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    Posted: January 01 2011 at 16:34
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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

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^ It isn't your decision.


Wow, just. . . . wow.

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That's not quite the reason for my amazement.

Also, I'll download this fat album now. So much drama about it made me curious.

EDIT: Wow, really good. And 100% fitting and appropriate tribute. The album sounds almost as if it was made by DT. Keep it in VA: Tributes, because the music sure is a tribute to Dream Theater and its founding drummer.
 
I am really struggling with this being a 100% tribute to Portnoy...I listened to the whole album yesterday and a few tracks are good...a lot I just don't see the connection on most songs.
Seems like they may have had a good idea but it got lost along the way and turned into this huge album.
 
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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Wow, really good. And 100% fitting and appropriate tribute. The album sounds almost as if it was made by DT. Keep it in VA: Tributes, because the music sure is a tribute to Dream Theater and its founding drummer.


Very cool to hear that, thanks! Smile
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^ It isn't your decision.


Wow, just. . . . wow.

I know. I am amazing. Everything I say.


That's not quite the reason for my amazement.

Also, I'll download this fat album now. So much drama about it made me curious.

EDIT: Wow, really good. And 100% fitting and appropriate tribute. The album sounds almost as if it was made by DT. Keep it in VA: Tributes, because the music sure is a tribute to Dream Theater and its founding drummer.


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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I listened to the whole thing today.

I don't know what it has to do with Mike Portnoy or drumming especially, but it is loaded with progressive music (some of it really good actually), and has piqued my interest in Relocator and a few other bands.

Cool! Big smile

Quote I would say it definitely belongs on this website- perhaps in Various Artists: Samplers rather than Tributes.

That sounds like a very good alternative placement to me. One might definitely call it a "themed sampler" if you're not comfortable with it in the "tribute album" category!
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Well, somehow it's made to the #97 best album of 2010. That was fast! LOL
Best not look too closely at the ratings or we'll wake up the conspiracy theorists Wink
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I listened to the whole thing today.

I don't know what it has to do with Mike Portnoy or drumming especially, but it is loaded with progressive music (some of it really good actually), and has piqued my interest in Relocator and a few other bands.  I would say it definitely belongs on this website- perhaps in Various Artists: Samplers rather than Tributes.
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Well, somehow it's made to the #97 best album of 2010. That was fast! LOL
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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^ It isn't your decision.


Wow, just. . . . wow.

I know. I am amazing. Everything I say.
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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^ It isn't your decision.


Wow, just. . . . wow.

If you've got a problem. You'd better speak up.Angry
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

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Wow, just. . . . wow.
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Hey guys! Nice conversation - as my name appeared about 3 times I thought I might buzz in. Nothing to say just buzzing in and out. Great free download though and enough prog artists to warrant inclusion.
 
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Since it's probably not a website you'll be revisiting too often once you have the mp3s, let me point
out that we have now added Anthony's "A few words from the producer" to www.spaceprog.com Smile



Edited by Kyo - December 29 2010 at 12:53
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Originally posted by Kyo Kyo wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Blackbeard Blackbeard wrote:

Can't find the news, so i will spread the message of a free download. I have just started to listen, and it sounds promising. Hope you like it:
http://www.spaceprog.com
It was mentioned about four times in the OP, I'm surprised you missed it.

Maybe he's referring to the album information in your database, it doesn't mention the official source for this compilation anywhere.
That is something that I have discussed with other collabs, especially concerning free-releases. We do not, for example, list specialist stockists for purchaseable CDs, or mention that the CD is only avalable from the band website because the PA was set-up on the premis that all the discs listed were "generally available"  from "major stockists" so that all members could review them regardless of which country they lived in.
 
Free-releases are a new phenomina that needs some thought - at present distribution for most free-releases is single point and impermanent - maintainence of links to these in the main database is something we cannot manage on a voluntary basis, and we cannot manage it automatically. Of course these links could be placed in the "Releases information" section of the album entry, but it would not be maintained or updated should the link go dead or the mirror sites move.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Blackbeard Blackbeard wrote:

Can't find the news, so i will spread the message of a free download. I have just started to listen, and it sounds promising. Hope you like it:
http://www.spaceprog.com
It was mentioned about four times in the OP, I'm surprised you missed it.

Maybe he's referring to the album information in your database, it doesn't mention the official source for this compilation anywhere.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Anyway, it seems strange to complain about the additions policy once you are in, but hey-ho. Do carry on.

Does it? This is not the first time I've been involved in such discussions regarding an album that I had a hand in and it probably won't be the last. Just voicing my opinion. Who knows, maybe some things will change down the road because of something I said (or maybe I'm just rambling, but that's fine, too LOL).

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

They don't matter at all, it is just one way of organising 5,887 artists and 30,720 albums in a way that makes site navigation a little easier in finding that one album you are looking for amid all those.

It sure seems they matter to some people, seeing how many times I've seen some reviewer remark that album such-and-such really belongs in category XYZ. LOL

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I'm sure you would have been less than happy if we'd placed Relocator under Indo/Raga or RPI, so the time and effort spent in placing you in a more appropriate, though not exact, category was time moderately well spent I would imagine

Certainly! Smile


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Originally posted by Kyo Kyo wrote:

I like the simple term "cover albums" for those,  but that's probably too straightforward. I was already told that this board is infamous for its "is it prog? should it be added? and what genre is it, really?" discussions. Guess it's very important that no "false prog" gets past quality control. Big smile 
What you like and what the rest of the world likes in terminology is fine by me. We here at PA like VA:Tributes to contain cover versions of the artist being tributed.
 
Anyway, it seems strange to complain about the additions policy once you are in, but hey-ho. Do carry on.
Originally posted by Kyo Kyo wrote:


I am frequently amused by the importance placed on labels and categories. Our own album's style isn't really captured correctly by any single one of those and that seems to be true for a lot of music that I listen to these days. Really makes you wonder if these categories really matter. Anyway, don't let me disturb your discussion of where this 4-star compilation (as per AtomicCrimsonRush's rating) might fit.  LOL
They don't matter at all, it is just one way of organising 5,887 artists and 30,720 albums in a way that makes site navigation a little easier in finding that one album you are looking for amid all those. I'm sure you would have been less than happy if we'd placed Relocator under Indo/Raga or RPI, so the time and effort spent in placing you in a more appropriate, though not exact, category was time moderately well spent I would imagine.


Edited by Dean - December 28 2010 at 14:27
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Originally posted by Blackbeard Blackbeard wrote:

Can't find the news, so i will spread the message of a free download. I have just started to listen, and it sounds promising. Hope you like it:
http://www.spaceprog.com
It was mentioned about four times in the OP, I'm surprised you missed it.
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