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I guess my tastes are pretty average so I don't have such big discrepancies between my personal rating and the average PA ratings.
Of the albums I have reviewed I have only 2 one-star albums:
   Pat Metheny - Zero Tolerance for Silence: but this fits with the PA average rating of 1.76. Simply noise to my ears.
   Atila - The Beginning of the End: also not far from PA rating of 2.05. A crude demo recording.

Some two-star rated albums in my reviews:
   Corvus Stone - s/t: this is probably the biggest discrepancy as the average PA rating is 3.83. Could never get into it.
   Steve Howe - The Grand Scheme of Things:  PA rating 2.86.
   Explorers Club - Age of Impact:  PA rating 3.67.
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

I'm not very eager to give one star ratings to prog or prog-related albums. But of the three albums that come to my mind, David Bowie's Lodger is the highest rated with 3.48.
 

I see that Saga's live album In Transit, another one that qualifies for a one star rating, has a weighted average of 3.69. I was reminded of Saga by another thread. I have loved Worlds Apart through the years and this album is 4.5/5 in my book, but the live renditions are so thin that I cannot even give two stars. 
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Barclay James Harvest XII is rated 3.55 and I give it one star. I'd only give Pink Floyd "The Wall" 2 stars and it's ranked over 4.
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Here's a few...

Blind Guardian - Night at the Opera - Vocalist is screaming through the entire album.
Neal Morse - Jesus Christ the Excorcist - Same music Neal always writes, horrible religious lyrics.
Anderson/Stolt - Invention of Knowldege - Too much singing not enough musical passages, crappy mix.
Flying Colors - Third Degree - Don't like this band at all.
Mike Keneally - Scambot 1 - Love Mike but this is too out there for my tastes.
Roger Waters - Ca Ira - For opera fans only?
Frank Zappa - Jazz from Hell - Not for me.
Enchant - The Great Divide - After a long break they return with this. Horrible juvenile lyrics ruin the album.
Buckethead - Population Override - Just a boring guitar album.
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - Blue Nights - Never knew I would not like anything Bill put out. This is it.


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Originally posted by twosteves twosteves wrote:

H to He--or Pawn Hearts--if you don't buy into the singers voice its hard to get into it.
Do you mean the incomparable Peter Hammill?
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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I have given very few 1-star ratings. The highest rated album I've given is Genesis-3 Sides Live (3.46). It just never did anything for me. Styx-Cornerstone, ELP-Works v. 2 and Love Beach are the only other 1-star ratings I've given. 
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I've just never 'got' Tool despite lengthy attempts at reappraisal and still think my 1 star rating for Lateralus flatters the album. Labyrinthine metric snake-oil and referencing the Enochian magical language doesn't make you smart, just grateful for a credulous and fanatical following whose unwavering dedication was rewarded by Maynard Keenan describing them as 'insufferable retards' Confused
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the latest tool album. I saw some comments as mean to my review as I was to the album :D
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