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    Posted: November 09 2023 at 01:07
We recently introduced blurbs at AwesomeProg - maybe you'd like to write some for your favorite releases of 2023? 


Perosnally, I'd rather write ten short blurbs for ten different releases than one lengthy review for one release. But you do you! I think it's a great way to promote releases, and the artists need all the promotion they can get. Let me know what you think about the feature. It's not in competition with PA, since PA does not allow blurbs (at this time).

So, feel free to blurb away at https://awesomeprog.com! Cool

Here's an example of how the blurbs are displayed: https://awesomeprog.com/releases/63866
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^ Heavy neo prog rock/pop? Really? That makes this site’s sub-genre policy look manageableWacko
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What are you objecting to? If it's the "pop", that comes from RYM, where the release is tagged as "Progressive Pop", among other things.
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

What are you objecting to? If it's the "pop", that comes from RYM, where the release is tagged as "Progressive Pop", among other things.

Probably because " Heavy neo prog rock/pop" doesn't make much sense. 
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How so? I don't see the contradiction. It's neo prog rock, it's quite heavy at times, and it has pop leanings. Where's the problem? And after all, nobody assigned this as a consistent label, it's just a summary of all the assigned tags. 
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

How so? I don't see the contradiction. It's neo prog rock, it's quite heavy at times, and it has pop leanings. Where's the problem? And after all, nobody assigned this as a consistent label, it's just a summary of all the assigned tags. 

what's a pop leaning in a heavy neo-prog sound? The fact that it's catchy? Then Slayer's Season in the Abyss is a pop album. LOL
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^ Ask the RYM users - I assigned neither "Neo" nor "Pop" to the album. I think that for both tags there is not enough influence on the release to warrant the inclusion in the label, so I assigned appropriate levels. Now the tags badge says "Melodic Neo Prog Rock/Metal", which is a good fit IMHO. Two other users assigned the Neo tag, so I'm not able to overrule them - which is a good thing, as genre labels are community driven at AP.
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^ BUT I'm thinking about introducing specific prog genres again, including Neo-Prog, and retiring the "modern" and "neo" tags, since they carry little value and/or can be misleading depending on the genre they get attached to.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

What are you objecting to? If it's the "pop", that comes from RYM, where the release is tagged as "Progressive Pop", among other things.

Probably because " Heavy neo prog rock/pop" doesn't make much sense. 
I agree. No other music genre causes as much confusion as the Neo Prog tag (at least with me anyhow), but when an album is labelled as Heavy Neo Prog Rock/Pop, that takes Confusion to a whole new level. Smile
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I think we're just in a land of confusion
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Originally posted by Frets N Worries Frets N Worries wrote:

I think we're just in a Land of Confusion

That would have been my second choice of song, after ELO. Smile
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I don’t “object” to anything. I couldn’t give a fig or a fart what you do with your website. Such tagging, or anal retentiveness as some quacks no doubt call it, amuses me.
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^Or Led Zeppelin's 'Dazed and Confused'?

Either way, there is a point where all the subgenre talk becomes pointless, also, I like writing long reviews, but I can see how blurbs are useful, whatever floats your boat I guess.
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

I don’t “object” to anything. I couldn’t give a fig or a fart what you do with your website. Such tagging, or anal retentiveness as some quacks no doubt call it, amuses me.

Well, likewise. f**k off.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

What are you objecting to? If it's the "pop", that comes from RYM, where the release is tagged as "Progressive Pop", among other things.

Probably because " Heavy neo prog rock/pop" doesn't make much sense. 
I agree. No other music genre causes as much confusion as the Neo Prog tag (at least with me anyhow), but when an album is labelled as Heavy Neo Prog Rock/Pop, that takes Confusion to a whole new level. Smile


Well, don't ever go to RYM then. LOL
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

I don’t “object” to anything. I couldn’t give a fig or a fart what you do with your website. Such tagging, or anal retentiveness as some quacks no doubt call it, amuses me.

Well, likewise. f**k off.

You really are a bit of a charmer, aren't you? I bet you have all the ladies falling over themselves to receive your attentions.

Oh well, I won't denigrate myself by stooping to that level.
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^ Too late. I stooped down to your level just briefly. The world will survive Cool

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Originally posted by Frets N Worries Frets N Worries wrote:

I think we're just in a land of confusion

Hi,

BALL OF CONFUSION. Though it is likely that many here would not even bother listening to it!
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^ It's a really great Pop song, along with Jesus He Knows Me. 
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

I don’t “object” to anything. I couldn’t give a fig or a fart what you do with your website. Such tagging, or anal retentiveness as some quacks no doubt call it, amuses me.

Well, likewise. f**k off.


Ah, yes, this was you too, wasn't it? Ermm

Anyway, I think that people confuse those tags with genre labels, which is not what they are, of course. It is what you also find at the bottom of bandcamp album pages: tags. These can coincide with genre indications, but can also go any which way the user wants it to go. It is an Internet thing: useful indexation with tag words that might facilitate the retrieval of search results corresponding to what one is looking for. This has not much to do with cataloguing rules, and thus not with genre labels either, or not necessarily, but I don't think that this is the aim of these tags, especially since it it user generated.

It is an interesting feature and I can see the usefulness of it. "Heavy neo prog rock/pop" does give me - at least some vague - indications of what I can expect...

Oh, and the blurb thing seems to me a nice feature (it will add some keywords to the site...good for the search engines). I won't contribute, but I might read those every once in a while.


Edited by suitkees - November 09 2023 at 09:37

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