Alberto Muñoz wrote: David you have had said: "this writer has broken any guidelines". so what's the point to report??   Don't understand.

fair enough, it just struck me as unfortunate that a reviewer doesn't have the presence of mind to somehow qualify his thoughts.. the review wasn't too far from "Dude why do so many people like this?  I mean it's not that good"  That's not a review, it's something you say at a party after a beer.

LiquidEternity wrote: Atavachron wrote: So ignorance is supported?  OK, so be it.   No, ignorance is inevitable.

can't argue with that

LiquidEternity wrote: I don't see much wrong with that one. Yes, it's a very weak stance and pretty poorly worded. But nothing particularly reportable. But then, what influence do I have, anyways? Might as well just send him a PM and let him know that his review is lacking important details and that you found it worthless. He's a reasonable guy, been around here for a while, and I'm sure he'd at least consider this.

Look as the years roll by youngsters  will be lining up to slam WYWH. No association with the album and no idea about relevance to the era. That said CF's review is all good as much as I dissassociate my opinion from said review I think this album/group will rival the true greats across millenia but what do I know. Review is good IMO.

Edited by Chris S - July 15 2009 at 22:31

This one is from a reviewer. It has few words, but i don't think that's the problem.

ANNO DOMINI HIGH DEFINITION Riverside   Progressive Metal

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An absurd I called absurd not just the album and the band, but this highly overrated overall rating of Anno Domini High Definition by Riverside, too. It's imposible for me how so mediocre album and band are so respectable here in PA. The songwriting is really weak, the musicianship not so much, but the development of the ideas is really bad. Despite, all this misunderstandings here on Anno Domini High Definition by this polish band Riverside, it could receive two stars by me, if it was only instrumental album. Regretfully, it contains vocals - their place is not there where they are. The vocal tunes are ridiculous. With a word - disgusting.

Quite a rant, huh?


Edited by CCVP - July 15 2009 at 23:27

my issue was with the review itself and how he chose to express his thoughts - which were legitimate but could have been expressed much better IMO - more than his opinion of the album, but I apologize to Conor for being harsh about it.. and this should be in Reviews Discussion anyway, sooo






Edited by Atavachron - July 16 2009 at 05:30

Atavachron wrote: my issue was with the review itself and how he chose to express his thoughts - which were legitimate but could have been expressed much better IMO - more than his opinion of the album, but I apologize to Conor for being harsh about it.. and this should be in Reviews Discussion anyway, sooo

Finnforest wrote: Pretty weak review David, but so are 47% of the reviews on this site, including some of mine.  I'd volunteer to be "quality-control" if they gave me the power to nuke poor quality reviews....but we all know that job won't happen

47 % ? What mathematical formula did you use to arrive at this figure? As far as I`ve always seen it these reviews are amatuer reviews. For that matter, any review for anything a play, film, concert are amatuer reviews. Even if I see a poorly written review or a really radical one, if it says something then what`s the bloody fuss? Even if it just says " what f***** piece of sonic wreckage" it`s saying something very direct. We`re not a bunch of Roger Eberts here.Sometimes it`s even more interesting coming here to see reviews of the reviews . It`s even getting to the point where we`re reviewing the reviews of the reviews . 

Sorry Admin, just realized Ian and I inadvertantly did another post in the "reporting" thread.

I went to the shops today, it was raining, I was there for some time so it was inevitable that I would get hungry at sometime, which eventually I inevitably  did so while I was feeling at the peak of hunger I had a chicken and mozzarella pannini with sweet chili sauce and an Americano coffee with lots of sugar, and the sandwich was good and left me quite happily sated although the coffee was a little bit bitter so I assume they had burnt the coffee beans a tad instead of gently roasting them, later I went into HMV to buy the new Riverside album but they hadn't got it so I picked up the new Mars Volta album and an old Autechre CD, but after several minutes of deliberation and indecisiveness I put them down again and left the shop without buying anything because I'm sure I could get them both cheaper online even accounting for the added cost of postage and packaging, of course the problem there is once I start browsing for albums online I get side tracked onto the more obscure and weird so I never really buy mainstream albums online, anyway, it was still raining when I got home and the air was decidedly cooler than it has been for quite some time, life's like that somedays, usually rainy ones come to think of it, then if it were a sunny day then I probably wouldn't have gone to the shops so and still wouldn't have bought anything so the day wasn't quite as wasted as I originally thought which is all well and good on balance as it wasn't sunny and I couldn't fly my kite because there was insufficient wind and the rain would have made the lines all wet, which would not have been much fun never-the-less a trip to the seaside would have been more enjoyable than a fruitless trip to the shops except for the weather of course, so while reviews can vary in quality and informativeness, one of many the purposes of the site is to give people something to do on rainy days other than go to the shops and not buy albums but then you can't have everything can you?

Dean wrote: I went to the shops today, it was raining, I was there for some time so it was inevitable that I would get hungry at sometime, which eventually I inevitably  did so while I was feeling at the peak of hunger I had a chicken and mozzarella pannini with sweet chili sauce and an Americano coffee with lots of sugar, and the sandwich was good and left me quite happily sated although the coffee was a little bit bitter so I assume they had burnt the coffee beans a tad instead of gently roasting them, later I went into HMV to buy the new Riverside album but they hadn't got it so I picked up the new Mars Volta album and an old Autechre CD, but after several minutes of deliberation and indecisiveness I put them down again and left the shop without buying anything because I'm sure I could get them both cheaper online even accounting for the added cost of postage and packaging, of course the problem there is once I start browsing for albums online I get side tracked onto the more obscure and weird so I never really buy mainstream albums online, anyway, it was still raining when I got home and the air was decidedly cooler than it has been for quite some time, life's like that somedays, usually rainy ones come to think of it, then if it were a sunny day then I probably wouldn't have gone to the shops so and still wouldn't have bought anything so the day wasn't quite as wasted as I originally thought which is all well and good on balance as it wasn't sunny and I couldn't fly my kite because there was insufficient wind and the rain would have made the lines all wet, which would not have been much fun never-the-less a trip to the seaside would have been more enjoyable than a fruitless trip to the shops except for the weather of course, so while reviews can vary in quality and informativeness, one of many the purposes of the site is to give people something to do on rainy days other than go to the shops and not buy albums but then you can't have everything can you?

QFT was funnier