The Last Detail to Neo

It makes me laugh, i did not read all the posts but the whole debate looks like an argument before a judge...
Whatever the label, what matters is that their music pleases..

Edited by mellotronwave - January 22 2024 at 15:23

^ Exactly.

DamoXt7942 (Posted: 10 August 2011) wrote: Windhawk wrote: The Last Detail, late 80's/early 90's band with one CD and one EP to their name. I have managed to get hold of the latter for eval.  A bit something of mainstream I've felt via their EP ... "MOVE (to Crossover)"

I don't know why they were rejected but if it's OK for Crossover Team to re-eval them, they could be passed to Crossover?

^suitkees, you present yourself as being more knowledgeable in neo than the neo evaluation team, so please present your case for Neo without the ridicoulus "If X are in Neo, then The Last Detail should be there"...

^and now present your case to convince the majority of the current neo team NOT to vote Move to crossover but accept in Neo? your bio hasn't convinced the neo team to accept the band simply because they sound/are crossover not neo to our ears. Your bio won't make up for that.

Edited by earlyprog - January 10 2024 at 17:28

^on the contrary, PA prefers consistency i.e. accuracy. The evaluation teams are here to provide quality control on genre additions. Over time, you will understand that The Last Detail are crossover and not neo. After all, based on your joining date, you seem relatively new to prog and how PA defines the genres.

It looks to me as though the previous evaluation was based solely on their EP, which Olav (Windhawk) had found. I'm assuming this EP would be 'The Wrong Century' (1991), which had just four tracks, and the only one which was anywhere near Neo Prog would be the opening track of the same name. The other three tracks are a mix of AOR & Crossover Prog to my ears. However upon listening to the 22 track compilation 'At Last... the Tale and Other Stories' on Spotify tonight, it seems the band put out plenty of other material that certainly sounds like Neo Prog to me. At least we will get a definite conclusion one way or the other in the fullness of time, now that a fresh evaluation is under way, and as long as they get added to the site in one or other of the two subs, does it really matter which one it actually is?

It won't be the first time that there has been disagreement over sub genres here, and it won't be the last. I personally think that far too much importance is attached to sub genres on PA, since they are really intended to indicate to visitors to the site what the music might actually sound like, but many artists change their style as they develop over the years anyway, so some albums inevitably won't fit the overall category that the artist was originally allocated to, since the site only allows one sub genre per artist.

Edited by yam yam - January 13 2024 at 16:23