If that was the case it would never be used at all.

If that was the case it would never be used at all.

I think if we bunched our fives together so to speak, there'd be a considerable gap between excellence and classic. Maybe too much. I think I'll revise my fistings from now on, reserving the 5 for personal classics only.

Refuse / Re-Fist it is then.

Edit: I think it's either/or though. If 5 fists is for classics only then you need to work with, whisper it, the half-fist too.

Flotsam and Jetsam - From No Place to Disgrace to the recycled riff factory of When the Storm Comes Down.

Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2 to Pink Bubbles Go Ape.

Pantera - Going from The Great Southern Trendkill to Reinventing the Steel? Jesus.

I was referring to their not being a 'perfect' album, not half-marks/ten fists.

The more I look at it, only the six gradations is really daft. If the 5 is absolute classics, and 0 the opposite of that, well you've got no middling because you can't have two and a half plus your gradations are village simpleton material.

If you think an album is above average it can only be one of three things: 3 (good), 4 (better) or 5 (best). Completely sortable that way, but if you took all your 4s there'd be one hell of a gulf between your considered best and worst ones.

So yes, finally decided on that, fuck five fists from this lad. Ten it is.

EDIT: One thing I do think Rob, on the out of ten front, is that the main problem is the fucking bewildering default state of reviewers to make 7 their average, which ends up leaving as much wriggle-room above as if it was an out of 5 system anyway. Haven't read Tez in a long time but I remember it creeping in towards the end of my bothering. Was one of the reasons I knocked it on the head actually.

I was referring to their not being a 'perfect' album, not half-marks/ten fists.

If you think an album is above average it can only be one of three things: 3 (good), 4 (better) or 5 (best). Completely sortable that way, but if you took all your 4s there'd be one hell of a gulf between your considered best and worst ones.
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I agree with Helloween, but Pink Bubbles Go Ape has a goofy charm to it that I can appreciate if the mood takes me (which isn't often).

Game Over is a 5/5, no question. Anyone who thinks otherwise can sit on a fucking cactus and spin.

My biggest problem with it was a massive fucking scratch on the record which turned Brain Death from a seven minute song into anything up to a 30 minute epic. It was right in the middle of one of the fast riffs and fitted perfectly, so I didn't suspect it the first time I listened to it, but got a bit suspicious when it had been playing the same thing for about 15 minutes. I thought the band had incredible stamina. I now have a pristine CD copy which also has The Plague and some live tracks tacked on the end. The sound is perfect, but a little of the character is gone.

Chameleon is way worse than PBGA. Mankind is a good song as well..

Game Over is safe, corporate, 'crunchy' thrash. May the fucking thing rot in Hell.

Game Over is safe, corporate, 'crunchy' thrash. May the fucking thing rot in Hell.

Here's one which will cause some spluttering:

Limp Bizkit $3 Bill Y'All - 4 1/2 fists

Limp Bizkit Significant Other - 0 Fists.

If any band fits this criteria, it's them. Tr00, bruv.

Here's one which will cause some spluttering:

Limp Bizkit $3 Bill Y'All - 4 1/2 fists

Limp Bizkit Significant Other - 0 Fists.

If any band fits this criteria, it's them. Tr00, bruv.

Danzig

Four standout albums albeit a bit similar then he sacks the band and comes out with some electronic bullshit