Why are King Crimson the only hipster approved prog band?

Hipsters like Yes too

Half of modern Yes and KC fanbase is Jojo memers at this point

Those aren’t fans.

At least post the full section.
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Those are for avant teens and mallgoths not hipsters

1. most likely a lot of the acceptance started with kurt cobain praising them, that's a start
2. the group has different incarnations, most notably the 80's one which was still an inventive "new wave" sound and the poppier moments still didn't make the complete leap to AOR like contemporaries.
3. the group's sound itself always a had a dark sinister tone with moments of beauty and humor in between. to some people, the expatriation date appears to be longer than the more beaming positive prog band sounds

because I talk to the wind is a crowd pleaser

Because Kanye sampled them

What’s the difference

>most likely a lot of the acceptance started with kurt cobain praising them, that's a start
citation? i didn't know of cobain liking any prog

>What about Yes?

because prog sucks hard lmao

Too cheesy

Stick to Radiohead and Bon Iver fag

Because they're casuals who are unfamiliar with the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis.

He liked the King Crimson album Red.

cope

Not only liked it. The album was found in the CD player when he an heroed. Starless was probably the last song he heard.

t. Read this in some Robert fripp diary entry

Hipsters would never accept a band whose album starts with "Health food faggot"

i thought that was automatic for the people?

SOURCE

Van der Graaf Generator, Camel and Gentle Giant are a lot more of hipster obscure prog rock bands

Early Genesis tho?

This
Besides, I've basically never seen animeonlies dive into Yes beyond Roundabout and Owner of a Lonely Heart.
KC's animeonlies are way worse, and the official uploads disabled comments because of how forced the "it just works" and "10 seconds" were.

These, and also because of Fripp's association with Eno, Bowie, Talking Heads, and other artists beloved by critics/hipsters/art hoes.

yeah

probably not go check

nope. Can, Faust, Amon Düül II

I'd kill myself too if I had to listen to that shit album

>SOURCE
it was in Fripp's blog some years ago but it may be gone now.

it's on the wikipedia page for red :(
i though cobain was a based prog hater like me :(

Don't be like that, if they like the music, they're a fan

Zeuhl is fucking weird man, even for a guy like me
I love it, but I can't explain why

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Zeuhl is my favourite genre to tell people I'm into. It sounds much more interesting than it actually is.

It works

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>hipster
Jesus, people still use this word?

Not trying to dispute those comments are obnoxious, but I got into ITCOTCK, CTTE because of Jojo. Yet to listen to some Genesis, but Red is my current favorite album.

it's been around since the 20s when white kids started listening to Jazz

pink floyd and yes tho

CTTE is great. TftO, Relayer and Going for the One are better though. CTTE is entry level Yes imo.

>Why are King Crimson the only hipster approved prog ban
Because most prog is hair-metal for nerds, and the acts/players associated with it are to a consistently high (and variegated) standard.

>Porcupine Tree is pretty dark and hipsters don't like them either
They're dark, as in the 90s era Radiohead of prog. (It's too slick/vanilla at times; Karnivool rectifies this.)

>unfamiliar with the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis.
The Genesis strain is what happens to Pet Sounds + Hair metal; these acts were aberrations. Prog parasitized the 'high brow' cachet jazz lost (in a particular bracket.)

>Camel and Gentle Giant are a lot more of hipster obscure prog rock bands
Those in particular.

Seriously though it’s not that hard to understand especially now that the anime has visualized it even more. The only difficult part is that the rules and abilities change with literally every encounter as far as I can tell. In a lot of ways KC is a great stand, but consistency and far-sighted writing are not them.

You're wrong. I know hipsters and they have no idea what a "King Crimson" is.
They do love ELO, though.

I grew out of prog a long time ago. KC is the only prog I listen to these days. Its just so childish genre as a whole. KC feels like the only serious one.

Are hipsters still a thing?
Can we even call them hipsters if what they do and enjoy isn't hip anymore?

Probably because of unlike every other prog band they didn't have a "selling out point". They were experimenting even beyond the 70s, and even their most accessible album (Beat) is still experimental by most bands standards.

>All these plebs
>Nobody listened Van Der Graaf Generator

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They never were hip, the arrogance is the substance of the stereotype

It's the vocals that turn people away. And rightfully so, they are god awful (Geddy Lee and Jon Anderson in particular are horrible).

faggot

>the only
dude, just no
maybe the most blantant but not the only
youve got Yes, youve got Zappa, youve got ELO, you are full of shit

SEETHE

They would die during Heart Of The Sunrise. I will never forget the first time I played the song for my fiance, she made me turn it off because it gave her a headache

VdGG is amazing. Every album from Least we can to - Still Life is amazing.

Where are all these hipster prog fans? I am the only one I know personally who actively listens to and explores prog rock/metal