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Topic: Who's the most prolific reviewer these days
Posted By: Marty McFly
Subject: Who's the most prolific reviewer these days
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 16:48
I've been gathering data for one week (about 4th-11th, something like that) in January 2010. I'll make top list of reviewers, using:
1)From most prolific to least 2)Listed ratings used, so we'll make some kind of average rating
And that's all. For everyone wanting to ask, WHY ? I have a reply: It's fun to do (and some may actually find it interesting a little bit). I'm just curious, who's writing most these days and want to share it with you.
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Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 16:55
Snobb... he has like a month putting out many many reviews... guess he really wants to win the monthly gift don't you think...???
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 16:57
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 17:09
I would say UMUR. Jonas regularly contributes reviews, and his are generally very high quality. He has over 1,400 and that helps as well.
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Posted By: Eapo_q42
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 17:14
Damn.
Do the people who have over 1000 reviews download their music illegally?
I only buy music. And if I reviewed every single prog album I own, I would still only have about 155 reviews!
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Posted By: Gamemako
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:02
Eapo_q42 wrote:
Damn.
Do the people who have over 1000 reviews download their music illegally?
I only buy music. And if I reviewed every single prog album I own, I would still only have about 155 reviews!
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Some people have tons and tons of old stuff they may revisit, some purchase the albums, and some get promos. But really, 1400 reviews is only around $20,000 worth of media.
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Posted By: Eapo_q42
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:05
It would be WAAAAAAY more than $20,000 for me.
In Australia, cds are insanely expensive compared to europe and the U.S.
Worse still, it's practically impossible to find good prog here anyway. So for most albums I buy, I end up paying for international shipping!
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:07
I used to review only albums I had (and now I have over 1,000), but now I get promos from the owner of the site with which I have been collaborating since June (I got a couple from bands as well). Thanks to this, I have been able to learn about a lot of new, exciting bands and artists.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:08
Eapo_q42 wrote:
Damn.
Do the people who have over 1000 reviews download their music illegally?
I only buy music. And if I reviewed every single prog album I own, I would still only have about 155 reviews!
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I only have 126 reviews, but I bet many of the people with over a thousand reviews find stuff in the bargain bin in their record store. I can find stuff in my record store for $3 or $4
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Posted By: Gamemako
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:16
Eapo_q42 wrote:
It would be WAAAAAAY more than $20,000 for me.
In Australia, cds are insanely expensive compared to europe and the U.S.
Worse still, it's practically impossible to find good prog here anyway. So for most albums I buy, I end up paying for international shipping!
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Well, that's USD in the first place. I believe it's only about $20 AUD for an album -- been a while since I've been in Oz, though. So yeah, it's still not likely to be more than $30,000, even in AUD.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:16
I have so dropped the ball on reviewing. I am so ashamed. I'll get back it though.
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Posted By: Gamemako
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:17
Slartibartfast wrote:
I have so dropped the ball on reviewing. I am so ashamed. I'll get back it though.
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Speaking of which, is your collection all old or do you have a decent place to find discs in ATL?
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Posted By: Eapo_q42
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:19
J-Man wrote:
I only have 126 reviews, but I bet many of the people with over a thousand reviews find stuff in the bargain bin in their record store. I can find stuff in my record store for $3 or $4
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For many reasons, I am proud to be an Australian.
The availabilty of such prog is not one of them!
Even if I manage to find a SECOND-HAND prog album in a discount bin, which is incredibly rare, I am still likely to pay around AU$10.00.
That's the situation here. It sucks so bad. There's one underground cd shop I go to where they actually got a lot of good 70s prog. But they struggle to survive selling such music, so I would pay AU$30 there for an album.
It's terrible!
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Posted By: Gamemako
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:28
Eapo_q42 wrote:
J-Man wrote:
I only have 126 reviews, but I bet many of the people with over a thousand reviews find stuff in the bargain bin in their record store. I can find stuff in my record store for $3 or $4
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For many reasons, I am proud to be an Australian.
The availabilty of such prog is not one of them!
Even if I manage to find a SECOND-HAND prog album in a discount bin, which is incredibly rare, I am still likely to pay around AU$10.00.
