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AtomicCrimsonRush 
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Bonnek
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 18:50 |
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^Same procedure here, not just a matter of losing reviews (if PA runs into an error I always get the review back by using the "Back" button in my browser (Mozilla)), but simply because I need a spelling checker and synonym lookup functionality if I'm not sure about the use of a certain word. Can be tricky in English...
The ony annoying things is that many characters like '...', quotes and sometimes hyphens turn into quastion marks after submitting it in PA Edited by Bonnek - April 11 2010 at 18:51 |
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Atavachron
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 19:29 |
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^ but can be corrected by putting back the quotes on your Edit Reviews page
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tamijo
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Posted: April 18 2010 at 06:51 |
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: April 19 2010 at 19:41 |
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Well for a review slamming an artist it is funny and well written somewhat. I'll give it two starts for making up "condamn" which I had never heard before.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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seventhsojourn
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 01:54 |
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Nice one, cheers!
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Marty McFly
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 02:36 |
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He can add few lines about this album and leave here the rest :-)
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu  Even my |
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 03:41 |
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tarkus1980's review of Trisector
Is remarkably similar to John McFerrin's review of Trisector By which I mean that it's exactly the same. His Can and Zappa reviews are similarly plagiarised. Would be nice if we can delete them? |
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Dean
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 03:50 |
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^ as Tarkus1980 is called John I guess we can assume they are probably one and the same person.
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What?
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 06:23 |
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Hm, it's possible... just having seen more than a few of my own reviews all over the web without any permission asked (I'm not that bothered, really), I'd feel quite bad if such an excellent reviewer who actually has a dedicated site is being plagiarised on here. Either way, worth checking?
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tamijo
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"Undoubtedly,they are good - instrumentally speaking,they are performant musicians,but the final product is a mixture of crazy,twisted and tortured ideas..."
Would make me want to go listen to a band that can get an aparently sane person to blow up like this, while he at the same time credit there skill's.
Infact he is insulting everyone of us, who lovs The Volta, but how cares ! It is funny to read
 Especialy when You know that The Mars Volta deliberatly makes music to provoke, in this case with great success.  Edited by tamijo - April 20 2010 at 06:28 |
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 09:41 |
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I am not impressed at all with this. It insults the listener rather than the album.
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tarkus1980
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 11:06 |
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I am, in fact, John McFerrin, the original writer of the review. I thought it would be interesting to post a few of my reviews over at progarchives; I've also posted reviews of Tago Mago and Freak Out! so far. I figure extra exposure wouldn't kill me. I'll probably post more here over time. |
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jampa17
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 12:31 |
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I don't use Mozilla... I type it in Office Word and then copy paste in the site... I have lost some reviews by typing directly in the site, so... I won't risk it anymore... just check the writing once more in the site after the paste... and somethings are changed, like the ellipses and another "special" points...
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 14:01 |
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Ah, sorry about that. Great reviews, btw. |
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tarkus1980
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 18:39 |
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I'm actually pretty amazed that somebody noticed, truth be told.
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Atavachron
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Posted: April 20 2010 at 21:50 |
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I'm Spartacus
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: April 21 2010 at 22:47 |
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Yeah, and why can't somebody point out that fact? Should PA really be like AMG and only contain positive reviews?
So we should rate things highly because other people rate them highly?
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: April 22 2010 at 07:44 |
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yeah your a fool to trust posting straight in , i cant tell you how many times its failed on me so at least copy it before submitting or you will lose it occasionally.
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Marty McFly
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Posted: April 22 2010 at 13:37 |
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Do you know what this means ? :-Dout
Or simple:
Have you ever done this thing ? Hitting space between your fingers, thumb - pointing, pointing - middle etc ? I haven't, only slowly, but my father did this hundreds of times and he still has all 10 fingers. It may be about skills, of course :-) Well, I can tell you about something I personally did hundreds of times. Reviewing. From all 530 review I've posted only 5 had gone to hell, so this is fair chance to me. I don't like writing reviews in notepad/office, I like to write them in PA review form. |
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
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Slartibartfast wrote:
I am sure I'll offend many fans of this band with my review,but I cannot stop myself to criticise and condamn this kind of music that this guys are doing!My oppinion is that THE MARS VOLTA are really pushig the boundaries of madness and imposture to an unbelieveble level,just in the name of the fact thet they pretend to be themselves ORIGINALS!I think that the guys simply took too many drugs and other happy substances,and they are permanently stoned and in this state of mind and spirit they expsess themselves...musically!It's an amalgam of hysterical musical ideas, with hysterical vocals-annoying and able to disturb the brain of any normal person,and I think that it's almost impossible for this guys to play a second time this compostions the same way like the song was initially composed?!?!Am I right? Undoubtedly,they are good - instrumentally speaking,they are performant musicians,but the final product is a mixture of crazy,twisted and tortured ideas...Zappa can be proud about this twisted mutants,and the frenzy and hallucinating music express only the tortured mind and spirit of the musicians from the band!Listening a whole MARS VOLTA album from the first to the last song is a trial of fire... a torture...a test of will ..an exercise of mental resistance!!! Honestly...if this is the future of music..I am very worried ,dissapointed and sad!By the way...they cannot be included in any category,in my oppinion...anyway they are not prog metal at all!!!...maybee it's necessary to invent a new musical category for TMV-stupid,stoned and hysterical music?!?!Without any star...well 1 for nothing!
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