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Why the "requisite" Christgau review?[edit]I first noticed this in the article on "Tales for Topographic Oceans," but I think it applies to progressive rock album articles more generally. Why is there a seemingly requisite Robert Christgau review? As his WP article notes, he was no fan of progressive, so his reviews are virtually violations of NPOV. I would say that the only reason they're in the infoboxes is that they are available online, rather than because they have any special insight into progressive rock. The fact that he'd comment on every kind of album doesn't mean that his tastes were in any way catholic. I would suggest simply dumping them from the article infoboxes in this Project. Academic38 (talk) 08:26, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Completely agree with Academic38; strongly differ with Una Laguna. Robert Christgau is an active enemy of progrock — which is something that a freelance critic has every right to be (there are many horror stories about Christgau's prog reviews: he thought his amp had died when he put on Soft Machine Seven, he directly compares Henry Cow to American jazz, etc. etc. etc.). If you're looking for a WP:Notable source, use AllMusic. Not that the reviews are necessarily all that good all the time (some of them are but many are not; I've written them countless times on genre bias and incorrect factual information). The virtue of the site is that it's extremely comprehensive and as a commercial site, not prone to link rot. As for Floydian's point, I don't think that would be a tenable common practice. Multiple reviews more often than not reveal a narrow range of consensus; it's the exception to provoke love 'em / hate 'em reactions a la Captain Beefheart or Cardiacs. I agree with Backtable that we don't necessarily need to purge Christgau's reviews, but if there are pages with only a Christgau review, I'd strongly suggest adding the AllMusic review. That would also serve Floydian's concern for "balance." Let me address a final point to Una Laguna. Look, let's be honest with ourselves. Every person on this project's signup sheet has identified themselves as a fan of progrock. We're not, you know fans of every type of music with an aversion to having biasd musical tastes who decided to help out the Progrock project strictly because of our undying love for Wikipedia. We're here to help this music get better exposure primarily for the sake of people who may like the music because progrock has been a misunderstood, minority style even during the brief cultural moment when it was popular. Robert Christgau is a self-identified "rockist" — which is an essentialist ideology about what people like him believe rock music should and should not be. Christgau ranks Yes albums with C's because he's comparing them in his head to The Rolling Stones. Which is as absurd as getting a classical reviewer to share his/her opinions on the latest Madonna release. Understand that I'm no advocate of adding fancruft, pushing POV or editing confrontations with the mainstream to make the band or album in question "look good." My contribution is going to try to add (and hopefully source) some balanced and objective musical analysis to prog on the obscure end of the spectrum: RIO, Zeuhl and avant-prog. I just think we don't need to go out of our way to confirm a 20-year-old mainstream consensus that prog is somehow not part of what NYTimes critic Ann Powers called "rock's canon" at the turn of the millenium. Prog is coming back; even teenage garage bands are obsessed with odd time signatures these days (cf. the math rock and djent movements). Chrisgau's views are out of date. Snardbafulator (talk) 19:41, 15 July 2011 (UTC) Several points here. First of all, you're all talking as though Wikipedia is a buyer's guide. It's not; it's an encyclopedia. So whether or not Robert Christgau's reviews are "useful" is irrelevant. All that matters is that they are notable. Our job is to document an album's historical reception, not help music lovers make purchasing decisions. Second, you're barking up the wrong tree anyway. Your theory that Christgau hates progressive rock is based solely on reading way too much into some of his comments, and the observation that 95% of his reviews of prog rock albums are negative. The latter is meaningless, because 95% of all of Christgau's reviews are negative. He doesn't hate progressive rock any more than he hates music in general. Meanwhile, you have plenty of reviewers on Allmusic who essentially write "This album is progressive rock; therefore it stinks" and even make snide comments such as "The spirit of traditional progressive rock experimentation is alive on this album; five of the seven songs exceed six minutes."(actual example from a real Allmusic review!) Singling out Christgau makes no sense. Third, and most importantly, if you are indeed "here to help this music get better exposure" as Snardbafulator says, then you really should excuse yourself from editing music-related articles, if not Wikipedia entirely, because this is what is known as conflict of interest. Intentionally introducing bias only damages Wikipedia's content, not to mention makes progressive rock look far worse than reviewers like Christgau could ever hope to make it look.--Martin IIIa (talk) 14:49, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Genre infobox vandalism[edit]Just to say that there's an IP switching around genres in infoboxes for no given reason. All of their edits here [1] may need to be reverted. Delusion23 (talk) 01:18, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
FWIW, I did some minor revisions on Allan Holdsworth's genres in the body of the article. I indicated specifically where he plays jazz-rock fusion (a specific genre started by jazz musicians), British jazz-rock (started by rock musicians) and progressive rock. There are multiple reliable sources that identify his music as all three; I just sorted it out. Anybody's welcome to quibble and reinsert the common (but somewhat empty) generic term "jazz fusion" if they like, but I think my reasoning is solid (and duly posted on the AH Talk page). The last thing I'd ever do is tweak a genre anonymously or against consensus. Sheesh. Snardbafulator (talk) 20:00, 15 July 2011 (UTC) Decline of prog rock also correlates with rise of jazz rock[edit]
