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Well, personally, I tend to think that for this Tonton Macoute album, the rain of 5 wouldn’t even come from 10 users, not by chance, but from prog enthusiasts...
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It is clear that Ole was referring to the "smaller" compared to groups recognized as larger: the usual Genesis, King Crimson, Yes, Gentle Giant, VDGG, etc.
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5 to a minor group? one case: the Americans Yezda Urfa with "Boris"
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The thing is, I find them quite "impersonal," and for me, the lack of personality never scores a 5...
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Yes, but here with prog you risk ending up like metalheads (which is also a genre that has millions of bands, many of which are unknown to most) who give a 5 to stuff that only a telescope would see as a 5, and I don't see why a 4 should "limit them." I understand that tastes are tastes and tend to influence judgment, but one should understand that you write for the audience and thus try to evaluate the album in an approximately objective dimension; otherwise, you risk misleading the users you are addressing. For example, I am strangely very fond of "Blitzkrieg" by Wallenstein, but I would never give it a 5 because, honestly, it doesn't deserve it.
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Good job, man, really nice. Billy Bragg???
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the nice thing is that the label was "grunge" Sub Pop! anyway, more than a band it was the expression of the guitarist, the Reverend who during concerts would start preaching. They were more country rock punk than lascivious and sensual, my favorite is definitely the second album "Full Custom Gospel Sounds" which was produced by Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers. In my opinion, they work for those who like the Cramps genre, but they are absolutely very good. Something like this is done nowadays by the "Legendary Shack Shakers" with the crazy frontman Colonel JD Wilkes, but more roots and less psychotic (maybe).
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@psycho: these are of a different genre (more southern) compared to the hard groups you mentioned; this album is famous for the version of "Jim Dandy," which was a signature song of the amazing '50s R&B singer LaVerne Baker (from whom the singer James Mangrum took his nickname). It's a decent album but definitely not a 5 masterpiece.
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These films made by self-proclaimed progressive directors ultimately stink of decay. Much more significant is a film like "The Great Red One" by a reactionary like Sam Fuller, including the landing and the conquest of the beach "...Because there's another hill, and behind that there's another one, and behind there's a river, and behind another country, and another country, and another country. And I wanted to get this feeling: you become a well-oiled robot, except you have a sense that robots cannot have, that of self-preservation. It's the only difference." Moral: in war, what matters is the cult of survival; to succeed at it, you don’t need to be a hero or courageous, but you must set aside all the feelings that characterize being human, in spite of Captain Miller...
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The advertising of the time said, "The Damned can play only three chords, the Adverts only one... come listen to all four of them." Generation X, before diving into disco music, made a good first album and had people in their ranks who could really play. The Adverts might not have had that, but they had a tension that is missing in Billy Idol and company, plus they had a bassist who was quite a looker. I'm all for the Adverts.