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Originally posted by Yesspaz
when a new band actually does something NEW in the prog field, such as Godspeed You Black Emperor! or Tortoise or The Mars Volta, they get a very polarized reaction. Some people LOVE what they do and some simply HATE it.
man I am gonna hear it for this...[/i]
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Not so, I agree with everything you said (especially the Citizen Cain part).
The only thing I disagree with you about is the quote above. I submit, as Townsend says (and Entwistle sings) in 9:05 "everything I do has been done before".
There's nothing new about those bands, really. TMV polarizes people because of the vocals and the frenetic pace of the music. It's the same reaction as Gentle Giant used to get or in my personal case, Peter Nicholls' voice.
In other words, they love or hate it it because of the style, not the lineage. The lineage is the case to the casual listener maybe, and certainly appliciable to pop hair band metal, but not as much prog anymore.
Godspeed isn't really doing anything not tried before. Some people dislike it because it takes them an hour and a half to watch 60 minutes.
