TOP 100 Progressive Music Albums

What-we get to vote for maybe, our top 5,and you create a TOP 100 from this?

Yeah,why not Max?

Come on, you guys, are you short of brain cells in the UK today?

M@x is obviously asking for the top 100 list in the main page after the new algorithm was applied... well, I hope so, I'm also feeling my brain rather empty...

Errr, yes, I like it much more now. Of course, ask every one of us and we'll delete a few and put some others in their place, but on the average I think it's greatly improved.

Keep up the good work!

It looks like a pretty good reflection of our overall tastes as a collective. Nicely laid out too M@X. I see you've linked to it from the main page, but it's not too clear that you can get the full page version from the link.

I notice that the algorithm has changed again. Can you tell us how the chart is calculated now?

The page looks good. How about adding a column for the country?

Hi

There's always one awkward so and so and this time it is me. I actually preferred your top 500 as per the original listings. This way I could copy it into an Excel file and with a macro separate the artists into one column with the tiles in the next column. It was then easy to colour the albums I had and see at a glance what people were listening to and if I felt adventurous use filters etc to play about with the data. I also started to work on seeing how the albums moved up or down the chart.

Would it be poss to have an option of list or full details please, perhaps start off as before showing the list then have the option of 'show covers' as you have in the review pages?

Don't get me wrong I think they are great additional features and a source of information and I really think this is a superb site.

PS Can you tell me why live albums are not listed?

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Now that it's a fully fledged page, I would fancy some inputs at the top of the page to further refine the list ... some checkboxed for the genres and the media type (studio album, live album, DVD) and a drop down for the number of results (50, 100, 250, 500). That would enable the users to specifically search for the top 50 prog metal live albums, or top 100 symphonic prog DVDs and so on.

Great suggestion !

very nice impressive list for the subgenres!!

However I totally disapprove with the definitive 100 top albums (just a few subgenres are represented, too common stuffs)

philippe wrote: no Zeuhl, no krautrock, no prog folk, no fusion !!! humm...all right I admit that art rock, metal prog and symphonic prog rock sell better but...is there an alternative???

Album Nr. 7 is prog folk (Thick As A Brick).

Generally, the albums and genres that you mention have not enough reviews/ratings to make it into the top 100. I have an idea how to improve the situation for "borderline" albums with 20-30 ratings ... I'll PM M@x, maybe he likes it.

The problem is not limited to "small" genres like Zeuhl ... the Prog Metal list also favors many Dream Theater albums over Opeth, Pain Of Salvation etc. even if these have average ratings of >4.8.

If you use the average rating only, you end up with 100 albums that have one or two five star reviews, and your entire list would consist of 5.0 albums ...

I dont think I was looking at the right thing.  how is it possible that DT's live scenes from new york is in the top 10?  DT  deserves at least one top 20 album but certainly not that one.  also, dont include dvd's in the algorithm.