Album Rating: 3.5

Happiness... Happineeeeiiieeeeeessssss

Album Rating: 4.0

her echoing voice is godlike.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Goddesslike. A choir of Annekes!

Digging: Ruin Lust - Ruin Lust

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I think people rating this 2.5-3.5 want this to be some sort of super-cohesive concept record or something.

My viewpoint is this: an album full of good, enjoyable songs that may or may not go together perfectly, shouldn't lose a full 1-2 points of rating just because of the lack of cohesion.

Say Radiohead came onto the scene now and had never released anything before. On their first record they put Everything In Its Right Place, Paranoid Android, Just, Reckoner, etc etc.. great songs from different Radiohead eras as we know them. It would be completely uncohesive but AMAZING nonetheless. Would we sit here and rate it a 3 because the songs don't quite go together? HELLLL no we wouldn't. Not saying this is a 5, because I think the quality of songs is more 4-4.5, but lack of cohesiveness should not knock an album down more than .5 - 1 points.

I like this statement from Dev,

"this record is my take on what a big, epic, commercial sounding record that sings about nice stuff would sound like in Dev-land."

Album Rating: 3.0

I think people rating this 2.5-3.5 want this to be some sort of super-cohesive concept record or something.

Nope. I just think the songs aren't all that awesome even as individual pieces.

Album Rating: 1.5

Very good read Irving. Album is like a piece of poop taking a giant poop.

I think people rating this 2.5-3.5 want this to be some sort of super-cohesive concept record or something.

Or you just discovered metal yesterday by rating this higher than a 2?

Digging: Napalm Death - Inside the Torn Apart

Album Rating: 2.5

this album reminds me of symbolic

Digging: Queensryche - Promised Land

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

lol ~Desolence~

Wizard's opinions are fairly hilarious most of the time

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm a Devin Townsend fan. On first listen, I think this was alright overall, but probably not what I'm looking for from Devin.

I hear the bonus CD is better.

It's no City or Ocean Machine but then again what is

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

wizard the wise rip

Hey KILL if you had to choose which one would you prefer

Ocean Machine: Biomech or City?

I'm sitting here eating chocolate stars and trying to figure out how metal I am.

Ocean Machine > City

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

thats like askin me to choose between a farewell to kings and hemispheres bro, cant do it

Well I'd go with a Farewell To Kings because Xanadu is the best thing they've done imo

Album Rating: 2.5

Farewell may contain the better song(s)

Hemispheres is better as an album

Not sure what to make of this yet. Surprised it's rated so high.