Tori Amos-Deserves to be in Prograchives - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I can't read minds yet Mike, if you talk about a better system and then add a chart in the next post, we must believe is part of your argument.

Iván

Yes, Tori Amos shouldn't be here.

Iván

^^^Because she's not Proggy enough?

Here.........

Edited by Snow Dog - June 11 2009 at 17:10

Jeeze, I really should have just started an appreciation thread, but as long as you're having fun Iván. Big smile

Edited by Slartibartfast - June 11 2009 at 19:45

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

:Lol, you are having as much fun as me

Iván

By the way, I'm thinking of making my own graph and adding an accent mark to my name. Tongue

Brián

I'll admit I first have to figure out how to do that other than copying the accented a out of yours. Hey, can I borrow your a?

Edited by Slartibartfast - June 11 2009 at 19:57

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

It's been a wild ride, fellas.

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So . . . why isn't she here, again? LOL

I had to, sorry. I've had a rough night and need some laughs.

Anirml wrote:

She should be here, if Kate Bush is then she should too

Sorry, not a good enough reason.

I've given up on advocating for this. I think she can give any officially prog keyboardist a run for their money though.

Sarah McLachlan then? Tongue

Edited by Slartibartfast - August 05 2009 at 13:54

^ Quite right, but therein lies a problem:

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.

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