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No disrespect... but Mr. Neuteboom has a trailing bold tag in his Ommadawn review here. ;)
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Originally posted by laplace laplace wrote:

No disrespect... but Mr. Neuteboom has a trailing bold tag in his Ommadawn review here. ;)
 
Is there a problem with that? I very often my reviews with a conclusion in bold.
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there's no problem individually, but when viewed on the Ommadawn page all the following reviews also become... emboldened.
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Originally posted by laplace laplace wrote:

there's no problem individually, but when viewed on the Ommadawn page all the following reviews also become... emboldened.
 
No more, I think! Smile
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thanks, Atkingani =) similarly, here's a review in desperate need of a closed italics tag. ;)
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Done, thanks for reporting.Thumbs%20Up
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I am not saying I think this review should be removed.. his opinion is fair and I understand his basic points. However, the advice it gives and demands it makes are questionable, and he could have made his point in a more legitimate and convincing way. His two other reviews are basically fine, and much more succinct

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=137646





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I guess with so many reviews of CTTE, he is trying to make his a little different. He's certainly gone to great efforts to explain his position re the album.
 
The ironic thing is, his 3 star review actually helps the album's status.
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This is an... unusual review... What do you think of it?

GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR! — Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
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1%20stars Guys , there are many factors that should be considered about this Band entirely.

Our discussion starts with this:

The Era that we are living is a very very different era than late 60s, 70s, 80s, or even 90s. Rock music has always been an influential thing according to the politics of the moment and the level of people's understanding all around the world. As it is obviously seen most of the music that has the place in prog-archive charts are amongst the 60s and 70s era. Although it is said that rock should be an opposition to the powerful guys in white house, KGB, or any other political place, but I believe that it can be pretty [%*!#]ed up by the decisions that can take place in the world.

The Era that we are living is the fruit of Nixon, Reagan, and ultimately Bush kind of politics which will destroy US if they don't change it. It is the Era of Holly Wood retard celebrities which are supported by their high rated retard fans. It is the Era of Iraq war, the upcoming conflicts over Iran that even can bring war to that country, too.

The truth is that, there are no more bands like before except very rare examples, may be my friends in prog-archive are counting GYBE as one these exceptions, more time and thinking and comments are needed to show this fact which is still very unclear for me at the moment.

GYBE sometimes in their music get to a point which is unbelievable, but traces of radio-head or some other new band ideas are the killer of these good climaxes. Exsimio is one of those mentioned new groups, without any doubt. It is an Art Rock band which is doing a better job than king Crimson at the same time ( post 2000 years), considering the fact that they don't have good funding support for their music production and instruments.

Anyways, making the long story short I must say that GYSE amongst the new bands has a special place for me, but i prefer to give them the lowest grade, because I hope they get purified and do their own job. Traces of fear in the song writer's mind is so observable . I believe that weakness should be destroyed to make GYBE a band comparable to a regular prog-rock group.

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The first paragraph is okay, till the second half.
The second is useless, along with that second half, it counts as political talk.
The third relates to the second, uninterestingly.
The fourth is okay, but doesn't have a truly coherent message. The fact that he skips from commenting negatively on GYBE to Exsimio being the better King Crimson (GYBE have nothing in common, neither do they seem to be, from this paragraph), is not a good quality.
The five is the most interesting, though I can't understand what kind of "good job" GYBE are supposed to do, after three full and gargantuistic albums in which they've actually done "their best job".
 
 
A good edit of the political rant, some grammar checks (maybe -> "may be"!!), the rest could stay, in its own message. That's what I think.
 
 
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Dealing with, folks! Thank you all...
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Josh, your Brand X review on the homepage is great and I can't agree more with it... but it screams for a rating of at least 4 stars! Wink
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I'm still debating whether I should boot it up. When I started writing the review I had no idea what rating I was going to give it. The thing that really makes me sad is that because of me its no longer in the top 20 jazz albums! (or was it like that before?) That's just unfair.

I'll listen to it one more time, and then make the final decision.

(By the way, I saw the GY!BE review and was very confused. Glad I'm the only one who spotted it.)


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Yes it was in the top 20 before, with the former rating system which gave more weight to the number of ratings. I wouldn't argue about it, though, as there are a lot of serious people here who actually think Morrocan Roll is their best album.

So count me in favour of the 4**** (myself I'll rate it 5***** when I get to reviewing it, it's a fundamental album for me).
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Yeah, the promotion is happenin'. Watch the jazz page to see if she comes back in the top 20!
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Great! Big%20smile

But, you know, you can't put it back there with only 4**** Wink
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Wow I should really re-read my reviews before posting them.

"sometimes catchy and sing-able,
other times incredibly swift and jaw-dropping-ly swift."

That's just poor.

And, anyway, Unorthodox is not in the top 20 after I have her a star up, but she did rise from 4.12 to 4.20.
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Is this guy (SWANEE (Giancarlo Cesario)) ever getting the Admin PMs, telling him it's not appropriate to review an album by simply rating each piece. Cause he already has a record here...Ermm

(Seyo reported the most recent one he posted...)
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Read the last paragraph, then ask yourself what it would have taken the reviewer to give it a 5 start rating ?
I would think that a 4 star rating would indicate at least some "great highlights" scattered somewhere among the compositions ...Confused

XEN — 84000 Dharma Doors
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4%20stars The band Xen is actually some kind of joke because it's actually Enchant, only difference is the lacking of "Benignus" as a keyboardplayer. Still it's a bit different from Enchant and that is in the style of playing. It's more relaxed, almost easy listening at times, but of course recognazible as a kind of Enchant. Another thing they have in common with - and what is distinctive to - Enchant is that there are no poor songs on this album. It's one of the main reasons I like Enchant (and also Xen) because it proves that a band takes themselves seriously and set a high standard for themselves and I think that's admirable.

Only downside on this is that there neither any great highlights where the songs are concerned.

Overall performance is very good though so I think they deserve 4 stars. Recommended (of course) for Enchantfans.

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Do something with these Bratus reviews please. This is not ProgMetalArchives or, as Kotro mentioned, ModernProgArchives. It's pity to do the things like this.

I also think, that the option "rating without review" should be disabled. Many people just can't stand that some albums are higher than other in the Top 100, and they do everything to increase their favourite album and to decrease others. It's irritating.

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