Special reviewers age needs to be included.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I'm not a special reviewer but I'm glad to see there are others on here who are around my age. I'm 47.  Anyway, if people don't want to disclose their age I don't see what the big deal is. I suppose I get it to to some degree but I think usually you can tell someones general age just by their taste in music/prog. For example I can't imagine many people over 55 reviewing mostly prog metal and I can't imagine many 20 somethings not having mostly prog metal and or post rock. Just my two cents. Also, if they say in their biography what their first prog album was or how they got exposed I think that is usually a tip off also.

I've used progarchives for many years as a personal research resource; long before I joined the forum. I re-started collecting records about the turn of the millennium (after loosing all my records and tapes during the 80's/90's) and to discover new music. Firstly I have nothing but the upmost respect and sincere thanks to the reviewers for the countless reviews I have read and for the music they have led me to. I do a certain amount of (professional) writing about elements of my job and feel perfectly confident about that and have often wondered whether I should give reviewing my favourite lps a go but I consistently feel I would just be too emotionally involved and probably annoyingly gushing. I find it hard to be negative about most music so would probably not be very objective in my reviews oh by the way I'm 55.

Some people have music going on in the background all day at work. When that was the case for me, I did a lot of reviews. I got a new job and now I don't get to listen nearly as much. I drop in once in a long time and review the few I truly have absorbed. 

Sure of course...if you drop the derogatory attitude. Quid pro quo.
You have been here what about half a year and almost every post I've read of yours take stabs at either PA or its collabs. You really seem to hate it here yet continue to come back and spew your vile.
The general member also spews vile but at least we've come to know the person in question beforehand. You started insulting just about everything the moment you joined. That is not very sympathetic and no amount of happy pills will make up for poor manners. I thought the American south was famous for its hospitality and general goodwill towards others. I guess you're the exception.

The people who work for this site have all, either through reviews or thoughtful posts over the forum, shown their love and knowledge of the prog scene. Then again we've had many walking prog encyclopedias join the site who would have been absolutely brilliant in the role of a collab...had they only been able to communicate with other people without being downright nasty.

^ I remember someone posting years ago that they didn't see how anyone could have heard all of PA's top 100.   These days that seems like a trifle.

^ some of us are just music addicts. We breathe it, bathe in it and eat it for every meal. We live on cosmic vibrations instead of eating. There are veritable patterns in the universe and the same applies to music and musical recordings. I can only speak for myself as a reviewer but i persoanlly do not need to hear an album 100 times to get the gist of it. Often i only need one sitting and i understand it. Progressive music is a bit more difficult so sometimes twice, three times or maybe even up to ten if it's a tough nut to crack. Some albums i've been listening to for years and am only now reviewing. Some are brand new and hit me instantly. It's not really a chore to write reviews and transmogrify an emotional reaction into words if it's a passion. Some of us have a natural gift for these things and some don't. Everyone has a gift to offer the world. Some of us simply share our gift of gab with you and HELL NO we're not getting paid for it! However i do ask for a free CD from bands who contact me to review an album :) <hint>

I don't know if this fits into this thread but since it's discussing the reviews... Some of you guys have literally hundreds or even thousands of reviews. Do you actually own these CDs or LPs? I have a rather large LP collection that dates from the early seventies and if I were to review every single on of them I wouldn't have time to eat, sleep or go to work.. Some of the reviews seem like the reviewer only possesses a passing knowledge of the album. How many times have they listened to the album? Are they reviewing it just for the sake of it? They are certainly not being paid for it as far as I know. It's just something I sort of question. If i want to read what someone has to say about something I've just listened to I'll just check out one or two reviews at random. Some of these fancy titles that I don't see on other internet forums  just baffle me. What does this guy know that the others don't?

What if one transcends time by existing in the astral planes and only beams reviews onto the site therefore having no true age? 

Is it hypothetically because if Johnny Reviewer hates an album, like for instance Jethro Tull's `Thick as a Brick', he must clearly then be a snarky kid too young to appreciate what apparently is a masterpiece?

I could spin an album of a certain artist, say, twice, claim to have heard dozens of times, and no-one would know any different. Age doesn’t matter, how many times you listen to an album doesn’t matter. Somebody who has heard DSOTM a million times could say - “ Man, Pink Floyd are cool, they use synths and planes and all sorts of trippy sh*t. The album is awesome “. Means jack-sh*t. Take reviews at face-value, if you resonate with one, good luck to you. I was never good at it.............