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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Atavachron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2016 at 19:36
So the removal of my Meddle review.  I'm curious and I'd like an explanation.  Complains?  An admin decision?  Just let me know.
   
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2016 at 20:25
I don't know any details, though I could see how such a review would not fit guidelines. I just got back from what should have been a 30 minute trip with my kids where my car broke down on the remote highway, lucky for me the two truck driver got there fast, but for the curious and if you didn't save it, I found it in google's cache:

Meddle Review

Very experimental. Wonder if I can paste it here while keeping the formatting.
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Edited by Logan - June 03 2016 at 20:30
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Atavachron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2016 at 20:38
Thanks man.  Yeah it is absolutely bonkers, which was exactly the point.

That said, admin have been very lenient and patient with my current psychosis, and I appreciate it. 



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote aglasshouse Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2016 at 20:43
Can these characters can form a coherent review by being put in some order? That would be neat-o.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Atavachron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2016 at 20:53
^ It's the scribbles of a madman on notepaper while Meddle plays.  So no not really.

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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

So the removal of my Meddle review.  I'm curious and I'd like an explanation.  Complains?  An admin decision?  Just let me know.
    


IMHO the review should stand. I can't think of a better way to describe Meddle than the way you have.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dean Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2016 at 03:03
Meh, he ignored Seamus ... off with his head.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Atavachron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2016 at 15:51
^ As a blues, I'd represented it with a single small frowny face but removed it as it was barely discernible. 

Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

IMHO the review should stand. I can't think of a better way to describe Meddle than the way you have.

That means a lot, Bob, thanks.





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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote kenethlevine Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2017 at 21:24
nitpicky I know.  What is this business of people numbering their reviews?  
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hrychu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2020 at 04:49
I hate the reviews that rate an album low not because it's bad but because it's not prog. I'm seeing things like "if you're looking for a progressive rock album, you'll be disappointed cause this one is pure AOR" etc.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Guldbamsen Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2020 at 04:57
^I moved your post.
Seems a little odd posting in a thread called ‘I really like your review’ and then starting out with ‘I hate’

I do agree with your point though. Rating anything based on how prog it is is futile. By that definition Henry Cow should be the most celebrated artist on PA.
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

I hate the reviews that rate an album low not because it's bad but because it's not prog. I'm seeing things like "if you're looking for a progressive rock album, you'll be disappointed cause this one is pure AOR" etc.


Agreed. I only rate albums on their own merit. It's not an AOR album's fault it got lumped on this site due to the entire discography policy. I will tend to round down if it's not prog though but not always. But whatever. There are 1 star albums on this site that i love such as the Yes Remix album. Even if everyone hates it doesn't mean it makes me love it less!

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote TCat Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2020 at 09:56
I wonder what Silly Puppy Remixed would sound like......

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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

^I moved your post.
Seems a little odd posting in a thread called ‘I really like your review’ and then starting out with ‘I hate’

I do agree with your point though. Rating anything based on how prog it is is futile. By that definition Henry Cow should be the most celebrated artist on PA.

totally agree, though as Silly Puppy said, I might drop it a half point based on perceived lack of prog credentials, but the whole half star thing (!?) is subjective and I treat it like a collaborator's prerogative based on how I feel.  It's something I do to make me feel like IO have some control, like buying too much of a scarce item (which I don't tend to do)
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2020 at 07:51
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

I found your reviews outstanding, and wish I could write like you! So many reviews are stale and formulaic, forgetting that music is an art form, and therefore likely to elicit all sorts of different reactions. Kudos to David for thinking (and writing) outside the boxClap.
 
I enjoy writing "outside the box" too, so maybe it's time for a tetrahedral album review, just as Logan suggested. Smile
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I don't really care if an album classifies as prog or not, and it surely doesn't affect my judgements. The best music often combines many different style elements.
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I have a proposition. How about a "please delete my rating thread" for those who want to revisit albums they've rated and leave a review so it can appear in new/on the front page
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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

There are 1 star albums on this site that i love such as the Yes Remix album. Even if everyone hates it doesn't mean it makes me love it less!
indeed!

Whilst I hold to the view that value judgments in art are in the end largely subjective, there still exists in my mind a distinction between what is good and bad, and what I enjoy and don't enjoy. There is plenty of music (and writing, etc) of which I can recognise the innovative quality / technical merit / importance within the development of the artform, that I don't enjoy at all. Equally there is plenty of stuff that I think is little more than trash that I dig the hell out of.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Meltdowner Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2020 at 15:47
Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

I have a proposition. How about a "please delete my rating thread" for those who want to revisit albums they've rated and leave a review so it can appear in new/on the front page
You have to send a PM to one of the Admins for that.


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