[ivan_2068]

Maybe the older members here will remember me because I'm not posting here for lack of time for a long period but I was a very frequent poster.

Well, I feel in the duty to reply two posts because are full of inaccurate statements that go against a site in which I have the honor to collaborate in charge of the Symphonic Prog section:

Originally Posted by spacecraft

It is my sad duty, but someone really has to, i've been a member of prog archives, a site which has lost its way a bit on the prog scene, apparently there is a boyband prog section.

I'm all fo r prog, but when heavy metal with keyboards suddenly becomes prog i get annoyed, a do i with most American AOR music. It is not prog, now or forever.

Also, you are not allowed to make true statements about your country and the isolationists who live there, apparently it is not pc.

Anyway, this site looks good, progarchives is beginning to look it's age.

1.- There's no boys band section, the administrators and Collaborators take good care of verifying which bands are inducted to the site and which are not, people as David Bowie have been proposed several times and rejected several times also despite they could be added.

2.- There's a Sub-Genre called Prog Metal, a sub-genre that is not my favorite but I respect a lot, there's a team of capable members who add the bands they believe are 100% PROG METAL, surely I don't agree with a few, probably because I don't know a damn thing about Prog Metal, but I'm sure they are absolutely careful with which bands they add as my team and myself are absolutely careful with which bands we add to Symphonic.

3.- There are no AOR bands in Prog Archives except STYX which is mentioned in most sites as being at least related to Prog during the first two albums and if I know which was your nick in Prog Archives, I'm sure you refer to Kansas which is a 100% PROGRESSIVE ROCK band recognized in each and every Prog site as well as in each piece of Prog literature.

4.- You are not allowed to make statements about your country??????? I talk about my country (Perú) each time I want, i seen posts from members of Chile, Argentina, USA, Canada, Brazil, Venezuela, Japan, Hungary, all Europe and the rest of the world talking about their own countries when they want, AS LONG AS THEY DO IT IN THE PROPER FORUM.

I don't know if the author of this post has been banned or maybe is angry because nobody cares about his posts, but speaking lies about another site is not a good presentation card to a new site.

Originally Posted by rick_wakeman

there is a recrudescence of what they call "prog related" band reviews. Iron Maiden is having tremendous reviews posts whereas a lot of true prog rock bands are missing. This site is the one to use if you're looking for prog rock info or band. But the fact that some bands that really has NOTHING to see with prog are in there is weird, because this site used to be the premier reference in all prog rock style. I wanted to send messages to some reviewers there after registering, but it's not working.

They are now using a google platform, this is a bad change too.

Progarchive is to be the net's progressive rock encyclopedia universalis, but it seems many registered users should get out from there.

1.- Yes, we added a category called Prog Related, but we are specific about which bands have to be added there and that THIS BANDS ARE NOT PROG.

Prog Related definition
Rock and Pop Bands and Artists after 1970 who were not truly “prog” (as that term is generally and broadly defined, even by the site), but who were clearly not “mainstream” or simply “rock” bands.

A wide subgenre that encompasses two kinds of bands/artist, that either consist of progressive artist that strayed away from their progressive roots into mainstream rock or were influenced by progressive rock.

Even though the music by these artists is sometimes unrelated it had things in common with prog music in that it was very structured and even adventurous, sometimes hard or heavy, sometimes mellow, strong melodies, good hooks are an integral part of most of the material. Sometimes these artists pioneered other rock genres.

Though most of these artist can't really be considered progressive themselves, their relation to progressive music is not to be underestimated.

http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=38

In other words, we are talking about NON PROG BANDS that have some Prog elements or have collaborated in the development of Progressive Rock.

Nobody can deny that Alan Parsons had at least one 100% Prog album (If not two) called "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" or STYX with STYX I which had a lot of Prog elements.

Nobody can deny the importance of Peter Gabriel in Progressive Rock evolution or even ASIA in the survival of the genre during the 80's.

Well, all this bands and artists who are not 100% PROG are in Prog Related.

2.- IRON MAIDEN: This band has been added after years of fight into Prog Related, not because we believe they are Prog (Despite songs like Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" or albums like "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" that are Prog IMO, but because they set the bases for what we know today as Prog Metal.

Almost every Prog Metal band names Iron Maiden as one of their influences and so they deerve to be mentioned there.

3.- Now the author of the second post talks about the reviews.......Well Prog Archives is an open source for reviews, we decide which bands are included and the members and/or visitors of all nations, races and creeds make the reviews of any album listed in our data base, sometimes we collaborators or even the administrators and owners make reviews, but we don't tell people "hey don't review that album", by the contrary, they see the database and add their review that we won't delete unless it's offensive or goes against the guidelines of the site.

Sorry for kidnapping your thread but it was necessary to leave some things clear.

Iván

EDIT: Read a post about some reviews being written using bad English....IT'S TRUE, but we don't touch the reviews made by visitors or members unless they are offensive and/or against the guidelines and/or are fanboyish reviews like "X band is the best in the world and this is my favorite album, everybody has to love it".

PA is an open source for people of all the world and some have limitations in their English including myself being Peruvian and mainly Spanish speaker.

PA doesn't own the reviews (The guidelines clearly express that the reviews are owned by their authors and for that reason responsible for what they say) and we believe it's a disrespect for any visitor to edit his/her review, we limit the reviews to English, so we must accept that some people don't have proficiency in the language.

EDIT 2: No Madonna is not listed in ProgArchives LMAO