Or it seemed that way at the time in the 1970s - in addition to the rise of punk. When John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLaughlin_(musician), Chick Chorea and Return to Forever etc took off (all ex Miles Davis sidemen) this new virtuoso genre seemed to render prog rock clunky and irrelevant, though in hind site this was a misguided view, probably because at the time instrumental virtuosity seemed to be so much of what prog rock was about although (again with the benefit of hind site) it was not the main point of prog rock at all. McLaughlin and Chorea's bands were all such dazzling technicians that most of the prog rockers were not in their league technically (in terms of say speed), with the notable exception of Bill Bruford (a brilliant drummer by any standard), Zappa and company, maybe Soft Machine and possibly Keith Emerson. Clearly Mahavishnu and Return to Forever owed much to prog rock's concept album format, marriage of influences etc. The sad thing about this move to complex jazz rock was that the 70s jazz fusion players, first and foremost and despite the myriad influences, were identifiably jazz musicians on loud electric instruments, whereas prog rock was indisputably rock music. This is all opinion sorry - I don't have a ref. but I'm sure one exists somewhere or perhaps I'll write it, I just wanted to put this thought here for when an appropriate ref. emerges. Hope this is the right place to leave it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.166.159.4 (talk) 02:40, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
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Deletion of Timeline of progressive rock (2010–2019)[edit]This page had been classified as unsourced and was then, I would say erroneously, deleted. It is on the other hand true, that there are more and more entries where I am not sure, whether the band and/or album listed satisfy WP:NALBUMS. Proposal: New entries are only acceptable if at least two reliable sources are cited. If not, the entry shall be removed. A review shall be made to cleanup the existing entries of all Timeline of Progressive rock pages to add the necessary citations and to remove all entries in the list failing WP:NALBUMS.Your comments are appreciated. Cdl obelix (talk) 16:32, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Tool's 10,000 Days album cover[edit]I would like to summon anyone coming across this thread (and preferably has experience with album cover displays) to take a look at this since I'm seeking help for a consensus here. • GunMetal Angel 07:48, 8 December 2011 (UTC) Timeline purpose[edit]Going over the task list for this project, I noticed that much of it has to do with the article Timeline for Progressive Rock. I've seen these timeline articles before and honestly, I still don't really understand their purpose. When I'm going through Wikipedia as a reader and not an editor, I'm never tempted to visit them, because the bulk of info they must present makes them both hard for a reader to absorb and difficult if not impossible for editors to bring anywhere near a reasonable comprehensiveness. Can anyone explain what function timeline articles serve? I'd like to help out with this, but obviously I can't be much use without knowing exactly why we're doing it.--Martin IIIa (talk) 14:32, 3 January 2012 (UTC) Discipline Global Mobile DYK nomination[edit]I nominated the following hook for DYK. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 17:46, 21 February 2012 (UTC) Did you know
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New Flower Kings album article for deletion[edit]Banks of Eden has been nominated for deletion. See the discussion and weigh in please! - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 20:32, 29 April 2012 (UTC) Outside eyes would be useful. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 20:48, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Vital articles[edit]There is a discussion occuring here regarding which music articles should be deemed vital to the Wikipedia project. Your input would be appreciated. GabeMc (talk|contribs) 21:54, 19 March 2013 (UTC) Tasks: List[edit]The "tasks" section suggests creating a "GEPR list" page, but I've already created List of progressive rock bands and populated it with a lot of referenced names. Why not amend that request and ask that anybody with the time and inclination please compare the new list page with GEPR and add any names that are missing? There are also quite a few redlinked names that could use articles. Dementia13 (talk) 16:42, 17 June 2013 (UTC) Is Dutch Progressive Rock Page reliable?[edit]Hi, I am in search of references for Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Café Jacques (band). Is a Dutch Progressive Rock Page CD review regarded as a reliable secondary source? The two reviews at the source webpage are evidence that the two albums produced by Café Jacques are covered by a reliable media publisher. This is the means by which I wish to show notability (i.e. the band released two albums with a major record label). I am intending to put two inline citations after the names of the albums in the discography, if that is the right way to approach it. In other words where citations 2 & 3 are now. Thankyou. Have a great day.CaesarsPalaceDude (talk) 17:40, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Creation of Cathedral (U.S. band)[edit]This is not related to doom metal; that's an English band with the same name.CaesarsPalaceDude (talk) 10:52, 15 May 2014 (UTC) Hi, there was a U.S. progressive rock band, who produced only two albums Stained Glass Stories in 1978, and The Bridge in 2007. I would like to hear opinions on:
