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Trotsky ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 25 2004 Location: Malaysia Status: Offline Points: 2771 |
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I have the album, BJ ... so even though the Change Of Seasons is a new track, this review comes under the album, which has a second half of live covers ... But aside from that I do agree that he doesn't say much beyond this being the most emotional album the band had (which is a bit hard to justify if half the songs are covers) ... hmm I'm leaning towards tossing it out, but when I'm totally sure ... I leave it to the big boss man, EL. |
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
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Progger ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 26 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1188 |
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So, someone gave 'Tresspass' five stars. The whole reviewing system and how it influences the chart positions is scandalous!
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Ivan_Melgar_M ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19557 |
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Why? Because you don't like Genesis???? Get this in your head, despite your opinion, Genesis is one of the ESSENTIAL bands in Prog history until Wind & Wuthering, most people here and in any prog site all over the world consider most early Genesis albums as masterpieces. But most important, people who rated Trespass so high took their time to review the album and explain why they gave such a high rating, something you haven't done ghere, you just mention the word scandal but without a single argument. Trsepass is a 4 stars average album, 5 Collaborators have given 5 stars to this album (Plus a lot of reviewers), 41% of the ratings give this album 5 stars and 42% (including myself) give this album 4 stars. Does your unsupported opinion has more value than 83% of the people whoo rated this masterpiece with 4 or 5 stars? I find more outrageous and wrongly ifluential the 1% of people who rated Trespass with 1 star (of course a vote without review). But it's normal, not everybody has to love a determined album. Iván |
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Seyo ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 08 2004 Location: Bosnia Status: Offline Points: 1320 |
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Please check on this Braindamage person's reviews! Working hard but his/her English is so terrible!
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Trotsky ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 25 2004 Location: Malaysia Status: Offline Points: 2771 |
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Look through the last few pages Seyo ... Easy Livin explains ... basically braindamage has a Japanese e-mail address, but he doesn't reply to e-mails sent in english ... his reviews obviously use an online translator ... EL's policy is to delete the review (but leave the rating) when they are incomprehensible ... and leave the ones that just about make sense |
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
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Seyo ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 08 2004 Location: Bosnia Status: Offline Points: 1320 |
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Yeah? OK, I see.
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Easy Livin ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: February 21 2004 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 15585 |
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It's a poor review, in fact it's nto a review of the album at all, and for that reason I'm included to remove it. Regarding BJ's points (my comments in red):
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salmacis ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Content Addition Joined: April 10 2005 Status: Offline Points: 3928 |
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URIAH HEEP High and Mighty
Review (Permanent link) by Igor Panov @ 6:02:05 PM EST, 6/30/2005 ![]() Buy the "High & Mighty"-with "Wizards" there are 2 historical chef's-'oeuvres of the XXth century. Igor Panov composer Paris ____________________________________________________________ _______________________
Was looking at the reviews for this album and came across this one...it doesn't really justify why it's got the 5 star rating and is quite poorly written; maybe a bad translation?
I don't think this review should stay here personally...
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SymphoniColburn ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: July 05 2005 Status: Offline Points: 50 |
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YES "Fragile"
Review (Permanent link) by King Crismson sucks balls Posted 8:04:57 PM EST, 12/5/2005 ![]() It's currently at the top of the home page... |
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- You have just witnessed a post by SymphoniColburn!
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Trotsky ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 25 2004 Location: Malaysia Status: Offline Points: 2771 |
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Ok, the fragile review is gone (someone beat me to it!) and I agree with Salmacis that the Igor Panov is relatively incomprehensible and barely a review ... so I'll keep the rating, but ditch the text ... |
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
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Drew ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 20 2005 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 12600 |
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LOL |
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Easy Livin ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: February 21 2004 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 15585 |
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Cheers Salmacis |
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Bj-1 ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 04 2005 Location: No(r)Way Status: Offline Points: 31644 |
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DREAM THEATER "Train Of Thought"
Review (Permanent link) by Rob P. Posted 8:39:43 AM EST, 12/6/2005 ![]() ![]() |
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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Does anyone ever worry that their own reviews will turn up here?
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Easy Livin ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: February 21 2004 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 15585 |
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I do!!!
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stonebeard ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 27 2005 Location: NE Indiana Status: Offline Points: 28057 |
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No. |
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Drew ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 20 2005 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 12600 |
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DREAM THEATER "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence "
Review (Permanent link) by Kasparov Posted 10:12:50 PM EST, 12/6/2005 ![]() Dear Mr. The Dude, Probably you should hear an album called Tales from Topographic Oceans, from Yes. Cheers, Kasparov I thought I wrote crappy reviews!
