Composition
Are the metres the usual ones? Four-four throughout and unvarying at the bottom; odd and shifting time signatures, polyrhythm and metric modulation as ongoing material rather than as an effect at the top. The counterpart of Harmonic Adventurousness: both ask how far the record goes from the default, one in pitch and one in time. Around 0 for AC/DC, Adele and Neu!, 70 for Close to the Edge, 85 for Octopus, 95 for Ruins and Meshuggah.
Every prog release in the scored set with a value on this scale, at what the community has it at, split at the middle and ordered outwards from the top. Non-prog records that mark the bottom of a scale are left out; the chart shows them if you ask it to.
The Polite Force 1971 | ||
ItCotCK 1969 | ||
Cavalcade 2021 | ||
Sing To God 1996 | ||
Octopus 1972 | ||
Zuckerzeit 1974 | ||
Space Ritual Live, 1973 | ||
Low 1977 | ||
Young Team 1997 | ||
Eskimo 1979 | ||
Perdition City: Music to an Interior Film Soundtrack, 2000 |
Every value here is what the membership has the record at: the same trust-weighted blend of every member's placement that the record's own page shows, on the twenty-seven scales and the three criteria alike. Nothing here reads one member's rows. Which records are on the map is a judgement in two parts: SiteCurator and Mike mark a record at full relevance, and the membership must hold it at 60 or more on one of the three criteria, so getting a record onto this page is those two accounts' call, and keeping it here is everyone's. The non-prog records are the exception: they mark the bottom of a scale, so the second test would rule them out.
Today that blend is thin. Of the 270 records here, 34 have more than one member behind them, and the rest stand on a single assessment. Most came from one automated pass by a machine account, which makes the rows comparable but is also the whole of their authority. Nobody has checked that pass.
The three criteria marked beside each release are shaky too: around half of their values were never typed by anybody, since assigning a genre that implies a criterion writes it onto your rows. So a tick is not reliably anyone's opinion.
Only members can fix both. Open a record you know well (the scored set is a good start) and score it under Coordinates in its editor. You need not answer all twenty-seven scales; the ones you are sure of beat a complete guess. Answer the three criteria directly rather than leaving a genre to do it. Your values move these pages too, so a second and third assessor are all it takes for a scale to become the site's reading.