Forum Home Forum Home > Site News, Newbies, Help and Improvements > Help us improve the site
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - IMPORTANT - Unreviewed Albums
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedIMPORTANT - Unreviewed Albums

 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1234 18>
Author
Message Reverse Sort Order
Triceratopsoil View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 03 2010
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 17995
Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2011 at 20:02
Back to Top
Dean View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout

Joined: May 13 2007
Location: Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 37575
Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2011 at 19:59
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

I had requested some suggestions from one member, and I really didn't get any suggestions
And I explained why, so don't dump this on me. Stern Smile
 
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

My idea, it appears, is not what is wanted in the website.
Wrong. Your idea cannot be accommodated by this web site - whether we want it or not.
 
I'm sorry that we cannot adapt the site to suit your personal preferences - with 1000s of reviewers all contributing reviews to this site we cannot accommodate each and every desire of each and every member who wants to write a review.
 
Each person gets one review per album, one album per review.
 
That's the way it is because that is how the site is structured. It is a physical limitation of the database that stores the reviews. We cannot change that on a whim just because one person wants to review four albums in one review.
 
I can understand that you don't want to adapt to our simple approach, so perhaps you could extend us the courtesy of understanding that we cannot adapt the site to your approach and lay off this emotional guilt trip.
 
ffs Stern Smile 


Edited by Dean - March 04 2011 at 20:02
What?
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 16163
Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2011 at 18:27
Hi,
 
To all you folks ...
 
I have decided NOT to do reviews, for this space.
 
I had requested some suggestions from one member, and I really didn't get any suggestions -- I was merely wondering what he thought -- and in the end, he did do one right thing, and that was to clarify that the reviews needed to be done individually.
 
What I had written for Carmen - is going to my website instead.
 
There is a time and place, when writing something is better if it does not follow an established guideline, and I was having a hard time separating the albums with the review and it felt a lot better and more interesting when the whole "story" went together.
 
My idea, it appears, is not what is wanted in the website.
 
It will be extremelly difficult to write single album reviews for a lot of these artists. Specially when thigns are so different and far out and totally out in left field ... and usually only a reviewer with the same type of feelings can give that artist his/her due.
 
I'm born in Portugal, and lived in Brazil. A LOT of that music Carmen wrote is very dear to my heart, because it is almost an inexplicable inner feeling, that one hardly has words for ... but enough tears to live through it. I really wanted to place something in there meaningful and important, and hopefully valuable, but simply taking a piece of a man's mind, and displaying it as meat in the supermarket is not what I was looking for to do with Carmen and its albums.
 
Sorry about that folks ... but maybe it is better for the "prog" experts to create something for it, but it is with heavy heart that I will not share my words on this with you.
 
I don't think that I can write a review for any of my list above and am removing it. All my writings and feelings, and poems, and reviews, come from a "sacred" place, if you will, that likes its freedom and its appreciation, and is not willing to let go of the original, and very important, feeling for what "progressive" music meant when it started. I want to be as one with those people, and simply writing a review about some "prog" ideal, is not my idea of appreciating an art, a love ... that barely has words I can use to describe it.
 
Sorry for my poetical and teary write up, but I'm not sure you all know, care, or understand, how important the "art" and the "beauty" behind some of these things really is for me. The same for "krautrock", but I seriously doubt anyone is even going to ask for me to join that group and add the artistic stuff to the information ... even though all of you know I would dearly love to do this.
 
Thx a bunch


Edited by moshkito - March 04 2011 at 18:38
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
topographicbroadways View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: May 20 2010
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 5575
Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2011 at 14:57
makes sense. I'll have to begin much crawling deeper into the realm of obsure music then
Back to Top
zravkapt View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 12 2010
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 6446
Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2011 at 14:52
"First review of this album" only appears if the album has no rating.
Back to Top
topographicbroadways View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: May 20 2010
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 5575
Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2011 at 14:42
Confusedhmmm, i reviewed one of the unreviewed albums and it didn't appear on the home page with the First Review notation
Back to Top
toroddfuglesteg View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
Retired

Joined: March 04 2008
Location: Retirement Home
Status: Offline
Points: 3658
Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2011 at 14:13
No worries. I got tonnes of unreviewed albums in my 8 feet high mountain of albums. I will get onto most of them before the end of 2015.  
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 16163
Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2011 at 14:09

Hi,

 
Just sent the start up, and rough draft, of what I am putting together for "Carmen", to Dean for a quick evaluation/suggestions ... hopefully he won't tell me to get stuffed!
 
Where do I send it when done, btw? ... just posting it, would require some clean up and detail to help make it clearer and better. I'm doing all 4 albums and the band information all in one, as it makes better sense, than making it look like it's just a bunch of songs.
 
When I get done with this, I will attempt Alquin, and hopefully I can come up with something. After that, I'm thinking that Battiato would be fun to work on, but haven't decided yet.
 
I'm actually wanting to tackle that Syd Barrett album, but I am not interested in fighting a giant hogweed ... in my book, Madcap Laughs and Octopus are two of the saddest albums I have ever heard in my life. To the point that I am not sure I know why I even keep them in my collection ... it is one of the all time "tragedies", and I am not convinced that drugs were the issue yet. And hopefully one day Kevin, Daevid, Robert and others, will tell us some more about this.
 
Thx


Edited by moshkito - March 03 2011 at 14:19
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 16163
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2011 at 13:30
Hi,
 
(post removed by Mosh)


Edited by moshkito - March 04 2011 at 18:28
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
irrelevant View Drop Down
Collaborator
Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: March 07 2010
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 13382
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2011 at 03:45
I could help with a few of these. I just need 
                                                                              some
                                                                                          motivation.  
Back to Top
Dean View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout

Joined: May 13 2007
Location: Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 37575
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2011 at 02:48
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,
 
I give up ...
 
I can't even find the list of lists of all the listings anywhere -- for things that need to be done.
 
Sorry ... I'm partially blind and these invisible links don't cut it! (3 right eye surgeries)
Hmm, the list is too long to itemise copy into a forum thread so has to remain as a dynamic SQL Query of the database - to date it contains 12,673 unreviewed releases:
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

This page http://www.progarchives.com/UnreviewedAlbums.asp contains a full list of all such albums.

That list also includes live albums, compilations, box sets, promos, fanclub releases and singles as they form a "collectable" part of any artists official discograhy, not just the studio albums. Since many of those are incredibly rare it is unlikely that reviews will be possible for all of them, but there is always at least one fan who has a copy of something we list and maybe, just maybe, they'll reveiw it for us one day.
What?
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 16163
Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2011 at 19:06
Hi,
 
I give up ...
 
I can't even find the list of lists of all the listings anywhere -- for things that need to be done.
 
Sorry ... I'm partially blind and these invisible links don't cut it! (3 right eye surgeries)


Edited by moshkito - February 09 2011 at 19:07
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
Raff View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: July 29 2005
Location: None
Status: Offline
Points: 24391
Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2010 at 15:28
Not having been a regular visitor for a while, I forgot there was such a thread for unreviewed albums. Anyway, here's two albums that are unreviewed no longer - and both of them highly recommended:

Beppe Crovella - What's Rattlin' on the Moon? (http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=303651)
Afroskull - To Obscurity and Beyond (http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=303905)

Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 16163
Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 07 2010 at 19:49
Hi,
 
That's really weird .. I was there at the time ... and the only releases were "Chicago" and "Chicago" ... and in the first pressings there were no numbers, only the color was different. This was updated after the first pressing, as it caused some attention in the media that made fun of how would anyone know which album it was, in an article on the Sun Times.
 
Weird .. still can't find those albums anywhere! But I can review Chicago 1 and Chicago 2 ... easily enough ... since I happen to think that was the "progressive" movement Chicago style, although at the time Sons of Champlin were not as well known but it was often thought they were better, though with less horns.
 
The likelyhood is that those three I listed are the SINGLES ... and I am not sure that we should review the singles at all, and we might have to do some cleaning ... specially since we're trying to be a "progressive" board ... and we want to bring the music out "pop music" and "hit" status ... though 25 or 6 to 4 did do very well as a single. I still maintain that we should concentrate on the artist and the albums/music ... and not the singles.


Edited by moshkito - October 07 2010 at 19:51
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
Atavachron View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: September 30 2006
Location: Pearland
Status: Online
Points: 64352
Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2010 at 21:32
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

If we're going to list bootlegs, you're gonna go crazy as Pink Floyd has about 50 of these that span the time BEFORE DSOTM and they are almost all of them better than the albums themselves. It is also neat to catch 10 different versions of Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, and 10 different versions of Atom Heart Mother, including the one that probably had Twyla Tharp dancing ... it! But can prog'rs see modern dance in Pink Floyd ... that is the $10 dollar question of tomorrow!
that's also about how much a ticket to one of those shows would've been Cool .. and no I don't think we're listing bootlegs at all

BTW the Floyd boots for '75 are also outstanding



 
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 16163
Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2010 at 21:19
Hi,
 
(removed by poster - subject and ideas not important)


Edited by moshkito - March 04 2011 at 18:27
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
Back to Top
Marty McFly View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: March 23 2009
Location: Czech Republic
Status: Offline
Points: 3968
Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 19:18
^ No problem on my browser (the same as yours)
There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"

   -Andyman1125 on Lulu







Even my
Back to Top
Passionist View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: March 14 2005
Location: Finland
Status: Offline
Points: 1119
Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 07:25

Hi.

I reviewed 2 Absoluuttinen Nollapiste albums, Olos and Iiris.

I also tried to open the list with my Opera 10,60 but the browser forze everytime. Anybody want to check on that?

Back to Top
AtomicCrimsonRush View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: July 02 2008
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 14256
Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2010 at 07:45
Just reviewed all the unreviewed Split Enz albums I have got....
 
Nice to see them with a rating at last.
Back to Top
AtomicCrimsonRush View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: July 02 2008
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 14256
Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2010 at 03:51
I will get on to all the unreviewed Atomic Rooster as soon as i can
 

 

Unreviewed albums

 

Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1234 18>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.164 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.