10 Highest Rated Albums On PA
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Topic: 10 Highest Rated Albums On PA
Posted By: zravkapt
Subject: 10 Highest Rated Albums On PA
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 14:15
Don't all vote at once now. I've only heard five of these myself.
------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 14:33
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I've only heard four of these, but not surprisingly if one has followed my past posts, which probably only I have, I vote for Eddie Henderson's Realization. Great album, and one of my very favourites in JRF. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 14:49
| the Seer is unbelievably good, and deserves all the 5* ratings being thrown at it so far |
Posted By: VOTOMS
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 14:50
| Factor Burzaco. Have you already heard it? |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 15:00
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Must accept the shame and confess I haven't even ever heard of those artists, never mind the albums!
------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 15:10
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No vote. I've only heard the Seer and I didn't like it. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 16:03
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I wonder if you might quite like Izvir? |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 16:19
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Jackson ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 16:28
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Gevende followed by Henderson but i'm not familiar with most of these. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 17:05
I did listen to it after recommendations on here and I thought it was an absolutely bloody awful album. If I could be bothered to review it, I'd give it 1*, but with only 17 ratings it's such a minor album it's not worth it. I haven't heard any of the rest so no vote from me either. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Wanorak wrote:Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 17:10
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Even if it was bad, why go to the extreme to 1*, it's that thinking that just baffles me.
Might as well call this Spite Archives seeing every post you make now is just spitting venom at people and then crying over Neo-Prog. Get over it. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 18:33
| Factor Burzaco, amazing album!!!!! followed by Korekyojin |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 19:46
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I voted for Izvir, the jazz-rock band from ex-Yugoslavia (Republic of Slovenia) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 19:59
For a recently added band, that's a good showing. I mean, it was only added a couple of weeks ago, wasn't it? I'm sure had Swans been added earlier it would have considerably more ratings. I suspect that Seer would have many more had the band been added in 2012 (the year that album came out). At rateyourmusic The Seer has 229 reviews, and is ranked the number two album of 2012. At allmusic it has a four-and-half star rating out of 5 stars. Not a minor album in the general music world, I would say. I haven't heard it yet. Of course your rating and review would have a bigger effect on the average at PA since it has only 17 ratings, but not good to rate unless you've given it a number of spins and given it some time to sink in, I think -- especially if its outside your regular listening sphere so you don't have as many compass points when it comes to the style. I've been lucky in that I've almost never received a recommendation that I didn't like. I commonly don't pay much heed to recommendations unless they're directed at me personally by people who know my tastes, and usually they have similar tastes -- I mean, I'll try out bits of the music (say on youtube) based on lots of recommendations, but not usually listen to a whole album unless I feel I have good reason to believe that I will like it already. Some people I know that I'll never be led wrong-by and in those cases I will get the whole album -- even then it might take a while for the music to fully click (or I might just need to be in the right mood), but it always has clicked. PAers have never steered me wrong. I did make the mistake of buying a couple of albums back in 2004 or 2005 based on their reputations here which were not to my tastes, but then those recommendations weren't being aimed at me, so i only had my impulsiveness to blame (had I known the proggiverse better, and knew better in following descriptions, then I wouldn't have made those mistakes. |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 22:38
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DREADNAUGHT! People you really have to listen to those guys! Man they can play!! I tried to promote them several times and I hope it will help to bring more fans. Their name doesn't have anything to do with the music, they sound like a heavy metal band but it's really highly progressive music, mixing so many genres like avant, funk and progressive with tons of groove. The utube sample won't give you the whole picture but try... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3dsxbfGcI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3dsxbfGcI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3YTIxlV9z8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3YTIxlV9z8 |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: January 07 2014 at 23:30
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This. You're not alone haha |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: January 08 2014 at 11:06
If I am not permitted to express an honets opinion, what has this site become? I would go to 1* because I see nothing progressive whatsoever in the music on The Seer. It was simply unpleasant. As I now really don't enjoy or see much point in giving such negative reviews, I chose not to review this album. And if I "spit venom" at people, it is entirely because they have stepped well beyond the boundaries of acceptable demeanour on here. My comments on neo-prog were sardonic (encouraged by some PMs from other users, I may add). ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 09 2014 at 08:46
Never heard of any of those except for Henderson and the thread title is incorrect or misleading at any rate.
 ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: January 09 2014 at 09:21
No it isn't. Those are the highest rated albums on PA. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: January 09 2014 at 09:39
| Wow. I only know for of these. I'll vote later. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 11 2014 at 11:09
I checked and those are the highest rated little known cd's.....but are they rated by very many people and how do they stack up to the known classic ones..? ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: January 11 2014 at 11:39
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They are rated so high because they only have 4 and 5 star ratings. Album like CTTE or TAAB have many ratings but some of them are 2 or 3 stars. You can check almost any sub-genre page and the #1 album in the top 20 is usually not even the highest rated.
------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 11 2014 at 11:45
Material's Hallucination Engine wins my vote in just about any poll, where it's featured At least for the time being.
IDM meets a floating form of fusion meets funk meets Indian instrumentation meets something else entirely. Surprised to see it with so few ratings still  ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |