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Hi,
I'm cutting back on my writing in the progressive area, and will try to concentrate more here.
My tastes, are very different than most, and the one thing I do not like is the top ten thing, and the continuing relevance of the top ten mentality in the PA area ... and the saddest thing of all? If there are 100 bands, there are 100 threads on the top 5 and maybe one thread on the next 90 bands on the listing ... the appreciation for MUSIC, simply is not there anymore, not to mention that a lot of the "lists" made are based on one cut in the listens and not the albums ... a very sad state of affairs.
In my mind it is literally impossible to listen to that much in a limited amount of time, unless you hunted and pecked (needle and peck we used to call it!!!) ... and then made up your mind about what it sounded like, and of course, the high school drumming, the same format and cookie cutting is everywhere.
The nice thing here, and in different areas of jass, is the variety is still there, but I hope that the artists get a better response, than the PA version ... there are good folks there, but sadly, they are not inside the areas that would help make a difference for the site. I keep thinking.
I'm of the opinion that a lot of what PA/JMA were thought and designed to be about, is about to need a slight change/update to things ... PA, for example, has some interesting Collaborators and Admins, and yet there is no interest in cleaning up a lot of the write ups on stuff that has changed since the days that it was created. And I'm not sure that many of the current write ups even make sense within a musical concept, history or design! And a band added yesterday to a specific area, would not have been added 10/15 years ago!!!!
One area, for example, that could use some cleaning up the "reviews" that are not exactly reviews, and seem to have been added simply to improve ratings. One of the best examples, is KC's first album ... and half of those "reviews" are not reviews at all.
As a side example, I just saw the special on Tower Records and it was plain obvious that they were up on the times and things, until the internet and downloads came around, when some in their group obviously thought that it all was stolen and free downloads .... and ignored a possible future, only to find that Apple and a couple of others cleaned up the whole thing, and not die from the downloads, which states that the folks running the enterprise did not get past the counting the money routine ... and I end up thinking that it is possible that PA/JMA are starting to fall out of its time ... and I certainly hope not, but at 74, I'm not sure I have 10/15 more years to help and post in the boards, after trudging through the usual 15 threads about Jethro Tull, Genesis, Yes and ELP ... and the newer bands, or the lesser ones that are not from the Anglo-American group of things, is not enjoyed, appreciated, or even listened to ... "because they have no numbers" ... that's not about the music ...
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