The Prog Archives Top 100

[/QUOTE]Heck guys and girls, the Top 100 is only a bit of fun, don't get so hung up if you're favourite album isn't ranked as high as you'd like!
...'course, it's easy for me to say that, as Close to the Edge always has been my favourite album........seriously though I've found it useful/interesting to see what fans views are about the "best" album by a particular band (e.g. SEBTP is ranked higher than Foxtrot), and also to see some albums in there that maybe I haven't heard (actually there are quite a few!).
Maybe if people are that hung up on it PA should allow, a la Amazon, people to post their own lists that are featured in some way, not just on a thread but maybe one member's list is featured as a "headline" each week, allowing other members to comment/criticise/ridicule?! How about it?
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Thats a great idea!! i tried to get idea to people at the start of my post, but people took what i said a bit too seriously and condemned me as a blasphemer

As I've said in previous threads, I think MikeEnRegalia has done a terrific job in compiling the algorithms for the PA "Chart".  It's certainly a valid piece of work, as well as being fun.

My only suggestion for improvement would be that we have a second, "current" chart, in addtion to the "All-Time" one currently posted. Couldn't this be done by simply omitting any reviews older than, say, 90 days?

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Thanks! Well, personally I would fancy a number of different charts, which focus on different aspects. New releases, few ratings only, many ratings only, avg rating only, n_of_ratings only ... and maybe one chart that only uses collabs ratings, and one that only uses non-collabs ratings.

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Thats the kind of idea i was going for  maybe if there was a huge selection of albums that had been reviewed over 50 times or so then just count the first 50, it'd be very interesting

Make that "1000 random prog music fans", and I'm not so sure of the outcome. I'm sure that from those choices, CttE would win easily.

  Agreed if each Yes fan is allowed the usual 30 votes :)

Having said that, I wonder why Selling England is that popular here ... maybe there IS a secret conspiracy!

can't work that out either. Might be the same Genesis fan voting 30 times 

  For me Fragile and RElayer are preferable from the Yes catalogue

 and Foxtrot and The Lamb are preferable from the Genesis catalogue

 In fact this list has provided me more than a few surprises

The Wizard wrote: What disturbs me is why Brain Salad Surgery is not higher than in the Court of the Crimson King. ITCOTCK is probabley there only for the reason that it invented prog, the quality of the album itself set aside. ITCOTCK has 'Moonchild', which is is 10 minutes of the worst filler ever imagined. Brain Salad Surgery's weak side is 'Benny the Bouncer', which is only two minutes. You could also make a case for Still You Turn me On, but it is not 'bad' or 'filler', its usually regarded as a great tune. Even so, that dosn't measusre up to the length of moonchilds noodling. So therefore BSS should be higher than King Crimson debut.

I agree 100%. brain salad is far superior to itcotck!!! and benny the bouncer isn't bad either

i think itcotck is up that high due to nostalgia. thats my honest view on it. i like the record tho

Menack wrote: I swear I just saw Selling England by the Pound ahead of Close to the Edge at #1, and now it's back to normal ...curious. btw, first post!

Welcome!  and Close to the edge should stay in number one!!

MikeEnRegalia wrote: LOL ... it seems like we have some "chart-gremlins" at work here ... funny little creatures!

Ba*****s!!  I thought it was great finally seein' them there!

Winter Wine wrote: Speaking if which, can someone tell why Queen II was in the top 100 a few days ago, but now even though there was no new reviews of the album it's gone??

Well it could of course be that the albums which replaced it were reviewed or rated without review.