When rating albums I try to do so in a historical context, that is how an album compares against the entire musical ancestry. This means that the best album for any given year, which most people would rate with top marks may not receive the same rating in my charts as only the best albums of all time should get the highest ratings… This chart includes compilations, live albums and also any non-Prog albums I buy.

My Ratings:
Note: I vote on a bell curve, anything above 6 is really good, anything below 4 really isn't :D
9+ - Masterpiece…

When rating prog albums I try to do so in a historical context, that is how an album compares against the entire body of prog. This means that the best album for any given year, which most people would rate with top marks may not receive the same rating in my charts as only the best albums of all time should get the highest ratings… This chart does not include compilations or live albums.

My Ratings:
Note: I vote on a bell curve, anything above 6 is really good, anything much below 4 really isn't :D
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7082504/bellcurve.jpg
1. (=) Robert…

When rating prog albums I try to do so in a historical context, that is how an album compares against the entire body of prog. This means that the best album for any given year, which most people would rate with top marks may not receive the same rating in my charts as only the best albums of all time should get the highest ratings… This chart does not include compilations or live albums.

My Ratings:
Note: I vote on a bell curve, anything above 6 is really good, anything much below 4 really isn't :D
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7082504/bellcurve.jpg
1. (=) Regal…

When rating albums I try to do so in a historical context, that is how an album compares against the entire musical ancestry. This means that the best album for any given year, which most people would rate with top marks may not receive the same rating in my charts as only the best albums of all time should get the highest ratings… This chart includes compilations, live albums and also any non-Prog albums I buy.

My Ratings:
Note: I vote on a bell curve, anything above 6 is really good, anything below 4 really isn't :D
9+ - Masterpiece…

When rating Prog albums I try to do so in a historical context, that is how an album compares against the musical ancestry. This means that the best album for any given year, which most people would rate with top marks may not receive the same rating in my charts as only the best albums of all time should get the highest ratings… This chart includes compilations, live albums and also any non-Prog albums I buy.

My Ratings:
Note: I vote on a bell curve, anything above 6 is really good, anything much below 4 really isn't :D
9+ -…

When rating prog albums I try to do so in a historical context, that is how an album compares against the entire body of prog. This means that the best album for any given year, which most people would rate with top marks may not receive the same rating in my charts as only the best albums of all time should get the highest ratings… This chart does not include compilations or live albums.

My Ratings:
Note: I vote on a bell curve, anything above 6 is really good, anything much below 4 really isn't :D
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7082504/bellcurve.jpg
1. (=) Steven…

OK, so this friend of mine (hey Paul!) asked a great What If? We had been discussing the disparity between the great ratings of early Prog albums compared to lesser ratings of many modern ones. One of the thoughts that cropped up was that modern albums tend to be bloated; that is the CD format allows the artist to fill up the space with mediocre tracks that would probably not have made it onto a vinyl release. So, what if we level the playing field and take only the best 40 minutes worth of each album and generate ratings from…

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Charts: Prog Artists | Prog Artists (modified)
New Artists: Position Change: 1 Year | 6 months | 3 months | 1 month
New Artists:By Listeners|By Average Plays
New Artists: Plays: 1 year | 6 months | 3 months | 1 month
Overall: Position Changes: 1 year | 6 months
Overall: Plays: avg plays|average play gains|most played
Overall: Listeners: new listeners | % listener gains
Genres: Symphonic|Eclectic|Neo-Prog|Italian|Heavy

This is a filtered list of Prog Rock artists at Prog Archives, focussing on classic artists and their descendants, sorted by the number of listeners here on LastFM. Because LastFM does…

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Charts: Prog Artists | Prog Artists (modified)
New Artists: Position Change: 1 Year | 6 months | 3 months | 1 month
New Artists:By Listeners|By Average Plays
New Artists: Plays: 1 year | 6 months | 3 months | 1 month
Overall: Position Changes: 1 year | 6 months
Overall: Plays: avg plays|average play gains|most played
Overall: Listeners: new listeners | % listener gains
Genres: Symphonic|Eclectic|Neo-Prog|Italian|Heavy

This chart shows new Prog artists listed on Prog Archives during the past year, sorted by their total number of plays during the past year.

pos. (plays) artist (genre)

1. +398389…

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Charts: Prog Artists | Prog Artists (modified)
New Artists: Position Change: 1 Year | 6 months | 3 months | 1 month
New Artists:By Listeners|By Average Plays
New Artists: Plays: 1 year | 6 months | 3 months | 1 month
Overall: Position Changes: 1 year | 6 months
Overall: Plays: avg plays|average play gains|most played
Overall: Listeners: new listeners | % listener gains
Genres: Symphonic|Eclectic|Neo-Prog|Italian|Heavy

A chart of the 250 Prog acts gaining the most positions in the Prog popularity chart over the past year on LastFM. The chart is sorted not by positions gained, but…