Erik Norlander
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Topic: Erik Norlander
Posted By: Ricochet
Subject: Erik Norlander
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 07:33
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Didn't know where to put this, even though I have access to the Collaborator's Lounge and a couple of "troubleshooting department" Team could take care of this from there, so I thought I'd post this here, where the basic flaws in a band's bio, discography etc. are handled. The biography for Erik Norlander describes a bit about the albums, but only until 2002's Music Machine "ERIK NORLANDER'S newest release is a 2CD rock opera concept album called "Music Machine" about the dramatic rise and fall of a genetically engineered rock star. previous solo albums are "Threshold" (1997), and instrumental progressive effort with a decidedly electronically bent and "Into the Sunset" (2000), a prog metal vocal album with a more traditional rock band sound." 2002? It's the year 2008. Kind of terribly out-dated, since Norlander released four more albums and a concert DVD.  Maybe, given this occasion, we could discuss in parallel Norlander's place in prog, cause rock...sure...space...maybe...but psychedelic...never!! Norlander's very keen to power rock (the 90s' kind: Magellan, King X), retro prog, metal, concept rock, pop-space and, alas, very weak to describe music. The covers from Hommage Symphonique raise a bit the charm of him being a progressive-influenced artist, but the work is minor (and mediocre) in comparison with the rest. I'd suggest Crossover for a move, or even Prog-Related, it's not farfetched. ------------- 
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Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 04:41
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Hi Rico,
I don't know Erik Norlander at all so cannot comment on where he belongs in PA.
I type this post because your initial point about the discography being out of date is an important one!
There has been some discussion in the Collaborators' Zone (which I have not been directly involved with) debating whether or not the discography listing in the bio should be included at all. I personally think not because, as has happened here, the discography gets out of date. If we need a discography list it would be much better if the assigned albums could somehow be displayed as a series of consecutive links giving the list appearance in the bio section, just driven from the albums added for the artist.
Let us see if others comment.
Cheers,
Coops
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