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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37430 |
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If Herbie Mann gets included, he'll be pushing it with Push Push. Nothing substantial to add even if I still manage to push in a few paragraphs, but wonderful post. I would rather we err or the side of inclusion than exclusion. I'm not a fan of the complete discography policy (or labeling bands rather than albums), but it is what it is as it is said (I can see benefits of having a complete discography policy). Like Squarepusher, Buckethead, Headpusher, Squarehead, Squarebucketpusher etc., and various others, Dani Lee Pearce does have quite the substantial discography, and it can be harder when substantial parts of the discography doesn't fit. Many years ago I suggested that we add another category to Various Artists, which is an album based category (treated as subgenres) for ones with many/most non-PA appropriate albums so we could just highlight those. I would think that there would be quite few artists who just don't like getting labeled, and Prog has a rather pretentious reputation. Zappa was a funny one. Disdainful of progressive Rock and praising of The Shaggs as better than the Beatles. Actually, a very sensible man.* ![]() * For Catcher's benefit. I enjoyed what I heard of Dani. I love folktronica, so will want to check that out too. |
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siLLy puPPy ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic Joined: October 05 2013 Location: SFcaUsA Status: Offline Points: 15347 |
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The thing i would like to see most here is the ability to tag albums instead of just artists. That alone will tell a visitor exactly which albums belong here. I'm fine with Miles Davis here but am perplexed by artists like Oingo Boingo, Talking Heads, Coil, much of progressive electronic, a lot of Indo-raga rock that has no rock and psychedelic folk artists like Linda Perhacs who aren't prog at all. As far as Buckethead, i have reviewed all 360 or whatever albums he has put out and i can tell you for sure that a few of those are bonafide prog albums and a scant few are some of the most sophisticated mind blowing prog that you could ever possibly hear! I'm on a Rainbow reviewing kick lately and although i love the band i honestly don't know why they are here either!
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TCat ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: February 07 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 11612 |
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Isn't the best prog the kind that can't be pigeonholed into a category? She's unpredictable, uses meter changes, tempo changes, never follows the norm, she's original, she pushes boundaries, everything that prog is about, especially in her earlier albums. Okay, so she might not be well-suited for any one prog category, but having her in Crossover Prog is better than saying she is only prog-related. (Personally, I'd put her under Eclectic, but that's just me.) The electro-shock therapy is something offered to all members......isn't it? (That's what they told me anyway.) |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37430 |
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^^ Good post, Puppy. And that's a lot of Buckethead.
Prog tends to delve into various genres and be genre bending and agneric in a sense. There is some really good to my ears stuff in PA that does clearly fit one category, but that too could be given multiple genre tags if we had that system. I think there are many progressive pop (and other kinds of progressive music) artists who do that that I wouldn't particularly associate with Prog Rock. I have no problem with her in Crossover, and there is space for very adventurous artists in Prog Related. A lot of my favourite acts who I think make interesting music I would think of more as Prog-Related than Prog proper. It is such a big umbrella term. Prog-related is in no way a lesser category to me, by the way. I think there's plenty of seriously good and interesting music in there (especially outside of the usual names). As for the electro-shock therapy, I noticed after I typed that I wrote something a little different (a c instead of an sh in shock). I do make typos, but with two letters off, it may have been a Freudian slip, or maybe I'm just special so I get the good treatment. Edited by Logan - June 21 2021 at 19:08 |
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TCat ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: February 07 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 11612 |
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When it all comes down to it, there are a lot of different ways to interpret different genres, and that is what is so great about a collective such as ProgArchives in that we get different viewpoints of how to interpret things and the bands that are in the archives are voted on by the teams, so you get collective viewpoints in each genre. It's not so simple as asking why a certain band or artist is under a certain category, whether they should be included or not and so on. It's the viewpoint of more than one or two people and things show up here based on a collective vote. You can't just point the finger at a few individuals. I guess I've always considered art pop mostly progressive and have been a little more lenient that way. I would be putting Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, The Flaming Lips and Of Montreal in here if it were me. I love a lot of the alternative prog bands that tend to get shunned here often, but again, I'm just one vote and I try not to question how others interpret it, but once in a while, I have to make an offhanded comment. Anyway, long live Kate Bush style prog. Shhh I hear the therapy cart coming down the hall again. |
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Sean Trane ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20436 |
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Yup, An has made a bunch of great album plus a bunch of experimantal projects (including a few with Pascal Comelade) and though she'd be a better fit that Tory, I'd rather not see Pierlé on ProgArchives just yet. Edited by Sean Trane - June 22 2021 at 07:07 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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nick_h_nz ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Prog Metal / Heavy Prog Team Joined: March 01 2013 Location: Suffolk, UK Status: Offline Points: 6737 |
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The only problem I see with Tori Amos and Kate Bush is that they are in different categories, when I would have expected to see them in the same category. I definitely have no problem with either being in PA. And, truth be told, I don’t really even have a problem with where they are. I would rather an artist is recognised and included in PA - even if in the “wrong” section, than not included at all.
