Originally Posted by Trollheart

Just a word about why these threads are being made, as some people seem to think them unnecessary.

Consider someone coming new to MB and not knowing anything about metal/prog/punk (there's now one for punk apparently) and wanting to try it out. Wouldn't it be a fine reference source to have, that they could check this list and see what we all think the definitive metal/prog/punk albums are? In addition to providing recs for people I feel this could be a good resource (perhaps stickied hint hint) that people could refer to.

That's why I started these threads.

Yes, the generic 1001 albums thread is good, but do you really want to, as a prospective fan of either subgenre, trawl through a load of albums that may not interest you until you get to the ones that do? So having separate genre/subgenre lists I think is a good thing to do.

And so that's my thinking behind the creation of these threads. If nobody or only a few people participate I don't mind: I'll keep adding albums because I want to build this up into a list people can turn to when they are looking for the sort of albums they should try out when checking out these subgenres.

And now, back to the list...

Originally Posted by Dylstew

Yeah, I started thinking about it and made one about punk. I take my statement about how it's necessary back, it's pretty nice to have these.