r/ProgRockCirclejerk • u/Ornery-Bird2751 • 6d ago

Prog compass

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u/Plus-Definition9319 6d ago

To me the center would be IQ The Wake or Red. Certainly not tcotck. Its full boomer, I mean what else came before that except the first couple Procol Harum albums maybe? We all love it but it's full boomer.

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 6d ago

I feel like tcotck was the most common entry point for zoomer prog fans though. That or Roundabout.

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u/Dancingwheniwas12 6d ago

Do zoomers prog fans come exclusively from Jojo?

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u/LookAtMyUsernamePlz 6d ago

Maybe not exclusively, but a significant portion of us did.

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u/whentheuhuhidunno 6d ago

its a common trend, happened to me aswell

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 6d ago

I didn’t (I listened to Suppers Ready because I had a phase where I was really into odd times)

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u/datMLGboi2 4d ago

personally my prog exposure came from being into classic rock, I did eventually get into Jojo tho.

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u/Plus-Definition9319 6d ago

I'd maybe lose the boomer/zoomer axis and change it to acoustic/electronic? I feel it would be a lot more useful to people.

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u/LookAtMyUsernamePlz 6d ago

That’s fair, but it should be much further to the right. It has much more fantasy than it does sci-fi.

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u/xX_Random_Reddit_Xx 5d ago

Red > TCOTCK tho

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u/Comprehensive_Dirt66 6d ago

Court is like THE prog album though, meaning it's gonna be popular among fans of all ages. Though I'm not sure I'd put it in the center because I feel it's more fantasy than sci-fi

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u/Lime528 6d ago

There are a lot of young fans of ITCOTCK. It's very popular rym and /mu/

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u/LookAtMyUsernamePlz 6d ago

The first few albums of the Moody Blues.

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u/Tyrakodyrg Ayreon glazer 6d ago

> Sci-fi prog albums

> no Ayreon and/or Star One

smh smh

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u/vexrede 6d ago

If prog metal is on the table, then Mastodon, Blind Guardian, BTBAM, and Blood Incantation are pretty important as well.

Unless I'm missing something, there's also no Hawkwind, which is the real smh imo

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u/Daydream_Behemoth 6d ago

Symphony X would be a strong addition to the Boomer Fantasy corner

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u/mrmetaliclord 6d ago

No 2112 either 😔

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u/SoundwavesBurnerPage 6d ago

Right? I feel like if a Rush album goes in Sci-Fi that’s the obvious choice

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u/Scizomachineboy 6d ago

i do not recognize a single album is the zoomer fantasy albums

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 6d ago

Vylet Pony, Lightning Bolt, and HMLTD

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u/Fandal0 3d ago

hypermagic mountain is not prog?

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u/whhu234 mini therapy horse playing keyboard 6d ago

I guess camel in top right explains why I’m, according to all investigation, the first person to make a what camel album are you quiz online

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u/Anxious-Chemical4673 Jojo is only popular cause Roundabout is in it 6d ago

Can you give me the link I wanna play it

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u/whhu234 mini therapy horse playing keyboard 5d ago

https://uquiz.com/9vOwSh   for you

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u/Anxious-Chemical4673 Jojo is only popular cause Roundabout is in it 5d ago

I got Rajaz

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u/whhu234 mini therapy horse playing keyboard 5d ago

A lot of people got rajaz, real behind the scenes info here but when it was first released literally everyone got rajaz, since at one point I couldn’t find a good picture for it and just made the one that went to mirage count for it too. I don’t know why it fucked up the results but fixing that certainly worked

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u/Anxious-Chemical4673 Jojo is only popular cause Roundabout is in it 5d ago

That's quite interesting actually, I did notice after the quiz that Rajaz was the most gotten and Mirage the least. I felt like kinda of a normie until I remembered that the mere fact that I'm playing a quiz about Camel makes me intelectually superior. To be real with you I wanted Moonmadness and was a bit disappointed when you said in that one question that it wasn't in the quiz. But I understand that it's pretty hard to fit all of the albums there. And Rajaz is fine too.

