Vintage Prog at eMusic.com! (Advice needed)

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In the last few weeks I spent a *lot* of time linking the albums in my database to Amazon, CDBaby and eMusic. The database is quite extensive, and it contains most albums of the PA database. I decided to process all the albums chronologically ... and to my surprise I found that many albums from the classic prog era (circa 1969-1975) are available at eMusic. 

So I decided, as a little Easter surprise of sorts, to make a few pages which list albums available on eMusic by year:

http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1972
BTW: I'm currently processing albums from 1975 and onward ... feel free to navigate to any year, but keep in mind that for the years between 1975 and 2006 I've not yet examined all the albums. As of today, I've about 10,000 studio albums to process ... expect this to be done about 2-3 months from now.

Have a look if you're interested! Of course I would be glad if you rated and tagged some of those albums at PF, but don't feel like you have to.

I hope these lists are of use to someone ... most of these albums have long been out of print, and some people might be surprised to see that they're only a click away, so to speak.

Edited by Mr ProgFreak - April 16 2009 at 09:13

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Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Topic: Vintage Prog at eMusic.com! (Advice needed) Posted: April 12 2009 at 11:34
	In the last few weeks I spent a lot of time linking the albums in my database to Amazon, CDBaby and eMusic. The database is quite extensive, and it contains most albums of the PA database. I decided to process all the albums chronologically ... and to my surprise I found that many albums from the classic prog era (circa 1969-1975) are available at eMusic. So I decided, as a little Easter surprise of sorts, to make a few pages which list albums available on eMusic by year: http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1972 BTW: I'm currently processing albums from 1975 and onward ... feel free to navigate to any year, but keep in mind that for the years between 1975 and 2006 I've not yet examined all the albums. As of today, I've about 10,000 studio albums to process ... expect this to be done about 2-3 months from now. Have a look if you're interested! Of course I would be glad if you rated and tagged some of those albums at PF, but don't feel like you have to. I hope these lists are of use to someone ... most of these albums have long been out of print, and some people might be surprised to see that they're only a click away, so to speak. Edited by Mr ProgFreak - April 16 2009 at 09:13

Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Posted: April 13 2009 at 02:01
	I just completed 1975. http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1969 http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1970 http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1971 http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1972 http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1973 http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1974 http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1975 I still have some download credits left for this month ... so if you spot a really good album among those, please let me know.

Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Posted: April 13 2009 at 03:24
	Already found my first purchase: Klaus Schulze - Timewind. 35 download credits left ...

Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Posted: April 16 2009 at 09:13
	No help at all? I already have many of the albums that already have high ratings at PF, I would be glad for any recommendation!

Henry Plainview Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 26 2008 Location: Declined Status: Offline Points: 16715	Posted: April 16 2009 at 14:36
	Sorry Mike, people who like vintage prog tend to still be attached to silly pieces of plastic. ;-) Do you have Arachnoid?
	if you own a sodastream i hate you

Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Posted: April 16 2009 at 15:44
	^ why prefer plastic over downloads ... both are artificial, and so is vinyl. What made you mention Arachnoid ... it wasn't even in the list? Interestingly, I looked it up again at eMusic.com and found it by searching for the artist name. Sometimes it's not easy to find albums in online stores ... the release year is often not entered correctly, or there are several entries for the artist, or alternate titles for the albums. In this case the album is called "Same" at eMusic.com, when it should be "Arachnoïd". Thanks for the recommendation ... I'll give it a try!

Padraic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 16 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31169	Posted: April 16 2009 at 15:50
	A lot of good krautrock on emusic, if you're into that. Most ADII, a lot of Guru Guru, some Neu! All the Henry Cow studio albums are on there (and the boxset is making its way on as well), there's National Health albums, Art Bears Hopes and Fears - but I don't know if you would want to get any of that. Anyway...

Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Posted: April 16 2009 at 16:59
	^ thanks! I know what's on emusic ... as I tried to explain above, I'm currently spending a lot of time compiling the lists I linked to above. I just finished 1978: http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1978 What I'm hoping for in this thread is that you have a look at the lists and then recommend me some "must have"s ...

Mr ProgFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195	Posted: April 21 2009 at 03:44
	Completed two more years: http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1979 http://progfreak.com/go/home/music.xhtml?path=albums/emusic/by_year/1980

irregardlessly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: January 01 2009 Status: Offline Points: 17	Posted: July 10 2010 at 06:47
	Is this happening manually? Is it not updated recently? Just confused as I am looking at the lists and there are a lot missing here. (E.g. all of the genesis albums now are on emusic but not on these lists). I am always looking for emusic prog and if this were more complete it would be awesome.

irregardlessly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: January 01 2009 Status: Offline Points: 17	Posted: July 10 2010 at 06:48
	BTW sorry to bring this one back from the dead. :)