Prog Metal: Organizing the categories

BaldFriede wrote: I think we have too many genrés already; why do we, for example, have an "experimental/post rock" genré, when we already have "RIO/Avantgarde"? Makes no sense to me at all.

Because of the Post Rock purists? Or those who insist that Avantgarde is completely different from Experimental?

Here's some ideas about the other genres ... just my 2 cents, to stir up some discussion:

• maani once suggested to introduce a kind of Classic Popular Prog genre ... I would like that. Yes and Genesis would be the key bands of that genre.
• Symphonic Prog Rock would be centered around Gentle Giant and Van der Graaf Generator.
• Fusion could be divided into Classic Fusion and Modern Fusion and maybe Avant-Fusion for really experimental Fusion artists like Gordian Knot.
• King Crimson could be moved to Art Rock and become the key band there, and the poppish prog bands like Supertramp can be moved to Prog Related.
• Some of the RIO/Avant-Prog bands like Fantomas or SGM can be moved back to (Avant/Experimental) Prog Metal.
• RIO can become a standalone genre (this would be more historically correct)
• A new genre Avant-Rock/Avant-Pop can be created for bands like Peter Gabriel, some bands of the RIO/Avant-Prog genre and also for new bands like Coheed and Cambria (many websites and magazines describe them as Avant-Rock).
• Krautrock ... well, I don't know it well enough to say something about it.
• ...

TheProgtologist wrote: Well,that's your opinion,which means nothing to me.

But obviously it does, since it "got on your last nerve."

Ed_The_Dead wrote: Tony R wrote: Ed_The_Dead wrote: Once more: Tony, did the collabs & staff already decided that prog metal will be divided? In that case this argument is a bit useless... Mike was asked to look at it.He's a Special Collaborator so basically he is just doing his job,so to speak.... Oh and Ed,I am not sat at my PC monitoring every post in this thread,so repeatedly asking me to comment is a little futile. I will check it out from time to time,mainly to see that discussion remains civil,but if you wish to pose a question directly to me you should drop me a line. Finally I got a post back! Sometimes I had this strange feeling You were ignoring me. But Ok, I will just pm You in such cases. OR maybe I'll post a walrus pic 2 draw your attention?

I have a control panel that alerts me to swear words,pics with filenames that could be porn and of course Walrus alerts.

OK?

Back on topic,please.

Ed_The_Dead wrote: Once more: Tony, did the collabs & staff allready decided that prog metal will be divided? In that case this argument is a bit useless...

Mike was asked to look at it.He's a Special Collaborator so basically he is just doing his job,so to speak....

Oh and Ed,I am not sat at my PC monitoring every post in this thread,so repeatedly asking me to comment is a little futile. I will check it out from time to time,mainly to see that discussion remains civil,but if you wish to pose a question directly to me you should drop me a line.

"This was not done in error,and you constantly saying that is getting on my last nerve."

Of course it was done in error.  A number of the most intelligent posters on this forum have demonstrated this over the duration of the afternoon.

"Also...the admins didn't do this....all this work was done by collaborators."

Then it was the collaborators who wasted a lot of time, not the administrators.

yargh wrote: "In that case this argument is a bit useless..." No, the point of the argument is to explain to the people who did all of this that they did so in error.  If the actual readers of a site disagree strongly with a particular direction that it is going in, yet the administrators ignore this and plow along anyway, one must wonder for whose benefit these changes were made -- the readers (which is the purpose of this site) or the administrators, who apparently are feeling very proud of themselves for having spent countless hours breaking down progressive music into little boxes that they will proceed to cram it all into, regardless of whether or not it makes any sense to do so.

This was not done in error,and you constantly saying that is getting on my last nerve.

Also...the admins didn't do this....all this work was done by collaborators.

"In that case this argument is a bit useless..."

No, the point of the argument is to explain to the people who did all of this that they did so in error.  If the actual readers of a site disagree strongly with a particular direction that it is going in, yet the administrators ignore this and plow along anyway, one must wonder for whose benefit these changes were made -- the readers (which is the purpose of this site) or the administrators, who apparently are feeling very proud of themselves for having spent countless hours breaking down progressive music into little boxes that they will proceed to cram it all into, regardless of whether or not it makes any sense to do so.