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Cassandra-Leo
So, to those below that asked why this is differentiated from prog more generally, it's for the same reason that "rock & roll" isn't the same as "rock": the latter includes 50+ years of the genre's evolution, while the former is for bands that still perform its original sound. From the top five acts tagged "progressive rock", The Mars Volta, Porcupine Tree, and Tool are definitely progressive rock bands (well, prog metal in Tool's case, but that's still a subgenre), but definitely aren't symphonic prog. (I can't explain Muse being there.) Similarly, if you browse "rock & roll", the top five acts are Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Fats Domino. The top five "rock" acts are Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Beatles, Muse, Coldplay, and Nirvana. These acts are (arguably, in some cases) rock, but they definitely aren't rock & roll. (Unfortunately, the album/song lists are often completely worthless because last.fm refuses to moderate them at all.)
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Cassandra-Leo
A few other examples: traditional doom metal versus doom metal; heavy metal versus metal; skramz versus screamo (although skramz is generally used with self-awareness about how ridiculous it is); old school death metal versus death metal; and so on. Basically, any style is going to diversify after it's been around for long enough, and thus it's almost inevitable that terms will eventually develop to refer to acts who continue performing faithfully to its original style.
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Cassandra-Leo
...There are, however, some terms that are meaningless marketing jargon ("classic rock", which is applied to acts ranging from Guns n' Roses [hard rock, starting in the '80s] to Bob Dylan [folk/rock, starting in the '60s], making it useless both as a descriptor of style and as a descriptor of time period) and others that are so frequently misused on this site as to be useless (old-school hip-hop, which properly refers mostly to 1979-'84 acts - most of the artists tagged here are either new school [starting around '83-'84] or golden age [late '80s-early '90s]. These acts are also highly stylistically diverse, making the tags' utility as stylistic descriptors questionable [Beastie Boys' first three albums sound like the work of three different bands, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five often sound radically different from song to song] but they're at least useful as demarcations of time periods).
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Cassandra-Leo
That's a pretty big digression, though - symphonic prog describes a specific style that is clearly a subset of progressive rock as a whole. It's probably the best known subset (for that matter, while PA categorises Pink Floyd as "space rock/psychedelic", the site itself admits that this really only describes their early music; their best-known albums are probably best described as symphonic prog), but it's not the only one.
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Vintage_Nature
Get bored with a Retrospective Collection of Sensitive Instrumentals from Scandinavia. http://www.last.fm/music/Vintage+and+Nature
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LastOneStand
How can people say its the most boring sub-prog? almost every major prog band is symphonic
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ChainComplex
Well if you take progarchives top2018, for instance, then among first 30 you'll find only one album labelled as SP. Prog used to be mostly "symphonic". Now it's not.
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ChainComplex
I have a feeling that SP is less emotional and more picture-drawing as well as it requres more exersion to listen to, so I can understand why one would call it the most boring.
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Tripmetal
To outrenoir - Symphonic prog is a deliberate attemp to replicate the use of symphonic arrangements but using rock instruments.Not all 'Yes' songs are Symphonic prog though, who have played a very diverse range of music during their time.Most of the time with at least, an element of progressiveness in their songs.Not always though.Symphonic rock isn't necesarily progressive either.Symphonic prog uses it as it's primary musical template though.Symphonic music is generally progressive in nature as is the more classical / symphonic end of jazz.Not all jazz is progressive, again, though.Hope that gets you thinking a bit.It's not that easy to explain, unless you know the music..Alot of modern prog (since the mid 90's) isn't that symphonic at all - it's still progressive.Alot of '70's prog wasn't symphonic for that matter even.
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outrenoir
if the characteristics of this are identical to that of regular prog why bother making this a subgenre? Surely anything else (Neo-prog, avant-prog and whatnot) are the only ones that need distinguishing from common prog rock with different terms, and those aren't particularly "rock" anyway, like this isn't particularly "symphonic".
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giorgiorama
ascoltate NANGALA VALLIS: superlativi!!!!! ciao a tutti gli amanti del prog! GIORGIORAMA
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