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Points: 532 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 21:02

Have you seen this Progressive Poll

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(Note King Crimson ITCOTCK at Number One and Leftoverture at twenty)
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I wholeheartedly disagree.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 20:56
Or there could be a top 100 artists to get more bands on there
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Originally posted by VanBuren VanBuren wrote:

that's stupid, because then it's not the best in progressive music, you just have to accept it that bands like yes, genesis, rush, ect have a lot of damn good albums and to not recognize them for their brilliant work is a damn shame. And also, genesis for example, there's no one album of genesis' that is excellent and thereby pulls all the others put, they just put out some of the best progressive rock around. And if it were the case that just because genesis made the lamb, foxtrot, selling england, ect, wouldn't invisible touch and we can't dance be up there too, but oh wait, they're not

It's not stupid at all. There is a lot of excellent prog out there that just hasn't that big a lobby because it is for some reason not that well known, though it deserves to get a lot more attention. Would this be represented in the top 100, it would get the attention it deserves and add to the general knowledge of prog.
Anyway, polls never show the best but only the most average; this is the nature of polls. But with a bigger diversity of artists some less known gems would drift to the surface.


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Points: 559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 20:54

Isn't this what "Top 200", "Top 500", and "Top 100 Progressive Music Albums By Genre" are all for? This seems like welfare for bands which are far less popular then what is already in the Top 100. If you want something on this site you can already find it, so why change? Variety is at all of our fingertips, try by genre or top 500. There's nothing "Top" about censorship.
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Points: 6336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 20:46
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

I don´t think it´s a good idea...the top 100 should be about best albums, not about putting 100 bands together...this way Yes or Genesis, which both have at least 5 excellent albums should leave 4 behind so we can put Styx in? jejeje I don´t think so...

But that's just my point. I definitely do not believe that only 6 or 7 bands made the best albums; but because some of these bands made one or two albums that are really excellent the rest of their albums get voted up their too by shere automatism, although they don't deserve it. There are a lot of better albums out there than the more mediocre works of these artists that just have a big lobby. And I don't think we will get Styx in there that way. We currently have more than 2300 artists in the database; that should somehow be represented in the top 100.

I completly see your point, but I honestly don´t see it fair (as it´s obvious that you don´t see the current way fair too). I honestly belive that in the case of Yes for example, The Yes album, Fragil, Close to the edge and Relayer to be above...pretty much above anything that any other band did...but again that´s taste, so I can´t be objective on this one...maybe if we had both tops! The current and the one you say...now that I would see fair!!!


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Points: 83 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 20:45
that's stupid, because then it's not the best in progressive music, you just have to accept it that bands like yes, genesis, rush, ect have a lot of damn good albums and to not recognize them for their brilliant work is a damn shame. And also, genesis for example, there's no one album of genesis' that is excellent and thereby pulls all the others put, they just put out some of the best progressive rock around. And if it were the case that just because genesis made the lamb, foxtrot, selling england, ect, wouldn't invisible touch and we can't dance be up there too, but oh wait, they're not


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Points: 10266 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 20:31
Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

I don´t think it´s a good idea...the top 100 should be about best albums, not about putting 100 bands together...this way Yes or Genesis, which both have at least 5 excellent albums should leave 4 behind so we can put Styx in? jejeje I don´t think so...

But that's just my point. I definitely do not believe that only 6 or 7 bands made the best albums; but because some of these bands made one or two albums that are really excellent the rest of their albums get voted up their too by shere automatism, although they don't deserve it. There are a lot of better albums out there than the more mediocre works of these artists that just have a big lobby. And I don't think we will get Styx in there that way. We currently have more than 2300 artists in the database; that should somehow be represented in the top 100.


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Points: 532 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 20:26
Or 3 albums maximum, it´s pretty boring seeing Yes, Genesis, Floyd all the way down.
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Points: 33 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 20:22

Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

Good Idea!

Maybe we could just change the top 100 of best albums for the top 100 of Best (most popular) bands. That way, we would automatically have 100 different bands.

I don't agree with that because it tells us nothing of the quailty of particular albums.  I do think that there should be a place you can click on the top 100 to change it to "one album per band" mode (but with a better name).

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Points: 6336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 20:12
I don´t think it´s a good idea...the top 100 should be about best albums, not about putting 100 bands together...this way Yes or Genesis, which both have at least 5 excellent albums should leave 4 behind so we can put Styx in? jejeje I don´t think so...
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Points: 3491 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 19:46
I agree 1 or 2 albums whuld be enough, then we culd meby get some other stuff in there then all the old 70's giants.
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Points: 11746 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 19:43
Good Idea!

Maybe we could just change the top 100 of best albums for the top 100 of Best (most popular) bands. That way, we would automatically have 100 different bands.

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Points: 10266 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2006 at 19:40
Each artist should only be allowed to have one album in the top 100. That way we would get a bigger variety there and not an endless repetition of 5 or 6 artists which for some reason are the most popular.


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