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A wonderful example of transcendental bollocks! Tongue
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

transcendental bollocks 

I think that was Robert Fripp's band in secondary school.
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

transcendental bollocks 

I think that was Robert Fripp's band in secondary school.

LOL
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Another word salad served by Wickie:
www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=3156942

Generic with hardly any references to the album and very hard to read, except maybe for people with a special talent for transcendant reading, whatever that might be.

Edited by someone_else - 8 hours 41 minutes ago at 07:04
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

^ Appreciate it if you'd do the "honours" of trying to contact the user to share your specific concerns, Ken, if you don't mind doing so. I don't think it matters if it comes from an Admin, SC, or any member if sharing concerns. Warnings usually are better left to Moderators, but I, from a strictly personal standpoint, would rather not be that official or officious at this time. That kind of thing takes its mental toll on me and I have not been doing that great health-wise (either physically or mentally, well, they work in tandem). I think someone may have tried to contact this person before, very unsure, vague and perhaps false memory of that.

Anyway here is the review as I like to preserve these before deleting.

Originally posted by thewickedfall thewickedfall wrote:

The album in concept art does not reflect their actual experiences according to their biographical background information(but I could be wrong) nor does it envelop to the spirit of progressive thinking. It feels that if I write what I want they will turn me into this album cover? As far as concerned any group with modern progression of instruments can be considered progressive as all albums have changes in sound to some extent into of which are considered progressive since the elements included unto this album are from folk but into rock. This melded variation albeit is attempting to be unique and was at the time frame for the most part of trying to transcend musical tastes from folk to rock with folk rock. In then time many fans consider it as pushing the tide of sound but truthfully rock in general can be considered a progression from folk. In this regard but truly in progressive music if considering the whole genre to be progressive as this album of folk to rock attempts at enveloping collectively into progressive from previous that it returns to classical music will never be matched in progressions of its ever changing styles of rhythm as essential music that stands all time but just did not record to modern standards from then time.

That the root of progressive music can be viewed as classical composing and music while all else are applied variants disguising the classical into the modern by the modern innovation/progression of instrument. Pushing the tide and envelop of sound has long been staple of progressive music while embracing progressive music towards this understanding means progressive music becomes a catch all to vary any sound in any musical time frame and anything in between. The progression of modern instruments can be viewed as naturally progressing sound meaning any album can be viewed in this progression of sound which does not make any album nor worst or better but falls into all people will never agree with another in progressive as it is the agreed differences that make the progressions. This album is a fan favorite album that has transcended time but all albums should in this regard and don't think one does it any better than the other since even what one considers as the worst or most horrible album is still widely available to the public.

In transcendance the album is transcendant towards music not necessarily entirely progressive but used the flow of progressive instruments from one genre to another as only they could into providing the recordings they did. Just to note the musicians from this time era that are considered as the founders of progressive music never played on purpose progressive music meaning they did not define or a musician group member from then time did not explicitly label their sound according to information as progressive. The progressive genre was created after the fact as they all played to play cause simply that is what they like spending their time doing. And so with that observance included none of the groups are considered progressive or essential since simply they never thought of themselves as progressive musicians to begin with as it is other people attempting to create the label progressive. The labels into defining music in my opinion have to be labeled by the musicians or those who participated into playing.


I deleted the review for JT's Aqualung page, but its transcendent spirit lives on here.

ok, but, in the spirit quite opposite to this reviewer, I'm liable to be quite direct and comprehensible.  
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^ That's a plus. Appreciate it if you mean that you will try to contact the reviewer. I find being direct and comprehensible a challenge currently. Thanks, Ken. Well, actually it kind of always is a challenge. I'm not very comfortable being direct commonly and as for being comprehensible, I've been told that I barely say a word that can be understood (I think the words themselves are fine usually, it's more how I string them together).

I got hit with multiple COVIDs and flus (missed my boosters due to getting sick) and it has majorly affected my respiratory system. That is getting better slowly, but I feel like I'm in a fog all the time. And now I am barely sleeping. Not at all compos mentos and thus my depression has got worse. I am planning to go to California soon (my wife travels there now twice a month) and I think that should do me good.

Edited by Logan - 7 hours 29 minutes ago at 08:16
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Looks like he just reposted another "interesting" review of Aqualung. Probably is an auto-translation thing, but sometimes I think we're a little too lenient with these kinds of reviewers. When they continue to post stuff that has people asking for deletions repeatedly, why not just delete the account and move on? We have many quality reviewers that put a lot of time and effort into writing something useful, which I'm grateful for. To see their work get bumped off the front page for nonsense is unfortunate and not necessary.

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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

transcendental bollocks 

I think that was Robert Fripp's band in secondary school.

That would sound infinitely better than the accounting firm moniker Giles, Giles and Fripp LOL


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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Looks like he just reposted another "interesting" review of Aqualung. Probably is an auto-translation thing, but sometimes I think we're a little too lenient with these kinds of reviewers. When they continue to post stuff that has people asking for deletions repeatedly, why not just delete the account and move on? We have many quality reviewers that put a lot of time and effort into writing something useful, which I'm grateful for. To see their work get bumped off the front page for nonsense is unfortunate and not necessary.

Just my two cents.

I absolutely agree with this. I have said on several occasions that this type of nonsense causes the site severe reputational issues. In an ideal world, it would be better to have a sort of admin permission to publish a review, but I appreciate that is difficult owing to resource and the voluntary nature of the site.
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

A wonderful example of transcendental bollocks!
Which is a very Bri'ish way to describe it.
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