Exciting News: New sister site for METAL online !

Sean Trane wrote:       Just a question, if I may??   Judas Priest, Gillan, Whitesnake and Motorhead in NWOBHMB????   All of them existed well before the creation of that movement

let's just say it's a work in progress..

the site is a week old...  the priority is getting them added..  then moving everything around.   The site is album based... not group based like PA's.   Which removes a cancer of this site... people getting their panties in a twist over placements of groups and polluting the site and atmosphere with their pissing and moaning...

As I like to call it... the pounding of round bands into squre genres...

too late to do it at PA's... but glad to see it happen there


Edited by micky - April 03 2010 at 16:53

Tony R wrote: To be quite honest it looks like the same old genre based format there too, to me.

M@X wrote: Tony R wrote: To be quite honest it looks like the same old genre based format there too, to me. .... it's mostly because during the initial artists/albums importation in the database (1 month ago) we tagged all albums with the main genre of the artists. As time goes by and more collaborators re-tag, re-classify the albums , it should (i hope) create less confusions (and crazy forum discussions) about the genre of an albums or an artists. And it will prove that this will be the next system also at PA.

Which is fine and I look forward to that.

But this is the #1 Prog Site on the internet, the #1 resource and I won't have anyone knock it just because they've now decided they're metal.

Metal-Archives is new but it is populated with PA members. Let them remember that we will still be here when the real Metal fans arrive and see them off....

Tony R wrote: M@X wrote: Tony R wrote: To be quite honest it looks like the same old genre based format there too, to me. .... it's mostly because during the initial artists/albums importation in the database (1 month ago) we tagged all albums with the main genre of the artists. As time goes by and more collaborators re-tag, re-classify the albums , it should (i hope) create less confusions (and crazy forum discussions) about the genre of an albums or an artists. And it will prove that this will be the next system also at PA. Which is fine and I look forward to that. But this is the #1 Prog Site on the internet, the #1 resource and I won't have anyone knock it just because they've now decided they're metal. Metal-Archives is new but it is populated with PA members. Let them remember that we will still be here when the real Metal fans arrive and see them off....

So did Max just say PA is ending the genre teams being the ones to approve additions?

Please clarify Max. 

It means that the genre teams now will be bickering over what albums belongs to their genre rather than what artists belongs to their genre ;-)

The artist classification will be deemed automatically from the classifications of the individual albums.

In here, that will result in Genesis waving a heartfelt goodbye from the symphonic annals as an artist for instance, but will be represented in the genre with a few albums instead ;-)

micky wrote: Tony R wrote: micky wrote: Tony R wrote: The only time we have real problems with genres is when non-Prog bands are shoe-horned into the system... almost Tony... the only time we have problems is when people let their views on the eternal prog/not prog question cloud their better judgments and they forget this site is archival... and about the many different views of prog out there.  What is non-prog to you...  is often prog to others.  What is this site about ... your views on prog... or giving everyone out there a means to express their views on prog. The forum is for expressing "different" views on Prog. The Collab Zone is for distilling those views and keeping what is useful, or should I say; it should be. hmmm.. true... but have you all ever wondered why your collabs have been disappearing... either completely or retiring.  For many this it is supposed to be fun... not a death match to make sure one's views on prog gain supremacy. expressing an opinion is one thing... seeing your opinion.. and work trashed in temper tantrums or personal attacks is only on PA's called...and condoned as 'expressing different views'.

A handful of additions cause a stir the vast majority pass without comment.

Of course if you can't handle debate...

Ok. Not the place.

micky wrote: Sean Trane wrote:   Just a question, if I may??   Judas Priest, Gillan, Whitesnake and Motorhead in NWOBHMB????   All of them existed well before the creation of that movement    let's just say it's a work in progress.. the site is a week old...  the priority is getting them added..  then moving everything around.   The site is album based... not group based like PA's.   Which removes a cancer of this site... people getting their panties in a twist over placements of groups and polluting the site and atmosphere with their pissing and moaning... As I like to call it... the pounding of round bands into squre genres... too late to do it at PA's... but glad to see it happen there

Edited by Sean Trane - April 03 2010 at 20:37

Judas Priest, Gillan, Whitesnake and Motorhead

Yeah, it's kind of like having Procol Harum, Moody Blues in crossver prog ...

All four hit their creative peak as the NWOBHM movement was breaking big in the late 70s. So just as  Jethro Tull went from Folk Rock or heavy rock on Aqualung to prog on TAAB an Passion Play, those four metal icons went from relative obscurity (gillan & coverdale could be said at the time to be living off past glories) to being the stars and major influences on the emerging scene.