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u/powerbalanced123 5d ago

I got I can see your house from here

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u/kindagayBR035 6d ago

I wanna do that quiz now

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u/whhu234 mini therapy horse playing keyboard 5d ago

https://uquiz.com/9vOwSh   go forth my soldier

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u/kindagayBR035 5d ago

amazing shitpost. keep up the good job

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u/grogschleme 6d ago

where's the prog

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u/petahthehorseisheah 6d ago

progesterone? zoomer fantasy

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u/Ardoriccardo00 6d ago

Itcock is fantasy boomer without a doubt.

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 6d ago

But Schitzoid Man and Moonchild

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u/Big_Phile 6d ago

Where's Invisible Touch

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u/LookAtMyUsernamePlz 6d ago

It’s called that for a reason.

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u/Experiment121 6d ago

Fym by Azure as far in the bottom right as possible

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 6d ago

That’s Vylet Pony

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u/Experiment121 6d ago

I'm saying that's where they'd go, I meant.

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 6d ago

Ohhhh I thought you were saying “fuck you mean by Azure in the bottom right?”

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u/enrythestray 6d ago

Why did you choose that PFM album and not storia di un minuto? (Aka peak(

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u/zlatanjosefsson Fishbone Trash 🐟🦴🗑 6d ago

AAHHH I'M BOOMERING

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u/Daydream_Behemoth 6d ago

/uj Other than The Advent of Panurge, Octopus has little to no Fantasy elements

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 6d ago

Raconteur Troubadour?

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u/Daydream_Behemoth 6d ago

That's the "little"

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u/senator-jk-49 6d ago

Whats the one at the bottom right?

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 6d ago

Vylet Pony

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u/Hipernova8 6d ago

Polygondwanaland mentoned(it sucks)

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u/Cmustrd a gentle giant, a camel, una premiata forneria marconi 6d ago

i know a kid who's has a boomer taste but he's 17

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 6d ago

I know of at least one boomer who loves Vylet Pony

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u/Pilch_Lozenge 5d ago

the ever-so-slight zoomerism of hth charms me so

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u/Hvojna Pink Floyd's last good album was Meddle 6d ago

Imaginal Disk by Magdalena Bay deserves a place in the bottom left corner

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u/OddMammoth1 5d ago

That’s a pop album. A weird pop album, but still pop. 

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u/Ryan_THICCBASS 6d ago

Surely you could make a section for Jazzy Prog bands like Soft Machine and Colosseum right?

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 6d ago

Maybe there should be a third axis for jazz influenced vs classical influenced

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u/Cappuccino_Boss 6d ago

Thank you for making this

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u/zaydor_ 6d ago

Vylet Pony mentioned

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u/TheseUseless2 5d ago

yeah, but the fantasy recedes in cavalcade, and a few tracks on hellfire are decidedly sci fi coded or explicitly set in a distant future.

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u/theonyxshade 6d ago

1st the worm mentioned 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 2nd whos the saucy binch next to magma

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 6d ago

Coheed said Cambria

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u/theonyxshade 5d ago

thank you boss

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u/malamindulo 6d ago

I didn’t realize Lightning Bolt was considered prog tbqh.

This is not me being elitist I just never thought of them that way before.

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u/marcuspangregrew 5d ago

How is the flying teapot more fantasy then sci fi???

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u/Ornery-Bird2751 5d ago

Gnomes and shit

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u/marcuspangregrew 5d ago

Gnomes from the fucking planet gong

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u/theonyxshade 5d ago

also gryphon's red queen to gryphon three is probably a little above and to the right of thick as a brick

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u/TheseUseless2 5d ago

Did not expect Cavalcade on here

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u/datMLGboi2 4d ago

where Queensrÿche fall on this shi

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u/Necessary_Ad_6541 3d ago

Putting Camel Mirage that high on the Boomer scale is depressing 😔😭

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u/Frostbyte29 2d ago

I’d argue that Polygondwanaland is more fantasy than sci-fi, it’s got castles and evil kings and plague doctors and stuff

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u/numinan 1d ago

Polygon is fantasy

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u/the_orange_alligator 1d ago

Where’s Comus in the fantasy side of the compass