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Was just curious about this. What do you think?

I voted for 61+. There's over 11 000 titles here on this site. Of course there's a lot of 80's crap and best of's etc...

I probably own under 10% of these titles. Among the ones I own I'd rate ca. 50 of them with 5 stars. Logicly there should be well over a hundred albums here that deserve the five stars, from my point of view.

Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me

^ Let's say that I think there are 500 really good prog albums. That number can't be too high, considering that there are 2000+ bands in the archives. In the archives I have two stars (4 and 5) to choose from. According to the guidelines I should rate them something like this:

5 stars: 25 albums (5%)

4 stars: 475 albums (95%)

Ok ... I don't like this. Why? Simply because 95% of my albums are lumped into one big mass. I want to separate the really great ones from the good ones! Like that:

5 stars: 25 albums (5%)

4.5 stars: 150 albums (30%)

4 stars: 325 albums (65%)

In the archives I can't do that - so I'll write in the review "4.5 stars" and give it 5 stars. That's why with the current rating system people simply cannot be that greedy with 5 stars. Many albums are simply too good to punish them with 4 stars, even if they're not absolutely timeless masterpieces.

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MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ Let's say that I think there are 500 really good prog albums. That number can't be too high, considering that there are 2000+ bands in the archives. In the archives I have two stars (4 and 5) to choose from. According to the guidelines I should rate them something like this:

5 stars: 25 albums (5%)

4 stars: 475 albums (95%)

Ok ... I don't like this. Why? Simply because 95% of my albums are lumped into one big mass. I want to separate the really great ones from the good ones! Like that:

5 stars: 25 albums (5%)

4.5 stars: 150 albums (30%)

4 stars: 325 albums (65%)

In the archives I can't do that - so I'll write in the review "4.5 stars" and give it 5 stars. That's why with the current rating system people simply cannot be that greedy with 5 stars. Many albums are simply too good to punish them with 4 stars, even if they're not absolutely timeless masterpieces.

Agreed!
I always put the 4.5 albums up to 5...if I didn´t I think there would be just three or four 5 stars albums in my rewiews!

"You want me to play what, Robert?"

I think there are more masterpieces than 61, hence I voted for 61+.

The more you learn about prog the more masterpieces you find.

P.S. I am not talking about ratings in PA or anywhere else - just about masterpieces of progressive music in my understanding of this term.

carefulwiththataxe

50-60 for me but now I realise it's too much.

It depends of the albums you have listen to. I have around 450 cds, so I only can say that between 21 and 30 are masterpieces, but I understand that people who hear more music like me could believe this is a short number.

We were always be much human than we whish to be.

Surely more than 61 since the late sixties.

This is obviously dependent on how many albums you know...

I'd like to add that I think many reviewers are a bit too easy with dealing out 5 stars on albums. If people throw 5 stars-ratings out on <I>all</I> the albums they like, it'll end up being meaningless in the end.

Jesus never managed to figure out the theremin either

Poll Question: How many albums deserve the 5 star rating?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
1-10	3	[6.38%]
11-20	6	[12.77%]
21-30	2	[4.26%]
31-40	1	[2.13%]
41-50	2	[4.26%]
50-60	1	[2.13%]
61+	32	[68.09%]
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