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Although this place hates being like Pitchfork...
elizaknowswhatshesfor:
That's what it generally is, but sometimes the press info sounds like something you'd really like, but is actually terrible...We do request which CD's we'd like to review.
Christophe:
--- Quote from: michaelicious on 16 Oct 2009, 05:41 ---Sure, maybe he was being a little bit dismissive but it's not like a music review is supposed to be an authoritative source written on a monument about whether or not an album is good or bad
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For me, though, people do look at sites like Pitchfork and TMT and take their opinions as a full authority on music, when maybe listening to the damn thing for themselves probably would be a better barometer of whether they like it or not. Maybe my view is skewed and needs revision? Maybe my distaste for TMT based solely on that .22 review is very misguided and comes down to "we have differing viewpoints about what kind of music is worthy to be listened to". I mean, I did view TMT as a pretty reliable source of good music journalism before I saw the .22 review. Pitchfork has a fucking shitty review of SKWM's Blueblood and I still read it from time to time (though not for any actual musical opinion on anything I'd be interested, God no.)
I have a lot more to say about this but I've got to jet.
--- Quote from: michaelicious on 16 Oct 2009, 05:41 ---Edit: I'm not trying to harsh on you or anything, Chris. I am sorry that it probably came off that way.
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It's cool dogg, I tend to be pretty irrational at times.
E. Spaceman:
--- Quote from: elizaknowswhatshesfor on 16 Oct 2009, 06:37 ---
It's when you have a huge stack of CD's to review & half of them are samey toss bollocks it's gets a little hard to "Sounds like Biffy Clyro, only bad" in an interesting way.
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"Sounds like Biffy Clyro"
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 16 Oct 2009, 07:48 ---I like the idea of just not reviewing things that you don't like.
Imagine a whole website or magazine full of just stuff that people really like.
I mean why not?
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I don't mind reading negative reviews of albums I think are positive because they get me to think critically about why I like the albums in question. There's occasionally an offensively bad review, like the pulled Zaireeka review where the dude couldn't find three more friends with stereos, but even those have me mentally composing responses. It's not bad in any capacity to be confronted with an opinion you find contrary to your own, and it's not bad to talk about it with the person holding the other opinion even if the end result of the conversation will be that you are unable to change the other person's opinion.
Plus an entire magazine of this would be intensely bland. Cultural discourse is reliant on discourse, and the parts of culture that you don't like aren't going to go away just because you don't talk about it. And it's interesting to talk about.
michaelicious:
If only we could get people to not take it so personally when other people disagree with them.
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