That's the situation here. It sucks so bad. There's one underground cd shop I go to where they actually got a lot of good 70s prog. But they struggle to survive selling such music, so I would pay AU$30 there for an album.
It's terrible!
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Yeah, that's not terribly surprising. I remember finding my material in Oz from other places that didn't specialize in prog -- I picked up an album from a place called Metal Mayhem in Melbourne for about 20 AUD, IIRC. Where are you in Oz, anyway? I mean, if you're in Adelaide or Brisbane, you're pretty much hosed anyway. ;)
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Posted By: Eapo_q42
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:34
Yeah, I'm in Melbourne. I know Metal Mayhem....when I'm not proggin', I'm thrashin', hehe.
The situation for metal is nowhere near as bad as the situation for prog. Though Metal Mayhem was apparently not doing to well, because they had to move from the city out to northcote, an outer suburb.
But yeah, at least it's not Adelaide, hehe.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:44
Gamemako wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
I have so dropped the ball on reviewing. I am so ashamed. I'll get back it though.
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Speaking of which, is your collection all old or do you have a decent place to find discs in ATL?
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Is my collection all old??? All old???. Wel,l I don't collect like a used to.
My favorite independent brick an mortar store is Decatur CD. In fact I dropped in this weekend and picked up Sargasso Sea, New Chataqua, and We Lost The Skyline. I did have to order four Big Big Trains and the new Steve Hackett from overseas before those.
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Posted By: Gamemako
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:47
Eapo_q42 wrote:
Yeah, I'm in Melbourne. I know Metal Mayhem....when I'm not proggin', I'm thrashin', hehe.
The situation for metal is nowhere near as bad as the situation for prog. Though Metal Mayhem was apparently not doing to well, because they had to move from the city out to northcote, an outer suburb.
But yeah, at least it's not Adelaide, hehe.
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Aw, but they were in such a good location. I suppose being under the rail had its costs, though.
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(Why do I have a picture of the place? I don't recall. But I do anyway, so hey.)
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Posted By: Eapo_q42
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:50
Yeah, sadly that location is no more!
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Posted By: Gamemako
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 18:54
Eapo_q42 wrote:
Yeah, sadly that location is no more!
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I blame K-Rudd. It was still there before he got his hands on that country!
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: January 19 2010 at 21:11
Eapo_q42 wrote:
Even if I manage to find a SECOND-HAND prog album in a discount bin, which is incredibly rare, I am still likely to pay around AU$10.00.
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I know. There's a Hastings in Albuquerque as well as a Bookman's in Flagstaff that I always visit when I go to those places, but in the former used CDs are still around $10 and in the latter around $7. I think the cheapest CD I got was Steve Vai's Ultra Zone for $3.99. I'll probably never find another one I'm interested in for under five. Maybe I just need to find a new city.
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Posted By: Eapo_q42
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 00:20
Oh, wow, you had me confused there for a second!
There's actually an area here in Melbourne called Flagstaff as well, and I thought I was going to have somewhere new to visit, hehe.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 00:54
Our most prolific reviewer, Sean Trane, borrows albums from his public library.
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 01:05
Eapo_q42 wrote:
It would be WAAAAAAY more than $20,000 for me.
In Australia, cds are insanely expensive compared to europe and the U.S.
Worse still, it's practically impossible to find good prog here anyway. So for most albums I buy, I end up paying for international shipping!
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I know how you're feeling.
Apart from having to pay for international postage, I usually end up waiting 10 days + and Australia post has lost 3 of mine over the past month
Also, the occasional prog CD's I do find in Australia are usually massively overpriced
Marty, whenever I go to the front page I usually see some of yours. I think Snobb may have this one though; I nearly always see (and read) his reviews on the front page. Good quality and quantity
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 03:41
Certain people, who also reviews quite a lot and I know them well, do this: 1)inherited big stash of CD's 2)listen CD of friends 3)and simply buy the rest
I'm going to process the list (if I find the .mht files, to which I saved the main pages)
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 03:50
I wonder if I should add category: "most words", so these with 1000+ words would win. But I don't have a good mean how to measure it, how to count them.