I think there are a few bands that seem to be in odd places, but perhaps at the time it was simply an expedient and pragmatic way of ensuring they were included at all. If you allow a band to ping pong between genre teams too long, it tends to be rejected - regardless of however prog it might be. I suspect a lot of bands that are generally regarded as prog have slipped through the cracks at PA because of how rigidly at times the genre teams have guarded their domain. Sometimes it is simply a way of getting a band into PA. It may look out of place, but it is in. And then, once it is in it is less likely to be removed, and has instead more opportunity to be moved. This thread could potentially be really useful (albeit also giving genre teams extra work), as there is potential to move bands and artists to more appropriate places. But I really don’t think it’s a bad thing, per se, to find a band or artist in an unexpected genre. While it might not be immediately obvious, there was very likely a good reason for it at the time. |
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Man With Hat ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166183 |
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I guess as the inspiration for this thread I should say something.
![]() I could list many a band here, but I won't because it would just be a massive waste of time. In short...there are many bands listed here that violate one of the two main tenants of this site...that the bands/artists listed have to be both progressive and rock. I suppose the former has a bit of leeway to it (although I wouldn't say all that much) but the latter should be pretty clear cut. So, basically, all those free/avant jazz bands in RIO, or proper jazz artists in JRF, or even those extreme metal bands who get so far away from 'rock' music I think overstep the lines (there are probably more examples as well but I repress alot these days ![]() ![]() I also feel compelled to say that I'm not symph prog purist or anything like that. I'm glad things like RIO and Krautrock and JRF are here and definitely agree that they should be.
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nick_h_nz ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Prog Metal / Heavy Prog Team Joined: March 01 2013 Location: Suffolk, UK Status: Offline Points: 6737 |
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I don’t know rock being clear-cut at all. It’s probably as nebulous, arbitrary and subjective a concept as prog. Just as I find it amusing to see people differentiating between what is rock and what is pop. Often yesterday’s rock would be seen as pop today. Certainly the two are not mutually exclusive. And there is definitely no shortage of prog within pop (rock or not). Likewise, jazz and pop. Jazz was pop before rock was pop. Now hip hop and r&b is pop. I also find it interesting that just because music becomes more extreme, it is no longer rock. I’ve never come across someone, until now, who doesn’t consider metal a form of rock (even if it is not a form they enjoy). And therefore if an extreme metal band shows progressive tendencies, they are both prog and rock. Everything changes over time. Black Sabbath were heavy as f*** when they first came on the scene, but it’s not uncommon to see youngsters in total confusion as to how anyone might consider the band metal, because they don’t seem heavy at all by today’s standards. There is, I guess, a spectrum of rock that is very light and airy at one end, and extreme metal at the other. This gives rise to rather pointless arguments about where hard rock begins and ends, and where heavy metal begins and ends, and the difference between rock and hard rock or metal and heavy metal, etc. etc. etc. Rock is definitely a broad concept, and there is little in PA that does not fit with the definition given by the site, somewhere in the discography of a given artist or band. A Kind of Blue could easily be argued to be a prog album, but it would be much harder to argue it as a rock album. But there are other Davis albums that fit both rock and prog. When it comes to jazz, PA is more exclusive than inclusive, purely because it does focus on the rock side of things. There are some incredibly progressive artists and bands that have been rejected for PA, because there was not enough rock - so I honestly don’t think the rock (or lack thereof) is the problem you make it out to be. In fact, I’m sure you could incite an argument on this forum just as easily by saying X isn’t rock, as you could be saying X isn’t prog. There are a heck of a lot of bands and artists in PA that I don’t think of as rock, but I can still recognise why they’re here. Asia is pretty much pop pap to me, but I know some people love them. I like a load of pop music, so I’m no snob when it comes to pop music, but Asia have never done it for me. But I’d be a fool to suggest they don’t belong in PA. |
