Bands which should be included on Progarc

I googled P205, and found out they are a German band from the mid-Seventies. There are some tracks to be heard on last.fm, so we'll be able to listen and evaluate them. Titanic are also from the Seventies - funny thing is there are other two bands by the same name, one of which is a Christian metal band!

Ghost Rider wrote: I checked on the BNR site, and I saw I was right, down to the Viking dressing-up thing... Perhaps we'd better hold this one off for the time being, and concentrate on the other bands OzzyTom suggested, whose prog credentials seem to be stronger.

Their debut album Fading Beauty seems to be widely acknowledged as prog though.

http://www.planetmellotron.com/revf1.htm#faithful

Ghost Rider wrote: Just one question, though: I remember Faithful Breath as a heavy metal band, whose members got dressed up as Vikings. Is my memory playing tricks, or is there some truth to what I'm saying?

Heh, I remember that band as rather cliche heavy metal myself - signed to Mausoleum for their debut if I remember correct. Think I may have a single by them laying around.

Not the likeliest of candidates to go prog ;-)

@Ozzy Tom: thank you for taking the time of finding a possible subgenre for all those bands. I promise I'll try to have a look at those labelled "Heavy Prog". As regards the difference between the three subgenres that used to be under AR, I think you should take a look at the definitions. After all, this is what they're here for!

Just one question, though: I remember Faithful Breath as a heavy metal band, whose members got dressed up as Vikings. Is my memory playing tricks, or is there some truth to what I'm saying?

how much time does it cost to add a band on PA? I've sent a submission about 6 months ago...

Ricochet, I will ask a friend who is 'into computers' to make a kind of MP3 file for you and the team to have the opportunity to listen to Random Deeds. It's not earthshaking music but it sounds very melodic, pleasant and varied.

Erik, why don't you upload something, if you have something, I won't bite nor do anything with the samples I'll receive?




Edited by Ricochet - September 08 2007 at 14:19

There are many Zeuhl and Avant Prog bands I know of, as do others, which have not been included in the archives (can find some of them mentioned in their respective threads and under consideration at the progtology link, oops EDIT, I meant ratingfreak, got those sited mixed up in my head -- not that it matters now since the discussion has evolved and so this post feels rather redundant and I hate to break up/ interrupt discussion).

Super Freego (Zeuhl)
Paga (Zeuhl)
Noa (Zeuhl)
Seffer Yochk'o (Zeuhl)

Avant Prog or Zeuhl for some cases

Yog Sothoth
ZNR
Ripaille
Pascal Duffard
Non Credo
ZNR
Patrick Gauthier

And lots more (in a rush), but those are some that I've been listening to the most over the last months.  Maybe some are already here and some are approved but the bios have to be written.  All are excellent, and this site would benefit from the inclusion.  Thanks to some members for turning me on to some of these bands.

Incidentally, I've been wanting to start a similar thread as this one for some time, not to suggest bands for inclusion so much (as there are other resources where one can find info on a  great deal of Zeuhl and Avant Prog bands not yet included in the archives, so it's not that important to me that they be here too), but as a recommendation discussion threads for people interested in bands under the Prog umbrella not included here.  Links to samples do help of course.

There are a great many suitable bands not included in the archives (both old and new), but of course there is so only so much time and resources that the site's staff can put in to the inclusion endeavor.  Some albums are quite rare.

Definitely, as Ivan noted, a good idea to mention those bands in the respective category threads.

As for Bowie, I would have thought he warranted inclusion on this site, but I think that there are many other bands/artists which have stronger cases.  He is progressive, but not particularly Prog (whatever that means) -- not neatly pigeonholed, but an Art Rock artist.

Perhaps more special collabs are warranted to deal with the backlog.  Rocktopus, Yukorin, and Laplace (excellent reviewer), for example, and RileyDog, would all be a boon to the site in this capacity (but might not have time to devote to such an undertaking) I know there are more names I'm forgetting -- very knowledgeable people (with great taste to boot -- subjectively speaking, of course).   I think it's amazing that the staff here do so much work, but they may be overworked.  This hobby shouldn't interfere with one's work, family, and social life, but I'm sure it does.  And of course everyone can help by suggesting bands and writing bios.  I wouldn't mind doing one of these once they make it in (though time and brain cells are limited).


Edited by Logan - September 08 2007 at 14:44

MajesterX wrote: David Bowie was never part of the Progressive Rock movement and his music never resembled anything associated with prog.

Untrue. The epic "Cygnet Committee", from Bowie's first 'proper' solo album, very strongly resembles something associated with prog. You could say similar things about other early Bowie stuff, such as "The width of a circle".

In my opinion, Bowie is ALMOST as proggy as Roxy Music and therefore he certainly belongs here, but the Powers that Be seem to have decided differently, and I see no need to kick up a fuss, 'cause you don't exactly need Progarchives to find out more about Bowie...

Edited by fuxi - September 08 2007 at 13:09

Well Ghost Rider, I must have missed something if you say "I told you time and again about Cozy Powell" (I once read in a thread that you and Micky are positive about it) but for me the problem was that I contacted a few times Dick Heath about Cozy Powell and also one other member of the jazz rock/fusion team (I have forgotten who) but in the end the communication simply stopped and I have stopped to put so much extra time in adding bands, I prefer to focus on my Recommendation section threads, that's a more satisfying way of communication for me, I don't want to be frustrated and leave PA for a third time