Actually, I created this thread and went to bed, thinking that nobody will be interested, but let's do it now: My guess is Bonnek
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Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 09:09
^ I thought it was you, Marty . Just kidding, man. Guess Bonnek is the right answer indeed. The guy has a pretty long holiday, doesn't he ? Or an easy, undemanding job
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 09:54
Starting on:
January 02, 2010, 08:40 EST - January 09, 2010, 07:20 EST
Day ONE (which means Jan 02, 8:40 to about Jan 03. 8:20, it roughly makes "days")
/Marty McFly 3-3-3 camelspotter 4 cataclysta 4 /UMUR 3 /lor68 4 /Bonnek 4-3-4-2-4-4-4-3-4 toroddfuglesteg 3-3-3-4 /Raff 3-4-3-4 /progaeopteryx 5 /kenethlevine 4-4-4-2-4 /fuxi 4-3-4 /Rivertree 4 seventhsojourn 4-4 /Prog Leviathan 3-4 /ZowieZiggy 3-4 Malve87 3 M27Barney 5 /snobb 4-3 Lord Krodius 4 /Gatot 4 /sinkadotentree 3 Kazza3 3 /SouthSideoftheSky 4 dalekvilla 4 /TGM: Org 4
Hint: / = left column, so reviewer or collab 1-5 number as char means a review, number itself is how many stars certain reviewer gave I've used glitch in ASP showing of last "50" reviews (only that this time it wasn't 50, but about 500 instead), so purely accidentally, my review on Marillion was the last one (Jan 02), with the first one (Jan 08) showing Lumpy Gravy. Then, next day I waited till 8:30 and captured the rest that makes entire week. And here we are. This day (1) I'm lucky to be first. Other days I'm not. Some of you are here guys, I've just written down you, Henk (progrules). I have my periods (don't call me woman), or we can call them "bursts", as I write easily 10 reviews a day, using thoughts and ideas that accumulated in my head over time and then, easily, day or two nothing. I'm university man, so it takes its time too you know. First write these notes down here, then count it and update my first post, Oh Kay ?
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 10:31
So, to sum it up, this is not list of BEST reviewers, as I didn't find the mean how to count these words in effective way. And after all, long review doesn't mean good review.
So I'll not go for evaluating reviewers, this is dirty job. Good review can be short. Bad review can be short. Good review can be long. Bad review can be long. Good review can be of middle size. Bad review can be of middle size.
As I see, fore-mentioned UMUR makes one very informative and long review per day. From what can I see, it's a good one. Interesting fact about this from this thread's point of view is his regularity.
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: January 20 2010 at 13:51
Day TWO
toroddfuglesteg 2 /Marty McFly 5-5-4 /Windhawk 4-3 /kenethlevine 3 camelspotter 1-5-5 /Rivertree 3 seventhsojourn 2 dalekvilla 2-5-3 Rune 2000 3-4-4-3-2 /snobb 3-3-4 /b_olariu 3-4 ArjanDG 4 dragonspirit 4-4-4 /Easy Money 4 kingfriso 4-5-2 /Raff 4 /Finnforest 2-3 godfrey11 5-5 /sinkadotentree 3 Drew 5 DTJesus 5 rguabiraba 4 ingmin68 4-4 /Bonnek 3-3 /UMUR 4 /Sean Trane 3-3-3-3-3 /progrules 3 lor68 3 Malve87 3
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:04
No response prevented me from analyzing it more.
Shall I continue ?
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:25
Slartibartfast wrote:
I have so dropped the ball on reviewing. I am so ashamed. I'll get back it though.
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Indeed. One of these days...
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:32
Marty McFly wrote:
No response prevented me from analyzing it more.
Shall I continue ? |
I for one was enjoying this thread and would like you to continue. Apologies for not adding any posts.
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:47
When I hear word BALL, I'm always cautious.
OK Seventh S., no bad feelings, but lack of reply after adding actual valuable information, about which this thread should be, or more like lack of absolutely no reply at all left me hesitating about it all. Also I've switched from Win XP to Linux and back meanwhile, finished my first term on university, started new one (semester) and returned to reviewing. So, let's do it.
