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sleeper
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 09:49 | |||
That is the most Ageist statement I have heard on hear. Just because you are older than me doesnt make you right, just as I am younger than you doesnt make me right. I also think you are very wrong as you seem to have a very closed minded view on what makes a good album/band/genre. When I look for music I look for technical abilaty and creativaty as well as the abilaty to craft a good song, that is why prog is so appealing to me and why I wont have any trouble finding good, new music over the next few decades because talented musicians are allways poping up. @Sean Trane, I agree with you on what you are saying about reviewers needing considerably more experience of prog before they go right a review because how can you tell what is a masterpiece when the only album you have heard is Big Generator (I'm not sure but I bet its better than a lot of pop). For this reason I have stoped righting reviews because I couldnt honestly justify some of my rateings withought any real knoledg of the bands discogrophy and other bands in the genre. However there are always some albums that stand up above the rest, Metropolis Pt2 for me is one of them and there are a couple of others. BTW as for TMV first album I found it a lot more focused than FTM and maybe even more agressive but I think it was pretty good. |
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Rorro
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 31 2005 Location: Uruguay Status: Offline Points: 508 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 10:00 | |||
Ok, Sorry if i sound hurt, i missunderstood the aim of what you said, i wasn't defending myself, i was just giving another point of view. Now i understand what you call a masterpiece, and from this definition of a masterpiece i agree with you that Hybris is not a masterpiece, and we'll have to see FTM. And i'm over-using the word masterpiece i admit it. Sorry for my ignorance, i'm just learning, i do not want to argue, but make constructive comentaries. But let me ask you this. If some band at ..let's say , .. 1970 would had made the album Hybris, wouldn't you call a Masterpiece?, i know that it haven't been done at that time, so we don't know if it would had pased the time test, but making the suppouse it have passed the test..... . When i compared Hybris to all 70's album, i decided that this album was better than any other album, because i consider the general quality of the album is in my opinion, higher than anything done before, the drumming is out of this world, the melodies are as beautifull as complex, and there are really damn complex,the dinamics , the mood changes, woooooww, i was shocked when i listened to it the first 10 times, and i keep on listening it and always find something new. It's one of the most beautifull pieces of music i've ever listened to, and i thought that that was enough to call it a masterpiece, but i never considered you point of view, sorry, my bad. |
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MegaMoog
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 22 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 112 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 10:00 | |||
hey if you want to hate some one hate me I only like prog music if the band uses a moog
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Where Can I Get A Moog biscuit?
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oliverstoned
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 26 2004 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 6308 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 10:04 | |||
I've listen carefully to one Porcupine tree album and found it very bad: flat, uninspired, no virtuosity at all...zero!
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20357 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 10:14 | |||
This lack of experience should not stop you to write reviews on how you feel about the albums you want to review, you have every right to talk of them and should rightly exercize that right (I wish the web existed back in the 70's so I could've written reviews too) Just that younger and less experienced progheads should be more careful stating that such and such album is the best ever. (you shoud've seen the charts we were building in rating our albums as teens, it was so anal that i cannot help but blush at the thought of it - yet we loved every minute of it while doing it. we were trying to see who was the best album buyer - as if this stupid idea depended on any given scientific criteria Ehmmmmm!!!!!!!..........) But as teens we are always obsessed by the best ever (records, friends, movies, hamburgers soda, beer etc.... ) which apppears not quite important as the 30's arrive and completely useless as the 40's down on you - you have uch less time to waste tosuch trivial things I could not care less of those compiled top 100 lists about anything: they create more trouble than anything and so many attempt to skew it anyway, I'd rather it did not exists |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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sleeper
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 10:20 | |||
^Lack of perspective is only one reason that I dont write reviews, the inabilaty to put down my thoughts and feelings on an album in a concise manner is the main one. Anyway, thats what the forums ar for, to bash out your views on music with some one you have never met before (well in some of our cases) and to prove to them that you are right and they are wrong unless they agree with you.
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20357 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 10:27 | |||
Of course Hybris would've been a masterpiece if done in 1970. It would've been groundbreaking, because pushing musical limits to an extreme But this album could probably not been done back then, because nobody could've written back then , such a flawless album as it is. These guys have managed to write that album precisely because Close To The Edge Lark's Tongue In Aspic, Foxtrot, Script For A Jester's tear existed. Clearly without all of those albums , Hybris could've not been written ev en in 92. But if it had been written back in 71, it would probably dwarf all those albums I mentioned
I believe I fell asleep purposely with the headphones on and the Hybris album on repeat play. I did the same with Vemod (Anekdoten's debut) and Lonely Land (landberk's debut) and I was turning 30 at the time |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Rorro
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 31 2005 Location: Uruguay Status: Offline Points: 508 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 10:40 | |||
Ok, Now i completely see your point and i really understand it, and i did't write any review yet, but i was planing to, and i needed to know this so i can rate them with some good criteria, thank you for all. . As i've seen your point, i agree with you, Hybris couldn't had been done without the albums you mentioned and a few others, i will consider it the next time i say it is better than... . Be Happy!!!!!!!!!! |
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20357 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 10:49 | |||
Just you writing this will make me happy for the rest of the day |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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cuncuna
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 29 2005 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 4318 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 11:18 | |||
WHO CARESWHO CARESWHO CARES
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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cuncuna
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 29 2005 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 4318 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 11:22 | |||
Well, times will move on and you'll be left behind... |
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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Topographic Oce
Forum Groupie Joined: November 25 2005 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 76 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 15:40 | |||
And take all your Rolf Harris CD's with you because you obviously know sod all about musuic. By the way why start a thread just to sl*g off bands rather than starting some sort of constructive discussion. |
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Empathy
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 30 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1864 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 16:07 | |||
DIE THREAD, DIE!!!
Yes, I'm aware that I just said "The thread, the!!!" Edited by Empathy |
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Pure Brilliance:
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TheProgtologist
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 23 2005 Location: Baltimore,Md US Status: Offline Points: 27802 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 16:11 | |||
That's the problem. You only listened to ONE album. Hardly enough,especially when judging a band with such a big discography. |
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fishingfool42
Forum Newbie Joined: February 23 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 16:25 | |||
As a 48 year old that has just recently begun to enjoy some of the newer prog bands, I can say with complete certainty that age has nothing to do with ones ability to enjoy and critique music. I can also say with complete certainty that Porcupine Tree has captured me musically. The first CD of theirs that I had the pleasure of listening to was In Absentia. Amazing talent yes, but they are able to translate that talent into a truly accessible style of music.
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You can't have everything; where would you put it?
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 17:34 | |||
Too many people are too easily pleased when it comes to music :)
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MikeEnRegalia
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 22 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 21320 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 17:38 | |||
Some people are never pleased. |
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Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:15 | |||
I'm pleased by elite stuff
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Manunkind
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 02 2005 Location: Poland Status: Offline Points: 2373 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:21 | |||
You sure are. |
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"In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun
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Tristan Mulders
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 28 2004 Status: Offline Points: 1723 |
Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:25 | |||
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! They are not rubbish did I make myself clear?? |
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