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    Posted: January 13 2007 at 12:06
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

There's no way that 2112 is a 5 star Prog album! "Side two" ie all tracks except the title track, is way too week and for the most part not prog.

It might be a five star rock masterpiece but Prog Masterpiece no way!





I know that. But it is Rush and I love that band (my brother hates me because I have 19 CDs of Rush while he only has 2 or 3 of his favorite bands)

And I was in a happy mood when I did that review ( I usually am when playing Rush so some of my reveiws of them can be slightly ignored).
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Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

There's no way that 2112 is a 5 star Prog album! "Side two" ie all tracks except the title track, is way too week and for the most part not prog.

It might be a five star rock masterpiece but Prog Masterpiece no way!

 
Exactly what I think, Tony. Good callClap
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There's no way that 2112 is a 5 star Prog album! "Side two" ie all tracks except the title track, is way too week and for the most part not prog.

It might be a five star rock masterpiece but Prog Masterpiece no way!

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A lot of my Rush reviews (the 4 star ones) are really between 4 and 4.5

I just find flaws with the albums that ruin the masterpiece the rest of the album is.

But some albums I bumped up to 5 anyway. Like 2112, Moonmadness, Red.


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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. Wink



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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...LOL
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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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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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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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The rating system should really be 0 to 10 if you ask me
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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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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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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 LOL
Moondawn (Klaus Schulze)
          + six or seven more Schulze albums LOLLOL
others.
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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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Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Originally posted by Zappa88 Zappa88 wrote:

Led Zeppelin - "Presence"

Wow, thats the highest rating I ever saw for PresenceShocked


It's actually my favorite Zeppelin album.  If I ever actually reviewed it, it would be 5 stars easy. 

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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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Originally posted by Zappa88 Zappa88 wrote:

Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Originally posted by Zappa88 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>


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Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Originally posted by Zappa88 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 knowLOL

Respect! I never thought I would write this, but Zeppelin needs more lovin in this siteWink
 
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 workWink
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Originally posted by Zappa88 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 knowLOL

Respect! I never thought I would write this, but Zeppelin needs more lovin in this siteWink
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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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