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Even my
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 08:58
LinusW wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
I have so dropped the ball on reviewing. I am so ashamed. I'll get back it though.
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Indeed. One of these days...
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I'm experiencing a little writer's block on The Music Of The Spheres. I got enough words in it but I need to wrap it up.
I think I just saw god. I hit the pause key on my keyboard and it launched three different players. One had Big Big Train's Perfect Cosmic Storm, Windows Media Center was running my DVD copy of Roxy Music's Total Recall DVD Do The Strand, and Windows Media Player was playing Steely Dan's King Of The World.
I'm going to press play again, brace yourselves.
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 09:03
Marty McFly wrote:
When I hear word BALL, I'm always cautious.
OK Seventh S., no bad feelings, but lack of reply after adding actual valuable information, about which this thread should be, or more like lack of absolutely no reply at all left me hesitating about it all. Also I've switched from Win XP to Linux and back meanwhile, finished my first term on university, started new one (semester) and returned to reviewing.
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You've lost me with this quote. I think this was maybe someone else talking about how they had neglected their own reviews. I appreciate your hard work and look forward to next set of results.
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 10:17
OK, enough of flattering, or my mind will be shattering (hope this makes rhyme in English, it looks like it should, or could ... or would ... ok, I put)
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 13:50
I lost these pages somewhere around my T Bytes
found them, let's process it. Right after few games of UT2K4. Finally, some game that runs smoothly
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 13:58
Slartibartfast wrote:
LinusW wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
I have so dropped the ball on reviewing. I am so ashamed. I'll get back it though.
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Indeed. One of these days...
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I'm experiencing a little writer's block on The Music Of The Spheres. I got enough words in it but I need to wrap it up.
I think I just saw god. I hit the pause key on my keyboard and it launched three different players. One had Big Big Train's Perfect Cosmic Storm, Windows Media Center was running my DVD copy of Roxy Music's Total Recall DVD Do The Strand, and Windows Media Player was playing Steely Dan's King Of The World.
I'm going to press play again, brace yourselves.
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Did they all work well together?
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 14:19
Sinkadotentree still manages to do about 2 per day, and he buys all his albums legally.
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 16:18
King By-Tor wrote:
Sinkadotentree still manages to do about 2 per day, and he buys all his albums legally.
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Which can't be said about a lot of people here, one of your statements. But this is not kind of discussion I want to go into. Sad thing is that majority of my collection I haven't bought. I was given instead, I inherited it :-) more or less, without giving person being dead. ON TOPIC - I plan to do some nice graphs, hope I'll have mood for it.
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Even my
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 18:31
I've managed to collect about 1000 cds and 400 vinyls, I planned to review them all at one time, but now I don't really care - it liberates me to listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. I still buy albums at an alarming pace, although now it's not just for the thought of expressing my opinion on them.
People who say that someone with 500 reviews can't be buying them legit is crazy. When you get out of highschool and have a decent job you tend to spend a lot of money on things you like
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 18:35
King By-Tor wrote:
I've managed to collect about 1000 cds and 400 vinyls, I planned to review them all at one time, but now I don't really care - it liberates me to listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. I still buy albums at an alarming pace, although now it's not just for the thought of expressing my opinion on them.
People who say that someone with 500 reviews can't be buying them legit is crazy. When you get out of highschool and have a decent job you tend to spend a lot of money on things you like
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People actually say that???? I know people with FAR more titles than 500 and are all legit CDs.
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: February 20 2010 at 18:46
Well I don't know if that's the majority - I saw a post on the first page that was along those lines
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Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 21:33
Eapo_q42 wrote:
It would be WAAAAAAY more than $20,000 for me.
In Australia, cds are insanely expensive compared to europe and the U.S.
Worse still, it's practically impossible to find good prog here anyway. So for most albums I buy, I end up paying for international shipping!
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Yeah, I'm in Australia too, and most of my prog stuff is very hard to find. I usually have to hunt around in various JB Hi Fi stores across the Melbourne suburbs to find what I'm looking for. And when you do, its always special import stuff. I end up paying a ton for it. It's expensive being a prog completist!
