Your favorite type of prog website

Looks like I am a "standardist"...w/o metal....
    
    

Edited by Tony R - September 28 2006 at 07:06

I'm an Abstract Progressionist, whatever it may mean.. Hopefully it's not an insult!

^ My own website would be an example of an "Abstract Progressionist" website ... any kind of music can be reviewed & rated there (even non-prog, but you can filter it out).

The archives are an obvious example of a "Standardist" website - with a few exceptions (which venture into "Inclusionist" territory).

I suppose the other types are purely theoretical ... but from the various discussions I gather that maybe people exist who would love these alternatives.


Edited by MikeEnRegalia - September 28 2006 at 07:11

^ you have a point there - the archives are "inclusionist" because of the prog related/proto prog genres. But then again these bands and albums are "singled out" and clearly marked non-prog, so these bands are kind of included and rejected at the same time.

As for my own website: In the end it will be all these websites combined in one - you'll be able to filter out genres, prog related bands and ultimately any other criteria (it's all just tags) and even time periods.

Bilek wrote: Sean Trane wrote: the last two are probably the better solution but both sorts can be a bit too wide-scoped:-Your inclusionist idea is probably whet PA is because of prog-related and proto-prog, but remains rock   -your all inclusive progressive music is the most frightening one because, we'dhave to include Edgar Varese, Ornette Coleman, Philip Glass etc...         and don't forget all that stuff from Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and even Pharoah Sanders, John Coltrane et al. Also Santana might be included (which, IMHO, just because of Caravansarai should be) in that case.   as far as I see, I seem to be the only one to categorize himself as inclusionist... that is for a web site type, of course... in listening I'm a strict purist (sticking on to the seventies, along with other related genres of Rock, such as psychedelia and early heavy rock...)

^ any John Zorn fan should seriously check out Ornette Coleman!

I view myself as a so-called Abstract Inclusionist. However, I think that people who view themselves as such in reality often are one of the other "kinds" (in lack of a better word), depending on their definition of Progressive Music. 

Edited by Philéas - September 28 2006 at 14:32

Progressionist here... why can't we vote though ?

the poll having been locked, apparently I stand out as the only representative of the inclusionists  

If I'm totally honest, my favourite option would be the first. I'm a genre purist and the type of Prog Rock I enjoy if the stuff from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and music that sounds like it (from goups such as NUOVA ERA, FLOATING STATE, MAURY E I PRONOMI, THIRD QUADRANT and so on). But I don't lose any sleep at all over the fact this site has broadened its coverage, especially as different people like different things. One can, after all, ignore what one is not interested in.