Wish They Weren't Here

I find myself more taking issue with non-prog output by prog artists. For example, Miles Davis is quite possibly the most important single figure of the Fusion movement. And Kind of Blue is one of the greatest albums ever made. But as it stands now, Kind of Blue is ranked as the third best jazz/rock album and the 32nd greatest progressive rock album of all time. Which just seems weird.

It also seems a little unfair to submit albums like We Can't Dance and IT to the ravages of prog fans. I guess it's our chance to make up for all the rave reviews in the mainstream media, but you've got to admit that had the exact same songs been written and performed by someone other than Genesis, they wouldn't be on here.

I don't know. This post isn't really constructive because I haven't got any better ideas and the current system seems to be better than drawing an arbitrary line as to which of a band's discography to admit and which to remove. I'm just ranting, I suppose.

A lot of power metal bands, a lot of folk bands and Radiohead.

Nightwish is the only addition I find highly questionable and not surprisingly even the PM team more or less excuses itself from defending it.  The rest may be CONTROVERSIAL, but there's at least some artsiness/progginess/innovation or what have you in all the names mentioned above or other favourite punching bags like Metallica.  If you really want to get into what is 'objectively' prog rock - if at all, such can be established with a semblance of a consensus - the database would drastically shrink and what would be the point of that?


Edited by rogerthat - July 05 2011 at 21:54

Boo hoo.

Mushroom Sword wrote: Radiohead.

You know, many of the so called 'prog related' Artists.