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Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: February 22 2010 at 21:34
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: February 23 2010 at 10:22
If i reviewed all my albums I wouldn't have time for eating, sleeping, crapping or breathing. I just review albums that I happen to listen to and have a bit of time to kill. I think it would be difficult to do this sort of thing professionally. Listening to a record for the sole intention of critcizing it. Doesn't make any sense to me. It's funny before this site I had never really payed attention to reviews. I only knew that Rolling Stone hated most of the music I listened to so I never bothered secure in the knowledge that bands like Focus, Gentle Giant and King Crimson were where it was at.
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Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: February 23 2010 at 12:20
I don't know who is, but i can tell you who is one of the less prolific.
Me
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: February 23 2010 at 12:44
King By-Tor wrote:
I've managed to collect about 1000 cds and 400 vinyls, I planned to review them all at one time, but now I don't really care - it liberates me to listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. I still buy albums at an alarming pace, although now it's not just for the thought of expressing my opinion on them.
People who say that someone with 500 reviews can't be buying them legit is crazy. When you get out of highschool and have a decent job you tend to spend a lot of money on things you like
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Yeah the first year I started working I purchased maybe 15 - 20 albums a week ( most second hand LPs but also CDs). No obligations whatsoever and I lived with my parents so I had more money and time to spend them than I will probably ever have again. My purchase rate has gone down a bit in the last 5 years after I had my children but most people would probably still consider my habits to be somewhat compulsive. . I´ve lost count of how many albums I have, but it´s gotten to a point where I´ve had to pack a lot of CDs away in my basement. There simply aren´t room for more in our small apartment. The wife is going crazy .
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Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: February 23 2010 at 12:51
UMUR wrote:
King By-Tor wrote:
I've managed to collect about 1000 cds and 400 vinyls, I planned to review them all at one time, but now I don't really care - it liberates me to listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. I still buy albums at an alarming pace, although now it's not just for the thought of expressing my opinion on them.
People who say that someone with 500 reviews can't be buying them legit is crazy. When you get out of highschool and have a decent job you tend to spend a lot of money on things you like
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Yeah the first year I started working I purchased maybe 15 - 20 albums a week ( most second hand LPs but also CDs). No obligations whatsoever and I lived with my parents so I had more money and time to spend them than I will probably ever have again. My purchase rate has gone down a bit in the last 5 years after I had my children but most people would probably still consider my habits to be somewhat compulsive. . I´ve lost count of how many albums I have, but it´s gotten to a point where I´ve had to pack a lot of CDs away in my basement. There simply aren´t room for more in our small apartment. The wife is going crazy . |
When I grow up I want to be like you... I'm living with my parents and I just buy 2 albums per month... but surely I want to make my wife crazy for the amount of Cds in the house... surely...!!!
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: February 23 2010 at 13:07
Yep sounds like fun right?
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Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 13:43
Actually, I'm having a bit of a writers block right now so I have some time for the forum The reason I write so much is because I'm a very focussed kind of guy and I want it over and done with! From May onwards I'll probably won't be writing anything anymore till next fall.
I am one of those lucky guys who works from home, meaning I stop working around 17u, and then write 3-4 reviews and do the cooking, all before my wife gets home around 19u! Besides I only work 4/5 now.
Considering the album ownership matter. I've been buying albums for 25 years now (around 30 up to 80 titles a year), there's also plenty of good libraries here in Belgium (ask Sean Trane) and I have plenty of the 70's stuff from my brother. I don't shy away to listening to new music using the possibilities of the internet but I want to own everything I like eventually. 'Owning' albums without paying the artist is highly unethical in my view.
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 12:30
Below is a list of the most prolific reviewers over the past week 1st - 7th March. The figures before each member's name represent the number of reviews during the week. Please post any comments.
Anybody know how I can import my Access tables to the site? Would Excel work instead?
12 - JLocke (Collaborator)
11 - snobb (Special Collaborator)
11 - Rune2000
10 - Epignosis (Special Collaborator)
8 - Marty McFly (Collaborator)
6 - sinkadotentree (Prog Reviewer)
6 - toroddfuglesteg
6 - ProgressiveAttic
5 - Windhawk (Special Collaborator)
5 - Sean Trane (Special Collaborator)
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 12:48
Hehe, I suppose I wrote all of them in one day, that's me. Have to finish what I started, right ? We can compare then.
