Peter Gabriel Is In Crossover!!!

MajesterX wrote: micky wrote: if you don't mean to be a sad sack.. I won't mean being to be a prick.   Whether you like or  don't like you doesn't matter a damn.  Those sub-genres exist to help those who don't know his music with a reference point to other artist who have a similar style.  Being in PR says jack sh*t about what he did musically or what he sounded like. We 'make up' these sub-genres to help sort out of these nearly 3000 bands.  It isn't a science.. .only a reference.  Do you honestly believe that if a Peter Gabriel fan asked for similar bands, you would direct him to Radiohead or Mike Oldfield? I was younger and more ignorant when I first came here, and I began to associate the bands here with the genre names here when talking to other prog fans, and they were confused as hell. In the real world, the sub-categorizing stops at progressive rock.

OK, so your solution would be..? Having everything together, so that a Peter Gabriel fan would find similar bands more easily?

I really wonder at how easy it is for some people to criticise, even to try to destroy what others are working hard to create... It's true that some set too much store by categories, but is it really necessary to put things so unpleasantly? After all, you know how this site works... If those categories and classifications really get to you, you should try and find a site that only deals with 'progressive rock'.

micky wrote: if you don't mean to be a sad sack.. I won't mean being to be a prick.   Whether you like or  don't like you doesn't matter a damn.  Those sub-genres exist to help those who don't know his music with a reference point to other artist who have a similar style.  Being in PR says jack sh*t about what he did musically or what he sounded like. We 'make up' these sub-genres to help sort out of these nearly 3000 bands.  It isn't a science.. .only a reference.

Do you honestly believe that if a Peter Gabriel fan asked for similar bands, you would direct him to Radiohead or Mike Oldfield?

I was younger and more ignorant when I first came here, and I began to associate the bands here with the genre names here when talking to other prog fans, and they were confused as hell. In the real world, the sub-categorizing stops at progressive rock.

MajesterX wrote: woopee. Gabriel's in some sub-genre of a sub-genre that we made up and now we're rejoicing. I don't mean to be a sad sack here, but as long as Peter Gabriel is recognized or even on the site for that matter, why does it matter whether he's in the related section of the new so-called "crossover" section? I like him a good deal, but I couldn't care less whether he's called Eclectic Crossover Progressive Rock or just plain Pop.

if you don't mean to be a sad sack.. I won't mean being to be a prick.   Whether you like or  don't like you doesn't matter a damn.  Those sub-genres exist to help those who don't know his music with a reference point to other artist who have a similar style.  Being in PR says jack sh*t about what he did musically or what he sounded like. We 'make up' these sub-genres to help sort out of these nearly 3000 bands.  It isn't a science.. .only a reference. 

Passionist wrote: Now there's a way to get the needed apathy and negativiness back to PA!

  that is where the fun is

Passionist wrote: Heh, another spot free in the prog-related :) No, I'm hapy with this move. /me goes on his rampage for adding björk to PA ;)

funny you mention Bjork...

Heh, another spot free in the prog-related :) No, I'm hapy with this move.

/me goes on his rampage for adding björk to PA ;)

chopper wrote: micky wrote: the hell with this....a move that people like.  We can't be having any of that...  moving him back to PR.  Listening to you all bitch about this stuff is much more fun  You're getting cynical in your old age micky.

Getting?

Great!

So when Peter said he left Genesis to write pop songs, what did that mean? ;-)