Reviews reporting thread

Bootleg not supposed to be here... . Added May. 2005, first 2 reviews done today. To be discarded.

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=104461

This review calls the album a bootleg (I don't know if this is true) and is about 40 words long.

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=104412

First review of an album and it doesn't have much to say.

How ironic..his name is "info", but he provides an absence of it!

Atkingani wrote: Snow Dog wrote: How ironic..his name is "info", but he provides an absence of it!   In his case, it is valid for Italy (.it) only!

...very good.

Well, let's see if with the edition it's improved.

progismylife wrote: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=104585 This says nothing about the album at all. It is also really short.

Edited by Atkingani - December 26 2006 at 16:33

I'm not sure if there was any actual abuse, but the circumstances are sketchy. Gong's You album has only once, I believe, gotten two reviews in one day. Both were one star reviews with minimalistic descriptions of the album, submitted within twelve minutes of each other.

I don't even like the album (2 stars for it, I'm about to make my write review), but such blatant abuse is simply wrong.

So, do your IP check thing, but I expect the results will be grim.
    

EDIT: Well, I'm actually not heading off to review the album. I always listen to the album in question while I review, and as I listened to Gong's You again, something started to click. It needs more time, though I had thought that a month was enough.

Edited by inpraiseoffolly - December 27 2006 at 20:40

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=64658

One I found by accident. It talks about site policy more than about the album...

PAIN OF SALVATION — Scarsick

Review by IvanDame

Why don't we have a 3,5? Only 3 or 4? I think this album deserves a 3,5.

It's really strange to see people sayin' that this album is crap. In my head, PoS's fans are open minded people, and then we came here and read something like "Daniel rapping? WTF?"... These comments are unacceptable. Man?! Don't you know the context? What's better than criticize the rapper doing a rap? Showing that anyone can rap like them? The same goes for disco queen. Maybe you people are so cold, so stupid that don't even know what's sarcasm. Go ahead and listen to the "default" bands, PoS is too much for you. This album isn't as good as the previous, maybe only better than OHBTCL, but still a good album. And it's kinda very original. Maybe a little SOAD? Little, little... not even 10%. The lyrics (as always) are real good. Maybe the americans (or should I say "north americans") are rating and hating this album, but hey, what's wrong about the lyrics? You guys should open your eyes, or listen to Bush? Well, let's get back to the album. There are weak points (the first track is kinda of empty, it doesn't have great points IMO, just a riff and some non melodical things), funny points (Disco Queen obviously, America, some lyrics of other songs too), some real good points (Cribcaged is beautiful, Kingdom Of Loss has one of the most "I can't take this melody of my head" PoS melody, Flame To The Moth has great heavy parts and vocals and so on). Some of the songs aren't "various listen" proof. I mean, the songs get old too soon for a PoS album (some PoS songs didn't got old to me even after listening to it for about 4 years). BE has a kind of this thing too IMO, the songs got "boring" (not boring exactly, but less interesting) after too much listening. Maybe PoS is getting a little more musical, their ideas are not unusual anymore, MAYBE. The songs on Scarsick aren't usual, but the melodies are less "what a strange thing", then listening to it again: "what a strange thing" and then, after some listening "what amazing thing". Well, you have to hear it, that's the only way to take your conclusions. But, listen to it matching the lyrics with the songs, and with humour, because there's sarcasm inside. If you're not so open minded, you should broke the cd after the second song. Good listening. PS.: Still waiting for TPEII.