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 13:04
Marty McFly wrote:
Hehe, I suppose I wrote all of them in one day, that's me. Have to finish what I started, right ? We can compare then. |
Well, you posted the most reviews (6) in a single day! I only managed 2 reviews for the whole week.
I started the list from 11.30 EST on Monday, and finished at midnight on Sunday. A total of 196 reviews by 77 different members - 34 collabs and 43 ordinary members.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 13:08
seventhsojourn wrote:
Marty McFly wrote:
Hehe, I suppose I wrote all of them in one day, that's me. Have to finish what I started, right ? We can compare then. |
Well, you posted the most reviews (6) in a single day! I only managed 2 reviews for the whole week.
I started the list from 11.30 EST on Monday, and finished at midnight on Sunday. A total of 196 reviews by 77 different members - 34 collabs and 43 ordinary members. |
Back when I was a prolific reviewer of sorts, I remember posting 5 in a day once. Now, if I post five in two or three months, it's already something to be celebrated...
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Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 13:38
seventhsojourn wrote:
Below is a list of the most prolific reviewers over the past week 1st - 7th March. The figures before each member's name represent the number of reviews during the week. Please post any comments.
Anybody know how I can import my Access tables to the site? Would Excel work instead?
12 - JLocke (Collaborator)
11 - snobb (Special Collaborator)
11 - Rune2000
10 - Epignosis (Special Collaborator)
8 - Marty McFly (Collaborator)
6 - sinkadotentree (Prog Reviewer)
6 - toroddfuglesteg
6 - ProgressiveAttic
5 - Windhawk (Special Collaborator)
5 - Sean Trane (Special Collaborator) |
I can't believe I am in that list.... I need to get a life!!!
what can I say?....I love prog reviewing!
------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com)
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 13:42
Yay! 12 reviews!
Wait . . . really?! I had no idea I had written that many. Wow, I must be geeking out over my music right now.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 13:52
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 15:13
Raff wrote:
seventhsojourn wrote:
Marty McFly wrote:
Hehe, I suppose I wrote all of them in one day, that's me. Have to finish what I started, right ? We can compare then. |
Well, you posted the most reviews (6) in a single day! I only managed 2 reviews for the whole week.
I started the list from 11.30 EST on Monday, and finished at midnight on Sunday. A total of 196 reviews by 77 different members - 34 collabs and 43 ordinary members. |
Back when I was a prolific reviewer of sorts, I remember posting 5 in a day once. Now, if I post five in two or three months, it's already something to be celebrated...
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Yes Raff, same to me, during 2 years and a half i have a sort of writer's block, then when i have resolved that, now i have enough time to do my daily activities.
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:08
You're right, I do! It's not intentional.
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:29
Raff wrote:
seventhsojourn wrote:
Marty McFly wrote:
Hehe, I suppose I wrote all of them in one day, that's me. Have to finish what I started, right ? We can compare then. |
Well, you posted the most reviews (6) in a single day! I only managed 2 reviews for the whole week.
I started the list from 11.30 EST on Monday, and finished at midnight on Sunday. A total of 196 reviews by 77 different members - 34 collabs and 43 ordinary members. |
Back when I was a prolific reviewer of sorts, I remember posting 5 in a day once. Now, if I post five in two or three months, it's already something to be celebrated...
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One day, I've reviewed about 12 albums. All of them classics that I know by heart. And to lesser extent, this happened few times (8-10 per day) in past. It's writer's rush and it works. Even my reviews aren't the longest ones here :)
------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu
Even my
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Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:32
I wrote 5 today... and I know I can make another one... but I'm too lazy... honestly...
