skill of a Jazz or Funk musician. They may be more rhythmically inclined than whites, but that usually translates more to knuckle-dragging hip hop than sophisticated Jazz compositions.

Blackest music ever? I'd say Rap. But that's a pretty wide ranging genre, so I guess I'd have to narrow it down to Trap music.

White people are boring just like yours posts