Reviews.......?useless

Review of Aquiring the taste up at the moment has 5 stars. whilst i like it, Its certainly not gentle giants best effort by a long chalk, and you couldnt give Octopus 6 stars

Welcome to the forum,but this has been discussed recently

I know I'm new around here, but I am I suppose a veteran of progressive rock. The reviews which people do...they all seem to issue albums with either 4 or 5 stars. This is a little unhelpful as every band has had its peaks and throughs, and I would say that the award of 5 stars can only be for a truely exeptional album. The type that a band only perhaps make once in a decade, and some bands not at all. Giving everything 5 stars may give the reviewer some sense of satisfaction that they are stating a bands case, but its pretty unhelpful to others who have maybe not heard an album, and ultimately affects the average score an album attains. 5 star albums.. what would they be.. well we could probably all name a handful, and only a handful. In the court of the crimson king, dark side of the moon, foxtrot, close to the edge would probably feature. other bands who I dearly love, would probably fail to have a single 5 star album. Take Van der Graaf generator, true prog merchants, but all their albums have faults, and they would only get 5 stars for some kind of compilation ditto gentle giant, jethro tull (thick as a brick should only be a single side not two),and many others.