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Green and Funky ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 06 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 99 |
![]() Posted: October 09 2005 at 14:45 |
I was just thinking about how the album rating system here is
about how essential the album is to a PROG collection. But it is often the case that a progband can make an album that isn't prog but is still a good album. I think that we should have two different ratings for every album: the one we already have, and one just a general rating of the album irrespective of how prog it is. I think it would be helpful if say you are exploring a certain 70's prog band's later works, say Rush, for example, and you want to know what's good and what's not, regardless of how prog it is. Rush weren't really prog in the 80's (after Moving Pictures), but I think that they made some excellent albums during that time. I think also, that if we had the two ratings it would reduce high ratings on the prog scale for albums that are good but aren't very prog. Just a thought, cause where else am I going to get valuable information on this stuff? It's like, I'll look at different bands' discographies and all the ratings are lower in the 80's, because prog largely died in the 80's, but are those albums, though not prog, still good? A lot aren't, but some are. Just the fact that this a site for prog lovers means that any album rating is going to already be from a proglover's perspective. An album doesn't always have to be true prog to be a good album that a proglover can appreciate. Any opinions? |
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Mr_Upside_Down ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() Joined: July 06 2005 Status: Offline Points: 58 |
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Yes, this is a good idea that has been proposed before (and will be again, no doubt!).
At the risk of repeating myself... http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9781 |
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