How is prog so unstoppable as a genre?

How is prog so unstoppable as a genre?
>Thick as a Brick
>ITCOTCK
>Close to the Edge
>666
>Seliing England by the Pound
>Future Days
>Wish You Were Here
>Rock Bottom
>Moving Pictures
>Moon Madness
>Third
>Uncle Meat
>In Praise of Learning
all amazing albums

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Evidently it was stoppable, otherwise there would have been more prog albums as great as these after the 70s.

Oh, fuck prog.

>Wow! Prog is unstoppable bros..

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The only people who hate prog are metalfags and hip hop zoomers

I am a metal and proghead, so that doesn't count.

metalfag here, prog is my 2nd favorite genre. I'm also a hip-hop zoomer on the weekends

ive listened to 9 and 5 of those range from masterpiece peak music to really fun. TaaB and CttE are respectively the pale fire and finnegans wake of music whilst also rocking hard. 2112 should have been there instead of moving pictures though. i remember wish you were here being really good. 666 was okay. itcock starts good and ends good but is kind of boring with its improvs that go on too long. selling england by the pound was too prog-y sounding and im hoping ill like lamb lies down more.

prog might actually be a genre more suited inherently to masterpieces though i don't enjoy other prog stuff like gentle giant or camel or even some other zappa albums other than hot rats and uncle meat.

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>doesn’t enjoy GG or camel
Filtered, GG is one of the best prog bands

I only listen to metal and prog.

i listen to the trio of pretentiousness
>metal, prog, jazz

Because it turns out preppy upper middle class kids have a lot of free time on their hands to get autistically into music. The result of that is prog., or "yachtrock" as they say

OP didn't even mentioin Floyd or Van Der Graaf Generator, and listed one of the least remarkable of Genesis records, I'm thinkin prog is based

Zappa is barely prog, he's just hard to categorize so he gets tossed in with prog. His scene was much closer to that of the Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane than to Yes or King Crimson. Prog is mostly british, mostly posh, mostly wanky, but still extremely excellent. Gentle Giant is on the outsider range of accesibility, give VDGG or Floyd a try.

I mentioned Wish You Were Here you bellend, and Selling England is the best Genesis record no matter how contrarian you want to be

Honestly most metalfags I know love some Prog, mostly King Crimson and Jethro Tull if they are into folk metal. This idea that prog is diametrically opposed to hard rock or punk is demonstrably wrong when you listen to bands like VDGG and Tull, King Crimson too.

Good taste.

>Metal
It's the punks that hate prog

>Wish You were here
Why such an unremarkable one? Piper at the Gates of Dawn is 100% late 60s psych prog kino, Saucerful of Secrets too. Much more proggy than their 70s shit.

>Wish You Were Here
>Unremarkable

Rock in Opposition > Krautrock > Canterbury Scene > Jazz-rock > Psychedelic > UK Progressive

>selling England best Genesis album no matter how contrarian

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is their prog masterpiece concept album, Foxtrot probably hosts their best single work epic in Supper's Ready. Selling England is a great record but it doesn't stand out in any way to even Nursery Cryme.

Canterbury is cringe outside of Soft Machine and Gong

What about Henry Cow?

Never saw the appeal, seemed like dime a dozen quirky druginfused jazzprog but Gong blows them out of the water in that niche

You don't even like Robert Wyatt or Caravan?

Wyatt is synonmyous with Soft Machine, Caravan has like 1 good song. They're great but not super important altogether.

Many of your picks are entry-level and you could use a good deep dive into the more peripheral prog bands and albums, but the basedness of prog is evident in that your list still has some of the best records ever. Stay with the genre, it keeps on giving like almost no other. My recs are Tubular Bells/Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield, Flying Teapot by Gong and Van Der Graaf generator, specifically pawn hearts and Godbluff. Very heavy music, the latter.

isnt henry cow more RiO than canterbury?

because prog is a relatively hard genre of rock to make sound consistently good. Also, Because of their length, prog songs got no radio play whatsoever; thus it wasn't very profitable compared to other genres (unless you were Pink Floyd). These barriers to entry ended up as a sort of filter, and as a result, the people that ended up making prog rock were the type of people who cared deeply about the music despite its profitability, and were determined to make a great sounding record in spite of the difficulties of such a genre. That's not to say that there weren't shitty prog records however; they just weren't remembered.

It incorporates both but I think it leans more into canterbury