Just why can’t musicians today create music like King Crimson? Pink Floyd. Have they no introspection? No insight to our world they want to explain? Have they no more than just a repeat of what they think is popular? So much has been lost because young folk are no longer dreamers…
Dude, I’m a prog head, and I have to say you are so, so wrong. Some of the best prog rock has released in this millennium.
List o' bands
Echolyn
Beardfish
Black Bonzo
Captain Squeegee (only To the Bardos!)
The Dear Hunter
3 (horrible band name, so look up their album Wake Pig)
Thank You Scientist
Bubblemath
Haken (especially The Mountain)
Kaipa
The Mars Volta
Tool
Opeth
Pain of Salvation
Porcupine Tree
Protest the Hero
Pure Reason Revolution
Second Relation
Wobbler
I’ll preface this with: maybe they still exist to a small extent, but get little support from the recommendation algorithms.
The late Mark Fischer theorized on this.
- In the period between the end of WWII and the start of the neoliberal era (e.g. Thatcher & Reagan), the working class in the capitalist imperial core experienced a period of wealth that never came before and almost definitely will never come again[1]. This gave people the free time and the freedom to take risks—artistic and otherwise—as never before.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology_(music)
- Mark Fisher – The Slow Cancellation of the Future (2014)
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Edit to add, this sequence in Children of Men literally sent shivers down my spine, and must have done so to Fischer as well, because he starts Capitalist Realism with a reference to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJO0n6kvPRU
Never again under capitalism, that is. ↩︎
Are they not creating it, or are the media just not talking about it?
Are you implying that no younger bands are introspective, or share their thoughts in the world via their songs, because your favourite genre isn’t popular?
Seems like a very bad take.