Any feed-back would be appreciated, so don't hold back. Have a great dayCaesarsPalaceDude (talk) 16:22, 6 May 2014 (UTC) Prog rock article - Biased?[edit]There are only a few sentences in the Reception section of progressive rock that actually mention the critical acclaim that prog received. Much of it is devoted to the criticism and subsequent backlash of prog. This looks biased. Shouldn't it be expanded to reflect both sides fairly evenly? Johnny338 (talk) 18:32, 24 May 2014 (UTC) Arena rock - Genre or not?[edit]See discussion of whether arena rock (which includes some prog bands ie. Styx) should be considered a genre here. Johnny338 (talk) 19:19, 9 June 2014 (UTC) RfC: Ayers Rock (band)[edit]Members who are interested in Ayers Rock (band), are invited to contribute to an RfC regarding the lead paragraph of that article. More details can be found at Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_mediation/Ayers_Rock_(band)#RfC. Ayers Rock were an Australian prog rock band from the '70's. CaesarsPalaceDude (talk) 23:45, 19 August 2014 (UTC) Pink World - Any comments?[edit]Pink World is the second article I've created, and the first music article. I'd appreciate any thoughts or comments. I have pretty much reached what I think I can do on my own with it without some kind of guidance, but I would love to somehow work it up to GA class, though I would be quite happy with getting it to a B class for now. I've just been staring at it too long I think. Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions? Thanks! Dcs002 (talk) 07:26, 27 August 2014 (UTC) Comment on the WikiProject X proposal[edit]Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC) I noticed today that the Category:Rush (band) songs has been added to the Category:Progressive rock songs, and I think this is ill-advised. Not all Rush songs are classified in this genre, particularly songs from their debut album. I would remove the category and recategorize the pages myself, but this is going to be a fair bit of work if it goes against consensus and needs to be reverted. Thoughts? Ivanvector (talk) 17:00, 3 December 2014 (UTC) Unusual file deletion discussion[edit]A unique image file deletion discussion is currently being conducted at this page, which may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. CaesarsPalaceDude (talk) 08:44, 23 December 2014 (UTC) WikiProject X is live![edit]![]() Hello everyone! You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you! Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X. Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC) The Syn[edit]Could I have some help reviewing edits to The Syn? User:Digbyjohn keeps making a number of edits to the page that I don't feel are supported, but I don't want to get into a bilateral edit war. It would be good to have some additional perspectives. Bondegezou (talk) 10:33, 8 March 2015 (UTC) System of a Down genre[edit]Discussion is required to meet citations on System of a Down are strong enough to have the group be considered part of the prog rock genre. Discussion is here Andrzejbanas (talk) 01:36, 27 July 2015 (UTC) Can someone help determine if any genres for this band can be verified from reliable sources? --JuggaloProghead (talk) 22:47, 20 August 2015 (UTC) Two Is One (album) listed at Requested moves[edit]![]()
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Skywhale 1970s Bristol UK Prog Rock band Does anyone have any reliable sources which they could contribute to the Skywhale page, and more specifically to their album page "The World At Mind's End". Both pages are currently in the draft stages, waiting for review and have wikipedia issues due to lack of reliable sources. The former band members have gone on to play with well known artists but the article needs sources from the 1970s. Does anyone have any magazine articles, reviews, tickets or festival flyers? Cjcooper (talk) 17:56, 19 June 2016 (UTC) Expanding scope to "Progressive music"[edit]Would this be a good idea? How would it be done? By redefining this project, or by creating "progressive music" as a parent?--Ilovetopaint (talk) 03:27, 1 August 2016 (UTC) One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement![edit]
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RFC about post-progressive[edit]I posted an RFC about the post-progressive article - see talk page. Chilton (talk) 11:29, 6 November 2016 (UTC) Ed Wynne (guitarist) listed at Requested moves[edit]![]()
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The Holy Triumvirate[edit]Someone started a discussion, which I saw on my watchlist, on the Rush talk page about adding their nickname The Holy Triumvirate to the article. I have been looking, but can't find whether or not its fluff or if it's something that can be added to the article. That's why I haven't commented myself. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 05:41, 10 September 2020 (UTC) Has America been too dumbed down by mainstream radio,to understand progressive rock music? Or are Americans just not able to focus on songs longer than 5 minutes?[edit]For many years 90% of all progressive rock music came from somewhere other than the United States. Today with progressive rock finding its way to United States through progressive metal progressive rock and even some cult followings, Most Americans seem to be somewhat more familiar than they were in the eighties or even seventies. But being a rock history myself I am very aware that most all Americans cannot focus on music longer than 5 minutes because the radio tells them dictates to them what they like and don't like. Where's Americans are supposed to be free people and free thinkers but when it comes to music we are not our thoughts are dictated basically by what is played on mainstream radio. Everyone however has their bands they like that are not on mainstream media but they generally do not include progressive rock bands. My thought is Americans have been dumbed down and given a certain musical ADD About progressive rock music. A good example would be ask any American on the street to explain side one of Jethro Tulls album,Thick As A Brick Feathercat43055 (talk) 01:09, 18 April 2021 (UTC) AfD for Mirage (Camel spin-off)[edit]There's a discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mirage (British band) around the Camel spin-off, Mirage. Input welcome. Bondegezou (talk) 10:49, 12 July 2021 (UTC) AfD - Live at the House of Blues (Jethro Tull album)[edit]Nomination of Live at the House of Blues (Jethro Tull album) for deletion[edit]![]() The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Live at the House of Blues (Jethro Tull album) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. ![]()
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