Inappropriate reviews

STEVE HILLAGE — Green

This is the first HILLAGE album were Miquette Giraudy really demonstrate talent for techno keyboards. Hard to believe those excellent keyboards are played by a woman. This album was surely a good reference of inspiration for OZRIC TENTACLES, especially the keyboards. It is not surprising that Miquette Giraudy and Steve HILLAGE work together these years in a techno ambient group named system 7 (system 777 in USA). The sound is so space here that even the guitar is sometimes sequenced and has full of frequencies filter changes effects! I find this record quite structured, and the drums + bass do a very good job. Just hear the guitar sound on "Palm Trees": absolutely amazing! It reminds me just slightly Steve HACKETT's solos on "Spectral Mornings" and more the "Listen" solo on "Magic is a Child" (NEKTAR). This record is one of his best.

STEVE HILLAGE — Green

This is the first HILLAGE album were Miquette Giraudy really demonstrate talent for techno keyboards. Hard to believe those excellent keyboards are played by a woman. This album was surely a good reference of inspiration for OZRIC TENTACLES, especially the keyboards. It is not surprising that Miquette Giraudy and Steve HILLAGE work together these years in a techno ambient group named system 7 (system 777 in USA). The sound is so space here that even the guitar is sometimes sequenced and has full of frequencies filter changes effects! I find this record quite structured, and the drums + bass do a very good job. Just hear the guitar sound on "Palm Trees": absolutely amazing! It reminds me just slightly Steve HACKETT's solos on "Spectral Mornings" and more the "Listen" solo on "Magic is a Child" (NEKTAR). This record is one of his best.

I'd be interested in other's impressions on the appropriateness of this review.  This individual became a member, recorded this as his only review the same day, and never came back to the site.  By his own admission he only listened to the album four times, does not appear to know much else about the band, and his only substantive comments are that he doesn't think Hodgeson is a very good piano player and he didn't find the lyrics very complex.  It doesn't seem to me could have had much of a grasp of the rating system, offers no specific examples of why/what he found the keyboards and lyrics not to his liking, and his only comment about any specific track is to call it "interesting".

I'd be interested in other's impressions on the appropriateness of this review.  This individual became a member, recorded this as his only review the same day, and never came back to the site.  By his own admission he only listened to the album four times, does not appear to know much else about the band, and his only substantive comments are that he doesn't think Hodgeson is a very good piano player and he didn't find the lyrics very complex.  It doesn't seem to me could have had much of a grasp of the rating system, offers no specific examples of why/what he found the keyboards and lyrics not to his liking, and his only comment about any specific track is to call it "interesting".

Review by getinvolved2006 (Gareth Brazier)
<P style="COLOR: #444"> After reading the reviews of this album I felt compelled to rush out and buy a copy, as I felt that it would fill a whole in my expanding prog collection. From the reviews I wasn't expecting pure prog rock, but a more gentle and simple style of music. What I wasn't expecting, however, was boredom.

After listening to this album four times, I cannot rouse any interest in it at all. It is by no means terrible, but after a year of listening to the greats such as Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull and King Crimson, I found the music on offer here so simple and unchallenging. Much of the music is piano driven, yet I feel Roger Hodgson is at best an adequate piano player.

Many of the songs here seem based around the repetitive playing of keyboard or piano chords, which are simply layered upon one another to create the illusion of a complex song. The lyrics are unchallenging and uninteresting and many of the tracks seem deviod of direction or structure.

The only track on this album worthy of any real mention is Dreamer, which at least has a fairly interesting sound. However, this song is typical of the entire album as it simply consists of layers of bog-standard keyboard chords repeated over and over.