I guess I'm posting this because I'm still working through these issues, or related ones. But still, just as prog was somehow more moral than grunge, avant-prog maintained for years an air of being gooder than any other form of rock - for pseudo-musical reasons as much as pseudo-political reasons. in the same year (or one off) that I stood for four hours to get Sean Hannity to sign a book for me, so I wasn't exactly ready for the commie elements, anyway. movement had some Red Cred but that was lost in most of the bands' music (especially the further away you get from the original core of groups - the ones that actually played at the festival.) And besides,unless my chronology is hopelessly wrong, I got into R.I.O. And I was such a "Smart" White Teenage Thing that I ate that up and, worse, started really internalizing the belief that there was an inherent pseudo-ethical superiority not just to "complex" art (the Tool fallacy? Nah, the fallacy with Tool is thinking they're not literally Nickleback) but that cheap contrarianism and self-conscious "weird"ness were a talisman against being a bad person or whatever I worried about back then - being low class? I guess it was probably being "anti-intellectual," which from the perspective of 27 years on Earth is so cringey I can barely type it. Eventually my love of clarinets, my love of prog and my love of Pitchfork combined and left me at Dominique Leone's door, squealing "take me! take me!" (full disclosure: I thought Dominique Leone was a woman for at least three years for no other reason that the spelling of his name.) And Henry Cow and Magma tickled my fancy even more than Yes and Gentle Giant did because they were, respectively, a notch or two to the left on the Avant-Garde-O-Meter and a notch or two to the left on the Weird-O-Meter. I was pretentious - it was pretentious - we were made for each other. My older brother's ex's Yes greatest hits cassette got me into prog at eleven or twelve years old (said brother's sage wisdom on the subject: "The big three prog bands were Yes, Kansas and Genesis, but I don't know why people considered Genesis prog.") I liked that it was more complex than, idk, Pearl Jam or whatever, and more theatrical (and, though I wouldn't've phrased it this way at the time, less hypermasculine and just more abstractly aesthetically appealing), but still not actually demanding or in any way reminiscent of the experience of listening to actual classical music, which still requires me to be in a certain rarefied headspace to 'preesh. I've always been a pretentious snobbish bugger and my taste in music has mostly reflected that. 楽しい音楽 - ひょっこり (Hyokkori) (comp)Maison book girl - image V/a - The Sound Of Mercury Rising Compiled with Love By DJ Harvey V/a - akwaba abidjan (afrofunk in 1970's ivory coast)
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