Should Be Toto in PA?

Atavachron wrote: 104 Yes votes..  riiiiiiiiiiiight

Exactly why re-vote-able polls are pretty useless.

Toto + PA = Potato

I don't think it SHOULD be in PA, but I do think it has prog-related merits (maybe not enough to be in Prog-Related, but it still has a relation to Prog).

Depends which Toto album you hear .. only a frigging jerk would listen to a song like Home Of The Brave s middle section or  the song Hyrdra and say it isn't prog ... Only a frigging jerk would go to a Toto concert and come out and say they were just OK  musically ....I bet they knock your frigging prog socks off !!! I was at one and it was not long after I saw pink floyd ...progressively Toto blitzed Floyd by a long long way and I only paid $20 to see toto to this day I remember it was the best live prog experience of my life...

Of course they should be on this frigging site  .. and perhaps one frigging day they will be if there's any frigging  fairness to how it works


Edited by Yorkie X - August 23 2009 at 05:17

I vote 'Yes', just once, because I think they're a bit prog-related. Home of the Brave is a fine example of a prog-like song.

Yorkie X wrote: Depends which Toto album you hear .. only a frigging jerk would listen to a song like Home Of The Brave s middle section or  the song Hyrdra and say it isn't prog ... Only a frigging jerk would go to a Toto concert and come out and say they were just OK  musically ....I bet they knock your frigging prog socks off !!! I was at one and it was not long after I saw pink floyd ...progressively Toto blitzed Floyd by a long long way and I only paid $20 to see toto to this day I remember it was the best live prog experience of my life... Of course they should be on this frigging site  .. and perhaps one frigging day they will be if there's any frigging  fairness to how it works

How very classy. Wonderful how people can present their opinion as fact, and on the way insult anyone who does not agree with them. I wonder why people on this site have to behave in such an aggressive, immature way to make their point. It should be clear by now that everyone's opinion of what is prog differs wildly, unless we are talking about the original Seventies bands.

Anyway... Why does every suggestion have to became a mud-slinging match against the site or other users? If you disagree with about 50% of the bands included here, why are you still here, attacking those who might hold a different opinion? Do you have any idea of how many prog sites there are on the web? You might even find one that thinks Toto are 'more prog' (absolutely ridiculous concept, IMHO) than Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis and what not.

Ah, in case you were wondering, I couldn't care less if Toto get added - I happen to think that most of the so-called AOR bands are prog-related to a certain extent, and I have never been one to lose sleep (or insult others) about what's here and what's not. What I care about, though, are the dozens of up-and-coming PROG bands that are not in the DB, whom we have a duty - as the 'ultimate prog resource'  - to support, instead of coming to blows about Toto, The Stranglers, Bob Dylan, or any such act that does not need our help to stay in the limelight.

manofmystery wrote: can we just go ahead and add every rock/metal artist that's ever existed and be done with all the fighting we can rename the place Somewhat Prog Archives: Your Ultimate Every Band Ever Archive

does that mean you'll leave in a huff?

Edited by The Doctor - August 23 2009 at 10:27

Seyo wrote: From what I heard of them, I judge - NO! Great musicianship alone does not make it progressive rock.

With all due respect, I don't think anybody here is saying that.

I listen to plenty of artists with amazing technical chops and yet I do not think they are even remotely progressive.

Obviously enough of Toto's music seems Prog enough for this debate to be as split as it is, and I think it should be taken a lot more seriously than simply waving it away as somebody saying good musicianship equals prog.

You're belittling the proposition when you do that.

I really like the band, and although I think they have some prog related moments it's not enough to be included on the site.

SgtPepper67 wrote: I really like the band, and although I think they have some prog related moments it's not enough to be included on the site.

I suppose the Beatles do have enough prog related moments ?


Edited by Yorkie X - August 25 2009 at 00:16