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spleenache 
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 Topic: Why would any one?
Posted: December 19 2006 at 19:15 |
Help me understand folks. What on earth is the point of reviewing albums like “close to the edge” It has been reviewed more the 589 times before. Is this self delusion? That you have something new to add to everyone’s insight into this work? What could anyone possibly say that has not been said before? Why are you wasting your time with such reviews? Why don’t you review something that has less then 50 reviews. In that case you might actually add something. Yes sure everyone has the right to do publish such reviews but why would any one chose to it? Please enlighten me.
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Witchwoodhermit
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 19:20 |
For enlightenment his Holiness the Dali Lama is an excellent resourse.
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Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan
ringed by ants and musing over man.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 19:20 |
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*Tinkle*
You are now enlightened.
Edited by Snow Dog - December 19 2006 at 19:21
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laplace
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 19:28 |
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Like it or not, most prog fans stick with the basics. Close to the Edge is a brilliant album that's also quite easy to enjoy - it's not overly jazzy, improvised, heavy or dissonant; just pure candy poured directly into the ear. There's no shame in gushing over such a universally embraced album, even if your praise is somewhat redundant - it's a hippy lovefest for music lovers, just like the band themselves intended. :D
I haven't reviewed it, but then I haven't reviewed anything - I'm always worried that I'll give someone else the wrong idea about an album. Still, I expect it to have 750 reviews by the end of next year.
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The Miracle
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 19:56 |
There's really no point. If an album has been reviewed 20-30 times, a broad enough spectre of opinions is presented. But if people want to add more malformed, cliche reviews to 500 already present, what the hell, go ahead. Not that anyone's gonna read them 
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Supertwister
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 19:58 |
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I guess it would be a personal thing. If you want to submit a review it's always a good contribution.
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cuncuna
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 19:58 |
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When I need information about albums, in order to discover new music, I find allmusic to be quite useful. So far, I can't say I don't agree with what's there in terms of reviews.
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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Peter
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 20:01 |
Every time someone (favourably) reviews it, Yes sends them piles of money, and a sexy, willing young groupie. 
Too bad you didn't review it.... 
Again, my dear? In the Ferrari this time? And you want to handle the stick-shift?
Gotta go.... 
Edited by Peter Rideout - December 19 2006 at 21:45
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Supertwister
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 20:01 |
 cuncuna wrote:
When I need information about albums, in order to discover new music, I find allmusic to be quite useful. So far, I can't say I don't agree with what's there in terms of reviews. |
I find myself on allmusic often, and I have the same problem with the reviews, I've struck some that straight out say an album is crap without any further elaboration.
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CryoftheCarrots
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 21:09 |
Everytime Selling England or Darkside etc overtake CTTE,out come a half dozen more reviews (probably by the same fanboy reviewers under a psuedonym) to bump it back up to the #1 spot.
Does that help with the enlightenment?  |
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"There is a lot in this world to be tense and intense about"
MJK
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rileydog22
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 21:21 |
CryoftheCarrots wrote:
Everytime Selling England or Darkside etc overtake CTTE,out come a half dozen more reviews (probably by the same fanboy reviewers under a psuedonym) to bump it back up to the #1 spot.
Does that help with the enlightenment? |
It's actually Chris Squire. He gets SO PISSED when Genesis thinks they're better than him.
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Ghandi 2
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 21:25 |
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Because they can.
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bhikkhu
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 21:41 |
Witchwoodhermit wrote:
For enlightenment his Holiness the Dali Lama is an excellent resourse.[IMG>height=17 alt=Wink src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley2.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle> |
Of course, the enlightenment itself is ultimately up to you.
But, a little Yes in the meantime couldn't hurt. 
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Chus
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 21:43 |
listen to "the revealing science of god" that might "reveal" the answer
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Jesus Gabriel
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Chris H
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 21:43 |
Well I mean everyone is entitled to their own opinions, so i guess wether people read their reviews or not they are always their for their sake.
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Chris H
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 21:44 |
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And because Jon Anderson knows where you live!!!!!!!!!
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video vertigo
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Posted: December 19 2006 at 22:21 |
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maybe people should read what everyone else has and see if they have an entirely new approach first?
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"The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa
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zedkatz
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Posted: January 04 2007 at 08:43 |
I don't see a problem with multiple reviews. Aren't 500+ reviews a better statistical sample than 20 or 30? Should we perhaps restrict voting in government elections to the first 20 or 30 people who turn up at the voting booths?
And yes I have reviewed CTTE, SEBTP etc etc. They've been in my collection almost since I became aware of music that wasn't in the single charts
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 04 2007 at 09:32 |
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any person has a right to review what he likes. the fact that CTTE is very heavily appreciated or rated, the fact that sometimes things like unreasonable reviews take place (so to say, too many 5 stars or surprising bashes, on the contrary side)...it all counts less.
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Jared
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Posted: January 04 2007 at 09:48 |
spleenache wrote:
Help me understand folks. What on earth is the point of reviewing albums like “close to the edge” It has been reviewed more the 589 times before. Is this self delusion? That you have something new to add to everyone’s insight into this work? What could anyone possibly say that has not been said before? Why are you wasting your time with such reviews? Why don’t you review something that has less then 50 reviews. In that case you might actually add something. Yes sure everyone has the right to do publish such reviews but why would any one chose to it? Please enlighten me. |
I really couldn't agree with you more; in fact I distinctly remember starting a thread about the same thing when I'd only been here a couple of weeks myself... at the time, what really got me was the fact that we had over 100 reviews of DT's Octavarium before the damn album had been officially released...
I think the only thing you can say is that everyone is entitled to freedom of speech. If they do a review of CttE, they'll get their 15 minutes of fame while it is on the homepage (if anyone can be bothered to read it).. after that, it will just slide into obscurity... after all, I wonder how many times review number 372 of CttE has been/ will be read... 
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