TOP 100 Progressive Music Albums

^ It has occurred to me once that some people do it unconsciously, i.e. they don't even realize it.

^ I mean, some people don't seem to wholly understand the nature and consequences of their doings, you see?

Edited by Dayvenkirq - June 09 2013 at 14:58

^ Here's the reason why brought this up. One person has committed something, and some time later he's been explained what it is that he did. I presume that's because that first person didn't know what it is that he did. 

Edited by Dayvenkirq - June 09 2013 at 15:38

I came here to try and figure out how the QWR works. Thanks MikeEnRegalia for explaining it so well back on page 3.

Picking up Keewee's question from earlier: why is there not an easy option for including Proto-Prog or Prog-Related in a query? I agree with the reasoning for not including them in the default setting, but it should be possible to select them in the filter for Sub-Genre if you're interested.

(As it happens, it can be done manually by creating a filter based on any random subgenre, clicking submit, and then editing the &ssubgenres=x part of the resulting URL to read either &ssubgenres=37 for proto or &ssubgenres=38 for related, then pressing enter/return on the keyboard instead of clicking submit - but that's pretty tiresome to have to do it that way)

^ Yes, we know about this problem, and yes, satisfying the proposition would be too laborious for anyone to seriously consider committing to it. Just my two cents.

misterprog wrote: the system is good. I just see one limit. Too often peole give 5 stars or one star without anydeep consideration. They judge how they like an album, while they should judge the quality of the music. I know it is difficult, but I give you a sample (I checked).If a guy doen't like progressive synphonic and an album is progressive synphonic, they will get 2 or 1 stars. I would like to find a system where the judgmente that are made from people that (from the hystory) do not like the gentre, will be authomatically cancelled.If a person dislike RPI and aafter 5 rating he ha an avarage of 1,5 he cannot judge RPI anymore. Maybe extreme,,,but more fair than now....

Forget those silly ratings, and especially the rankings based upon them.  They are for forum entertainment and never-ending forum discussion fodder. Did Genesis do 2 of the top 5 prog albums ever. HAH.  Of course not. It would really be stretch to include 1 in the top 10 if one takes a long view of all teh great stuff from all over the world. It is a popularity contest, and very anglo-centric at that.

It is in the text of the reviews where the value of them is.  Find a reviewer whose style you like, whom you feel to be objective and doesn't play favorites, and roll with those.  They are out there.


Edited by micky - March 07 2015 at 07:22

chopper wrote: Yayamimi wrote: One simple solution ......one and 5 stars can be given only posting a review that clearly demonstrate they at least know what they judge..... How do you prove that?

Gerinski wrote: I think he was meaning to forbid 1 and 5 star rating-only's (without review).

To be honest, we keep fooling ourselves that the 60's & 70's era were the best prog album releases and this might be due to the romanticized magical mystique of the wonderful unknown of that era, added with the costumes, funny noises and most memorable tunes, however we cannot say that new bands are any less, to be honest i.e. Opeth and their album Pale Communion is not rivaling any of that and is unique brilliant as his own too.   

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