The Miracle wrote: Now I get an impression he's trying to manipulate the ratings, so much negativity at once is not healthy...Still, his review isn't really inappropriate...

    
Yeah, I was ok with the first 2-3 but now it seems like something else than just mere (constructive) criticism. More like a witch hunt.
Hmmm... if he only wrote a bit more than just saying how bad it is and not elaborating more...

Oh, well it actually doesn't bother me that much, so I'll stop posting.

OpethGuitarist wrote: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=103718any way to prevent this guy from reviewingall he does is give 1 stars and say its lame, hes obviously some kind of prankster

Yeah, he's not even doing it right. That's not a sarcastic review. This is a sarcastic review!

TRIUMPH — Thunder Seven
Review by ClemofNazareth (Bob Moore)
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Symphonic Prog Specialist

I was stuck at a stoplight today and had the car window down trying to enjoy a gorgeous afternoon. The guy in the car next to me also had his window down, and was lip-synching away to his CD player, out of which was blaring “Spellbound”. Took me back all the way to my college days when this album came out and I had to listen to several of these songs on the only half-decent radio station in our town at the time. I realized that I hadn’t played it in over twenty years, and considering the totally crappy day I had today and fighting the desire to throw myself in front of a train, I decided to throw on my very old copy of Thunder Seven instead. After that I find myself thinking that there are still a couple of trains that run yet tonight.

“Spellbound” always struck me as rock-in-a-can, even back in the 80s. Rik Emmett has by far the most annoying metal voice I’ve ever heard, and he seems to have no real ability to stay in tune for more than a couple of notes in a row. Also, I get the impression these guys are mouthing the timing of the tempo to each other in studio when they record, or at least that’s the way this plodding song sounds.

“Rock Out, Roll On” – well, ‘nuff said.

On “Follow Your Heart” Emmett's voice is actually sort of okay for the most part, probably because he shares the vocals with drummer Gil Moore who makes Emmett sound good. The sentiment of the lyrics is pretty typical Triumph stuff – chip on the shoulder, go kick ass in the world and don’t let 'the man' deny you your dreams. Yeah team – go, fight, win! The random high-hat cymbals just seem gratuitous, and the bass has no synchronization with the rest of the song at all.

I guess “Time Goes By” is supposed to be the sort-of ballad, with strangled-cat harmonized vocals and occasional mellow passages, but the overall theme seems to be ‘I’m getting old and I need a chick’ or something to that effect. Nice little guitar solo in the middle though – props to Emmett for that.

“Midsummer’s Daydream” is a brief respite from the onslaught, where Emmett treats us to a short acoustic instrumental that I felt like copying a dozen times or so and using to overwrite the rest of the cassette. “Time Canon” is some sort of barbershop quartet lame knockoff of Spock’s Beard’s “June” I guess, but it’s so out of place and abrupt it actually creeped me out the first couple times I heard it.

“Stranger in a Strange Land” starts off as a pretty decent blues rocker, but for some inexplicable reason someone turns on Emmett’s mike and it pretty much goes downhill from there. There’s a part in the middle of this where he tries to hold a sustained screech of a vocal and my cats actually drag themselves off the floor and leave the room. Both of them!

“Little Boy Blues” is a pretty decent soft bluesy instrumental to close the album. Like “Midsummer’s Daydream”, if the boys would have just extended this to the length of the whole album then the thing would have been a much better offering, perhaps even listenable.

As it is, I know that many fans of this band believe this to be their best studio work. I agree. One star.

peace

Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 20:45 EST | Permanent link

Psycho is too liberal with the 1 and 5 star ratings. Most of his reviews are OK but not wonderful, and will probably remain. As Guigo says, the problem is we cannot communicate with him, as he has given an invalid e-mail address. (This loophole will be closed soon!)

OpethGuitarist wrote: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=103788 can we please just get rid of this reviewer...

Why? It seems fine to me.


PINK FLOYD

Division Bell

1994 Studio Album

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Review by psychospaces
Posted 12:11:17 PM EST, 12/20/2006




Edited by Snow Dog - December 20 2006 at 13:01

He's keen on only 1-star "mild angry" rates. Regarding the stand itself to do that I fully disagree, he should definately have a try at what is spectacular by him and what is a crowned effort in his opinion. Otherwise, it will irritate at one point and it will become boring and superficial at a very iminent following point.

But, as long as he's into a clean throw of heavy critics and apparently unpardonable disappointements, he's among the ones that don't like something alright, with the proper right to speak so.

Under serious observation is what I believe the best judgement, yay to Easy!

Snow Dog wrote: Ricochet wrote: He's keen on only 1-star "mild angry" rates. Regarding the stand itself to do that I fully disagree, he should definately have a try at what is spectacular by him and what is a crowned effort in his opinion. Otherwise, it will irritate at one point and it will become boring and superficial at a very iminent following point. But, as long as he's into a clean throw of heavy critics and apparently unpardonable disappointements, he's among the ones that don't like something alright, with the proper right to speak so. Under serious observation is what I believe the best judgement, yay to Easy! Sorry?

between "can we get rid of this reviewer" and "why? seems fine to me"

TRoTZ wrote: I don't agree with the elimination of the psycospaces reviews. He didn't violate any rulle did he? i guess he didn't offend anyone..he just expresses his opinion. You know? I guess he's right. Though a bit extreme in his evaluations, I make my words his words for most of his reviews lol most of those bands are regressive bands which did not bring anything of new, and are overrated... Let those reviews stay. This is a democracy after all.

this discussion doesnt belong here, but he just seems to want to flame every album, he's obviously some kind of prankster or the like

if he gave something other than 1 star reviews and said something other than everything was garbage, i wouldnt mind

the fact that hes here just to bash albums and get a rise out of people =

Psycho's reviews are still being considered. They have a better chance of survival though if he reveals himself on the forum so that we can discuss them with him.

Here it is.....