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Atavachron wrote:

lazland wrote:

transcendental bollocks

I think that was Robert Fripp's band in secondary school.

Logan wrote:

^ Appreciate it if you'd do the "honours" of trying to contact the user to share your specific concerns, Ken, if you don't mind doing so. I don't think it matters if it comes from an Admin, SC, or any member if sharing concerns. Warnings usually are better left to Moderators, but I, from a strictly personal standpoint, would rather not be that official or officious at this time. That kind of thing takes its mental toll on me and I have not been doing that great health-wise (either physically or mentally, well, they work in tandem). I think someone may have tried to contact this person before, very unsure, vague and perhaps false memory of that.

Anyway here is the review as I like to preserve these before deleting.

thewickedfall wrote:

The album in concept art does not reflect their actual experiences according to their biographical background information(but I could be wrong) nor does it envelop to the spirit of progressive thinking. It feels that if I write what I want they will turn me into this album cover? As far as concerned any group with modern progression of instruments can be considered progressive as all albums have changes in sound to some extent into of which are considered progressive since the elements included unto this album are from folk but into rock. This melded variation albeit is attempting to be unique and was at the time frame for the most part of trying to transcend musical tastes from folk to rock with folk rock. In then time many fans consider it as pushing the tide of sound but truthfully rock in general can be considered a progression from folk. In this regard but truly in progressive music if considering the whole genre to be progressive as this album of folk to rock attempts at enveloping collectively into progressive from previous that it returns to classical music will never be matched in progressions of its ever changing styles of rhythm as essential music that stands all time but just did not record to modern standards from then time.

That the root of progressive music can be viewed as classical composing and music while all else are applied variants disguising the classical into the modern by the modern innovation/progression of instrument. Pushing the tide and envelop of sound has long been staple of progressive music while embracing progressive music towards this understanding means progressive music becomes a catch all to vary any sound in any musical time frame and anything in between. The progression of modern instruments can be viewed as naturally progressing sound meaning any album can be viewed in this progression of sound which does not make any album nor worst or better but falls into all people will never agree with another in progressive as it is the agreed differences that make the progressions. This album is a fan favorite album that has transcended time but all albums should in this regard and don't think one does it any better than the other since even what one considers as the worst or most horrible album is still widely available to the public.

In transcendance the album is transcendant towards music not necessarily entirely progressive but used the flow of progressive instruments from one genre to another as only they could into providing the recordings they did. Just to note the musicians from this time era that are considered as the founders of progressive music never played on purpose progressive music meaning they did not define or a musician group member from then time did not explicitly label their sound according to information as progressive. The progressive genre was created after the fact as they all played to play cause simply that is what they like spending their time doing. And so with that observance included none of the groups are considered progressive or essential since simply they never thought of themselves as progressive musicians to begin with as it is other people attempting to create the label progressive. The labels into defining music in my opinion have to be labeled by the musicians or those who participated into playing.

I deleted the review for JT's Aqualung page, but its transcendent spirit lives on here.

ok, but, in the spirit quite opposite to this reviewer, I'm liable to be quite direct and comprehensible.

And sorry about your health issues. I totally understand the mind-body connection

Edited by kenethlevine - 1 hour 2 minutes ago at 08:04

Looks like he just reposted another "interesting" review of Aqualung. Probably is an auto-translation thing, but sometimes I think we're a little too lenient with these kinds of reviewers. When they continue to post stuff that has people asking for deletions repeatedly, why not just delete the account and move on? We have many quality reviewers that put a lot of time and effort into writing something useful, which I'm grateful for. To see their work get bumped off the front page for nonsense is unfortunate and not necessary.

Just my two cents.

...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"