The Prog Archives Starter Kit

What is your "no" to? You don't think it's good? You think rotten tomatoes is so much better?

The entire site was extremely helpful to me. The charts themselves were a great "start here" both the main chart and then the genre charts. I had no idea what Canterbury or Krautrock were before coming here.

There are Metal & Jazz versions of this site.

Well, it's not like there's a lot of competition.  At least not for this kind of forum. There's only one other similar website for prog (at least that I know of) and they do a very good job too but there's a lot more members here and the other site doesn't have a comprehensive database with tons of listings of artists like PA does. 

Starting with the Rate Your Music all time highest voted chart is a much better representation of the world at large than PA actually. This is a niche site that not everyone visits.

The #1 prog rock album of all time on RYM is Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.

On RYM it has close to 60,000 ratings whereas PA only has 4433 at the moment

Check out this chart that includes both prog rock and prog metal and it doesn't stop at 250

It will take you through 20 pages that includes the top 2000

Yes, I think that's a fact.

Hi,

Sad. For my point of view.

For many of us, in the old days, we didn't ask anyone ... you saw this far out cover and your mind started wondering and you went and listened. Rarely, if ever, did many of us get something because of someone else's thoughts or ideas.

And I certainly think that suggestions, while exceptionally well meaning, are not what you want ... PROGRESSIVE MUSIC came alive because of our imagination AND DESIRE to listen to something else than the pop crap on radio. And that it came with artistic notions and aspects, was a massive bonus ... and this is something that you will not exactly get, or understand, about most of this music.

It's like me telling you that "kraurock" is an art scene, not a rock scene, and you will go ... what's he talking about? ... instead of going to check out the movies, the theater, the artists, the singers, the actors, and the musicians that made it come alive! AND, how, improvisation (mostly a theater exercise btw!!!) was so valuable and important!

If, you have to rely on our suggestions, it kinda makes me feel sad ... we discovered new worlds on our own ... you're not discovering much because you are being told.

Reminds me of that Leunig cartoon, of the proud father showing his son a painting ... and next to it is the window, and the outside? EXACTLY THE SAME as the painting ...

I guess it depends on your curiosity level, which starts with you, not me or anyone else!