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    Posted: January 18 2008 at 14:04
I think we'll stop there, this thread has run its course anyway.
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Points: 976 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 13:58
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Akin, it is only natural that popular bands such as the Police will be commented on more than less well known ones. I don't understand your reluctance to post your list though. You complain that your suggestions are ignored, but deny us the opportunity to examine a list of over 100 bands who according to you are prog bands who should be listed here. That is not collaborating. It is quite possible that many of the bands have been considered. I am sure the various teams will be delighted to tell you if this is the case.
 
The rest of your post is disrespectful to the hard work done by our collaborators, without who the site would not be all that it is now. I don't think any of us would maintain that the site is perfect, but it is pretty damn good though.
 
 


That's exactly why I am not collaborating anymore, except for the reviews, but just because M@x invited me personally. I will not wasting my time anymore searching info, discography and even samples to no one.

And the rest of the post, that you say is disrespectful, is the price paid for giving a "God like" status to some collabs, that permitted then to say the things I mentioned without ever being asked to treat the others with respect, respect the others' work and help the site as whole, not only concerning about his genre "feud". This bothered some people here and they all jumped off the ship, including me. Now, ask these collabs to find more prog bands to the site.
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 11:52
Akin, it is only natural that popular bands such as the Police will be commented on more than less well known ones. I don't understand your reluctance to post your list though. You complain that your suggestions are ignored, but deny us the opportunity to examine a list of over 100 bands who according to you are prog bands who should be listed here. That is not collaborating. It is quite possible that many of the bands have been considered. I am sure the various teams will be delighted to tell you if this is the case.
 
The rest of your post is disrespectful to the hard work done by our collaborators, without who the site would not be all that it is now. I don't think any of us would maintain that the site is perfect, but it is pretty damn good though.
 
 
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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 11:19
^ that is what is wrong here....  anyone clued Akin in that anyone.. especially collabs can suggest bands directly to the genre teams they feel might fit best.

there is not reason for any band to go ignored....
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Points: 976 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 10:34
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Originally posted by akin akin wrote:

I have a list of more than a hundred bands that are not included in PA and that I consider more prog than Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Beatles, Doors, Who, Iron Maiden, Journey. And a thousand that are more prog than Toto. 
 
Have you posted it in the forum then? If so, where is it please?


I will not post the list in the forum, because I've already posted some bands of it and they were completely ignored. Otherwise, when people posted suggestions like The Police, these suggestions got many replies, with many people cheering the progressive qualities of The Police and the others.

This, together with some collabs that think they are owners of the site and every other collab that suggested a band the he felt was not progressive was trying to flood PA with non-prog while they themselves were flooding the genres they are considered specialists with non-prog bands in my opinion, made me lose all the interest I had in collaborating with anything in the site.
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 02:30
You know, I had a list like that and I was going to post it, but my dog ate it.
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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2008 at 22:46
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Originally posted by akin akin wrote:

I have a list of more than a hundred bands that are not included in PA and that I consider more prog than Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Beatles, Doors, Who, Iron Maiden, Journey. And a thousand that are more prog than Toto. 
 
Have you posted it in the forum then? If so, where is it please?
 
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Points: 65778 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2008 at 21:28
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Points: 53 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2008 at 21:20

I second that.  The audasity to consider such AOR trash as Journey or the even more annoying Toto on such a prestigious site such as PA is utterly unthinkable.  You might as well propose legalizing child pornography because that is the kind of twisted peversion you are suggesting.  If you don't understand the basic principals of Proto-and prog-related then you have no buisness making ANY new band suggestions.  While I agree that early Beatles and Who was nothing more than innovative pop/rock, it's what those seminal bands evolved into that makes them Proto-Progressive.  Again what you propose is just peverse.
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 14:16
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Originally posted by akin akin wrote:

I have a list of more than a hundred bands that are not included in PA and that I consider more prog than Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Beatles, Doors, Who, Iron Maiden, Journey. And a thousand that are more prog than Toto. 
 
Have you posted it in the forum then? If so, where is it please?
 
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Points: 5851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 10:59
I think it is very difficult to say what bands are really Prog-Related bands and what not.
 
Certainly in this category are cases like Wishbone Ash, Deep Purple or Rainbow (rather than the Queen) that were 100% Prog album and in general could be considered 100% Prog. This is not the problem. Rather, we should consider what was the Prog (in all its exception) in the 70's: a more complicated music of POP, often deliberately. So let's see if we might well consider prog everything produced in the 70's that is more complicated of Boston (I quote at random...) not necessarily with odd or compounds times, but simply requires more listen to be understood. Certainly this is not the case today. So how? If bands include only taking into account the definition that you gave in the 70's, we would have hundreds of Prog bands that today would laugh. Conversely if we use only modern conception of the term Prog Rock too many bands remain outside. I think we should apply whenever a definition from time to time more just for the individual band.
 
