While I was viewing the website, I thought to my self why there is no prog index by countries? It'd be very helpful if I could look for bands by countries. I know that I can search for a band and go to its country and look for other bands from the same country, but countries that have very few bands can hardly be found when I make a random search for a random word like my country, for instance,  and looking through the entire list takes so much time and energy that I never do it. Let me know what you think, I believe it would be helpful.

This can already be done I believe.

Find a band from the country you are intersted in the A-Z, then click on the country!

You should then get a list of bands by that Country!....Beseder?

A typical Israeli ! two weeks in the forum and he already has ideas how to improve it. do'nt be insulted I did the same thing few weeks before you did. If you realy interested in Cuban bands I can not help you but if you're interested in Israeli bands I met here only 3 (actually 2.5). One is Zingale which you reviewd yourself. Second is Trespass that I can not find in any store I went to. The half is blackfield (Brian Wilson & Aviv Gefen) which is'nt realy prog and you should know half of the album from Israeli Gefen's release (Cloudy now - translate to hebrew, give you a ring ?). Anyway the only Israely music that might fit here is "Church of mind" (knesiyat hasehel) and Evyatar Banay (You should remember he went to get Robert Wyatt's blessing before completing his first album). Both may fit "art rock" 

If you know a way to search the stocks of Israeli stores (Tower records or Tzlil) and find if they have what i'm looking for through the net, please let me know. Until now I was finding such information only for the US and UK branches of tower recoeds. A good excuse to go abroad but not the cheapest way to purchase music.

And to snow dog - Beseder gamur ! thankyou

Dan Yaron wrote: Hey Snow Dog, I can do that, but what I mean is that finding bands from Cuba, for instance, a country that has only one bad isn't very easy considering the fact that most people including me won't go through the entire A-Z list just for one band from a country that has one band, I found that Cuban band while looking through the A-Z option, and I didn't think there had been any Cuban bands before I found that band without even looking for it. In a nutshell, I just think it'd be another useful way to discover new bands.

Dan,

I don't know if mailto:M@X - M@X intends to implement a facility to search for a country by keyword along the lines you suggest (and I agree it would be useful), but you can search for bands from a particular country - albeit less conveniently - by typing the following URL into the Address box of your Web browser:

http://www.progarchives.com/Band-list.asp?country=1 - http://www.progarchives.com/Band-list.asp?country=1

where the last digit(s) are a country code, which I assume is mailto:M@X's - M@X's own as it does not correspond to the UN or ISO country code standards.

The above URL will list Argentinian bands in the Archives. If you replace the 1 with 199 then you will list the bands from Uzbekistan in the Archives.

The country codes for all the bands in the Archives to date are listed below. Notice that country code 140 is for the 'country' Various and 210 is for the 'country' Multi-National. I assume that they were intended to be the same thing, in which case the relevant entries in the database need to be corrected.

You can enter country codes not on the above list. Try a few, in case I've missed out a country in the above list.

That's a useful list Fitz, it must have taken ages to prepare!

I think the difference between Various and Multi-national is that Various is for various artists albums, multi-national is for when the the members of a single band are from different countries. I could be wrong though..

Snow Dog wrote: Hey Easy Livin'..you Admin now? Or have you always been since I've been here and I Haven't noticed?

 Easy has passed over to the other side,Snowy....forget him and get on with your pathetic existence.

Tony R wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Hey Easy Livin'..you Admin now? Or have you always been since I've been here and I Haven't noticed?  Easy has passed over to the other side,Snowy....forget him and get on with your pathetic existence.

Ok Tony "R" Us

SD,

Yes,

Peter, Useful Idiot and myself have been taken onto the Admin team. The forum and review pages are so busy now, that we voulenteered to help with the moderating.

That Tony R better watch his step, I can tell you.

Easy Livin wrote: That's a useful list Fitz, it must have taken ages to prepare! I think the difference between Various and Multi-national is that Various is for various artists albums, multi-national is for when the the members of a single band are from different countries. I could be wrong though..

Thanks, Easy. It only took about 15 minutes to put the list together: with Excel in one window and just running the cursor quickly down the countries in another window, for band pages A to Z in turn. With the cursor over a country hyperlink, the country code is displayed in the bottom line of the Internet Explorer window. There are so many repeated countries under each letter that it was quick to check through each list, although I might have missed one or two.

The only entry in the Archives with the 'country' "Various" is GONGZILLA, which the biography says is an international band, so I assume that the 'country' Various (code 140) is actually the same as the 'country' "Multi-National" (code 210). Anyway, no doubt mailto:M@X - M@X will enlighten us and fix it, if necessary.

My favourite country code is 9. Maybe the penguins have hidden talents.