len(songs)
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Semester changes are going to be awful...
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Sorry Narpski: Yes - Drama (1980) Machine Messiah: 13/15 White Car: (10/15) Does It Really Happen: 12/15 <Into The Lens>: 10/15 Run Through The Light: 11/15 *Tempus Fugit*: 13/15 Adjusted average: 11.5 (A or B) Overall rating: B (Very Good) Just a brief note on Into The Lens: I can understand perfectly why many fans hate it, and in all fairness many parts of it annoy me enough for me to place it as the worst on the album, but are there really no redeeming features? I mean, there are parts of it that I really like; for example, the "though you may find time will blind you" part is one of my favorite passages on the album. I can see why people would get annoyed with the chorus (I do admit that it bugs me more a bit), but (IMO) it's hardly an "irredeemable mess"...
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oops
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Do you consider John Rutsey a member of Rush? Or, along those lines, do you consider Jonathan Silver a member of Genesis? Or Peter Banks a member of Yes?
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Hilda 2
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By the way I came up with a sort of rubric for what averages tend to "point to"... this shouldn't be the overall rating for an album but I think it will be interesting to see how they coincide (or fail to) Really, this can serve as an indication of the "other aspects" of the album, beyond song quality... for example Using the adjusted average, this is approximately what I came up with: 14.5+ = 10 14-14.5 = F 13-14 = E 12.5-13 = D 12-12.5 = C 11.5-12 = B 11-11.5 = A 10.5-11 = 9 10-10.5 = 8 9-10 = 7 8-9 = 6 7-8 = 5 6-7 = 4 4.5-6 = 3 3-4.5 = 2 <3 = 1
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What the heck, I've made the compulsory 3 listens... *Gentle Giant - Octopus (1972)* The Advent Of Panurge: 14/15 Raconteur Troubadour: 13/15 Cry For Everyone: 13/15 Knots: 11/15 //Honestly, it REALLY shouldn't work as well as it does... but I enjoy it enough that an 11 seems justified <The Boys In The Band>: 11/15 A Dog's Life: 12/15 Think Of Me With Kindness: 12/15 *River*: 14/15 Adjusted average: 12.5 (D) (The average of the mean and the median) Overall rating: D (Great/Very Good)
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if thats the title of the album, i hope it doesn't imply its the final release. It mans that they're recording it in Goatnut, TN, with Nick Raskuliniez and the Blade Grinder crew co-engineering.
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To me, Snakes has melodies, but few if them are really "ear-catching". I mean, I can remember how most of the songs go, but none of them really stand to me melodically... somewhat ironically an instrumental, TMMB, is the most memorable song on there. Couple this with the fact that some of the songs are REALLY bad (Bravest Face, Good News First, etc.) and only a few are much more than "very good" (Armor and Sword, Main Monkey Business, Way The Wind Blows), and you have quite a tedious listening experience.
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Why are you using IE 11? Or IE at all for that matter...
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Frelling forum
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Neil says that the record is a album of covers, and "at least 7.3 times better than Clockwork Angels".
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Poe's Law?
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And just for fun: <<<King Crimson - THRaKaTTaK (1996)>>> *Thrak*: 10/15 <Fearless and Highly THRAKked>: 0/15 <Mother Hold The Candle Steady While I Shave The Chicken's Lip>: 0/15 <THRaKaTTaK Part I>: 0/15 <The Slaughter Of The Innocents>: 0/15 <This Night Wounds Time>: 0/15 <THRaKaTTaK Part II>: 0/15 Thrak (Reprise): 10/15 Overall rating: 1 (Beyond Horrible) A collection of suckish improvs from different live versions of the THRAK midsection... so you get to hear the first two minutes of THRAK (performed decently, but not really better than the original) followed by half an hour of AWFUL, AWFUL improvisation... these were six musicians, four of whom had little experience in improv and two of whom who had barely played with the others before, trying (are they even?) to get on the same page with one another but coming up EXTREMELY short. Avoid this at all costs; there's nothing essential about it and a good 90% of it is simply ear-destructive. Easily the worst album I have ever owned.
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It's a decent collection of songs, but in album form it just drags.... and drags............ and draaaaaaaaaags................................... Main Monkey Business is great though.
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King Crimson - THRAK (1995) Vrooom: 11/15 Coda: Marine 475: ""/15 *Dinosaur*: 13/15 Walking On Air: 12/15 B'Boom: 10/15 THRAK: 11/15 Inner Garden I: 10/15 People: 10/15 <Radio I>: []/15 One Time: 11/15 <Radio II>: []/15 Inner Garden II: 10/15 Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: 12/15 VROOOM VROOOM: 11/15 Coda: VROOOM VROOOM: ""/15 Overall rating: 9 (Good) Overall a very consistent effort, with the only weak links being the two Radio tracks (honestly if not for them I have no idea what I would put as worst song)... however, only 3 songs on here seem to approach "great" for me, with the ultimate highlight being the "poppy" (but all the better for it) "Dinosaur", while there are way too many tracks which are good but unremarkable (one of them, B'Boom, is actually pretty neat but is ruined (well, sort of) by a drum solo of all things). Stylistically, this album aims for a cross between the 70's and 80's Crimson, meaning that it can be derivative at times but still presents an interesting mix of elements... still, the relative absence of great tracks (as well as the 2 Radio tracks) ensures that this will get at most a 9 (and a 9 it does get, despite originally thinking it was an 8. See how reviewing something can change your perspective on it?)
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The only way that will happen is if ghost works returns
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From your list, One More Red Nightmare, even though it's only my third favorite on the album.
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This topic should have been in MMM.
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No, you are just an entitled dickweed. You are a PUTZ!!!!!! Maybe, but at least he's right.
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Whichever was founded last, since it will probably have a higher growth rate based off of t-1
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Starless Oh... you mean in the title? Red Barchetta (though I prefer Starless)
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My three favorite albums of the 80's would probably be Moving Pictures, King Crimson's Absent Lovers (recorded live in 1984, released as an archive release 1997, therefore it's an 80's live album), and GUP. Then again, I wasn't alive in the 80's (or the 90's!), so I can't really speak from the perspective of someone who has...
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SavageGrace before November ~15: 11/15 SavageGrace after November ~15: 6/15 This thread: 9/15
