Is there news about Änglagård?

I don't know what to say ... except that I am always sad when I see things like this. No doubt the band is probably frustrated and likely not selling enough to make a living and the folks have to work somewhere else ... and it usually takes away from the music and its work.

There is one other example, of a lady that has done a lot of work, and she is also an artist ... and it was/is also obvious when she said that she was stopping for a while and go back to school ... you can look at this two ways ... school provides more material to help her create ... or the life of a musician is next to the worst thing ... specially if you are a woman leading a group and writing almost all the material.

It's easy to say that they are not good enough ... and some folks here really like them, and the others go back to their JT and Genesis, or Yes. 

What many of these folks don't see, sometimes, is that it is hurting the musicians that keep the flame alive ... who are not getting the proper chance because we want to keep the almost blind and dead dog alive ... well, Mozart is still alive ... so I guess that is OK ... but in the end, a lot of great music gets left behind, and forgotten.

But that woman "quitting" to go back to school? 

I am already thinking that we need to get more folks doing that so that "progressive" this and that dies over night ... and becomes something that lasted 45 years and then died a sad death thrown into a hole in the ground with hundreds of other bodies. 

We need the music, folks ... not just the top 5!

Hi,

Not at all ... but I don't like to see progressive bands, and good ones at that, feel like they have to give up ... because too many of us fans are focusing on the wrong thing, Steve. 

My joke is, might as well kill it all, to get it over with, if we're going to ignore the other bands keeping the flame alive!

Grumpyprogfan wrote: I believe all it takes to be on that list is people clicking on the band name. The more clicks, the higher the band goes on the list.

Exactly. YOu can click on any band hundreds of times and it will show up on the top of the list. I did this once just to see if it's possible. So nobody should believe that these rankings are necessarily representative of public consensus.