What happened to TOP 100???

"Yes, can't see how it can have any credibility as a proper guide to prog when one of the seminal and establishing influences in the genre is barely represented in the Top 100."

 

But that's not what it is.  The "top 100" is nothing more than the highest-rated prog albums on the site.  The administrators already radically (and baselessly) manipulated the group consensus by attaching more weight to their own opinions.

 

 
"Love ELP or loathe them, it's a bit like doing a guide to classical music and leaving out Beethoven or Mozart."

 

No it isn't, it's like leaving your dog's feces off the plates at a dinner party.  An ELP album doesn't belong in any prog top 500, much less top 100.

 

I believe you mean the opinions of the collaborators and reviewers. Sure, they are weighted a little higher but that is only because they have shown over the years that they can be counted on to accurately review a diverse amount of music, or at least be knowledgable about almost every subject. The admins aren't just taking their opinions and collaborating to start a list, this is all done mathematically based on what information everybody has contributed to the site so far, not just admins or collabs or reviewers.

There are far more of us than there are colabs and reviewers, so the more we review and rate an album, the less weight their opinion carries in the final score. Also, they will be concentrating on writing reviews for their specialist subject - they don't vote on every album by every artist.

 

You too can have a higher weighting in the overal score if you write a reasonable length review to go with your rating.

 

I liked the old list better, but with time, this'll probably stabilize.

 

Regardless of the casual listener opinion, I have personally found out about many bands I never would have heard of otherwise. This is directly a result of the Top 100.

 

 

 

This would at least curtail the childish CTTE vs SEBTP vs WYWH vs TAAB I-am-more-proggier-than-thou debates.

 

Yes, but the higher-ups are less prone to writing "fanboy reviews" or "hate reviews" for an album. Sure there are great reviewers that aren't collabs...but I can count them on my fingers and toes. Normal members have a little less weight on their reviews because its classic to see 100 5 star reviews for the number 2 album on the chart, and then when it goes to number one there will be 100 1 star reviews for it.