[Elric68]

I agree with your opinion Woj, about radios, MTV, commercialism and about the improved situation in the last few years. I guess the invention of the compact disc is a problem too: musicians want to fill their discs, so either they put lots of tracks, either they record very long songs, in order to have a 70 minutes disc. That's where the length of prog songs appears, because progressive rock decides to use longer songs, which would not fit on a radio airing. But I noticed that the music that radios are playing is more various than a few years ago, and even sometimes include prog elements, which most of the people I know like. Though, when I want them to listen to prog, they do not want to compare that with the music they can hear on radios. Some of them won't even try and listen to prog.

I believe it's a fashion phenomenon: people like some artists because it's fashion, and so new artists make that kind of music because it's fashion, and so on and so on ...