19 December, 2007

Doing so well...

I'm still listening to 'back-issues' of the 'The Rogues' Gallery', the 'prog'-orientated podcast (I think there's another 42 hours in the archive), and finding that several tracks are pretty good.  Compelling rhythm, meaty guitars, nice keyboard textures, and then:

I really wish that example was an oddity, but band after band alienates me within the first few lines. With the exception of a couple of bands, lyrics aren't especially important to me, but those of these second-division prog bands really are obtrusively dreadful; I can't avoid listening and cringing.