So that The Who, The Beatles or Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath or Blue Oyster Cult are in PA is the son of the historical period in which these bands have worked. And although it may seem strange they were considered Prog when they are formed.
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My point is that according to each own's opinion, there will ever be many prog or prog-related bands not included in PA that are more prog than those included in PA. My intention with my post is to show that everybody can come with an argument of this kind about one or more bands he/she considers more prog than the others included here.

And I don't believe that after four years in this site, the arguments for doubtfully prog/prog-related mainstream bands to be included in PA are the same, but the topics always receive much attention, while arguably obscure prog/prog-related bands are overlooked.
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Points: 65778 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 17:06
Originally posted by akin akin wrote:

I have a list of more than a hundred bands that are not included in PA and that I consider more prog than Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Beatles, Doors, Who, Iron Maiden, Journey. And a thousand that are more prog than Toto. 


I don't understand your point... Zep, Sabbath, Doors, Who, Maiden, all PROG RELATED or Proto--  of course there are hundreds of bands more progressive that aren't on PA, and there always will be... 







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Originally posted by akin akin wrote:

I have a list of more than a hundred bands that are not included in PA and that I consider more prog than Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Beatles, Doors, Who, Iron Maiden, Journey. And a thousand that are more prog than Toto. 
 
Have you posted it in the forum then? If so, where is it please?
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Originally posted by Aeternus Aeternus wrote:

I think that everyone knows that a lot of the bands that are in PA aren't Prog at all; examples include, among others, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, The Who, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, etc... Journey, or Toto, have more prog elements that all those bands together. Is it fair that the Beatles are in PA and Journey not?
 
   well, I think Beatles, Who, Zeppelin and Sabbath deserve to be on PA simply because of their diversity, noncomformity, they were ahead of their times, they had the courage to experiment.
   Iron Maiden was an influence on a lot of prog-metal bands, that's why they deserve a place here; even The Doors, I don't have a problem with them being here, their first two albums show experiment and progression. Also Celebration of the Lizard is a brilliant epic, played only live - if that song ain't progresssive, i don't know what is.
    As much as i love Journey and Toto, they don't belong on a prog site; I don't think Asia or GTR belong here, but that's another story; both Toto and journey show great skilled musicianship but it's not enough to consider them as prog-rock or prog-related.
 
   feel free to contradict me if i'm not making much sense.
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I have a list of more than a hundred bands that are not included in PA and that I consider more prog than Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Beatles, Doors, Who, Iron Maiden, Journey. And a thousand that are more prog than Toto. 
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Originally posted by Aeternus Aeternus wrote:

Originally posted by Avantgardehead Avantgardehead wrote:

Originally posted by Aeternus Aeternus wrote:

Metal Archives contains only metal bands.


Not really. Rush is there and they aren't metal. There are several glam rock bands there like Poison, Def Leppard, etc. as well as several ambient acts and non-metal stuff that gets in under the side-project rule ranging from pop, rock, to ambient.


Rush consider themselves as heavy metal also. Poison and Def Leppard in the most cases are considered as glam metal. You're right about the side projects that some of them aren't metal. But, those side projects, or better to say members of those side projects, unlike here in PA, contribute mainly one their respective metal bands.
 
I think the definition of "metal" has changed with time. When I was in high school, Creem and Circus used to do "Special Heavy Metal" issues and Rush was always included, along with Zep, Van Halen, Heart and other bands no one thinks of as metal since Metallica, Megadeth, Antrax and other bands of that generation re-wrote the metal rule book.
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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2008 at 18:44
Originally posted by Aeternus Aeternus wrote:

Originally posted by Avantgardehead Avantgardehead wrote:

Originally posted by Aeternus Aeternus wrote:

Metal Archives contains only metal bands.


Not really. Rush is there and they aren't metal. There are several glam rock bands there like Poison, Def Leppard, etc. as well as several ambient acts and non-metal stuff that gets in under the side-project rule ranging from pop, rock, to ambient.


Rush consider themselves as heavy metal also. Poison and Def Leppard in the most cases are considered as glam metal. You're right about the side projects that some of them aren't metal. But, those side projects, or better to say members of those side projects, unlike here in PA, contribute mainly one their respective metal bands.


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