Should ProgArchives turn into ProgMusicAr

1. NO. I shall later get back on this.

2. Wrong section. The proper section for this thread is "Help us improve the site".

That's actually a really good idea, BePink. I don't see why people get steamed when bands are added into the "prog related" section, because no one is saying that they are prog, only that they have some progressive elements, which is hard to deny with most of the bands included there.

I'd like to see more modern progressive music on the non or quasi rock side here -- as long as as the place is well organised with more categories.

Rather like the Art Rock category, I'm not keen on the Prog Related category because it's too eclectic in terms of diversity of bands' styles.  Nebulous... Multi-tagging would help.

It would be ridiculous to change the domain name of this site at this stage, but I do think this could be ProgArchives.com Your ultimate modern progressive music resource.  Sure Prog is short for Progressive Rock rather than just progressive, but if this site had confined itself to classically defined Progressive Rock artists, I would have missed out on so much good music.  I don't mind a revisionist approach.

As long as the categories are quite clear, I could see much more music of a progressive nature being included here.  An important aspect of Prog is the fusion of styles element, so of course many bands/ composers could fit into various categories.  We could look for more commonalities structurally (and in terms of influences/ attitude etc.) to broaden this site's parameters even more.  I like the idea of more music related to the music in the categories here...

As long as it's labeled clearly, I see no problem with the venture.  Perhaps, along with more sections, coming out with more forums would help too so that we don't feel the site is becoming too diluted and convoluted.

I think there may be a place here for people such as Michael Nyman and Philip Glass (a minimalist section perhaps, or whatever).  I'd even like to see artists such as Peter Raben and, say, Shigeru Umebayashi here. Hmmm.

And I'd like to see more progressive jazz and funk artists here, but...  I do wish Miles Davis was here.

If it's modern, experimental and adventurous, then I think  a case can be be made for a band or composer.

It moved away from just rock quite a long time ago, and I for one appreciate that since non rock music may still appeal to my progressive mindset (the progressive part of Prog is more important than the rock part for me).


Edited by Logan - June 21 2007 at 14:37

I say that the more big changse that get made to the site, the more unhappy members. Why not just leave it as it is, with the existing name and criteria for addition? This was born as a strictly progressive rock database, and bands that aren't full progressive rock shouldn't be added in the first place, therefore we shouldn't maipulate the site's name or genre categories to fit them in.

Yea I would also love to see expansion in the site.

And why not much more bands / artists, like The Who and Jimi Hendrix, in "prog related"? I think we will always disagree about which bands should be added and which not. I think "prog related" is a good section for a big, big number of bands.

^Cmidkiff, agreed, The site already has strayed quite far from what was meant by progressive music in the 70's. If the name was changed to Music Archives we wouldn't have tedious discussions about adding bands like Iron Maiden and Split Enz.Moreover excellent bands like the Kinks and Creedence Clearwater Revival could be added without  there being endless discussions about there being prog or not.


Edited by Dirk - June 21 2007 at 15:16

I think it is fine as it is.

Moogtron III wrote: And why not much more bands / artists, like The Who and Jimi Hendrix, in "prog related"? I think we will always disagree about which bands should be added and which not. I think "prog related" is a good section for a big, big number of bands.

Zappa88 wrote: darkmatter is right, if we just start adding bands that have no ties to progressive rock other than the fact that one random prog fans likes them, this will fast become just a "Music Archive", and that wasn't the aim of this website.   I see you mentioned System of a Down in your description, explodingjosh, and those are the types of bands that have absolutely no types of ties to the progressive rock genre, as vast as it is.   This debate seems kind of pointles to me, I mean what is so hard about just adding prog bands to a prog website?