Top 5, 10 or something, all-time

Why is that?

So this isn't a game at all...it's more of a social experiment.

How many points do I get for that revelation?

I find it funny that I ended up on top of your points ranking. I don't think that this is because my taste is strongly in line with the general taste reflected in the top 30. Rather I think I interpreted the cutoff point between what to list and what not to list more generously than others. I basically "won" because I listed 15 and others listed fewer, however it may well be that some others just didn't list some albums that they like at least as much as I like my no. 15. Generally I think of my taste as somewhat marginal to PA, but at least "marginal inside", 900+ points or not.

What I can say is that I appreciate many of the classics even though hardly any of them will appear in my personal top album list. I'm for sure not a Yes or Genesis fan, but some of their stuff is just brutally good (Marillion on the other hand are totally lost on me). Maybe you'd get very different results if you compared people's personal top 50 with the top 20, 30, 50 whatever of PA or RYM. There wouldn't be much overlap in my case. But then I don't care much. It always makes sense to listen to stuff that is popular among other people with taste, and so far I'm fine exploring albums in top lists that I don't know, but the lists are not authoritative. I won't get some of that stuff, and have my own favourites, and so be it.

Another thing is that although I'm a "progger" in that I prefer much prog to many non-prog things rated highly on RYM, I may be closer to the RYM take on prog than to the majority here, so my choices will probably match an RYM or mixed list better than PA's top prog list.

The difficulty I have in creating such a list is deciding how high to raise the bar. If I have the bar set very high, then there will be only three albums:

 

01. 38 Van Der Graaf Generator  (UK) :   Pawn Hearts  (1971)   12,49 (1908 b.)

02. 48 Yes  (UK) :   Close To The Edge  (1972)   12,87 (5157 b.)

03. 44 Jethro Tull  (UK) :   Thick As A Brick  (1972)   12,75 (3399 b.)

 

 

Lowering the bar a little bit will admit a few more very good albums:

 

04. 36 Camel  (UK) :   Mirage  (1974)   12,35 (1927 b.)

05. 50 King Crimson  (UK) :   In The Court Of The Crimson King  (1969)   13,02 (7891 b.)

06. 50 Radiohead  (UK) :   Kid A  (2000)   12,51 (12122 b.)

07. 42 Rush  (CAN) :   Moving Pictures  (1981)   12,30 (3864 b.)

08. 46 Frank Zappa  (US) :   Hot Rats  (1969)   12,69 (3960 b.)

09. 48 Genesis  (UK) :   Selling England By The Pound  (1973)   12,74 (4347 b.)

 

Well, all I can say here is that it certainly not is my own impression, on the contrary, I could be more investigating in stead of telling my own opinion.

Edit:

But okay, it depends on the situation and what I think of my own knowledge compared to the person(s) I talk with.

You can see your score in the result list at the top of page 6 in a little while,

and you're very welcome to join the discussion.

If you would like to join the discussion here, the subject is:

"Here it goes.

This second part is entirely different from the first one, and requires, I think, much more consideration. It's of course everyone's own choice whether to join it, but I hope you find it as an interesting discussion.

Well, my initial thinking about it is that our chosen albums are an expression of our personal musical taste while the top 30 list can be said to be an expression of general opinion about these albums.

So, I have been thinking about the question whether one can conclude something about own taste in relation to the general opinion, and whether there might be a difference between the persons in the top of our rating result list and those in the lower part (here we could surely use some more persons who chose a small number of albums).

What do you think?"