A major flaw in our judgment!!!

I don't care much at all about the top 100, nor think it's a scam or not a result of "thousand of people" sharing their common (in various ways) pleasure for that album. As in: no one is directing the top 100 plot, no one is saying you should like the album within the 100 top, yet the other way around no one should say to all those many people and to all the, mostly, fair rates (that led apparently to such a high presence in the top) that they aren't supposed to like that (aka this thread's aggressive message and purpose).

Just try to find your own prog music, to like it or dislike it.

Strangely, I find Wish You Were Here around the most deserving albums to be in the top 10, top 3 or even the best, along Thick As A Brick and so...


Edited by Ricochet - June 25 2007 at 01:08

it all depends on what you mean by progressive, and god knows no one wants to get into that again. (I know I dont)

Arsillus wrote: Talk about the four most haunting notes in music.

toolis wrote: The Whistler wrote: Arsillus wrote: Talk about the four most haunting notes in music.   But there are six notes in the "Aqualung" riff...? maybe the other two notes aren't that haunting..

schizoid_man77 wrote: ^^ Because it's a top 100 PROG album rating thing. DUH!!!

I'm not going to comment on the rest because I have better things to do, but where exactly did you read that? In my browser the PA homepage says "ProgArchives most popular titles (based on ratings)". That means prog or not prog.

schizoid_man77 wrote: Wish you were here, does not deserve to be in the #2 spot!   In fact, I seriously does not belong in the top ten!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   WYWH is a great album, but not a great prog album! A five song album, with only three prog songs, in the #2 spot of the top 100 prog albums of all time is ludicrus! I will not stand for this! Stop this foolishness!

Since the Top 100 is a popularity contest, not so much a measure of true Progressiveness, I don't hold much value in it.

[QUOTE=StyLaZyn]Since the Top 100 is a popularity contest, not so much a measure of true Progressiveness, I don't hold much value in it.

Edited by 1800iareyay - June 25 2007 at 11:24

1800iareyay wrote: StyLaZyn wrote: Since the Top 100 is a popularity contest, not so much a measure of true Progressiveness, I don't hold much value in it.   While I really enjoy Pink Floyd, calling them Prog is a stretch.  Deep Purple is more Prog than them IMHO, and they are Proto-Prog.   What? If you're judgin Floyd by their first few albums, then sure, but by Meddle and Dark Side they had become fully prog.   Who cares what postion WYWH is? Sure, I'd much rather see Dark Side over it, and I'd like for there to be less Genesis in the top 20, but it's based on number of ratings. Sure, that might exclude more obscure bands, but deal with it. The point of the list is to provide n00bs with a good starting place to get acquainted with prog classics. It has no bearing on anyone's life. Why not make a thread where ppl can post and back up their lists of top albums, that is if you don't want to use any of the existing threads devoted to just that.

Edited by StyLaZyn - June 25 2007 at 11:37

My brain is spinning in my head.

I feel like I shouldn't post here because It's just continuing the madness... but I can't seem to help myself.  My fingers are moving by themselves!!!!!!!

The star ratings aren't a rating of how proggy an album is, but rather how 'good' it is overall (which is at least to an extent a matter of taste).  So once an album is on the site, it's fair game for the top 100... it sounds like what you want is a list of the 'most proggy' albums, but that would be quite difficult considering how hard it is to quantify what 'proggy' is.

Besides, it's not worth worrying about.  If someone comes on here thinking to themselves, 'I'm going to get a list of good prog stuff so I can find out if I like it' they aren't only going to buy whatever's in the #2 spot (or #1 for that matter).  They'll probably take a wider sampling of the stuff, and if they don't then they've been very silly.