Reviews discussion

You need to do something about the "Live Floating Anarchy" posting under the Gong Live albums section. There are a number of factual problems with it.

1. Live Floating Anarchy isn't a Gong album, it's a "Planet Gong" album, which was the Here and Now Band  with Daevid Allen and Gilli Smythe as guests. Daevid did the very Gong-ish cover art and featured the word "GONG" in big capital letters, but it's still not a Gong album.

2. The first review not only gets this wrong, but also talks about Steve Hillage's guitar work. Steve Hillage does not appear on this album. Here and Now Band's guitarist Steffi Sharpstrings (OK, I can see why the reviewer though that was another one of Hillage's pseudonyms, as I also did for many years) does sound a lot like him, though.

Well, instead of going on, let me refer you to my write-up of the Here and Now Band at the GEPR:

http://www.gepr.net/he.html#HEREANDNOW

Feel free to copy any or all of it, as long as you attribute it to me personally or to the GEPR.

Sean Trane did a review for the wrong album:

This is featured on the frontpage at the moment: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=979072

geneyesontle wrote: Sean Trane did a review for the wrong album: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=7768 It's supposed to be a review for H To He..., but he reviewed it in the review page of the album The Least We Can Do.... This proves that even collaborators can be wrong.

Nice enough review, but it's all about opinions while actual content appears to have been left by the wayside. Shallow and superficial, but nice enough.

 ^  --  maybe he wrote it in '88.

It does read more like a critical article than review.   He is no writer, but I don't see any violations except maybe the excessive foul language.







Edited by Atavachron - June 16 2013 at 18:28

 or fowl language ?

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=980623

Second Life Syndrome wrote: Dean wrote: It's very easy to rave about an album you've just heard, I wonder what the ratings of most of these would be if they were reviewed after a six months (or six years). I wonder how up and coming bands would feel about finally getting exposure SIX YEARS after they release an album?   Or, even how Dream Theater would feel if we wait until 2019 to review their new album (I probably won't listen to it, anyways)?  I review a lot of albums (some of those reviews don't even make it on this site), and there is an obvious difference in quality to a 5 star album.  2013 has been a stellar year so far, at least for those of us that like new prog music, too.  If anything, just take it as a good sign for the prog world.  What's so wrong with that?

I prefer to err somewhere in the middle - not go too overboard with either praise or criticism.  It takes time for opinions to moderate in either direction but if everybody waited until then, one could never find reviews of new albums to go by.  That said, I am not against rating a recently released album 5 on 5 if I cannot convince myself against itself after reasoning it out.  But that's rare and I haven't so far done so on the website.