PA Genre Charts at Progfreak.com

Today I made a major change: In order to get a little bit more information about the bands into the PF database, at least one release tagged with progressiveness and main genre is required in order to add an artist to a PA genre chart. I hope this is not asking too much, and in exchange we (usually me, personally) will add external links and videos to the artist and the releases.

What do you think? 

Can you reload the page? I've done some major changes today, including pagination for the list of completed bands and a view that lists all the artists across all charts. Available here:

Mr ProgFreak wrote: ... Today I made a major change: In order to get a little bit more information about the bands into the PF database, at least one release tagged with progressiveness and main genre is required in order to add an artist to a PA genre chart. I hope this is not asking too much, and in exchange we (usually me, personally) will add external links and videos to the artist and the releases. ...

Hi,

( I might not be exactly/totally on par with the OP ... so you know!)

I've said before that almost all bands should have at least a 2nd album before being considered for inclusion ... however, 50 years later, there are so many bands left out, that we have to add them somewhere along the line, since they did not exist beyond that point, and we could not have known that.

My only concern, is the desire to add a band because you can tell they mean it, and then in their 2nd album, it is all just a bunch of pop songs and not a single long cut! ...

As for the back and forth from PA, I can not say much, although I would suggest some communication to be satisfactory to both sites, as long as we don't fall into ... the competitive elements of it all ... I'm bigger than you are and I make this call ... ppppdffffffttttt ... kind of thing.

I'm not a fan of "charts" of any kind, unless you create a chart that shows all the styles and designations for the music (that's 2 different charts btw!!!) ... so folks get a better idea where/how these things are defined and decided ... and this is a side issue I think about with PA as it seems things are simply given to this group or that group and that's the end of the story ... I suppose that it is likely to happen with such a large quantity of material being offered, but, again, we could "force" some improvement by demanding a 2nd effort for the band ... or artist, not defined by one thing, which at times is more curious and exploratory that it is meaningful to the idea and concept of "progressive".

I don't even know how to discuss all this ... the process in each area is so obscure, and so difficult and ignoring music history and its development, that a lot of things that are defined as X, Y or Z, simply are badly placed and shown, and I think it tend to lower the standards of the music itself, and eventually take people away from a wider taste for music ... yet another "designation" for zheul is not a good idea ... this time tomato zheul, or kitchen zheul ... and I would not even consider listening to either of those!

As to the specific point: If the PA genre teams would like that, I could make it mandatory that artists require at least two progressive releases in order for them to be added to the charts. But that would be for them to decide. It would make me happy, since it would mean more data being added to the PF database 

Having just added a band I have an issue with this, we get bands suggested by people for inclusion that are then added to PF and then assessed to see if we are going to add them to PA. Requiring an album to assessed for progginess before they can be evaluated by the team is the wrong way round. No team members have made an assessment at that stage. If you want a progginess assessment for bands then it should be a requirement for add the rating before bands can be 'Cleared' or 'Added'.

Make sense?