Actually, you pole vaulted over a few genres to make the leap between Can and Thrill Kill Kult. In order to adequately convey why a whole (dare I say?) generation of people tossed off prog (temporarily, at least) would require more than an email can carry. The more apt comparison might be Yes' "Tales From a Topgraphic Ocean" to "Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols" - it has more to do with a sort of sea change in listening whether it's in an individual or a group and the perceived need to distance one's self from yesterday. If you'd have been around then, it wouldn't need explanation. Nor was it wholesale - Can seemed to transcend what a lot of punks wanted to move away from. That's just a tree in the forest, though - my larger point was about going back to (at least partially) embrace what you had at some point left behind and not apologizing for it.
jeff
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quoted 36 lines I, for one, have never tossed off prog rock. Yes'
> I, for one, have never tossed off prog rock. Yes'
> earlier stuff still rocks to me and still sounds
> original and fresh. Why anyone could give up the
> glorious sounds of Can for My Life With The Thrill
> Kill Cult is beyond me.
>
> Ed
> http://radio.echoditto.com
>
> --- theREALmxyzptlk
> wrote:
> > Why should you be embarrassed about anything?
> > Tastes change, people change, and your current
> > tastes have been
> > constructed and informed by what you've ingested.
> > The older you get (hopefully), the more you'll get
> > over having to make a
> > case for or widen a distance from what's found a
> > place in your decks.
> > I remember tossing off bubble-gum for acid rock,
> > tossing off prog for
> > punk for synth pop for goth for alternative for you
> > name it....and going
> > back to try and find that pieces of that stuff
> > later for collector's
> > prices when it has gone out of print, if only for
> > the wonderful cheese
> > factor. Pop music is disposable, but don't fall prey
> > to feeling stupid
> > over something that doesn't fit the current grid.
> >
> >
> >
> > jeff
> > np-anything by Sandi Patti
> >