It's possible to know all albums on PA ? (NO)

octopus-4 wrote: 1)How would this change you (me) when you know more and more, what would advantages and disadvantages be like ? Being the number of neurons (so the memory capacity) of our brains limited, we probably act as with all the rest: listen to Starcastle and think they are Yes 2)Is it possible to remember then all ? Is it possible to review all of them ? Of course no. When I review something I must have it in my earphones. On a review I wrote "Hungarian" about Collegium Musicum.  About reviewing all of them, if you copy other's reviews without spending time listening, perhaps yes. 3)Because we're mortals, it's probably not possible to hear all albums that you would like to hear in a lifetime. Or is it ? I suppose it's not, so how to deal with this issue ? I promised myself to get into Frank Zappa 4 years ago. I still have to listen to the first CD.

Hehe, you will less and less about each album, but this progress can be kept living, even not at the same rate.

OK, you have made a mistake, Hungary/Slovakia. I remember myself doing the same kind of error with Norway / Sweden. Reviewing is certainly more difficult than just listening. Some albums are very hard to review at all, for example Gentle Giant for me. Perhaps it's impossible to review them all.

I wanted to get into most of stuff by Zappa since 2 years ago. I tried two albums :-)

^^ I wanted to reply something intelligent, but I'm out of my mind currently, so

^ Jefff, yes, I saw this Cleared Metal backlog already, it's quite huge.

1)I would join your team if I had more experiences with Prog Metal.
2)By the way, your Melodic Prog recommendation, Nightingale, is some kind of grower, it's getting better and better with each listen.

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Serious questions you are raising Kingfriso. However, since beginning of mankind, man was used to gather. Remember this hunter/collector pattern ? We simply has it in our genes. And if it's not music, one can collect stamps, movies, books, cars or anything. And every collector will tell you that he wants to collect as much as possible.

I won't call that personality disorder, it's too harsh in my thinking.

In general, I want to ask another question. We can say that it's very difficult to impossible to listen all albums that are here. Therefore, I was wondering if it's (and now I'm referring to part that Atomic Scott said), there are charts, somehow better and worse albums. And even it's possible that you will like low rated album and that you will hate well rated album, this chance is very low. I'm getting to point, slowly, but getting, please stay tuned.

It's often better and certainly safer to listen to albums that are rated good. Because majority of people already decided that it is good for them, so it has very high chance that it will be good for you too. It's not adventurous, it's using of beaten paths, but it's quite certain way, depending on reviews of others. Simply recommendations.

Of course, it's tempting to listen to "best" albums only, those with rating above 3.5 let's say. But it's good to listen "worse" rated too. You never know what you can discover.