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The Miracle ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: May 29 2005 Location: hell Status: Offline Points: 28427 |
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MARILLION Anoraknophobia
Review (Permanent link) by James D Hill @ 4:19:28 AM EST, 11/16/2003 ![]() Just not a review.
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Easy Livin ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: February 21 2004 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 15585 |
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On the list. James D Hill must be one of our longest serving reviewers, i see he posted a review today.
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Andrea Cortese ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 05 2005 Status: Offline Points: 4411 |
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SYMPHONY X "The Odyssey"
Review (Permanent link) by wchuck Posted 12:04:24 PM EST, 12/7/2005 ![]() Inferno : Nice starting riff (reminds of "sea of lies"), heavy vocal performance during the 1st verse, but a nice chorus and fantastic solos. Wicked : A typical Iced Earth song, maybe a bit more progressive. Simple Metal Riff, Chorus and Solo, but afterwards an arpeggio that introduces a new verse, that sound very beautiful. Very groovy song BTW. Incantations... : A stunning beginning, a powerful verse and chorus, very dark and hard as well. Uses the story of the Apprentrice by Paul Duka. Accolade II : Fantastic harmonic song with powerful, atmospheric refrain, more keyboard/piano and a fantastic solo and wonderful melodies. Sequel of "The Accolade". King of Terrors : Based on Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum. Through the darkness of the story the song is quite dark as well and the heaviest song ever by Symphony X (including vocals). Very atmospehric and a perfect conversion of Poe's story. The Turning : Very fast, something like a speed metal track with a long solo! Very strange vocals sometimes! Awakenings : What a track! Starts of with a theme played with keyboard bass and guitar, but always varied. Then a wondeful paino theme, inspired by vivaldi, with incredible vocals. After that it gets a bit heavier, not too heavy! Very fluent it proceeds with other verses 1 chorus (at the end), some solos and a jazzy piano intermission! The Odyssey: This track is the best Symphony X ever made. It's amazing that Michael Romeo wrote it alone. It begins with an overture, I guess inspired by Dream Theater's Overture! Then a fantastic arpeggio with the accoustic guitar, with a very nice verse. It's played a while and then powerchords are added. After that it gets heavier (like in Awakenings), a solo follows and then the second verse, this is awesome. After that the vocals become heavier as well. In the further time there are further guitar driven verses, a piano & vocals sequence, an incredible solo by Michael Romeo and a classical part inspired by Wagner. For the End (Up to 20 minutes) there is first a solo, including the notes for the soon folowing refrain, then another verse (the accompanist reminds of the on in "Candlelight Fantasia"), the refrain I just mentioned, a solo and at the end the arpeggio from the beginning played with the e-guitar! So Symphony X stepped on another path, a more heavier path, developed further and tested lots of new things but also remained lots of old signatures. negative : -very heavy -guitar driven (less keyboard) -sound (it's hard hear bass and parts of the drums)=> need special bass modus -too much metal RATING! : Inferno Wicked Incantations... Accolade II King of Terrors Variety 5/10 4/10 5/10 7/10 5/10 Fluence 9/10 9/10 9/10 9/10 9/10 Sound 8/10 8/10 8/10 8/10 8/10 Lyrics 6/10 6/10 6/10 6/10 8/10 Lyrics- 5/10 5/10 6/10 6/10 8/10 Music- Vocals! (togetherness/affiliation) Prog? 6/10 4/10 5/10 8/10 6/10 Longevity 8/10 7/10 7/10 8/10 7/10 Virtuosity 8/10 6/10 8/10 8/10 7/10 Originality 7/10 6/10 7/10 7/10 6/10 Atmosphere 7/10 5/10 7/10 7/10 8/10 TOTAL 69/100 60/100 69/100 74/100 72/100 The Turning Awakenings The Odyssey Variety 5/10 7/10 10/10 Fluence 8/10 8/10 9/10 Sound 8/10 8/10 8/10 Lyrics 7/10 7/10 8/10 Lyrics- 6/10 6/10 8/10 Music- Vocals! (togetherness/affiliation) Prog? 5/10 8/10 9/10 Longevity 6/10 9/10 10/10 Virtuosity 7/10 9/10 9/10 Originality 7/10 8/10 7/10 Atmosphere 7/10 8/10 7/10 TOTAL 66/100 78/100 85/100 OVERALL/TOTAL 576/800 . : : 72/100 : : . ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------
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It's only to say...I wish I could be so able in algebra and mathematics too!!!!
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