Radagast's profile

Long-time Archives enthusiast. I was a reviewer for metalcdratings.com (billed as Creag for various reasons), from 2006 until the site stopped updating in 2014, writing 222 full reviews. I was also an occasional collaborator for the now-defunct rockontheweb.co.uk.

I may possibly do reviews on request since I have nothing else on at the moment. PM me on the forum if you want to make a request.

Personally I think a percentage system is a bit too precise a marking scheme (I don't know how I'd decide the difference between a 71% album and 73% one). For my own reviews, I'll mainly be giving scores only on the 10s as equivalent to marks out of 10. Some albums will get an additional 5 (eg. 65% or 6.5/10) if it's too close to call.

Metal CD Ratings reviews are marked out of 5. The reviews I have ported over to here have been adjusted accordingly (3.5/5 = 7/10 = 70%) with some slight adjustments for the extra leeway the Archives' rating system allows.

Rock on the Web reviews were marked out of 10. The reviews I ported over to here were adjusted accordingly (6/10 = 60%).

Most of my reviews follow the "band name - album title" naming convention; this is just because Metal CD Ratings as a site didn't require titles for reviews. I've decided to go through my back catalogue and retrospectively add some original titles for the sake of a little originality.

Take anything written before 2008 with a pinch of salt, and just don't read anything from before November 2006 at all.

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Nod, shake or scratch your head at the non-Archives-worthy albums that have worked their way into my collection over the years:

* Adjágas - Adjágas
* Aerosmith - Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology
* Alice Cooper - Along Came a Spider
* American Hi-Fi - American Hi-Fi
* Aqua - Aquarium
* Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
* Blur - 13
* Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
* Bon Jovi - Cross Road
* Bon Jovi - These Days
* Bon Jovi - Crush
* The Clash - London Calling
* The Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through and Leave
* The Darkness - Permission to Land
* Elf - Carolina County Ball/Trying to Burn the Sun
* Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
* Europe - Europe / Wings of Tomorrow
* Europe - The Final Countdown
* Europe - Out of This World / Prisoners in Paradise
* Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
* Guns N' Roses - GN'R Lies
* Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
* Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
* Idlewild - Hope is Important
* Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
* Idlewild - The Remote Part
* Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
* Idlewild - Post Electric Blues
* JJ72 - JJ72
* JJ72 - I to Sky
* Joy Division - Permanent
* King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
* King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
* King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic
* King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
* Lacrimosa - Echoes
* Magnum - On a Storyteller's Night
* Magnum - The Spirit
* Magnum - Anthology 1978-1983
* Magnum - An Introduction To...
* Magnum - Brand New Morning
* Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
* Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against the Soul
* Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
* Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
* Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
* Manic Street Preachers - The Masses Against the Classes (single)
* Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy
* Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood
* Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers
* Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
* Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From a Young Man
* Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus
* Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
* Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell
* Michael Schenker Group - Michael Schenker Group
* Misfits - Earth A.D.
* Monster Magnet - God Says No
* Gary Moore - Victims of the Future
* Gary Moore - Run for Cover
* Gary Moore - Wild Frontier
* Gary Moore - After the War
* Gary Moore - The Best of the Blues
* Oasis - Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
* Papa Roach - Infest
* Poison - Swallow This Live
* Poropetra - Sinihirwi
* Psycho Motel - State of Mind
* Pure Reason Revolution - Cautionary Tales for the Brave (EP)
* Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
* Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
* Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
* Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf
* Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
* Radiohead - Pablo Honey
* Radiohead - The Bends
* Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
* Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
* Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
* Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
* Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun
* 7th Legion - Strength & Honour (EP)
* Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks...
* The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
* Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
* Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
* Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
* Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
* Bruce Springsteen - The River
* Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
* Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
* Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits
* Bruce Springsteen - Tracks
* Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
* Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust
* Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
* Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
* Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
* Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails
* Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education
* Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
* Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
* Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
* Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
* Teenage Fanclub - Howdy!
* Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made
* Teenage Fanclub - Here
* Mike Terrana - Man of the World
* Travis - Good Feeling
* Travis - The Man Who
* U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
* UFO - Phenomenon
* UFO - Force It
* UFO - No Heavy Petting / Lights Out
* Uriah Heep - Salisbury
* Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizrds
* V/A - Inside Llewyn Davis - Original Soundtrack Recording
* Vai - Sex & Religion
* Velvet Revolver - Contraband
* Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
* The Who - Tommy
* Roddy Woomble - My Secret is My Silence
* Neil Young - Harvest