#progtemple

So, I’m starting a Prog Blog.  It’s one of the things I post that is very me but is a bit offtopic for my followers.  So let me make my case for my new blog :3

What is prog?

Basically any music that displays progression in the song.  While pop may be like A B A B C A B Prog is more like A B C D E F G H. Taken to an extreme though, Prog tends to be pretty experimental, spacey, and has been known to try to use a whole album as a concept, like retelling Lord of the Rings er something weird.  Other times it’s just playing on weird instruments and letting the music flow and change. 

IDK I never listened to it.  Will I like it?

If you watched JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, the ending theme of Phantom Blood is Prog Rock ( Roundabout, by YES ).  So if you like that you like prog.

If you like listening to videogame music, you might like prog.  All that squarewave sawtooth stuff?  Prog was doing that sound in the 60s and 70s on synthesizers, so it’s much like the precursor to what videogames would do.

If you like listening to ambient or background music, you might like prog.  Perhaps for drawing or relaxing, or maybe you like experiencing albums.

If you like songs that tell a story.  A lot of prog songs and albums are based on books and short stories or concepts made up by the artist.  Authors like Ayn Rand, Poe, Tolkien.  And if you like Fantasy and Science Fiction.  Prog has a lot of fantasy, sci fi, dystopian themes.  Songs about space, the future, or just strange things.

The Blog?

It’s over here - > Prog Temple

I don’t plan on updating it more than twice a week.  I listen to a lot of music at work and I get excited when I occasionally find a new cool prog album I haven’t heard yet.

Now I can safely post about prog, haha.

Hello, I decided to start this blog because I keep posting about prog and I’m sure most my regular followers are not into it.

By making this blog I hope I can find a subset of people that enjoy seeing (and hearing) that kind of thing.  A lot of these are long songs, heheh.

As far as mission statements,

I plan on posting songs and albums from the prog genre (or its occasional cousins).  I’d like to keep it content oriented so it will be mostly music, but if I find anything textual of interest I’ll drop it in.  I notice a lot of prog blogs I followed focused on the band members so I would like to focus this pretty much on the music itself.  I don’t intend to post more than twice a week so it won’t be heavy.