Poor Reviews? (Thread title changed)

Cygnus X-2 wrote: It's Hugues's personal opinion. You can't call him insane for not liking an album you like.

 

Ditto - personally I have long found that album dull and there is plenty else I would prefer to hear!

Hi SevenCouloured!!!!

Well with such friends defending me , who needs lawyers? Thanks buddies!!!

Insane? Of course I am , Thanks for noticing!!! Did you think for a second my reviewing of almost 1400 albums is the work of somebody with a sound mind??? If so , you are the insane one!!

Ok , I said before that I have some of those early reviews to touch up (actually I have done roughly half of them , as Bob/Easy - our review moderator would attest ), because when I first started writing reviews, I started as with humorous ones meant to be read album after album (most of the review pages were completely blank back then) but as time went on , it made less and less sense, (but you should've read the suite of reviews of Styx , Rush, Saga , Camel written back then, It was funny, at least I had a ball with them) , then M@X insisted on my  joining up as Prog Reviewer.

 Which I did after a few weeks reflection, awed at the task of rewriting some already 400 reviews that were meant as jokes or simple comments: the review guidelines were not quite as strong and severe as now,  there was no fifty words rule either , and no-one was checking them out).

But I stand by my opinions , and will rewrite some reviews to make them more professional , but it does not mean that you will like them any better!!

As for Porcupine Tree , most japanese 80's symphonic prog (you missed those!!!!) , Snow Goose (as such it is not a bad album , it puts me to sleep but does not stop me from sleeping either) , and a few others ones (I think some of the more hilarious are not to be touched - Cured from Steve Hackett and Caution,Radiation from Area are real classic reviews in their own right.

As for Wakeman , he by himself brought laughter on the prog rock realm with his incredibly pompous Holiday on Ice show to go along with the Arthur tour , and his star-sprinkled capes only rivalled Liberace's !! But the man is funny and not to be taken too seriously! Except for him reading the news or eating Bami Goreng during Squire's bass solos!!

I suppose that if Mike Oldfield dishes out a new disc called The Revenge Of The Son Of The Dog of Tubullar Bells , you will rush out and buy it and place it on your altair and refer it to it as the latest wonder mankind built!

Poland specialized in neo-prog bands in the early 90's (Collage , Quidam , Abraxas, and Lizard)> I got suckered many times into buying albums I did not like once I got home, but never got rid of them without having given them a real chance! (you might want to read my review of the last Twin Age album or is it the last Valinor's Tree???)

I was expecting soon or later someone to raise the subject, and the suspense was intolerable, but you won!!!!!

First prize: one week with Phil Collins stuck on a boat while crossing the Atlantic and on;ly his discography on board!!! How's that for insanity?!?!?!?!

 

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Hello Andrea.

In Holland we use to say "Don't mind, he's from Belgium" ...  ..! By the way, Hughes tend to nail the average fine melodic prog and tend to hail the more weird and special prog, especially from the late Sixties and early Seventies. He writes a bit like like reviewer Mike who nailed progrock masterpieces from Museo Rosenbach and England ..   ...

It is not open-minded calling “insane” someone just because he/she writing reviews against our point of view. However, a reviewer who has a dreadful opinion against a well known four/five stars album should perfectly substantiate his/her statement.

On different “score”, if we have to choose what is the best for PA’s aim?

a) Good guy -> bad reviewer or
b) Good reviewer -> bad guy?

Let’s be honest about it…

I don’t see what the problem is. That he has an opinion that differs from yours? Personally, I prefer reviewers honestly expressing their real opinion to these people who do things like give five stars to, say, Love Beach simply because they’re too blinded by fanboyism to admit that their favourite band produced a dog.

And frankly, I’d say he’s being too lenient with Stupid Dream

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To answer the original question ''YES''  (we love you though!)

HC=

For a site whose purpose it is to assign grades to the life's work of musicians, it seems unfair to get bent out of shape insofar as criticisms of the reviewers.  If Hugues' 1-star reviews are acceptable as long they honestly represent his opinion, SevenColoured's 1-star reviews of Hugues should be equally legit (assuming his words accurately represent his opinions).        

I wonder what HC has to say about this??

SevenColoured wrote: Useful_Idiot wrote: If you could lay off the insults, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it.   What insults?

Your insults of Hugues reviews and taste