Is PA biased?!!!

understand PA is a work in progress (pun intended) and is a true collaboration among members, some love certain genres and come here mostly for a particular style and may rate certain albums highly

Road Salt One isn't progressive metal, agreed, but the significant majority of PoS's discography is, which is why the band is categorized as progressive metal.

No problem!
My two favourite albums of the year so far are Kayo Dot's Coyote (an avant-jazz album) and Alcest's Ecailles De Lune, a metal album.

I guess if you either like metal, and don't mind some black metal vocals, the Alcest album is a great one. Kayo Dot's Coyote is good if you like avant, or jazz in general

Here are some samples:


Alcest:

The PA database is simply limited to assigning genres to artists - so all the albums of an artists are labelled with the same genre, regardless of how the style of the artist changes over time.

Who wants perfection?

I totally agree. It's insane that practically any member is allowed to post a review with potentially false information on the quality of the album in question. I personally don't think that a site like this that is filled with subjective opinions and no facts has much credibility at all. Oh when will you all see that all those reviews are nothing but lies, nothing but filthy LIES!!!

Only one member I know would be biased when it comes to a PoS album... Though I won't mention any names

People are biased.

There is such a thing as objectivity in music, but reviews and ratings show individual biases.  The album is only rated at 101 (all categories) for 2009.  Considering it's such a recent year that is not a really high ranking.  For just Neo Prog 2009, it's at 15 ( I think, I'd written all this out before but my son got at the mouse and I lost my post, so going on a memory a bit).  The ratings are between 2 and 5, and the reviews, there are only three of them (all collabs), are 3 stars, 4 stars, and 5 stars (or 5+ to use Marty's ratings method).  That is not many reviews and does not indicate much promotion.

I only put ant trust in reviews if I know that the reviewer has similar tastes to mine, and I try to check out myspace or a band website to sample music before buying.  Caveat emptor.  What's good for one person is not necessarily good for another (and with only a total of 12 ratings overall with a 3.90 average, and only three reviews ranging from 3 to 5, I wouldn't expect much unless I had very similar tastes to the people rating it most highly).  Reviewers also have their own ways to judge what;'s worthy or not, but mostly it's down to taste.  I commonly find reviewers to be too generous or not generous enough according to my tastes and my criteria (frameworks).

Maybe you should have got the 100 albums of 2009 that ranked higher than that one first (or, if Neo Prog is your thing, the albums that were ranked higher if you didn't already).

You could be the first to write a review expressing your displeasure with the album.


3.90 | 12 ratings
After All...
2009

Even though Neo_prog is not really my thing, I'm curious to hear some of the music now.  The band website is listed after the bio, and there is a link at the website to the myspace page.  There's plenty of music at the myspace page -- listening now.  http://www.myspace.com/eye2eyeband

I'm disappointed, I was prepared for something really bad according to my tastes.   I think it sounds pretty good (enjoyable). Not great for me, but not bad at all (rather too derivative to these ears and too "melodic"/ emotional for me, but that's taste).  No, not bad at all I think (I don't think I would rate it lowly, and I like it more than a lot of Neo Prog I've heard.  I've heard much, much worse music at PA.  I don't really like the vocals sometimes, and would prefer it if it had more eclectic instrumentation and sound (musically, it's not complex and does sound really commercial for a "Prog" band).  Quite retro. Mixed bag, but sounds pretty professional to me (rather lacking in originality and not as "experimental" as I've come to expect from French music -- would refer French vocals, or Kobaian... ;) ) Seriously I think it's good at what it is -- this coming from someone whose diet is not Neo-Prog or "melodic rock").  Nice.


Edited by Logan - May 18 2010 at 12:45

I see the main criticism of Eye 2 Eye here as points of view as heard from a musician. Personally I'm not a musician, just a listener. And how much or not I merit any release as from my point of view as a guy who is a listener, lacking the theoretical and practical foundation a musician will have ;-)

Another point is that we have quite a few streaming mp3 samples up so that potential buyers can get a notion of what a band and an album sounds like. Not for all artists and albums yet, but this one is among the albums where a preview is available. Didn't that track reveal anything about the nature of the band?

Mr ProgFreak wrote: The PA database is simply limited to assigning genres to artists - so all the albums of an artists are labelled with the same genre, regardless of how the style of the artist changes over time.

If only there was another site with a better way...