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    Posted: November 05 2006 at 11:20
I 've thought about a new feature in our favorite Prog Rock Site.

How about adding an "If you like this you should also try" in the bands or albums presentation.
I guess you all know what I mean. For example, someone who likes Anathema might also like Riverside 'cause they sound pretty much alike. Or if you like Camel you might also like Anglagard.

I think that this might be very helpful because not all Prog Metal Bands sound the same (Dream theater and Opeth are very different). This also applies to symphonic prog and others...

What do you think?
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Points: 287 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2006 at 11:23
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2006 at 13:01
I think I just read a thread of about a year old, discussing a feature like this implemented and withdrawn later by M@X. Not sure if it still on his To-do list, he removed it 'for now' at the time....
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Points: 5308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2006 at 13:24
Originally posted by Eloy Eloy wrote:

I 've thought about a new feature in our favorite Prog Rock Site.

How about adding an "If you like this you should also try" in the bands or albums presentation.
I guess you all know what I mean. For example, someone who likes Anathema might also like Riverside 'cause they sound pretty much alike. Or if you like Camel you might also like Anglagard.

I think that this might be very helpful because not all Prog Metal Bands sound the same (Dream theater and Opeth are very different). This also applies to symphonic prog and others...

What do you think?
 
It'd be difficult to accomplish. The site used to have a feature that showed the most popular albums from a sub genre, but it was mostly useless as Prog Folk showed most Jethro Tull albums with little attention to other bands, Psychedelic/Space Prog showed Porcupine Tree and Pink Floyd exclusively, etc., you get the idea.
 
Then imagine implementing a feature that reviewers are the link, and by going to a page of, say, reviews on Opeth's "Still Life" you would find albums in the Prog-Metal that Opeth fans like, right? However, instead of showing albums that have anything similar with Opeth, it will just show you a bunch of Dream Theater albums, simply because those two are overreviewed to death and chances are a person that has reviewed Opeth also thinks highly of DT. I suggest just following a reviewer you trust, and searching what else he is into and suggests. I do that a lot to discover new musicks myself.
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Points: 4 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2006 at 13:39
Well I guess the whole idea must be kept going by the reviewers themselves.
Anyone can say he likes DT and Opeth. But he must be crazy or idiot to say that they have things in common.

Everything in this idea is to be preserved by positive feedback...
I could start handing out zero stars but this would just destroy the site and make it less dependable. I think we all love ProgArchives and we would be nice to it...
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