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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2006 at 14:59
Originally posted by R_DeNIRO R_DeNIRO wrote:

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. :(



me too!!!!!!!!!
     
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2006 at 04:55
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

..to think RichardH thinks it should be deleted....
 
I prefered your Karn Evil Nien reviewWink
 
It looks like apparently I do not read enough reviews from my colleagues because I missed most of these highlighted in this thread
 
Good topic Mr. GledhillWink


Edited by Sean Trane - August 28 2006 at 05:01
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 22:11
My review of Gong's You is quite impressive:



    
    best review

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 21:16
I guess my "Fabrizio De Andrи + PFM In concerto" review was not bad at all.
 
The aim was to turn progheads to Fabrizio De Andrи's works. Don't think I was successful though.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 20:51
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Originally posted by Bryan Bryan wrote:

I'm also quite happy with my most controversial review to date:http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=76063

    
Yes,that was a great review - you really hit the nail on the head.

    
I was urged to give that album a chance. Afterward, I really wanted to write a review, but thought I'd better not. I'm glad Bryan had more guts than I did.





hahah that is the one DT album I own and started to review it and lost interest in it.... I was more generous in my rough draft though .. I gave it 2 stars
 
Strange, my review is almost the complete opposit, pure fanboyism me thinksLOL.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 20:21
Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Originally posted by Bryan Bryan wrote:

I'm also quite happy with my most controversial review to date:http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=76063

    
Yes,that was a great review - you really hit the nail on the head.

    
I was urged to give that album a chance. Afterward, I really wanted to write a review, but thought I'd better not. I'm glad Bryan had more guts than I did.





hahah that is the one DT album I own and started to review it and lost interest in it.... I was more generous in my rough draft though .. I gave it 2 stars
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 20:13
Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Originally posted by Bryan Bryan wrote:

I'm also quite happy with my most controversial review to date:http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=76063

    
Yes,that was a great review - you really hit the nail on the head.

    
I was urged to give that album a chance. Afterward, I really wanted to write a review, but thought I'd better not. I'm glad Bryan had more guts than I did.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 19:49
Originally posted by Bryan Bryan wrote:

I'm also quite happy with my most controversial review to date:http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=76063

    
Yes,that was a great review - you really hit the nail on the head.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 19:44
Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

I don't like any of my reviews - the next one will be better.



horsesh*t..... I remember your review for Kraftwerk I  had me tracking down that album the next day and was as good as you said it was...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 19:44
Most of my reviews make me cringe upon re-reading them, especially older ones.  I would certainly say I'm quite happy with these two though (such great albums deserve great reviews after all):

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=41449
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=62530

Of course, as the jab at the end of the latter review sets us all up for, I'm also quite happy with my most controversial review to date:

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=76063
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 19:29
I wrote a review about The Yes Album describing its warmth and garage-y feel to it which made it so alluring and good. But it isn't there. However, a response to my comment is. What the dealio?
Dissonance; subtle harmonic dissonance
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 19:28
I think all of my reviews are equally good/bad (I'll let you ot decide on that whichWink).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 19:10
    I enjoyed writing my reviews, but I don't think it is up to me to pick a favorite. I am usually my harshest critic anyway.

When I used to do abstract paintings, people would ask me what they were supposed to be. I would tell them that I knew what I had in mind, but it was up to them to decide what they got out of it.

Recently I have had some good responses, especially from a couple of our friends here (you know who you are ). My favorite was from a friend of mine, who looked them up. He said that my reviews of "Foxtrot," and Peter Gabriel's third album, made him want to go right out and buy them.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 18:41
I don't like any of my reviews - the next one will be better.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 18:23
I have many reviews. Some good, some excellent, some mediocre and a few early ones bad.

