Townscream (After Crying offshot)

 

Thanks again for your reply. I do understand your team's stance regarding the type of artists you are willing to accept, but I hope you can also see the problem we can sometimes end up with if every team on the site were to adopt the same approach. Prog artists that simply 'do not fit' anywhere are going to end up being missed out altogether, and that cannot be good for the site.

You can say I believe, or I think....But EXACTLY WHERE I EXPECT TO SEE THEM is not an opinion only.sounds almost as an order

Iván

 

Thank you for your reply Iván.

 

I have every respect for you and your team's knowledge regarding what constitutes true symphonic prog, and fully accept what you say concerning this band 'Townscream'. I too did not consider it a genuine symphonic prog album, but thought from my own rather limited understanding of the sub genre that maybe it had more of this represented within the music than any of the other specialised sub genres that are available for us on progarchives. Herein lies the problem of course - our sub genres are all quite specialised, with the exception of prog related and to a lesser extent, crossover. Therefore when an artist such as Townscream with such a diverse range of musical styles pops up, we inevitably have a problem finding a suitable home for them. Other prog sites do not have this problem - they do not divide their database into specialised sub genres in the way that we do - they just add an artist if they are considered prog and that's it...job done! We try to go a step further and classify an artist more narrowly within the overall progressive rock genre which is one of the reasons why our site is probably the best and most informative of all of them. However, sometimes this can work against us, and an artist such as Townscream who cannot be neatly fitted into one of our sub genres can end up being lost to the site altogether, leaving a gap in our database which the other sites do not have. The point I was trying to make was that in a case like this we should maybe encourage the team whose sub genre is considered the most appropriate to relax their guidelines a little and try to accommodate the band rather than enforcing them rigidly and the band thus being rejected from the site altogether. Hopefully, either eclectic or crossover team will adopt this approach and the band will be added to one of those sub genres in the near future, but I often think that the approach of the prog metal team is perhaps the best in a situation like this. Karl (bonnek) once said in a reply to one of my posts, when I said I couldn't hear much metal in a band they'd just added: "if it's prog and there's a scrap of metal in it, then we'll annexe it". Sometimes, and certainly in cases like this, I think this approach is highly laudable - some my say that it devalues the integrity of the database to do this, but since none of the other sites seem to bother with prog sub genres anyway, I really don't think it matters.

 

Thanks again for your reply. I do understand your team's stance regarding the type of artists you are willing to accept, but I hope you can also see the problem we can sometimes end up with if every team on the site were to adopt the same approach. Prog artists that simply 'do not fit' anywhere are going to end up being missed out altogether, and that cannot be good for the site.