XTC

2. I see no reason to include them in the archives of a site focused on progressive rock

3. I still love them anyway.

4. They are not a "glaring omission".  That implies that everyone but you is too stupid to realize that they haven't been added, and that's a mean thing to say.

Your hyperbole-laden histrionics do you proud, if perhaps tending to paint an image not dissimilar to that which you are lambasting, though to be honest I don't see how a simple "No, they're not Prog" constitutes fire and brimstone evangelical sermonising. However, does not alter the fact we do not include band "Y" just because band "X" is here.

 

We could include every "clever" band that ever existed and rename ourselves the Quite Interesting Music Archives since then Prog Related would contain more bands and artists than all the other subgenres and categories put together, and if we go there people will still decry that their favourite band isn't listed for not being quite interestingly clever enough so expansionism would dictate that we rename ourselves Not Manufactured Pop Archives until such a day as Justin Bieber records a duet with Jon Anderson and we become another RYM clone.

 

But we do none of those things - we are selective - (picky if you like) - with the idea of keeping the Prog Related section to a representative size such that it does not dominate any other subgenre here... There is no empirical formula to this, or even any planned or stated intent - somewhere around 150 bands seems big enough (yeah, there are possibly some I would cull (an unknown and/or obscure band has no place in PR for example) and possibly some I would move to other subs and there are perhaps some bands that should perhaps be there and some that perhaps should not, it's not an exact science - it's like sorting your offspring (or family or friends) in order of preference, we can do it, it doesn't mean we should). There are some bands that a strong case could be made to include, (like The Stranglers, Magazine or Wire), but that still does not mean they can or will be included, infact since it is merely a representation it could even argued that if band "X" is here we don't need to add band "Y" (thinking specifically Megabreth vs Metalicacaca)

 

 

I have no idea why Talking Heads are here, didn't even know. Seems bizarre to me but what do I know? Have never heard the others so can't comment.

But even in Prog Related....XTC.....well i don't see it.