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I think we're just in a land of confusion
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

What are you objecting to? If it's the "pop", that comes from RYM, where the release is tagged as "Progressive Pop", among other things.

Probably because " Heavy neo prog rock/pop" doesn't make much sense. 
I agree. No other music genre causes as much confusion as the Neo Prog tag (at least with me anyhow), but when an album is labelled as Heavy Neo Prog Rock/Pop, that takes Confusion to a whole new level. Smile
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^ BUT I'm thinking about introducing specific prog genres again, including Neo-Prog, and retiring the "modern" and "neo" tags, since they carry little value and/or can be misleading depending on the genre they get attached to.
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^ Ask the RYM users - I assigned neither "Neo" nor "Pop" to the album. I think that for both tags there is not enough influence on the release to warrant the inclusion in the label, so I assigned appropriate levels. Now the tags badge says "Melodic Neo Prog Rock/Metal", which is a good fit IMHO. Two other users assigned the Neo tag, so I'm not able to overrule them - which is a good thing, as genre labels are community driven at AP.
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

How so? I don't see the contradiction. It's neo prog rock, it's quite heavy at times, and it has pop leanings. Where's the problem? And after all, nobody assigned this as a consistent label, it's just a summary of all the assigned tags. 

what's a pop leaning in a heavy neo-prog sound? The fact that it's catchy? Then Slayer's Season in the Abyss is a pop album. LOL
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How so? I don't see the contradiction. It's neo prog rock, it's quite heavy at times, and it has pop leanings. Where's the problem? And after all, nobody assigned this as a consistent label, it's just a summary of all the assigned tags. 
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

What are you objecting to? If it's the "pop", that comes from RYM, where the release is tagged as "Progressive Pop", among other things.

Probably because " Heavy neo prog rock/pop" doesn't make much sense. 
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What are you objecting to? If it's the "pop", that comes from RYM, where the release is tagged as "Progressive Pop", among other things.
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^ Heavy neo prog rock/pop? Really? That makes this site’s sub-genre policy look manageableWacko
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We recently introduced blurbs at AwesomeProg - maybe you'd like to write some for your favorite releases of 2023? 


Perosnally, I'd rather write ten short blurbs for ten different releases than one lengthy review for one release. But you do you! I think it's a great way to promote releases, and the artists need all the promotion they can get. Let me know what you think about the feature. It's not in competition with PA, since PA does not allow blurbs (at this time).

So, feel free to blurb away at https://awesomeprog.com! Cool

Here's an example of how the blurbs are displayed: https://awesomeprog.com/releases/63866
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