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: March 09 2010 at 17:14
DAY THREE
time 8 something to 8 something (roughly one day)
/snobb 3242 Ovidiu 44445544 /Finnforest 4 /Bonnek 45443 /TheQuietOne 4 dmwilkie 552 /sinkadotentree 43 /lor68 3 seventhsojourn 4 /UMUR 4 Rune2000 3333 /Marty McFly 444555333 /Raff 3 /fuxi /Windhawk 3 Evolver 4 /Epignosis 4 /J-Man 4 Malve87 45 /Negoba 4 classicprogsovereign 345355 Citizen Erased 4 /Kazuhiro 54 pedrosemedo 5 ProgShine 3 Sowilo 3 /Sean Trane 444
at least some progress has been made
------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu
Even my
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 07:31
DAY FOUR
Jan 05, 9:01 - Jan 06, 8:46
/Sean Trane 432 /snobb 344343 /UMUR 322 toroddfuglesteg 32 /fuxi 12 /Marty McFly 4324 FusionKing 14 jampa17 353 /Bonnek 553 /Tarcisio Moura 2 /sinkadotentree 34 arcane-beautiful 5 Morsenator 4 M27Barney 54 /psarros 2 Neurotarkus 4 /Epignosis 544 /Matthew T 4 /Windhawk 5 m2thek 5 Sinusoid 3 Evolver 3 Mate 1 /Finnforest 4 Eapo q42 4 /progrules 343 classicprogsovereign 555 Rune 2000 4234 /SouthSideoftheSky 2
------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu
Even my
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 09:32
DAY FIVE
Jan 06, 9:50 - Jan 07, 8:37
sussexbowler 4 /Bonnek 3342232 /snobb 23522 /sinkadotentree 3 /fuxi 34 /kenethlevine 3 Rune 2000 3242 Kestrel 5 /SouthSideoftheSky 4 arcane-beautiful 54 Evelyna 5 Evolver 3 /Epignosis 3 /Marty McFly 43 /TGM: Orb 2 aapatsos 4 Neurotarkus 25 /J-man 1 /Negoba 23 seventhsojourn 4 /Matthew T 5 /Kazuhiro 4 godfrey11 4 smuggledmutation 144 drziltox 4 toroddfuglesteg 23 /b_olariu 33 /Sean Trane 3 /UMUR 423 /Nightfly 5 /progrules 4
------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu
Even my
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 01:14
DAY SEVEN
/Vibrationbaby 4 /Bonnek 54424 Malve87 5 1967/1976 3 toroddfuglesteg 2 snobb 433 Rune 2000 34323 /sinkadotentree 4 /Cesar Inca 44 Ovidiu 55444 /Marty McFly 213445 /psarros 4 Archangel 4 seventhsojourn 3 CryoftheCarrots 5 /Epignosis 3 /fuxi 3 gingernut 5 Conor Fynes 2 /Matthew T 4 FloydianTramp 45 /ZowieZiggy 123 Evolver 3 /Negoba 44 /Windhawk 32 aapatsos 3 heavyhallis 2 /Rivertree 3 /Chicapah 1 /Kazuhiro 4345 snelling 1 Tarquin Underspoon 4 /b_olariu 434
DAY SIX
Jan 07, 9:04 - Jan 08, 9::09
toroddfuglesteg 222 /Muzikman 5 /Bonnek 43344 /snobb 35354 /Marty McFly 452342 /fuxi 443 /sinkadotentree 343 smuggledmutation 44444 Rune 2000 4443322344 Sinusoid 4 Joao Paulo 5 Ovidiu 4445 Malve87 2 Evolver 44 aapatsos 2 /psarros 3 /Negoba 5 /Tarcisio Moura 3 /Windhawk 3 listen 4 /Finnforest 3 /J-Man 3 /Easy-Money 4 Archangel 5 jreskin 4 /Sean Trane 3 /Matti 4 /UMUR 4 /Nightfly 4 dmwilkie 5
------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu
Even my
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 14:08
Is there someone who wants to count it ? I'm quite tired and don't know if I manage to do it. We can have nice statistics. Is there math / counting expert / lover ?
------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu
Even my
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 16:47
Marty, I'm keeping a database of reviews and each Monday I'll post the 'Top 10', at least for the next few weeks. I'm happy to do this on a weekly basis (just involves a little book-keeping). However people may get tired of this, so I could just post the list at the end of each month. Just a bit of fun, not a competition.
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 23:46
I see. I don't want to compete, just to finish what I started and wasn't able to finish. Somehow :)
your lists are good, I wondered if I can do it somehow too, so easily.
------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu
Even my
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