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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2006 at 16:53

I think the simplist way do try and appease everyboady a little (ie, not eliminating dissent, but making the site more exclusive and getting to what everyone really cares about who comes here--prog music) is to have only select prog(*) albums by bands that are non-prog as a whole included. I think Collabs, Admins. and the owners should vote/decide on what albums get included.

* Prog music, not progressive music. I make a distinction. Prog music is usually clearly defined. It is complex, may use keyboards and so on. Progressive music is highly subjective and can be molded to meet almost any criteria.
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Points: 3613 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2006 at 23:00
Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Yes, and "progressive" is a very subjective notion.Stern Smile

In any case, I believe that once a band is listed here, all of their releases, "proggy" or not (again, a subjective concept) should be included, because then the REVIEWS (this site's major aspect) can address the issue of an album's "progressiveness" (or lack thereof).

People may want to read about even those clearly non-prog releases, and perhaps why the reviewer doesn't consider them to be prog, for example:

"This is the one where it all went downhill from a prog fan's perspective. The songs are now shorter, quite predictable, and much simpler in structure than the classic, complex material that preceded it. It is not a bad pop album, but as a prog album, it fails miserably...."

Plus, most of us don't only listen to prog, to the exclusion of all else.Smile



I completely agree with your statement in bold above. If I see a title from a band I'm interested in and it hasn't been listed, I can't be sure if it wasn't listed because it wasn't prog or because no one has gotten around to it. The reviews are absolutely key here.

Secondly, we would have to go through a tedious plan of submitting every album to a committee that would just get hopelessly back-logged. It would create an incredible amount of work for everybody. Ridiculous!

I'd go to another site if it became that exclusive. It would be like dealing with Republicans! (pardon the political jab )
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