4.5 stars albums
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Topic: 4.5 stars albums
Posted By: el böthy
Subject: 4.5 stars albums
Date 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 ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:05
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Frank Zappa - "Zappa In New York"
Frank Zappa - "Trance-Fusion"
Led Zeppelin - "Presence" ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:18
Wow, thats the highest rating I ever saw for Presence  ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Zappa88 wrote:Posted By: Erock
Date 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 |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:21
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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.
Against the grain, I know  ------------- Beauty will save the world.
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:33
Respect! I never thought I would write this, but Zeppelin needs more lovin in this site  ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: January 12 2007 at 23:46
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  ------------- Beauty will save the world.
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 00:26
That doesn't take guts, it takes a difference of opinion. ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: tuxon
Date 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 ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date 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. -------------   |
Posted By: R_DeNIRO
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 01:22
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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) ------------- We were always be much human than we whish to be. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 01:27
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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
Moondawn (Klaus Schulze)
+ six or seven more Schulze albums
others. ------------- 
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Posted By: darkshade
Date 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...) ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date 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. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: stomp
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 02:47
| The rating system should really be 0 to 10 if you ask me |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 03:03
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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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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 03:25
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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... ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: sleeper
Date 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 ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 05:18
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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... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 10:47
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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. |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 11:52
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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. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 12:00
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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! |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 12:03
Exactly what I think, Tony. Good call  ------------- Beauty will save the world.
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 12:06
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). |