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Phideaux 
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 Posted: November 15 2009 at 14:18 |
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But Marty, you've already written such a lovely review! ;-) |
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Marty McFly
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Posted: November 15 2009 at 13:55 |
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Looks like I have to add my 5-star ratings to Phideaux albums to make this average little bit higher ;-)
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu  Even my |
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Windhawk
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Posted: November 15 2009 at 13:36 |
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Now where did you get that one from? Sure never said so in his review, nor on his website. As I see it, someone is a tad too obsessed about certain matters here - and need to chill out a bit... |
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Phideaux
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Posted: November 15 2009 at 13:30 |
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I know! What joy for him. To look at his beautiful record collection on his myspace page you'd think he had lots to talk about.
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Easy Money
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Posted: November 15 2009 at 12:32 |
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This was probably his first encounter with a 'masterpiece', can you imagine the epiphany.
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Phideaux
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Posted: November 15 2009 at 11:39 |
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funny that Claudio would join in 2006 and not make his first review until 2009. I don't think he is a fanboy because he says that Number Seven was the first time he heard our music.
Of course, I quite agree with the review. I think it's lovely! 
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Windhawk
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Posted: November 15 2009 at 06:25 |
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Indeed. Pretty much knew that this was the case...especially after seeing his MySpace page.
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Easy Money
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Posted: November 15 2009 at 06:13 |
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^ codd (Claudio) is a nice guy and a good site member, he's got a huge record collection, almost as big as mine, ha ha.
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Windhawk
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Posted: November 15 2009 at 00:44 |
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Oh well. Personally I have yet to see anything that convinces me of any Phideaux campaign - at least run by him personally - but I'll be sure to contact codd to find out. Judging from his MySpace page he'll be an interesting person to get to know anyhow ;-)
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: November 14 2009 at 20:08 |
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I have a great deal of empathy with this post as the transparent ingenuousness that Phideaux has exhibited since this album was released, smacks of an individual who clearly thinks PA are full of naive idiots. (I suspect that's what gnaws at Liquid Eternity) There are many heartfelt and sincere reviews for this work certainly, but also the incriminating trail of droppings left by a hired claque of admirers. Without any substance or proof of manipulation by the artist, I'm completely comfortable to be told to 'put up or shut up' and if this post is deemed disrespectful to the artist. It is. |
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Easy Money
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Posted: November 14 2009 at 10:52 |
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^ ha ha, Number 7 gets plenty of sincere heartfelt positive reviews, and all of those get to stay and we welcome more. This latest one wouldn't be one of those though.
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LiquidEternity
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Posted: November 14 2009 at 10:48 |
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Not to be too ornery or anything, but words like "recommended," "masterpiece," "best of the year," and "progressive music" especially... very common things said in reviews. I'm not saying this guy isn't being a manipulative idiot, as that isn't up to me to decide. Bah this whole Phideaux thing. This secret campaign that may or may not be running can really ruin rating it well for those of us who genuinely enjoy the album and want to give it a fair rating. Maybe it just bugs me that I've been writing positive reviews for plenty of this guy's discs, but if I'd tweaked my word usage a bit, I could be getting free stuff!  |
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Marty McFly
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Posted: November 14 2009 at 06:57 |
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http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=250465 Yep John, this review is very strange. I'm not able to tell what's wrong, but it seems so bad. But there's progression you see ? First he said 30 years, then 34. He's evolving ;-) |
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
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kenethlevine
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Posted: November 05 2009 at 07:44 |
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me too, I also tend to submit it and then immediately read it and then edit any typos/syntax errors. I find it easier tio edit when I see it posted than looking in the editor. So if you are online and see one of my reviews come over, and you look a few minutes later, it will be a little different!
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Marty McFly
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Posted: October 31 2009 at 12:31 |
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Indeed, this problem is mostly simply. When site was young, not so many people were visiting these pages. Therefore, not so big bandwidth demands on server. But now, it's worse. People keeps accessing PA and therefore, it happens from time to time that when you hit "POST THE REVIEW" button, you get "ERROR, PAGE CANNOT BE LOADED" message. You try to hit "BACK" button, but even you can return to previous page (album page), your words are gone. This is because of how HTML works (pretty stupidly) SOLUTIONS 1)use browser that saves text you write on page (in your case this means change of browser) 2)write reviews in text processor, I use Open Office that saves document every 1 minute for normal texts 3)do this trick with CTRL+A, CTRL+C (and then final blow with CTRL+V) 4)another trick, I'll show you Writing review, in happy mood, thinking about if it's all and then hitting SEND button ERROR LOADING PAGE HORRIBLE (STUPID) MESSAGE then I use in Opera Javascript trick
and magic trick shows that my contribution to PA site is after all, zero valuable :-D
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: October 31 2009 at 11:05 |
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Same here. Mine are spontaneous and most of the time I write them with the album playing and the cover in front of me just like the most recent one that managed to make it through. I,m so pissed that the Steve Smith review didn't go through because I think I hit te nailon the head with that on that has been swallowed up by the PA Bermuda Triangle. I don't remember this problem back in 2004 when the site was young.
As for being on the front page the reviews get bumped down so fast that I find they only stay there at the most for a few hours.
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Marty McFly
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Posted: October 30 2009 at 15:27 |
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I'm one of few people who enjoy writing (and taking risks) in PA writing space. It just helps me to concentrate my thoughts.
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: October 30 2009 at 14:38 |
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Actually I compose all my reviews in MeSs Word and have no problems transferring over to window used to submit to this site. The only thing oddball that I have to do is use the enter key to get the paragraphs to separate.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Epignosis
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Posted: October 30 2009 at 14:21 |
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I didn't pick up on it.  |
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mrcozdude
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Posted: October 30 2009 at 14:17 |
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So was mine
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