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handwrist
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Posted: October 12 2019 at 08:12 |
the latest tool album. I saw some comments as mean to my review as I was to the album :D
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ExittheLemming
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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'
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RockHound
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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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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Grumpyprogfan
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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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progmatic
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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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someone_else
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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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Gerinski
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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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dr wu23
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That's about how I felt about it when I first heard it in the winter of '69. Now I have softened up a bit and give it 3 stars....still don't think it's this classic like others believe.
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friso
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I had to look this up, but I have so few one star ratings! Usually when I don't like an album I don't listen to it enough to be able to write a review
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BrufordFreak
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Easy: EDGE OF SANITY's Crimson . To my ears, that album's one song is nothing but a continuous ripoff of about 45 other pop and rock artist's riffs, sounds, and themes strung along like some kind of stage review.
ARENA's two big "hits" (here on PA), Contagion and the other one, also provoke quite a strong reflux impulse. Same for RIVERSIDE's Anno Domini High Def and ENSLAVED's Riitiir and I can't even get through a DREAM THEATER album in order to form a rating much less a review.
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Manuel
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Since I'm not into prog metal, most of the genre gets very little attention from me, so I guess it gets one star as a genre. Also, Neal Morse's "Sola Scritura" gets very low points in my book.
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Apparently the highest rated one-star album for me was Yes' Big Generator album at 2.53. I don't seem to have many outliers on the low-end of the rating spectrum.
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Dude, those albums put "KC" to shame
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Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth (currently at an undeserving 3.73) 45-years ago I would have given it five stars... I guess you really can't go home again.
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My only 1 star scoring more than 3 stars is Anthony Phillips - Sides. 3.04
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I've given 1 star ratings to about 12 albums including 3 to my favourite band Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Looking through the list , there are some real stinkers but on the grounds of taste I did give 1 star ratings to a couple of reasonably well regarded albums Dream Theater - Train Of Thought Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds The latter has a PA rating nearly at 4! To me albums with narrative are more or less a complete 'no no' unless you have an option to remove it. The songs are okay but you always get the damn narrator ( ok the legendary actor Richard Burton but that makes no difference to me) just jumping in when I don't want it. I realise I am probably in a minority by feeling this but it is a real opinion. I have no axe to grind with Jeff Wayne!
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Seeing that individuals here think H to He, Who Am the Only One and Lodger especially, as well as Trout Mask Replica (I do much prefer Safe as Milk), and We're Only in it for the Money (not that into it, but I still can appreciate it, not that I've spun it enough to have a strong opinion) as one star albums is just a little sad to me. That said, to each his or her own tastes. For me to rate an album one star, not only would I have to heavily dislike it, I'd have to believe it really bad and lacking significance objectively (no merit whatsoever) . Also, I would tend to follow the rating guide if rating at PA "One star: Poor. Only for completionists", to which I would take to mean only for completists of that artist or category. If rating classics by bands/artists with various works, I would want to rate compared to other ones by the artists and compared to others of a similar ilk. So for instance, if rating H to He, I would compare it against other VdGG albums -- if the singing was an issue to me, I would be more likely to give that a one if it weren't an issue for me on other VdGG albums. I generally wouldn't rate albums of styles I'm not into either. I tend to only listen to albums in full that I enjoy (and I had friends with similar tastes and some with very different tastes, and that sort of music would not be in PA), and do feel that some albums need to time to percolate before formally judging them. I guess with teamwork I listened to some stuff I disliked, but it's been along time that I've bought albums that were bad for my tastes (sometimes I buy used records without much expectation because I like the cover, especially bad covers). Back in my early getting into Prog days, I did buy some albums that were recommended to me that I found pretty poor, and I did try to be completist with some bands that led to some poor acquisitions. And when younger I would get exposed to more albums by bands, or kinds of music that I wouldn't normally listen to by friends. The music I most dislike I tend to hear blaring out of muscle cars.
Okay, this a crappy post, and I wasn't going to post it, but will anyway since I took the time to write it out.
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Out of 110 reviews I only have five 1 star ratings. I thought for sure I would win with Der Mensch-Maschine. But alas it is only a 3.95 overall. Patrick's Keys to Ascension review has me beat.
Not sure of any others above 4 I would give a 1 to. Maybe the one remaining 4+ Tool album that I haven't reviewed. And that's the thing, its pretty rare that I am going to sit and listen to something that causes that much discomfort intently enough to write a review.
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