I really like your review !!

^ They are incredibly bizarre 

shame I had to break the always fun  'I really hate your review' thread in setting the never to be broken PA's record for most hated, loathed, and reported to the admin team review ever seen by this site.

until I made a mockery of the hate of few isolated malcontents by seeminghaving half the forum (or half those who had not reached puberty it seemed at the time) demand my review be removed, me get banned or forced to listen to DT albums for all eternity...it was quite the thread. Shame I had to break it by scoring the perfect 'hated' review.

Gotta mention Damo's reviews. I messaged him about them a month or so ago about how much I appreciate his positive reviews for many of those early Psychedelic and Krautrock albums that are much maligned, and today I see his appreciation for Tangerine Dream's debut which I feel is very much under appreciated except for us Psychedelic heads of which Damo and I are long standing members. But then I see his Hermann Szobel review and yay! He's finally on the site. great news!

Great review from David (Atavachron) of the Duncan Mckay album `Chimeara' on the front page right now! http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=1566197

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Great review from David (Atavachron) of the Duncan Mckay album `Chimeara' on the front page right now! http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=1566197

Thanks Mike, always great when one's work is appreciated -

someone_else wrote: A genuine recording of digesting an album while in a state halfway between sleep and wakefulness (aka trance) with the intrinsic advantage of exceeding the minimum of 100 words .

Atavachron wrote: Thanks you guys, bit of an experiment y'know.   I'm glad someone got it, one never knows how such a thing will go over.

You always kill it.

Well done, man.

progbethyname wrote: Michael's (Aussie-Byrd) review on DT's The Astonishing. Shocked the crap out of me. Rating n' all. It's scary how open minded Michael is. Love your diplomacy brother!!!

I'll be honest, mate, and I've kind of already mentioned this elsewhere on the Archives a few weeks back...I was trying to write a rave review for an album I generally don't like much at all! There are endless things that I like the album for - the arrogance, the pomposity, the ambition, the skill of the playing...in other words things that are so absurdly `proggy' about it, and I appreciate how it drives home the `album format' in an era when said format is more or less dying and hardly given much importance from general music listeners anymore - while at the same time not really enjoying the album personally much at all - if that makes sense?!

If you read it very carefully, you might even notice that I conveniently don't ever give my personal opinion on it once!

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: progbethyname wrote: Michael's (Aussie-Byrd) review on DT's The Astonishing. Shocked the crap out of me. Rating n' all. It's scary how open minded Michael is. Love your diplomacy brother!!! I'll be honest, mate, and I've kind of already mentioned this elsewhere on the Archives a few weeks back...I was trying to write a rave review for an album I generally don't like much at all! There are endless things that I like the album for - the arrogance, the pomposity, the ambition, the skill of the playing...in other words things that are so absurdly `proggy' about it, and I appreciate how it drives home the `album format' in an era when said format is more or less dying and hardly given much importance from general music listeners anymore - while at the same time not really enjoying the album personally much at all - if that makes sense?! If you read it very carefully, you might even notice that I conveniently don't ever give my personal opinion on it once!

Michael, your level of contribution to the site has really reached a level deserving of much admiration.  Genre team work is one thing to be admired, but your reviews are consistently high quality, wide ranging, engaging, respectful.   Kudos my friend.