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Finnforest wrote: Well, to give just one bit of personal advise, which you can ignore if you wish, you might want to consider laying off the 5-star rating.  It is supposed to be a very rarely used rating.....Just looking briefly it appears you're using it about 90% of the time. (just a guesstimate) Good luck!

Jim, I'm one of these prolific reviewers, who give quite high rating. The other one I remember is Tszirmay, with even higher average ratings then I have.

At first, I used to give mostly 5 stars, because I've started with great albums. My first was, well, Dark Side. Then I explored various genres and my ratings were lower. I've began to be more critical towards the music and recently, I even edited my old ratings to remove half (or so) of my 5 star ratings, leaving only those who really deserve it.

I use 5-star rating seldom these days.

But 4 stars, it's different. It's my most used rating from various reasons.

As shown here, my average ratings are somewhere around 3.7 - 4.1

Try to move outside your comfort zone. Download a couple of Senmuth albums (free) and test your reactions to those. That's what this place is all about. 

You are spot on, AtomicCrimsonRush.  

Arcane-Beautiful: There are so many free legal download albums now within all genres so there is no excuse not to branch out and experience Prog Rock to it's full extent. My brain feeds of all the weird experiences I get through this website and you are really only kind of harming yourself by not taking full advantage of what we have to offer, music wise. 

The Senmuth downloads is as easy as eating a cake. Choose the album, enter the codes, download, unrar and listen to it. Then review it.  Other noteworthy free downloads is the Logos albums and the Herba L Hameli albums + the Tempano album. Just to mention a few goodies.