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Vibrationbaby 
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Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 6898 |
 Topic: Calling all reviewersPosted: August 27 2006 at 14:02 |
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What is your favourite review that you wrote. Mine is Heavy Horses . I very much enjoy reading reviews and some of them have changed my attitudes towards certain bands which I previosly did not care for.
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memowakeman
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 19 2005 Location: Mexico City Status: Offline Points: 13033 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 14:09 |
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Nice topic, i too love reading reviews , about my reviews, i like them a lot, maybe some of them could be with a very personal touch, with emotion , or track by track trying to give a more enphazized (sp?) view of the album.... i dont know...
And actually i dont have a favorite of mine, maybe i should read them again
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Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
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R_DeNIRO
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Joined: September 17 2005 Location: Spain Status: Offline Points: 431 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 14:24 |
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Sadly, my english is very poor. I like to express myself with care and an appropiate language, but I can only do this in spanish. That's the reason why I wrote not to much reviews in the site. :(
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Raff
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 14:29 |
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I have written several I'm rather proud of, and have often been complimented on them (how conceited I am this evening...
 ). As to my favourite... off the top of my head, I can say the one I wrote for KC's "Discipline" was particularly good IMHO, as were the ones for "Thick As a Brick" and "Selling England by the Pound". I tend to write relatively long reviews, but not so long that people get tired of reading halfway through.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19557 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 14:40 |
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Mine is really a combination of bio and review.
I'm particulary proud of the tandem done for Aphrodite's Child and 666:
On the other hand I'm embarrased of my first reviews, most of them about my favorite band Genesis, when I have a bit of time will ask the Adms to delete them and writem again.
Iván
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Raff
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 14:51 |
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Ivan, you can do that yourself if you want... from the Collabs page, you can go to your reviews and edit them completely, if you like. I know I have edited some of my reviews, though I have never deleted anything (yet  ). |
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Tony R
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: July 16 2004 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 11979 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 14:54 |
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This is my favourite review,it concerns my favourite band:
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=38597 that's favourite as in least favourite 
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Jimbo
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 28 2005 Location: Helsinki Status: Offline Points: 2818 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 14:59 |
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Well, most of my reviews are terrible - especially the early ones, I really need to re-write those. I wrote most of them in a hurry without thinking too much - and boy does it show!
There's one review of mine that turned out alright though (in my standards, I'll never be on the same level as the best writers here), the one I wrote about Umphrey's McGee's latest effort. |
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Trickster F.
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Joined: February 10 2006 Location: Belize Status: Offline Points: 5308 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:00 |
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I am not happy with any of my reviews, I am never proud of the way they come out, although I supoose I should let everyone but me judge them - it's not that I write them for myself either.
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omri
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Joined: April 21 2005 Location: Israel Status: Offline Points: 1250 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:02 |
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In my case it is not that hard to choose since I only wrote 4 reviews. the one that I think was made properly was KC's "Lizard". I read it again few days ago and was impressed of the English I used. By the way maybe this is the place to ask Why my reviews is named of the e-mail adress and not my user name ?
However Rafaela, being a lady will naturaly bring you many compliments since you are so few here. I hope you remember my compliments for the review on "Turn of the cards" which was realy excellent so that does'nt mean you get something you do not deserve but it is easier to us (stupid men) to compliment women than other men.
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Dirk
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Joined: August 11 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 1043 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:05 |
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I only wrote one and i'm not very proud of it. Maybe i'll try again in the future.
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ClemofNazareth
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Prog Folk Researcher Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4659 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:07 |
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My personal favorites:
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood Kansas - Point of Know Return Godspeed You Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada |
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus |
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Trickster F.
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Joined: February 10 2006 Location: Belize Status: Offline Points: 5308 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:12 |
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I actually happen to think that's a masterpiece of a review, Tony! I laughed my mellotrons off when I first read it a year or so ago, before I even registered this account.
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:13 |
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Yeah, I read that one - Well put! 
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus |
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Tony R
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: July 16 2004 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 11979 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:14 |
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..to think RichardH thinks it should be deleted....
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micky
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Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:15 |
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damn... equally unhappy with all of mine... being a bit of a prefectionist...
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19557 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:19 |
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Yes Raffaella I use it to correct gramatical mistakes (Very common in my case
 ), but I don't like to change 100% of a review and some of this are so bad that I would love to make justice to my beloved Genesis.I once wrote a thesis and was not happy with part of it so instead of redoing parts, I deleted everything from the floppy disks (On those days few people had harddisks here) and did it again, had to ask new permission because a dely was not possible.
Part of my neurosis.
 Iván
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Raff
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Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:20 |
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Ivan, you're really something... You would've got on with my father like a house on fire!
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stonebeard
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Joined: May 27 2005 Location: NE Indiana Status: Offline Points: 28057 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:26 |
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Long and Helpful (?):
Short and Sweet:
All-around:
Piss-off al ye who don't agree with me
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darksinger
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Joined: May 29 2006 Location: Durham, NC Status: Offline Points: 1091 |
Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:31 |
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i'm not allowed to access my reviews anymore or i'd show you.
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I really love this album,from the ham-fisted keyboards to the twee vocals and from every over-blown piece of orchestration right up to the masterpiece of mirth that is Pirates. Long years in the making,due to ego clashes and arguments about makeup,Elton John being part of the recording process then not and finally producer Pete Waterman being replaced by Little Jimmy Osmond,the band finally got this meisterwerk out into the public consciousness.Once out there it was a smash,spending 16 weeks at Number One in Albania and going Quadruple Platinum in Belize. When one listens to Emerson's Piano Concertos one is immediately reminded of Les Dawson's egregious masterpieces of the early 70's.I can think of no higher praise than that. I find that "The Enemy God Dances With The Black Spirits" fills me with nostalgia,or should that be neuralgia? I'm not sure but I know that Mrs Palmer should have decided against combining that shiny red kit for young Carl's 6th Birthday with a gift of boxing gloves.Pirates- what can I say?I nearly walked the plank the first time I heard this 13 minute epic.It sounds like the ungodly product of a demonic union between WS Gilbert and The Village People and is breath-taking in its excrutiating awfulness and willfull over-ambition.There is nothing like a great Prog Rock Album and this is nothing like a great Prog Rock Album!