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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 10:28
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Schoolboy error. Slagging of a forum members album. One good thing. It got me interested in hearing it. I will visit your website Guy!Wink
 
I'll bet he didn't know Guy was a member!
 
Nice avatar by the way Ian.

Well the way some people talk about musicians on this forum, I've seen some pretty insulting stuff ( as have you I'd say), is pretty horrid. Glad someone got pulled up about it. He can dislike the album without being insulting.

And thanks.Wink
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Originally posted by toroddfuglesteg toroddfuglesteg wrote:

It is my view that Charlestown need at least one week to sink in.

Call me slow in the uptake, but I really don't think any albums should be reviewed without giving them some days or preferable a week to be digested.


I usually take mosnths digesting albums. Most times the results are positive and that makes me have a pretty solid opinion about it.
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 13:38
Originally posted by GuyM GuyM wrote:

I think the comments are very rude and offensive actually and it really pissed me off...I thought this site was bit better than this

I don't really care if you like it or not...I have said repeatedly on this site PLEASE GO TO MY WEBSITE AND CHECK OUT THE SAMPLES BEFORE YOU BUY...if you do not do that..well OOOPS

You comment about if "going nowhere" is quite frankly rubbish...thje boat goes from Cornwall to Bristol at the very least!
 
Ian Anderson &  goat? piss off

Expensive musicians???. crap ..these guys do it for nothing because the love the music and really believe in it

My stuff is NOT to everyones taste and plenty do not like it but I 'm NOT going to sit here quietly being the latest targert in your moronic shooting gallery...OK?
 
You also forget to mention the folk that joined on the day specifically to give it a ONE STAR rating
 
In fact, tell you what, contacgt me offline and send me back the CD and I'll give you your money back, I guess I'll just have to trust (based on your rant) that you won't rip it to MP3 and save it off first
You've been making music for a decade, you really should have learned by now not to take comments on the internet personally. Despite my implacable rage, I'm also not in favor of this forum becoming anti-recommendations hate threads, but show a little professionalism, Guy...
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Points: 192 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 13:50
Show a little professionalism??..that comes across as really patronising, was it meant to?
 
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Guy, I know it's not fun having people publicly dislike your music (especially when being insulting about it like I was with the goat thing) but it does happen and is always going to happen. I don't necessarily apologise for writing it- to say people can't be facetious when writing reviews of music they don't like is wrong- but I am going to take the word "warning" out of the title because it makes it seem like the album is some terrible boogeyman to be avoided when really it's just something I don't like and the situation is largely my fault for the reasons you gave. I didn't try before I bought and I should have known better because a lot of people here have a more "gentle" we might say taste than I and additionally an album always gets high ratings to be begin with because usually it is initially purchased by people who are already fans. I'm a big Jethro Tull fan and I saw people comparing it to JT and giving it five stars and I got over excited. The situation isn't your fault at all- you didn't write those comments about how wonderful it is- and the same thing happened to me with last year's Transatlantic album, The Whirlwind, which I despised but picked up simply due to chatter.
As you can see I was trigger happy there and trigger happy here. My compulsion to own whatever is considered the best album at any given moment (which is a real thing, I do it on RateYourMusic as well) is possibly some sort of neurotic disorder.
I invite you to go to the Just For Fun forum and find the thread which contains some videos of me rapping where you can wet yourself with laughter and feel a lot better once you see what a no-accout loony the guy who started this thread is. Alternatively we could make friends and I could drop a few rap verses on your next album. Hmm.
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Points: 2296 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 14:13
this thread is pretty amusing.

A friend of mine insisted in me trying manning's albums and i did tried a few at his place, didnt like it, by far.
But it never occurred to me to come to PA and make an anti-recommendation thread and  insult the artist. LOL

anyway, i dont understand why is it so high rated in PA, but to each its own, i guess.
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Charlestown: An Ill-Advised Rant


I like it!LOL
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Let's hold it there. 

