Top 100-Related

I agree and have said this before - prog-related bands should not be in the top 100.

I had a feeling that people should be rating albums on their prog content rather than their overall quality. I think Iron Maiden's Powerslave is one of the great albums of our times but I'm not going to give it a five because I'm not convinced anything progressive happens until the last track.

it puzzles me that people are actually allowed to give the five star rating to prog-related bands at all.

Thank you for your well thought out, constructive post on a thorny subject, which far too often is dealt with in a gut-reaction manner. However, since I've been posting on PA I've read endless debates about that, but to all intents and purposes never really seen any suggestions as to how to go about it - starting from the problem of ratings.

Anyway, I agree that finding an album like "Made in Japan" (which of course I love to bits) in the Prog Top 100 may be puzzling, not to say misleading. I also think that people here, especially Collabs, instead of screaming to high heaven every time they see a PP or PR album in the Top 100, should be more proactive and actually start PROPOSING alternative ways to solve this not inconsiderable problem (just look at the number of dedicated threads springing up every week).

Ok, we are all familiar with the argument "oh, prog-related doesn't mean progressive rock, it's just influences and minor details and such". Ok, most of us agree to this point. The entire section is filled up with bands that we are either totaly convinced they are prog, or completly unconvinced as to their single mention in a Progressive Rock database.