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el böthy 
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 Topic: 4.5 stars albums
Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:03 |
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You know that album that is almost perfect, so close, but you know you cant give it 5 stars? Well, this is what this topic is about. I think that there are a lot of this albums in this genre, I even dare to say most of the total clasics are not 5 stars, but 4.5! So, name a few, a few of this "one step short of perfection"! Here I go for now
Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
King Crimson - Lark´s tongue in Aspic (in fact, only ITCOTCK is 5 stars in my book)
Dün - Eros ...why? I dont know, but it´s painfully close
Anglagard - Hybris
Camel - Mirage
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:05 |
Frank Zappa - "Zappa In New York"
Frank Zappa - "Trance-Fusion"
Led Zeppelin - "Presence"
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el böthy
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:18 |
 Zappa88 wrote:
Led Zeppelin - "Presence" |
Wow, thats the highest rating I ever saw for Presence 
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:20 |
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Van Der Graaf Generator- Still Life
The Doors- Strange Days
+ agreeing with the first poster on...
Gnidrolog- Lady Lake
King Crimson- Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Edited by Erock - January 12 2007 at 23:21
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Chris H
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:21 |
Love that album!
Presence got 4 stars from me, while Coda got 5. I haven't reviewed In Through The Out Door Yet, but I can assure it will get high marks from me when I get around to actually typing the review up.
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el böthy
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:33 |
Zappa88 wrote:
Love that album!
Presence got 4 stars from me, while Coda got 5. I haven't reviewed In Through The Out Door Yet, but I can assure it will get high marks from me when I get around to actually typing the review up.
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Respect! I never thought I would write this, but Zeppelin needs more lovin in this site 
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:46 |
el böthy wrote:
Zappa88 wrote:
Love that album!
Presence got 4 stars from me, while Coda got 5. I haven't reviewed In Through The Out Door Yet, but I can assure it will get high marks from me when I get around to actually typing the review up.
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Respect! I never thought I would write this, but Zeppelin needs more lovin in this site
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I agree to some extent. First off, I really didn't even think they belonged here, but they're one of my favorite bands so why not review them and give them the credit they deserve?
Plus it takes guts to tell thousands of Led-Heads that their last 3 releases far eclipsed their earlier work 
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 00:26 |
Zappa88 wrote:
el böthy wrote:
Zappa88 wrote:
Love that album!
Presence got 4 stars from me, while Coda got 5. I haven't reviewed In Through The Out Door Yet, but I can assure it will get high marks from me when I get around to actually typing the review up.
Against the grain, I know[IMG]height=17 alt=LOL src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle> |
Respect! I never thought I would write this, but Zeppelin needs more lovin in this site[IMG]alt=Wink src="smileys/smiley2.gif" align=absMiddle> |
I agree to some extent. First off, I really didn't even think they belonged here, but they're one of my favorite bands so why not review them and give them the credit they deserve?
Plus it takes guts to tell thousands of Led-Heads that their last 3 releases far eclipsed their earlier work[IMG]height=17 alt=Wink src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley2.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle> |
That doesn't take guts, it takes a difference of opinion.
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tuxon
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 00:34 |
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Some almost masterpieces:
Yes - Fragile
Genesis - Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England.
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood, Brave
Arena - pride, Songs From The Lions cage
Camel - Mirage, The Snow Goose, Moonmadness
IQ - The Seventh House, Ever
Riverside - Out Of Myself
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rileydog22
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 00:34 |
It's actually my favorite Zeppelin album. If I ever actually reviewed it, it would be 5 stars easy.
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 01:22 |
Agalloch - The Mantle
Deep Purple - In Rock
Adagio - UnderWorld (The first half of the album is a masterpiece, the second...)
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
King Crimson - ITCOKC (for me, Red is the masterpiece)
Dream Theater - Awake
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element I (for me, Remedy Lane is their masterpiece)
Pink Floyd - Wish you Were Here (We all know what are the masterpiece, and the non masterpiece tracks of this great album)
Rush - Moving Pictures (Yes, I prefer 2112; second half of Moving Pictures falls a lot)
Spock's Beard & Neal Morse (Almost all their material is great but not masterpiece)
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
A.C.T. - Last Epic (really near, but maybe too poppy for me for a masterpiece)
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 01:27 |
Right now, I can think of:
H To He Who Am The Only One (Van Der Graaf Generator)
Signals (Rush)
Animals (Pink Floyd)
Selling England By The Pound (Genesis)
Stratosfear (Tangerine Dream)
+ four or five more Tangerine Dream albums Moondawn (Klaus Schulze)
+ six or seven more Schulze albums others.
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 01:29 |
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having a 4.5 star system would be great for reviewing these types of albums, though i fear that would lead to .5's for all stars, including .5 and 5.5 (hey you never know...)
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 02:10 |
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Almost every album that probably deserves five stars would get a four (but a really high four!) outta me.
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 02:47 |
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The rating system should really be 0 to 10 if you ask me
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richardh
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 03:03 |
ELP - Trilogy
Genesis - Wind And Wuthering
IQ - Tales From The Lush Attic
IQ - The Seventh House (Ever is worth 5 stars!)
Yes - The Yes Album
those are examples of albums that are all close to masterpeices but don't quite make the grade despite the quality of material being very strong.
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 03:25 |
PFM - Storia de un Minuto
Rennaissance - Ashes are Burning
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Maxophone - s/t
Bark Psychosis - Hex
that were the ones that my mind caught now...
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 05:08 |
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White Willow- Sacrament
King Crimson- Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Genesis- Selling England By The Pound
Marillion- Fugazi
The Mars Volta- De-Loused In The Comatorium
Muse- Absolution
Opeth- Still Life
Pain Of Salvation- Entropia
PoS- Remedy Lane
Van der Graaf Generator- H to He, Who Am The Only One
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Jared
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 05:18 |
well, accodring to my ratings reviews, I have given 243 albums on this site either 4 or 5 stars...
if we said that a third of them (on average) are 4.5 stars, then I would have to list 81 'almost perfect' albums... |
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 10:47 |
Some albums I think deserve 4.5 stars that came up in my head at the sight of this thread:
Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet
Dream Theater - Images and Words (their only consistent album in my opinion, see my review)
Art Zoyd - Musique pour l'Odyssée
Art Zoyd - Génération Sans Futur
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
By the way böthy: Dün's album is five stars.
Edited by Philéas - January 13 2007 at 10:48
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