To Keep From Crying

So I'm back after another mass, near-year long hiatus, spitting out more than 20 reviews I had saved in my 'vaults' today, and I must say that one of them was for the Comus sophomore effort 'To Keep From Crying', which I absolutely fawned over. Jeepers though, I was reading some of the reviews (including what apparently is in no way an unbiased biography. I didn't know opinions counted as dictated and intrinsic facts these days) and see that folks hate this album something fierce. I was just wondering why. Sure it's simpler, sure it's not got no ten minute epics, and sure it's got a more poppy sound, but the melodies are so darn fine, yes they is. So Long Supernova...Anybody else up in here listened to the album? If so, whaddaya think, holmes? 

I kind of like it.  It's obviously not nearly as good as First Utterance, and that disappointment is reflected is the ratings.

The question marks are obnoxious, I know. It happens when I copy from Microsoft Word. I'm too lazy to weed them out. I've also realized that, though I have the capacity and ability to readily maintain my status as a 'prog reviewer', I don't have the will to write reviews that are not slanderous, vulgar, 'stream-of consciousness'-ridden, and all that derivative Mark Prindleesque shizz. 

Triceratopsoil wrote: I kind of like it.  It's obviously not nearly as good as First Utterance, and that disappointment is reflected is the ratings.

I genuinely like it -- not nearly as much as First Utterance, nor as much as tracks Comus has released as bonus tracks, but I do like it.  I agree with you.  If First Utterance hadn't been so great then those that know To Keep From Crying would be kinder to it.  Incidentally, Magma's Merci is another I think good which gets such a bad rap becuase it's seen as so much poorer than former releases (and because some never get past the first track), but had a band such as Asia released it, I think it would get higher ratings (at least amongst Zeuhl heads).

Epignosis wrote:   Question marks indicate invalid characters, such as when one copies and pastes from Word.  For example, if you type an ellipsis in Word, it converts it to a single character.  This character is unreadable when published on the site, so it becomes a question mark.

I heard a new Iron Maiden is in the works 

I Like it to think its a damn fine album 

I haven't heard it recently, but I remember that I really enjoyed it and gave it a big thumbs up.  
Too bad even the band members hate it.  But artists are not always the best judges of their own work. 

I remember it being pretty good, but it should be obvious why prog fans don't care for it especially after First Utterance.

For the question marks, you know there's such a thing as find/replace, right?