the Top 100 album list
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Topic: the Top 100 album list
Posted By: omri
Subject: the Top 100 album list
Date Posted: May 02 2005 at 19:16
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If I got it right, the technick of making this list is to time the amount of ratings in the avarage rate to get the popularity of an album. This is not a bad idea and the list is not surprising. But ......... I think you need to do another list of highly rated albums (let's say of at least 9 ratings so not any unknown with 1 or 2 ratings will skip in, but talk talk's "spirit of eden" that is the highest rated album I've seen here, will be included). In this list will be the albums accordings to their avarage rates only, which will make a whole different list and I guess - a wider range of music. Taking talk talk as a good example I claim that most of us are familiar with the 1970 - 1977 english prog music who created the genre & dominates it (with good reasons). However there are some great music made later or elsewhere that we are less familiar with. Like I happen to know talk talk, some others know another great band and it will be easy to search for good music we do not know through such a list (cause you need only few excelent ratings to be on this list). It will also be interesting to see what albums will be on both lists (and to see that dream theatre is much less important then it seems from the existing list). What do you say ? ------------- omri |
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 02 2005 at 19:20
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I used to live in Israel by Yam kinneret ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: May 02 2005 at 20:44
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I spent 6 weeks in Israel if that counts And how can we continue to let Dream Theater dominate the List uchhh  Dream Theater would win that list too all the metal heads give those albums ***** automatically cool idea though! 
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Posted By: Rob The Good
Date Posted: May 02 2005 at 22:28
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Bands like Marillion or Dream Theater should have VERY limited places on the list - not that they aren't any good, it's just that they feed off the giants of the 70s. ------------- And Jesus said unto John, "come forth and receive eternal life..." Unfortunately, John came fifth and was stuck with a toaster. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 02 2005 at 22:32
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Giants of the '70's!
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Rob The Good wrote:
Posted By: Fibonacci's Se
Date Posted: May 02 2005 at 23:24
"giants of the 70s" - if its one thing im sick of its that
classification, everybody knows all those bands, like honestly this
forum is not going to help diversify your progressive knowlegde if
everything comes back to the bands decicedly known as "gaints" (elp,
kc, gensis, etc, etc WHATEVER) ...mabey you should start more forums
about bands that youve found that may not be quite so
popular....definantly the list is a good idea. But mabey you should
start a list about bands that arent even on the top 50 spot list or at
least a very annonamous placing, that way this webpage might actually
bring something and help make progressive music more popular again.... ...My 2 cents good idea the list  ------------- cajole the promethean king while his pastiche panjandrum is caught within soleism, genuflect, avoid malversation |
Posted By: VLADO
Date Posted: May 03 2005 at 03:09
ich glaube schon ------------- ...and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make... |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: May 03 2005 at 03:22
Some ***** ratings are often granted automatically indeed. It seems like some reviewers base their ratings only on listening to a few prog bands... We just have to accept different opinions. It's good to have free speach (with some rules of manners)! |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: May 04 2005 at 08:15
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to vlado - sorry, do'nt speak german. to netsnjfan - I did not spend much more time on the US. count for what anyway ? the avarage rates of dream theatre is not so high. It's the amount of ratings pushing them up. to snow dog - I lived in afikim for 22 years (years ago). to the rest - thanks for the support on the idea ------------- omri |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 04 2005 at 09:02
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Omri, I lived in Alumot ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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