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DJPuffyLemon 
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 Topic: Your opinion of George Starostin
Posted: October 13 2008 at 13:05 |
As you may or may not know, George Starostin is the author of the Only Solitare website, which can be reached here:
What do you guys think of him? More specifically, what do you think of his reviews of prog bands? If you have never read him before, just check out the page and read about any prog band that has a rating and tell me what you think. I personally think he's the best album reviewer I've ever read, though a bit biased at times...then again, who isn't? And his objective insights definately overshadow any bias.
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Nizz
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 13:53 |
I've enjoyed GS's reviews for a while. A lot of his stuff annoys me but I suppose that's his job. It's ertainly sent me to the CD racks to pull out stuff to listen to a few times.
Mark Prindle's hilarious site is more concerned with punk/noise/weirdness but he's good on Yes and the Moody Blues and more often than not has me laughing out loud as he heads wildly off-topic.
A real labour of love for these guys - good luck to 'em.
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 14:02 |
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Not his greatest fan, myself. I think he's a bit quick to jump to conclusions, lacking much objectivity and his subjective opinions don't tend to correlate to my own.
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ClassicRocker
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 14:12 |
George StarostCarlin is a god!
Edited by ClassicRocker - October 13 2008 at 14:14
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micky
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Posted: October 13 2008 at 14:29 |
hahhahah... love his reviews... and forever a classic for this quote for the ages .... ' And yes, as long as bad taste exists in this
world, there will always be Uriah Heep fans'
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npjnpj
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Posted: October 14 2008 at 07:14 |
I like his reviews for entertainment value only (guilty pleasure, in a way), but I can't agree with a LOT of his opinions and he gets unpleasantly personal with some artists.
A bit like the Jerry Springer of music reviews.
He won't mind if I call him a conceited assh.le because he's dead.
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rogerthat
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Posted: October 14 2008 at 08:17 |
I don't agree with him most of the time and purely for a music lover looking for information about an album to guide him, his reviews are not very useful. Having said that, his style of writing is very enjoyable and he slips in some great insights in the midst of his "I wanna piss off all fanboys of this band" ramblings. Oh, and I do enjoy it when people irk fanboys, though only to the extent that it does not become an obsession.
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: October 16 2008 at 11:44 |
Her UH reviews sucks in every big way
Her favorite phrase: "Pure pop Perfection".
i read a lot of her reviews she's is a clever writer but she doesn't like prog.
and BTW is SHE.
Edited by zafreth - October 16 2008 at 11:45
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DJPuffyLemon
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Posted: October 16 2008 at 23:36 |
You know that picture is a bit ambiguous. Also, I'm not all up in the Russian culture so I don't know whether georgiy is a m/f name. but that's an interesting revelation.
also, not liking prog does not immediately discredit his/her reviews. the reasons for liking/not liking it would. and I have to say I'm undecided. because if you look at the broad spectrum of rock music, prog is really just a small part which did NOT influence anything other than other prog. the rock aspect gets its stuff from true rock and also from the rock aspects of more mainstream rock bands like floyd, yes, rush, and genesis.
that said, not a fan of his/her reviews where there is overt bias. i like reading crits on the falls of prog, because its usually very interesting and ultimately true, but when there's too much bias, such as: "there is no melody this is a horrible song", and not considering the intentions of the artist then its just best to ignore that part.........................
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: October 17 2008 at 10:59 |
 DJPuffyLemon wrote:
You know that picture is a bit ambiguous. Also, I'm not all up in the Russian culture so I don't know whether georgiy is a m/f name. but that's an interesting revelation.
You know, if you read the personal info, she claim that have a baby and she are married with a guy?? any doubts again?? 
also, not liking prog does not immediately discredit his/her reviews. the reasons for liking/not liking it would. and I have to say I'm undecided. because if you look at the broad spectrum of rock music, prog is really just a small part which did NOT influence anything other than other prog. the rock aspect gets its stuff from true rock and also from the rock aspects of more mainstream rock bands like floyd, yes, rush, and genesis.
i ´m not discredit her reviews for not liking prog, actually she was the first to say that.
that said, not a fan of his/her reviews where there is overt bias. i like reading crits on the falls of prog, because its usually very interesting and ultimately true, but when there's too much bias, such as: "there is no melody this is a horrible song", and not considering the intentions of the artist then its just best to ignore that part.........................
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rogerthat
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 07:52 |
zafreth wrote:
You know, if you read the personal info, she claim that have a baby and she are married with a guy?? any doubts again??
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Don't want a full-scale derailment but it says "Married with children". Could mean anything to me. I must note that the person in the pic looks more male-like than good ol' Geddy, which is not necessarily saying much. EDIT: Turns out HE has an entry on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Starostin Sorry to disappoint, zafreth.
Edited by rogerthat - October 22 2008 at 08:02
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 12:08 |
rogerthat wrote:
zafreth wrote:
You know, if you read the personal info, she claim that have a baby and she are married with a guy?? any doubts again??
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Don't want a full-scale derailment but it says "Married with children". Could mean anything to me. I must note that the person in the pic looks more male-like than good ol' Geddy, which is not necessarily saying much.
EDIT: Turns out HE has an entry on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Starostin
Sorry to disappoint, zafreth.
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hahaha  not at all Roger
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debrewguy
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 13:09 |
micky wrote:
hahhahah... love his reviews... and forever a classic for this quote for the ages ....
'And yes, as long as bad taste exists in this
world, there will always be Uriah Heep fans'
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I think you mean that as long as there exists Uriah Heep Fans, there will always be bad taste in this world. p.s. I'm just waiting for someone to jump to UH's defence and state that what I meant was that UH was a bulwark against bad taste. Then claim that what I just said was all bollocks. That came out of my buttocks. As clear as that is ... no sh*t Sherlocks.
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Intruder
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Posted: October 25 2008 at 06:17 |
Spent waaaay too long with his reviews.....say what you will, the guy really dug what he was doing.
What I want to know: Is the really dead? Maybe by dead you meant not posting anymore, therefore as good as dead. I really hope the guy hasn't really passed on.....probably my fault for cursing him to hell over his scorching review of Crimson's Islands.
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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DJPuffyLemon
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Posted: October 25 2008 at 21:43 |
I doubt dead, likely hesheit just got bored.
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crimson87
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Posted: October 25 2008 at 23:36 |
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His/Her reviews are quite funny to read.However the guy is too sujective , he does not seem to like jazz , so he basically bashes all the Post Vol 2 releases by the Softs.Also there isn't any prog metal on the site , but I picture that he would hate it with passion.
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rogerthat
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Posted: October 26 2008 at 00:35 |
Intruder wrote:
Spent waaaay too long with his reviews.....say what you will, the guy really dug what he was doing.
What I want to know: Is the really dead? Maybe by dead you meant not posting anymore, therefore as good as dead. I really hope the guy hasn't really passed on.....probably my fault for cursing him to hell over his scorching review of Crimson's Islands. |
Going by the wikipedia entry, he's very much alive. Whoever said he's dead probably meant that he's not looking after his website anymore due to personal commitments, I guess, so he won't notice if you diss him, which he won't anyway if you diss him in here.
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Beastie!
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Posted: April 26 2009 at 04:21 |
Reading this guy's reviews is better than sex.
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npjnpj
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Posted: April 27 2009 at 08:21 |
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Oh, my mistake. I actually heard that he'd died.
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: April 27 2009 at 09:50 |
npjnpj wrote:
Oh, my mistake. I actually heard that he'd died. |
really?
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