Reviews reporting thread

Me neither. The only two Progressive Metal bands I like are Dream Theater and Ayreon.

Yes, that sounds like a very dodgy hatchet job, specifically targeting Dream Theater if he's given all of their albums a one-star rating.

 

 

Too true. Anyone who gives a bunch of 1-star reviews to a whole string of albums all by the same artist has to be a bit suspect.

Yes, it's the Dream Theater albums mentioned earlier in this thread. He didn't mention anything about the music or songs on the "Images and Words" album and he even admitted that he hadn't even listened to the album. All he wanted to do was tell us how much he hated Dream Theater.  Here's the "review":-

 

" It is offensive to me that this band is even considered a progressive rock band. How is it progressive to rip off every prog rock band that came before you? If you ask me that is regressive behavior not progressive. The words dream andtTheater should never be uttered anywhere near the same words as King Crimson or even the word Rush. Please for the love of all good music everywhere remove this so called prog rock band from this otherwise very reputable and reliable source for good music. That being said I can't really review this album because I can't listen to it for more than a few minutes at a time. In a word, lousy."

 

 

  that's a quite funny occasion

I'm sure this has been discussed before but no idea where to find it if so.

I'm just wondering why it's permissible to post ratings and reviews on albums before their release date.

Current example is Pendragon which isn't released until 17 Febr.

Review doesn't really sound like it was even listened to.

Just wondering. In a perfect world albums could be locked until the day of release.

Probably not gonna happen i know :D

All ratings and reviews removed from latest Pendragon release.

siLLy puPPy wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed before but no idea where to find it if so. I'm just wondering why it's permissible to post ratings and reviews on albums before their release date. Current example is Pendragon which isn't released until 17 Febr. Review doesn't really sound like it was even listened to. Just wondering. In a perfect world albums could be locked until the day of release. Probably not gonna happen i know :D

Just as a reminder to everyone, we don't have the ability to lock an album. Also we can't clear an album of reviews and ratings all at once, but we have to delete each one very slowly, one by one.  We might cleanup any reviews that don't mention that they received a preview copy like TCat said, but if there are too many we might just delete the album before the release date to make it easier on everyone.

 

I don't think it would be a good idea to delete albums before the release date.  Other music sites always announce albums as soon as they can be verified and it gives that site an "edge" of sorts.  I have noticed that other sites link to Prog Archives as verification of a release, meaning that other sites look to our site for announcements of new releases and such. 

 

It may be difficult to police a site like this though, and I understand it would be a nightmare to go back and delete reviews that were made in the past, but can we delete them as they are reported?  I thought that was one of the reasons for this thread.  I re-read the rules at the beginning of the thread, but it doesn't mention anything about reviewing albums before the release date, though I think that it would be something to discuss, maybe by making it a rule to mention that it is an advanced copy or a request from the artist, or something to that effect. 

 

I'm only making suggestions, and obviously I don't know all the quirks of administering this site, so remember these are only my naïve suggestions.  But it does seem the site is somewhat respected as a worthy source of progressive music releases and reviews.