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I thought the review was linked.

I went back and perused several reviews before posting my rant, and sat on it for several days.

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http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2739368
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It's interesting that folks suspected which reviewer I was speaking of prior to my posting a link.

I guess there could be abusive posts, and there are poor quality, idiosyncratic, unhelpful, even useless, etc posts.  The only area which I can think might approach the abuse level are the reviews which threw water on the reviews of others in various ways, though not by name.  
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Originally posted by woundedpig woundedpig wrote:

It's interesting that folks suspected which reviewer I was speaking of prior to my posting a link.

And you proved those suspicions to be correct! 😜😄

They are awful reviews!
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Originally posted by woundedpig woundedpig wrote:

I thought the review was linked.

I went back and perused several reviews before posting my rant, and sat on it for several days.

Here:
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2739368

Poorly written I guess, I also disagree with what he states there. 
But abuse?! I wouldn't say so. 
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The Ummagumma review is awful

"Overall - 2 stars
The first album 8/10
Sysyphus 5/10
Grantchester Meadows 8/10
Several Species 5/10
The Narrow Way - 7/10
The Grand Vizier - 4/10
it is highly recommended for PF fans and prog fans in general"

How does all that equate to 2 stars?
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His skill in maths is clearly as good as his skill in writing. 😜
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^ Mmm... Does a 2-star rating has to be the equivalent to 4/10 ? Not sure about that.

It means "Collectors/fans only", I don't think it means 40% on any scale.

But I agree there is a problem with this specific review, as it says "highly recommended..." Confused


Edited by projeKct - April 26 2022 at 18:42
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http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2777405

This review doesn’t discuss the music at all - just states historical facts?!?!?
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Originally posted by Duddick Duddick wrote:

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2777405

This review doesn’t discuss the music at all - just states historical facts?!?!?


It's not a review, and to make it worse, it's copy-paste of the bandcamp write-up: https://kawabata-makoto.bandcamp.com/album/makoto-mango

Will deal with it. Thanks.
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eh...this review says next to nothing about the musical content of the release in question: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2786683

It´s more a tirade over the placement of the album on PA, which is just ridiculous to use a review for. This sentence is probably the only valid one if we are to think of the text as a review: "Also, I hate their version of the house of the rising sun.", and even that isn´t exactly an intelligent comment...but to each his own.

Based on this review he can actually write reviews which talk about the actual music: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2786517


Edited by UMUR - August 26 2022 at 09:25
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Originally posted by UMUR UMUR wrote:

eh...this review says next to nothing about the musical content of the release in question: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2786683

It´s more a tirade over the placement of the album on PA, which is just ridiculous to use a review for. This sentence is probably the only valid one if we are to think of the text as a review: "Also, I hate their version of the house of the rising sun.", and even that isn´t exactly an intelligent comment...but to each his own.

Based on this review he can actually write reviews which talk about the actual music: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2786517

I did post something similar as a parody of his style a few weeks back.

My opinion is that this particular reviewer does PA absolutely no favours whatsoever.
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Thanks Umur.

I've deleted at least one review of his before as I recall, and I will delete that one too (this is still preferably to the one I deleted actually).

Quoting so it doesn't disappear into the ether -- mostly in case the reviewer hasn't saved it and wants to seriously improve on it (I'm in the habit of saving those I delete regardless of the quality):

One star

"This is not a prog album. And that is ok. But having said this, we are at a prog site. And I rate the albums based on their potential to enrich a prog collection. Unless the genre attached to the group indicates it's not about prog. Oceans of Slumber are labelled as Extreme Prog Metal.
I just admit I never listened to the previous output of this band. But based on this record, they should be labelled differently. Something prog related.

Having said all of this, I find it a decent record. Nothing to write home about. I gave it multiple spins to form an opinion, but I will probably never return to it again.

I rate this 1 star. Because it's not prog at all. Also, I hate their version of the house of the rising sun."

I know this person has had quite a few problematic reviews, and I will review more of his reviews anon.

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"I rate this 1 star. Because it's not prog at all"

It's like we're back in mid-2000s PA LOL
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Originally posted by Necrotica Necrotica wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


"I rate this 1 star. Because it's not prog at all"

It's like we're back in mid-2000s PA LOL

Do we still have 'members' who insist on giving every Opeth release '5 stars' and every DT release '1 star' (or vice versa?) I think a fair amount of that needed to be weeded out back in 2005!
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Necrotica Necrotica wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


"I rate this 1 star. Because it's not prog at all"

It's like we're back in mid-2000s PA LOL

Do we still have 'members' who insist on giving every Opeth release '5 stars' and every DT release '1 star' (or vice versa?) I think a fair amount of that needed to be weeded out back in 2005!

lol, I'm sure there are still a few members like that here and there. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, the ones who give a bunch of prog-related albums 5/5 while hating on the majority of full-fledged prog metal albums (a certain "pumpkin" user comes to mind) LOL


Edited by Necrotica - September 10 2022 at 08:13
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http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=28500
This review is generic, full of blanket statements, doesn't tell you ANYTHING about the album and it's too short.

How did this person even get a Prog Reviewer badge? xD
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=28500
This review is generic, full of blanket statements, doesn't tell you ANYTHING about the album and it's too short.

How did this person even get a Prog Reviewer badge? xD

that's a bad one indeed, it looks unfinished LOL
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^ Unfinished or published in error. His reviews are normally much better than that, when I’ve come across them before.
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I've noticed that in the early days of the site there were a good number of reviews that were short like this, even blurb-like, before standards were put in place for reviewers to write longer and better reviews.
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