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Lewian ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: August 09 2015 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 15175 |
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I like the broad church approach and am happy with everyone who's here. I'm not happy with some who are not here though. Please include Irmin Schmidt (and be it in "related") before anyone is kicked out!! And by the way, re Cardiacs, I think it is irrelevant if a musician doesn't like the term prog for their music. There are lots of very good reasons for not wanting to be put in a certain box, but this shouldn't stop those who love the music and think it's related enough to that box to list it in order to make more people aware of it who could discover and love it.
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SteveG ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20617 |
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As long as Phil Collins is not listed here I have no complaints.
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Online Points: 43664 |
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Thankfully, it's Against All Odds that Phil Collins will ever be listed here.
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Progishness ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 10 2020 Location: Planet Rhubarb Status: Offline Points: 2565 |
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About 20 years ago or so when I used to sort and price the music & video stuff in a large branch of Oxfam his solo albums on vinyl used to get donated on a very regular basis. Most of them ended up in the bin as you literally couldn't give them away.
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Online Points: 43664 |
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That'd explain why nearly every charity shop I've been into has at least one Phil Collins CD on sale. ![]() Seeing as you're in Norwich, maybe they could have been given away on Sale of the Century. ![]() You may recall that's where Simon Cowell made his first TV appearance, long before the X-Factor..... Edited by Psychedelic Paul - June 22 2021 at 06:26 |
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Progishness ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 10 2020 Location: Planet Rhubarb Status: Offline Points: 2565 |
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I'm a bit of a charity shop addict now I'm almost retired - I rarely look at the music as most of it is crap (tho Oxfam does have fairly decent stuff), but DVD's are as cheap as chips just now - I have bought many good films for 50p or a pound, or box sets for 3 to 5 quid. Sometimes I donate DVD's back once watched, assuming that I don't want to retain them for my collection.
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Lewian ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: August 09 2015 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 15175 |
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Amen!
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Dark Ness ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 21 2021 Location: Edge of Town Status: Offline Points: 246 |
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Metallica ? Albeit under prog-related, what a forced inclusion to my ears.
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Lewian ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: August 09 2015 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 15175 |
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By the way, regarding another line of the discussion, do we all agree that who's here and who's not is massively more important than in which categories they are once they are here?
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Progishness ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 10 2020 Location: Planet Rhubarb Status: Offline Points: 2565 |
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Broadly yes - many artists probably would fit in more than one sub-genre as their musical style evolves over time... I still think there should be some discussion regarding who does/doesn't belong in crossover and prog-related - a very murky area indeed which we'll probably never agree on entirely..
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Blacksword ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
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I don't object to the inclusion of any artist listed in the archives. I'm also fairly unconcerned about their listed sub genres, but what does baffle me is why anyone would object to the likes of Queen or Rush..
Doesn't make any sense to me, but I guess it comes down to how we individually define progressive rock, or at least the sub genres thereof. I'm fairly broadminded about it all really. |
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