A hundred subgenres?

Why limit ourselves to just the few subgenres listed on PA?  Progressive music comes in many forms, varying throughout the years, throughout the world, and throughout the basic subgenres.  There are probably close to a hundred prog subgenres out there, not covered by the PA distinctions.

Resorting them wouldn't be very fun. 

Although I agree that Prog from all over the world has its own unique indigenous flavour, sub dividing further would merely play into the hands of that stereotyping of Prog fans which casts us as never happier than when cataloging our own faeces. Ralph Waldo Emerson perhaps put it best:
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

Please no.

No. We need less, not more.

Turkmenistani Prog has always deserved its own subgenre 

Thank you, Mind_Drive, I think you hit the nail right on the head! Excessive categorizing doesn't help people experience new music, which I think is the value of our favorite website. For instance, IMHO Marillion just isn't Neo- or Symphonic Prog anymore. I personally would call them Crossover Prog. Allowing multiple categories for bands is a great idea.

Dean wrote: We currently have 8,676 subgenres and the list grows every day. Most of those  8,676 subgenres are subdivided into subsubgenre. It's quite possible we could have almost 43,926 subsubgenres, (ELP excepted).

chopper wrote: Please no.

While my gut response is HELL NO, since I'm on my lunch break I'll break the question down into smaller pieces and analyze it to death for no good reason other than I want to practice my writing skills.

There are a couple of different possible questions embedded in the question of whether to increase the number of subgenres recognized on PA.    As it is, there is an invisible (yet distinct) boundary around a certain subset of all the music out there, and within that boundary are bands that fit PA's inclusion criteria ("it's gotta be prog, and not everything that's progressive is necessarily prog" is a common mantra around here).  So, by adding new subgenres, would we

a) further subdivide the "prog" that is already eligible for inclusion, without expanding the criteria per se, or
b) would we broaden the scope of the site by allowing bands that would not have made it under the old system?

If a), the advantages would be

1. finer levels of descriptive detail in the categorization of any given band
2. several people would find it interesting
3. More fuel for heated disagreements and venomous attacks

and the disadvantages would be

1. More work
2. Even more work
3. More fuel for heated disagreements and venomous attacks

if b) the advantages would be

1. The chance to move the contents of our database asymptotically closer to the full and complete meaning of the word "progressive"
2. A sure-fire draw to all those Indo-Neo-Post-Kraut-Symphonic Banjo fans who had avoided our site until now.
3. More slots open for the coveted "Collaborator" title

and the disadvantages would be

1. No sleep til Brooklyn
2. Upon achieving perfection, there would be nothing left to argue about and the forum would die
3. I swear I was serious when I started this post, but I've lost my train of thought and gotten goofy all of a sudden

In conclusion, I need a vacation.

Edited by HolyMoly - June 17 2014 at 11:41