Will PA ever label genres by album?

Am I the only one here who thinks the current system of assigning one genre to one artist is perfect as it stands now?

I would say it’s certainly not perfect because kind of blue, a jazz album, nothing prog about it, is listed as the number one jazz fusion album of all time. Opeth, a band that is now in the heavy prog genre is listed as extreme/tech prog metal. Steven Wilson who has albums that are more in line with eclectic or symphonic prog is listed as crossover prog (which is accurate for some albums) yes, who hasn’t really released a symphonic prog album since maybe drama is listed as such.

Point is genres are not one size fits all, especially for prog artists who are constantly changing their sound.

richardh wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Am I the only one here who thinks the current system of assigning one genre to one artist is perfect as it stands now?   as long as it's the correct one then maybe Vangelis is apparently Prog Related and not the more obvious Progressive Electronic.

iluvmarillion wrote: BaldJean wrote: I have always said that genre should be assigned to album, not to artist Agree. So many albums shouldn't even be associated with PA but because of the artist they are.

Edited by moshkito - January 12 2020 at 06:24

I'm fine with the way it is.  As we have learned in the sub genre teams, the most important thing is that an artist be on PA if they generally fit.  What sub genre they go into is less important.   But we try to put them in the sub genre that makes the most sense overall.  I can pretty much surmise that, if we went to sub genres by album, we would still want to classify the band overall, and many people would want to start breaking down the sub genres by song, complaining that 3 of the songs are crossover and 5 are heavy prog so why is the album considered crossover, until someone else points out that, in running time, the heavy prog songs win out, and then someone else points out that half of two of the heavy prog songs is very symphonic, then tipping the scales in favor of crossover again. 

So how would you label "split personality" albums like A Wizard A True Star where each side would belong to a different sub-genre? Song by song labelling? Preposterous!!! 

siLLy puPPy wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Am I the only one here who thinks the current system of assigning one genre to one artist is perfect as it stands now? Probably. Just like you're the only one who thinks Shocking Blue is progressive

I think that would be a good idea. The Echolyn thread reminds me that they should be eclectic prog or even crossover and not symphonic. Only their very early albums could really be considered symphonic(and maybe mei). Maybe in the case of Echolyn at least they are going by how a band first establishes themselves(not sure). If we got rid of the general labels though it would be more difficult to find individual bands so there is both good and bad to doing away with the general label. 

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - January 15 2020 at 11:21