Guy: PA is the project of many hundreds people who put in hundreds of man-hours into this place every week. Don't be offended by what one or two persons says or write and do not associate those who sweat blood here in ProgArchives with those individuals. 

Textbook: It is your rights and I downright encourage you to express your opinions about this album with a one - two star review as a part of the freedom of speech you enjoy as long as you put your views as a review and you can string some meaningful words and sentences together to form an opinion. But you did it in a wrong way by raising this thread with the excuse that your head was/is not right. That's an excuse & attitude which does not hold water at all. Neither in PA, in the wider society, in a family or in a workplace. Period.  

Btw. I would also like to warn people against Charlestown after receiving a tip off some minutes ago at a push-bike touring website. The local shop is selling vastly overpriced cans of Coke and fishy chicken burgers there. Bring your own food and drink when you go there.  



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Originally posted by toroddfuglesteg toroddfuglesteg wrote:

Let's hold it there. 

Guy: PA is the project of many hundreds people who put in hundreds of man-hours into this place every week. Don't be offended by what one or two persons says or write and do not associate those who sweat blood here in ProgArchives with those individuals. 

Textbook: It is your rights and I downright encourage you to express your opinions about this album with a one - two star review as a part of the freedom of speech you enjoy as long as you put your views as a review and you can string some meaningful words and sentences together to form an opinion. But you did it in a wrong way by raising this thread with the excuse that your head was/is not right. That's an excuse & attitude which does not hold water at all. Neither in PA, in the wider society, in a family or in a workplace. Period.  



Here hereClap Let's place this post on the frontpage of the site, because this, to me, is the golden rule by which we should all abide.
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 14:59
Originally posted by GuyM GuyM wrote:

Show a little professionalism??..that comes across as really patronising, was it meant to?
I'm just saying that I think you are being very unprofessional by responding with an emotional outburst to some random guy on the internet. If you choose to take personal offense at this statement as well, there's not much more I can say.
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Points: 4675 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 15:12
Positive or negative publicity is still publicity. I think it might have gotten the hoi polloi curious. Panem et circenses. Don;t know where the bread is, but congrats to both Textbook and Guy.Wink
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Points: 3281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 15:18

Well if there's no such thing as bad publicity I suppose I've done Guy a favour.

 
Won't hold my bread waiting for the thank you note ;)
 
He'll probably send me a complimentary discography on the theory that it will annoy me ;)
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Points: 7971 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 15:28
You know what, I am actually going to check Manning's musicbecause of this thread.
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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

You know what, I am actually going to check Manning's musicbecause of this thread.


same, the idea of a 35 minute track that goes nowhere appeals to me
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Points: 3281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 15:32
He's already made it very clear that the boat goes to Bristol.
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Points: 7971 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 15:45
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

You know what, I am actually going to check Manning's musicbecause of this thread.


same, the idea of a 35 minute track that goes nowhere appeals to me


Exactly. Otherwise I would not listen to Flower King's Unfold the Future & Odyssey on the same day.

I guess bad merchandising is merchandising anyway. Cool

Don't be mad Mr. Guy, haters gonna hate. You are too legit to quit. Rawks


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Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

He's already made it very clear that the boat goes to Bristol.


...well that's disappointing Ouch
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 16:30
Originally posted by GuyM GuyM wrote:

I think the comments are very rude and offensive actually and it really pissed me off...I thought this site was bit better than this
 

Well don't judge the site by those who attend it.  But the fact that you have set up a site where people can try first means that the guy has no excuse.  I would not be offering him a refund. LOL
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Points: 3281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 16:53
I now fully expect a Charlestown review or two that consists of nothing but "Textbook is an a****le" and a five star rating.
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Points: 3658 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2010 at 16:56

Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

I now fully expect a Charlestown review or two that consists of nothing but "Textbook is an a****le" and a five star rating.

That review and that reviewer will be removed from ProgArchives faster than you can spell Duckwalkonwater.
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