Scorpions for Krautrock or prog related

I say that Scorpions are not HP, are not PR so?

But I'm not talking about Queen, who was on the very borderline of prog in pretty much the entirety of their catalog - I'm talking about acts that are deemed to have some (or even a little) prog-related content, and then pretty much nothing close to prog.  Bands that are on the margins of a category that itself lives on the margins of progressive rock music just don't belong.

Disclaimer:  I don't know the Scorpions material at all, save for the odd handful of popular FM radio tracks some 20 years ago.

But to me it sounds like a case where they should either make it into Heavy Prog (or whatever) if their early output (the oft cited Lonesome Crow album) is deemed to be "fully" prog, or not make the cut.  As I said, it's one thing for an artist to have little prog output to be included in a prog category - if a band has a few "prog-related" (whatever that is supposed to even mean) albums amidst a catalog that's quite removed from anything prog rock, they shouldn't be here.

I have no problem saying "Prog or Bust" to a good many of these types of artists.

^ perhaps you could narrow down the list to the 5 most important bands. I think this would be something that people could understand ... 

I trust the admin team makes the right cuts. The filter that means that only special collabs can suggest artists to the admin team for prog-related is pretty efficient IMO. This means that a lot of thought has been put into the proces of adding a prog-related artist to the archives. It´s not all additions I agree with, but you win some and you lose some. We are all victims to subjective opinions and no matter how much you try to be objective when evaluating an artist lots of factors will have effect on your decision. As it is today the prog-related suggestions go through two filters and I think that should provide enough safety that the right bands are added to PA. As Raff said she refuse to submit any bands rejected by Heavy Prog for inclusion in PR and that´s filter enough for me. Personally I think it´s a bit hard and I hope there are a few exceptions but generally I agree with that view. We should generally respect the teams decisions and by very careful that we don´t undermine the great work of those teams. But there are exceptions IMO and that´s what we need Prog-related for.

It should be a case to case evaluation as it is today.

Mr ProgFreak wrote: ROTFLMAO seriously. @Raff: I hope you find a way to take this easier ...

Thanks! Unfortunately, I am afraid I'm too old to change my ways....

Speaking in more general terms ( I don´t know enough about The Scorpions to say if my below opinion aplies to them) about Prog-related I have the opinion that even if a band that have released thirty albums that are non-prog and only one that qualifies as prog-related they should be on PA. It´s important to document that one album. As long as it´s made very clear in the "Why is this artist included in PA" section of the bio why the artist was included.

Helloween for Krautrock? They're german too... that should be enough

No, seriously, I've seen the material, I don't think they intended to sound progressive at all... That's my useless opinion. It's curious, but I still can't understand what's the purpose of expanding that 'prog related' subgenre with over-known artists, I mean, that's just a bunch of disconnected artists IMHO, so what's the use of expanding that genre? And do you think anybody needs to 'know' Scorpios? Well, this is just the opinion of an outsider...

Krautrock, no way! Even if their debut was influenced by Kraut, their later career is anything but prog...