Tori Amos-Deserves to be in Prograchives

 

We add 20-30 new bands every month, we add 1 well-known artist every 3 or 4 months, and we only add those well-knowns if and only if there is a good Prog reason to do so. That could give a ration of 120:1, yet the ensuing brouhaha would give the impression that these numbers were in someway reversed. It's not the failure to add of newer bands that is the problem, it is giving those bands we do add the exposure to get their albums reviewed, it is bring them to a wide enough "audience" for some of them to make a connection. We could add every Prog band in the Universe, but unless someone opens their band-page and reads the biography, buys the album and then reviews it then the result is the same as if we had not added them. What we need to find is a means of encouraging people to open those band pages, like this one: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4129, or this one: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4190 or this one: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3405 or even this one: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4364.

 

Serendipity occurs when finding an unknown gem whilst looking at the big name attractions and the more popular bands (whether that is Yes, maudlin of the Well ... or Tori Amos). I'm not saying that all Tori Amos or Carcass fans would discover Paul Cusick or Rosa Luxemburg as a result, but I would wager that most Prog fans became fans of the genre through a well-known artist first and then explored deeper.

Sorry, not a good enough reason.

Here.........

 

Iván

Iván