changes on progarchives

HEHE,so am i the first to discover the changes on the main site?

I think they're great, the key albums are very useful and the discography combined with the rating seems cool to me too.

But I still have to make two suggestions:

- don't name the mp3 downloads "key songs", since they're not.

- at the ratings beside the discography: ratings can make a wrong impression if theyre based on only 1 - 5 (or even 1 - 10?) reviews..... You should either write "album not rated" beside those or find some other way to seperate them from the ones that get reviewed a lot.

EDIT: also, what are the ratings actually based on?? BSS for example gets only 4 stars, though 69% of the reviewers gave 5 of them...

What do you think?

Edited by BebieM

oh ya, that seems logical.

Agree with you Gdub, should be deleted, but don't care too much, flamers and trolls are very common.

Iván

I don't really like the discography as a long long list...

but the "Key albums are a good idea". I agree with BebieM on the KEY SONGS, though

Joren wrote: I think there should REALLY be a maximum of albums by one artist ion the suggested album list. In art rock, there are almost only Rush albums suggested... this is not good. The variety on the website is disappearing

I agree with that; if you want to explore a subgenre of prog I don't think any more than three albums need be suggested by any one band.

Joren wrote: How come the rating is 5 stars??

Now that is odd, it seems the average isn't quite working out properly...

It'd be great for half stars to be displayed on the artist page. So many
albums when averaged appear as 4 or 5 stars, and it most cases I found
that it wasn't that useful because of that, when compared to ratings on
the album page. It would also better represent Brain Salad Surgery and
Trilogy as mentioned above.

Having 10 radio buttons in the rating form is a bit impractical, but
because it's an average of whole stars it could easily work. I can't think of
a way off the top of my head to round to a half, but doubling, rounding
up to an integar then halfing the number would fo the trick.

Edited by Ice Man

I agree with those that say they must drop the key song bits and just call them "mp3 downloads"

I mean looking at this list of Genesis songs one can tell that not every song is the best example of their material.

The Knife  (Trespass, 1970)
  The Musical Box  (Nursery Cryme, 1971)
  Watcher of the Skies  (Foxtrot, 1972)
  The Cinema Show  (Selling England By The Pound, 1973)
  In the Cage  (The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, 1974)
  Los Endos  (A Trick Of The Tail, 1976)
  One for the Vine  (Wind And Wuthering , 1977)
  In The Cage / Cinema Show / Slippermen  (Three Sides Live , 1982)
  Fading Lights  (We Can't Dance , 1991)

I think they should try, although it would be difficult, to try to get a song from each of the albums under an artist.  That way, a person would be able to really get a feel for the artists, and decide for themselves about an album

 

ivan_2068 wrote: Agree with you Gdub, should be deleted, but don't care too much, flamers and trolls are very common. Iván

I absolutel yagree with both of you - any review that is grossly and gratuitously offensive should be deleted immediately after any of the ProgArchives 'bosses' detects them. It's not that the reviewer wants to state that they don't like neoprog or prog in general, and he wants to tease us... well, that's OK, and even funny. But what's the need to use the word twat? What's the use in affirming that prog is dead with such an amount of vengeance? If a "reviewer" needs to use insult in order to make their point, then they don't deserve to be read in the first place.

Regards.

 

I agree, there are plenty of bands I haven't heard much from, or even ANY from. One band I would like to hear some MP3s from would be The Nice. I also find it quite shocking that bands like Pink Floyd & ELP only have about 3 tracks available. I like the selection of Genesis MP3s because to me it's a very good taster of the band's material.