Do believe that females are progressive musicians?

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Hi,

I find this thread really sad ... regardless of who wrote it and why.

The one fact that happens here is that the folks that "designed" the top ten for "progressive" music, are not listeners of MUSIC at all, so complaining about a group that does not know "music" and what it entails, in favor of their favorites, is a dead end, and a silly fight that is not going to get anyone anywhere.

One look at this board, even, though it has gotten CONSIDERABLY better in the past 5 years, is that the threads continue to say and think that these 5 groups are "progressive" and that kate Bush, and many others, can not even be considered in the same breadth as YES, ELP and GENESIS, even though the whole catalogue suggests just as much "progressive" material as those bands, all of which went "pop" and "single" and "hit" ... to make money and get away from the "progressive" and "art-rock" idiom that the rock press was ridiculing them with.

The advent of the Internet, early 's let's say, kinda helped women a lot more than before, however, the ideals and "designs" and thoughts, are still aligned with an imaginary ideal of what "progressive" is, and should be, and this prevents any new artists from being appreciated for their work.

It's a gross shame, that things like Incredible String Band, that bent, crossed, kicked, and turned it over like a dead dog, treated "folk music", which was a heck more progressive and experimental than the three previously named bands ... but it will never get that appreciation because of the "database" design and syndrome. 

We are not people. There is no choice. Only the numbers in a database matter.

So, nothing against women, they deserve their spot, a lot higher, but until the day that you replace those database folks, the chances of your music being more appreciated and seen around the world, are next to nil.

As the world of "corporate" likes to state all the time with their new hits ... "we don't like competition, and will give you cereal fit for rats for comments .... and we, of course ... continue to do nothing about except support an invisible, totally NON_PROGRESSIVE system that supposedly is defining what we love as music ... the total and complete irony, is just ... astounding!

Edited by moshkito - December 30 2017 at 21:45