Bad idea.

Remember, this is a website for human beings. By default, human beings does not understand that this website also features other music genres than Canterbury, although a percentage of the human population will use the pop up menu you have attached. Hence, this is not a good idea.

Keep it simple (= keep it as it is) so even sleep walking village idiots like myself also can use this website at 0500 in the morning on our way to work. 

Backwards I think.  The genres should all be visible as they are now.  The other stuff can be hidden in a pull down, if necessary. 

^ OK, it's actually feature that I use the most. I wanted to reduce everything, but genres may remain. Top artists would be nice in the way I proposed I think, it's not that important feature (biggies takes the place and it's not easy to see new artists in this top50).

With genres presented (they're good, because they remain on the same name, don't switch it like Top artists does), we would get 6 lines.

toroddfuglesteg wrote: Bad idea. Remember, this is a website for human beings. By default, human beings does not understand that this website also features other music genres than Canterbury, although a percentage of the human population will use the pop up menu you have attached. Hence, this is not a good idea. Keep it simple (= keep it as it is) so even sleep walking village idiots like myself also can use this website at 0500 in the morning on our way to work.

Hey :-) at least something unnecessary can be reduced. Keeping it neat, simple and still useful & functional.

^ Well, I was confused at first and it took me some time to get accustomed to it. 

Top artists are good for impression, but when you want to find something, you cannot, because positions are constantly changing. I wanted to use it as quick link to for example Camel artist page, but I have to find it first. And big names are there most of the times (66%) while the rest are new bands currently popular.

Alphabetic letters are very useful, true. Subgenres are useful as well, even there could be name-shorting (such as Symphonic Prog to Symphonic, or Crossover Prog to Crossover, because we know we're talking about Prog)

The point is how many people actually use Misc.

Marty McFly wrote: ^ Well, I was confused at first and it took me some time to get accustomed to it.  Top artists are good for impression, but when you want to find something, you cannot, because positions are constantly changing. I wanted to use it as quick link to for example Camel artist page, but I have to find it first. And big names are there most of the times (66%) while the rest are new bands currently popular.

First rule of usability: every item in a product interface has a single purpose. Don't give in to adding additional purposes who want to use it for different purposes - a change for one confuses a million others. If you want a quick link to Camel - use the bookmarks in your browser.

Marty McFly wrote: Alphabetic letters are very useful, true. Subgenres are useful as well, even there could be name-shorting (such as Symphonic Prog to Symphonic, or Crossover Prog to Crossover, because we know we're talking about Prog)

If there's enough space, there's no need for change. And if the subgenre has prog in it's name leave it there. Some of them don't have it, leaving it out for the ones that do leads to a different kind of confusion (and annoyance). Just imagine someone who is assuming 'prog' is omitted on purpose from the main page, and then starts asking about 'who can give me some hints to get into Jazz Rock Prog'?

Marty McFly wrote: The point is how many people actually use Misc.

Run a poll on it. You may be surprised to see how many people use it to find out for example if they missed a new hot album in 2010. Not every prog fan is using the forum discussions to keep track of this you know - there are different frames of reference than just the PA forums when it comes to prog. I know, I've been away from here for 18 months.