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Sagichim

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Posted: April 22 2020 at 11:41

Yeah I was happy to see those albums on the front page again, keep up the good work Thumbs Up

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Posted: April 22 2020 at 10:28

Thank you siLLy and Meltdowner, I will endeavor to keep up the good work, and spread the word on RPI!

(finally seeing PFM for the first time in the flesh last summer outdoors in a tiny fortified hilltown in Tuscany reignited a four decade love affair with RPI!)

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Posted: April 22 2020 at 08:13

siLLy puPPy wrote:

Nice reviews from zeuhl1 lately! Totally expanding my RPI awareness Clap

I know every album he has reviewed so far but it's great to see those albums on the main page Big smile

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Posted: April 22 2020 at 08:01

Tapfret wrote:

In my time at PA, I have seen some very complete reviews. I have seen reviews of, singles, non-prog albums, and of course the odd 1-star review.

What I have not seen (and please point to another, example if one exists) is a more complete 1-star review of a non-prog single as the one written by The Anders for The Beatles single "My Bonnie". I really appreciate the embedded history behind the track.

Well done. Clap

Just discovered this thread. Thank you very much for the nice words :)

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Posted: April 21 2020 at 23:11

Nice reviews from zeuhl1 lately! Totally expanding my RPI awareness Clap

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SteveG

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Posted: April 17 2020 at 09:41

Do you think that The Anders is a Beatles' fanboy?

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Logan

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Posted: April 16 2020 at 17:17

Tapfret wrote:

In my time at PA, I have seen some very complete reviews. I have seen reviews of, singles, non-prog albums, and of course the odd 1-star review.

Well done. Clap

That is a really interesting read and I do like the approach.

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Posted: April 16 2020 at 16:47

In my time at PA, I have seen some very complete reviews. I have seen reviews of, singles, non-prog albums, and of course the odd 1-star review.

Well done. Clap

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SteveG

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Posted: April 02 2020 at 06:27

friso has been on a 2 star ratings/review binge lately. I don't concur on most of them but they are fun to read!

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Posted: March 19 2020 at 05:00

Good to see all the reviews from Ken Levine, ViennaProghead and Warthur on Jade Warrior, Hackett, and BOC. Tbh, I can't read all of them because of my vision problems, but I know that they are of the highest quality and that their ratings, if different than mine, are always well explained.

Edited by SteveG - March 19 2020 at 05:01

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Posted: March 05 2020 at 10:41

Mortte wrote:

Really liked James Baldwins Faust review and agree it fully!!

Oh yeah! :-)

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Posted: March 05 2020 at 08:31

SteveG wrote:

I'm going to give ELO 2 a listen based on T Cat's impassioned review. Sounds like some good prog before the band turned into a pop machine.

I hope you enjoy it. It's rough around the edges but has become a personal favorite of mine over time.

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Posted: March 05 2020 at 06:36

Great review of Alan White's Ramshackled by ViennaProgHead that really hits the album's short comings squarely on the head. Excellent reading.

Edited by SteveG - March 05 2020 at 06:36

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Posted: March 01 2020 at 14:00

I'm going to give ELO 2 a listen based on T Cat's impassioned review. Sounds like some good prog before the band turned into a pop machine.

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Posted: February 28 2020 at 06:45

Snicolette wrote:

I would like to thank BrufordFreak for his review of the new Tirill release. Well written, and perfectly describes the music that I sought out because of the review.

Thank you, Nickie! That album hit me like a ton of bricks! I am glad to see my review (and Mike/Aussie-Byrd-Brother's) are helping to bring awareness to this little gem. The vocal and string performances are what really wow me with Said the Sun to the Moon. Check it out, everybody! A real beauty.

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Posted: February 28 2020 at 01:45

Really liked James Baldwins Faust review and agree it fully!!

SteveG

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Posted: February 26 2020 at 12:02

A shout out to sgtpepper for his very balanced critiques and ratings on his string of Hackett reviews. Good job old boy!

Edited by SteveG - February 26 2020 at 12:04

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Posted: February 25 2020 at 04:12

I got a kick out of reading stevoz review of 90125 (which I will forever confuse with the TV show 90210!) as saying he is sick of "armchair critics" dissing the album and not realizing that by posting his review he has become one!

I highly enjoyed Evolver's Kansas reviews as I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of this American prog band and especially VienaProghead's extensive Golden Earing review, after being surprised that they were included here.

Edited by SteveG - February 25 2020 at 04:33

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Logan

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Posted: February 14 2020 at 14:51

I copied my review before hitting submit, but even if I get time-outs, I can backtrack with my browser and my work is still there most of the time (that is how I did it yesterday). I once did lose an essay length review here, which might have been my magnum opus. I figure I could write better reviews if I used Word, then paste it here, and there'd be less chance to need to edit them, and so less chance of having to battle Captcha (since it's not the first time it has blocked me, yesterday the Captchas were extremely problematic for me -- that happens now and then for me). Had I pre-typed the review(off site using my Word processor program), I might have just said, I'll just try again tomorrow and not spent over an hour fighting Captcha. Yes, one should always copy beforehand in case. Sometimes with this site, I really wish to minimise page navigation as much as possible because Captcha proves a problems across browsers every time I try to load a new PA page, reload, submit something etc.

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Psychedelic Paul View Drop Down

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Posted: February 14 2020 at 14:40

TCat wrote:

Logan wrote:

Thanks David and Steve; much appreciated. Glad it got you to think about that album again. It was a quickly-written review (I spend much more time writing many posts). I was just checking something regarding the bio (that took me much longer to write) and remembered that I had said that I planned to review it soon after the addition. I generally prefer dialectic to review writing, but writing reviews has sometimes been an enjoyable experience. I wrote some for a show called The Prisoner a few years before joining this site, which were a lot of work, but ended up being quite fun as I enjoyed peppering in some silly, and none-too subtle sexual innuendo. Maybe I should try a TOOL album next.

EDIT: What was a pain with the review, while it took me little time to write, I spent ages battling Captcha to get it up, then needed to make a correction, and spent far too long doing that as Captcha blocked me again and again. I spent way longer dealing with Captcha than writing the review. I had decided at one time just to delete it, but Captcha wouldn't allow me to do that either, because it was late and I was so exasperated. Eventually I got my edit in (I should write reviews off site then copy/paste them) I could have tried a different device, but I tried all sorts of different browsers, deleting the cache....

You are right. Copy/paste is pretty much the only sure fire way to do a review.

It's the same with me too. I always write my album reviews out using my laptop Notepad and then copy and paste it into the PA review box, and then there's no risk of losing three hours work if the PA web-page times-out on me when I click on "Submit".

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - February 14 2020 at 14:41