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Points: 1698 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2009 at 22:18
However, I concur, it's an excellent review.Thumbs Up

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Points: 1698 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2009 at 22:17
He misspelled "surreal" at the end of the last paragraph. For shame!

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Points: 37253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2009 at 19:45
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Originally posted by Vibe's SEbtP review Vibe's SEbtP review wrote:

...1973`s Selling England By The Pound eclipsed anything the band had previously recorded and in retrospect can be seen as the Mount Everest in the evolution of progrock in the early seventies....


A possible case of retrospectively making prog mountains out of prog molehills?

But seriously, it's a very well-written review, and makes me wish I had music review writing abilities..
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Points: 3577 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2009 at 19:44
Here´s talking of real quality of reviewing




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Points: 7826 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2009 at 19:44
Such as this one...

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=20090

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Points: 7826 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2009 at 19:37
Sure there are a ton of reviews for Selling England, but that doesn't mean the reviews should be marked unnecessary because there are now 816 of them.

Definitely a good review. It seems to me that in many albums there are skimpy reviews with no more meaning than a rating.

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Points: 6472 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2009 at 18:41
A well written review, I have to say.  Thumbs Up There is a real difference between quantity and quality.  That an album has been reviewed many times, hundreds of times even, means very little if those reviews don't have much to offer.  It's those thoughtful and informed ones that interest me.  It doesn't matter whether the review is mostly positive or negative - if the reviewer shows that he/she has some understanding of the subject, then I'll pay attention.
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Points: 3596 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2009 at 17:23
Bravo VB.
Who says that an album is reviewed too often should read this one.
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=220503
"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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