Reviews discussion

Well, I am glad that it's taken just a few such pages of backlash for you to start claiming that the door is swinging the other way because at least my own aim was just to make you confront your hypocrisies and understand how tiresome your agenda is.  I am not a TD fan so you are clutching at straws if you think this is about TD fans getting back at DT fans or some such metal keyboard warrior fantasy.   All I have done is to point out that it does look very funny when you write a hyperbole-filled negative review for a band that is not DT for reasons that are self evident.     Maybe the review was not written with any spiteful intent, but you had already set yourself up for such a backlash.  

Of course, it seems like you are still just as characteristically obsessed with your own spectrum, your own worldview and far less with that of the other people who make up a discussion forum (ref: the last sentence).  DT is not the new classical music nor is prog metal (not that people aren't entitled to dislike whatever IS the new classical music either).  There are plenty of bands and artists on this forum that polarize opinions and most people get on with being fans of them without retaliating all the time to opinions about those that they don't like.    

So stop pretending that just because DT are so amazing or blah blah or that they have sold those millions of copies, everybody is obliged to like them or 'respect them'.  I have been on other music forums long enough to know that your backlash against the so called DT hate on PA is way out of proportion;  why don't you hang out on metal-archives long enough to read some really nasty reviews and comments about them and a whole lot of other prog metal bands in that case?  PA accommodates diverse tastes and viewpoints like few music forums so all you have to do is let go a little bit and learn to get along with people.   If that is indeed as difficult for you as you seem to make it sound, pity.   

 

While the retaliation element was quite clear in Geoff's review of Part The Second, I did not feel it in Bath, he just trashes the album because it was an unpleasant listening experience for him, and he is surely shocked that some people may consider it a masterpiece.

 

There are other polarizing albums, Abacab being a paradigm with no less than eleven 1-star reviews from Prog Reviewers, while six Reviewers posted 4 star reviews. There is even a 5-star review fom a normal member.

 

It is certainly a weak album but it seems to me that some Reviewers should also refresh themselves the rating guidelines, you may like Abacab more or less but 1 star does not seem appropiate.

I didn't read anybody reporting those as inappropiate reviews in this forum.

 

I think too that his review was probably too harsh (the effect undoubtedly augmented by the imaginative literary display) but his is certainly not the only one.

Dean wrote: .... but viewed in conjunction with the review of 'Part the Second' (even in its current heavily revised state) where the case for people giving his favourites low ratings is questioned while he then proceeds to give that album a low rating - people can be "forgiven" for reaching a conclusion.

 

 

May I suggest you reconsider the idea of writing humerous reviews for things you don't like, no matter how funny you think it is, it is really not that nice.

 

dtguitarfan wrote:   - well, one year there was a band whose name will be omitted in order to protect the innocent, and they were sooooo cliche'd.  And me and my buddies to this day still tell stories about how awful we thought they were, and we get so much enjoyment out of this.  We'll go look up videos of this band together so we can laugh about the experience again.  And there were so many people there that seemed to think this group was the greatest thing to happen to music...EVER.  I'd totally give a 1 star to an album by this band which shall remain nameless, but in a way I got a great deal of entertainment out of them, and I'd also say that what they did took more skill than many things I might give higher ratings to.

 

Well I use the 1 star rating if I feel the album is worthless or the absolute pits. If it has no decent songs or not enough to warrant the second star it must deserve a 1 star. It is rare that an album receives the 1 star but unfortunately when you hear some of the trash out there it is impossible not to use the 1 star rating.

VDGG's ALT is the latest album to get 1 star and to me it is obvious as it is an absolute let down and nothing on it that I want to hear on a regular basis. It really is a disaster, and I want to forget it is even in the VDGG catalogue as it is appalling. 1 star.

See, its easy!

 

Ya - but every single reviewer i have looked up - use 1 star very very very sparingly, and 5 stars not very sparingly.

Nothing in the policy/guide says you should do that. ( I did it myself )