Rating and reviewing albums after just 1 day

Hi,

Kinda hard to admit this, but I don't listen with the thoughts or ideas that I picked up from all those albums. However, the listening does take a turn, when the music you are listening to is not exactly very original, and/or immediately follows a pattern that fits pop music a lot more than it does ... progressive music. 

So yeah, there would be no reason to listen to it again, but we have to be careful here ... the minute we think that, the band throws a curve ball and it hits the ground and you struck out. But, in general, just like film (for me!!!), I don't have to see it twice to get an idea for a review, which in my case often starts doing the actual playing of the music or seeing the film. Ex: You don't have to see all of FITZCARRALDO to realize how much of it is ad-lib and total improvisation, you can immediately see the camera trying hard to keep up with KK ... and if you want to review centering on how he did this for almost all of the film, you have something to work on, but the rest of the film? You can't leave it behind.

For me, too much of the "new" progressive music is cookie cutter stuff and few bands have grabbed my ears strongly. And one of the things that bothers me is ... it all stops, so the guitar can do a solo! I'm done listening at that point, at least with attention, since the originality of the whole thing is gone ... it's now about how clever that solo is and how good it is sounding, and that's the music we are reviewing? 

Progressive, for me, was not about the solos, it was about the ability of all the musicians to come together and create something special. But hearing the "same song" over and over gets kinda ... yeah, you know!

I once read an essay by Steve Lake about his work for Sounds. I remember that he mentioned that one of the first things he had to learn was that (given the number and the other things to do) one starts writing a review when the album starts playing and should be finished when the album finishes.

Another thing he wrote is that he lived for some time with Robert Fripp (at some point between Red and Discipline), and what a total freak Fripp was (not meant in a positive way). But I'm digressing...

(BTW, welcome to the forum)"

A bit unfitting but ok, thx lol.

Anyway, like I said: "it doesn't need to be specifically like that, just getting familiar with it and noticing things you couldn't really pay attention on first listens is enough", so, if you can get familiar with it (or should I say, make sense of it), in 2 listens or whatever it's perfectly understable, I was just saying that I personally prefer to listen to this amount of time to decide (or just appreciate it, sometimes I just get addicted to the album lol).

"The other thing, that is harder for newer folks to relate to, and review, is how many of us have been at this for 50 years, and came from a time that none of this actually existed and we were fortunate enough to see a massive historic moment in the arts from the 60's and the 70's, which is something that most younger folks have not been lucky enough to experience, specially now with the media saturating everyone's mind with their own special band ... and making it look like they are the sugar of all progressive music! It is REALLY DIFFICULT for today's listeners to find something special unlike the old days, where there was no word or anything about anything, and you heard it, or your friend did, and you got your mind blown out to pieces, better than any drug. Today, this feeling is non-existent by comparison, specially with music being so cookie cutter minded and not different."

Yeah, I noticed that sad reality and sometimes I wished I could have had the experience of back then.

"if you have to sit and figure out what ITCOTCK (KC) is all about, your review is over"

I now feel ready to review them. I could have done it earlier, but I wanted to see if my initial impression that they were both absolute masterpieces would fade.

It hasn't.

I normally never review until I've listened to the album at least 10 times, but I make the odd exception if the album is so unbearably bad that I can't listen to it ever again.