Short criticism about a pathetic album:
Wakeman - Word and the Music: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=73287

good reviews for albums I don't like:
A Passion Play http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=79621
PAin of Salvation - Be http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=64095

Good positive reviews:
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=84015
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=77342
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=72993
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=53080
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=85419
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=72975

BTW: Tony, your negative review of ELP's Works is excellent!!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 17:03
Originally posted by memowakeman memowakeman wrote:

Also you reviewed Teria with 1 star Cry
 
yeah, but i find it a bit less good.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 17:01
Also you reviewed Teria with 1 star Cry

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 16:57
Choosing the best of my positive reviews is almost impossible; on the other hand, I find those negative reviews OK:
 

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (AND THE MAGIC BAND) — Trout Mask Replica

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1 stars This album is definitely VERY overrated! The songs are AWFUL! Many say it is very hard to acquire, but I wonder WHAT can be acquired? And if there was nothing to acquire? Indeed, where is the music here? Where is the melody, the structure, the finesse, the elaborated rhythm, the catchy character, the addictive parts? The Captain has a very bad voice, as being very negligent and nonchalant. Apparently, the music is absolutely not improvised; well, it is hard to believe! The guitar notes are dissonant, and it is so irrelevant and incoherent that it seems young kids of 6-7 years old play with their Fisher Price guitars in the basement! The tracks contain NO keyboards! The strongest point are the EXCELLENT elaborated drums, but unfortunately, the retarded electric guitars sounds and Vliet's irritating vocals kill everything that could be good on this record. The sound of the electric guitars is very gross, unrefined and primitive! Vliet is good and very funny with Frank Zappa, like on the "Bongo fury" album, but here he is pitifully insipid. Nevertheless, I've been able to find some rare better structured rhythmic parts, like on "Pachuco Cadaver" and on "Sugar' N Spikes". The bass, despite quite present, does not seem to make a definite catchy rhythm. The album has a strong experimental dissonant blues influence. 28 redundant tracks all sounding the same? That's TOO much! There are numerous pseudo humorous narrations a la EMINEM: this is not encouraging. Some crazy free sax parts contribute to give a CACOPHONIC character to this album! Frank Zappa speaks on "The Blimp". As improvised-like dissonant albums, I strongly prefer Pat Metheny - Song X, a complex free jazz album: at least, the album is technically outstanding and there is much more structure in the music! The best I can give is 1 well deserved star for the DRUMS here!

 

RADIOHEAD — Ok Computer

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1 stars This album should obtain only an award: for the most overrated album ever! Actually, I think there is a paranormal Energy which tends to give TONS of people an overall rushing zeal to promote and justify the worship of this record!

I don't see any progressive rock element in this record: it rather has a bad psychedelic alternative rock style. The electric guitars may make you believe that King Crimson has been amateurishly & badly aped: it is ABSOLUTELY clear that the guitarists do not know how to play! The electric guitars have one of the most irritating "ANTI-fine-tuned" garage sound! The melody and harmony are completely absent in most of the tracks! Thom Yorke tries to sing like Bono of U2, but he is much worse! The singer is NOT able to sing: he endlessly moans all the time; he really sounds dissonant: his voice does't follow the music: that's extremely annoying! Eternal complaints in an insignificant music. ARGH!

The tracks are depressing and the music often goes nowhere! The overall sound is completely ANTI crystal clear, so this weak point is very irritating! Being the author of this record, I would feel very ashamed of having produced such a twisted music, making money by inducing negative and desperate feelings, thus feeding the dark and unconsciously wanted state of the mind of socially weak people: the tracks express something coming from your dark, depressed and marginal side inside of you! I absolutely experience NO valuable and memorable emotion while listening to this record. I think it is a music for people who like to live forever with messy desperate humors, like the untidiness in an apartment of a bunch of marginal, unemployed pot smokers, who completely have no sense of structure and elegance! Please, grow up, do not waste your time listening to things that won't help you to get a normal and happy life! Stay away from this catalyzer of nonchalance, disorder and negligence!

Nevertheless, I have been able to "find" a few positive points for this record: the rare tracks which have more a small ersatz of melody and catchiness are "Karma Police" and "Let down": they have more decent acoustic guitars and vocals. The track "No surprise" actually has a surprise: some good percussions, which may make you forget the unwanted rhythmic guitar! "Subterranean Homesick Alien" has a decent keyboards ambience.

The good point is that it is slightly more bearable than Captain Beefheart's "Trout mask replica"!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 16:35
My favourite would have to by my two VdGG review's- Still Life and H To He .. but, like others my first reviews are kind of DeadDeadDeadDead

can't say i share the same love for ELP that i used to.Embarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 16:17
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Originally posted by darksinger darksinger wrote:

i'm not allowed to access my reviews anymore or i'd show you.
 
If you're having a problem DS, put a thread up in the bugs section and it will get checked out.
 
Probably an e-mail adress change, Bob... I cannot access too. Confused


Edited by Atkingani - August 27 2006 at 16:18
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