I suggest Tori Amos

I couldn't find a direct contact to an Admin (I suppose I didn't look properly, but oh well..) so let's see if this gets to one.

hahhah.. I appreciate the forthright nature of your remark.  And yes.. you did the right thing.  As to your question.  If she was to be included here... one team would look at her.. and that would be the one I am on.  So to answer your question.... does it have a chance.. who knows?...probably not to be honest... but we'll give her an honest look. About all I can promise you.

Personally, I would be in favour of Tori's addition. I have a few of her CDs, and I have always found quite a few progressive elements in her music. Besides, she's often compared to Kate Bush, who is here, so I think her inclusion in the DB wouldn't be such a big scandal.

However, as one of the people who reviewed Stormbringer, I think I never stated it was a prog album. I am very much into a lot of Prog-Related and Proto-Prog bands, therefore I have reviewed many of their albums - and every time I have clearly stated if there were prog elements or not.  The rules of the site require that we add complete discographies, and if an album is added, it's up for everyone to review it.

I understand your remark was made in good faith, but unfortunately I tend to become annoyed every time people use that argument to push some addition. Some bands are here because the owners requested their inclusion, as controversial as it may have been. Since the site is not ours, either we accept it, or we leave.

Boy, we've got a nice big prog umbrella around here.  Tori Amos isn't exactly the first name that comes to mind when listing prog artists, but then again I used to say the same thing about Radiohead, so what the hell do I know.  Early stuff was terrific, but unfortunately she's another artist that fell off my radar screen over the years.  Her videos are "proggy" enough...wasn't there one where she was breast feeding rodents?  

Google indicates that it was a photo of her breastfeeding a piglet on her album "Boys for Pele".

NaturalScience wrote: Boy, we've got a nice big prog umbrella around here.  Tori Amos isn't exactly the first name that comes to mind when listing prog artists, but then again I used to say the same thing about Radiohead, so what the hell do I know.  Early stuff was terrific, but unfortunately she's another artist that fell off my radar screen over the years.  Her videos are "proggy" enough...wasn't there one where she was breast feeding rodents?

She does have a picture of her "breastfeeding" a piglet in the CD booklet of Boys.  You are thinking of the video for God where she played around with rats.

Slartibartfast wrote: NaturalScience wrote: Boy, we've got a nice big prog umbrella around here.  Tori Amos isn't exactly the first name that comes to mind when listing prog artists, but then again I used to say the same thing about Radiohead, so what the hell do I know.  Early stuff was terrific, but unfortunately she's another artist that fell off my radar screen over the years.  Her videos are "proggy" enough...wasn't there one where she was breast feeding rodents?   She does have a picture of her "breastfeeding" a piglet in the CD booklet of Boys.  You are thinking of the video for God where she played around with rats.

That's right, now I remember, thanks.

I have no great objections to her inclusion, but I would like to point out that the genre teams do a lot of (unpaid) work to add artists to the database so to say you "just can't be bothered with all that at the moment" isn't likely to inspire them to do the addition much! The new bands process is there for a reason and you can't just assume that the relevant genre team will be familiar with the work of Tori Amos.