the Top 100 album list

If I got it right, the technick of making this list is to time the amount of ratings in the avarage rate to get the popularity of an album. This is not a bad idea and the list is not surprising. But .........

I think you need to do another list of highly rated albums (let's say of at least 9 ratings so not any unknown with 1 or 2 ratings will skip in, but talk talk's "spirit of eden" that is the highest rated album I've seen here, will be included). In this list will be the albums accordings to their avarage rates only, which will make a whole different list and I guess - a wider range of music.

Taking talk talk as a good example I claim that most of us are familiar with the 1970 - 1977 english prog music who created the genre & dominates it (with good reasons). However there are some great music made later or elsewhere that we are less familiar with. Like I happen to know talk talk, some others know another great band and it will be easy to search for good music we do not know through such a list (cause you need only few excelent ratings to be on this list).

It will also be interesting to see what albums will be on both lists (and to see that dream theatre is much less important then it seems from the existing list).

What do you say ?

Rob The Good wrote: Bands like Marillion or Dream Theater should have VERY limited places on the list - not that they aren't any good, it's just that they feed off the giants of the 70s.

Giants of the '70's!

omri wrote: If I got it right, the technick of making this list is to time the amount of ratings in the avarage rate to get the popularity of an album. This is not a bad idea and the list is not surprising. But ......... I think you need to do another list of highly rated albums (let's say of at least 9 ratings so not any unknown with 1 or 2 ratings will skip in, but talk talk's "spirit of eden" that is the highest rated album I've seen here, will be included). In this list will be the albums accordings to their avarage rates only, which will make a whole different list and I guess - a wider range of music. Taking talk talk as a good example I claim that most of us are familiar with the 1970 - 1977 english prog music who created the genre & dominates it (with good reasons). However there are some great music made later or elsewhere that we are less familiar with. Like I happen to know talk talk, some others know another great band and it will be easy to search for good music we do not know through such a list (cause you need only few excelent ratings to be on this list). It will also be interesting to see what albums will be on both lists (and to see that dream theatre is much less important then it seems from the existing list). What do you say ?

ich glaube schon

to vlado - sorry, do'nt speak german.

to netsnjfan - I did not spend much more time on the US. count for what anyway ? the avarage rates of dream theatre is not so high. It's the amount of ratings pushing them up.

to snow dog - I lived in afikim for 22 years (years ago).

to the rest - thanks for the support on the idea