POO: AMG vs Pitchfork vs RYM

I don’t really mind the comment box...it’s easy to ignore and it cuts down on the number of jokey one-liner reviews. Some of which are pretty funny mind you.

I wish it was easy for me to ignore! But I can't help but get myself worked up over reading these people petitioning to put certain releases in bold even though the ratings aren't particularly high, or insisting that a 90 second demo of fucking around with a synth posted to a Soundcloud counts as an Aphex Twin release. One for the IA thread I guess.

The real reason I hate those fuckers is for Lulu's rating, who am I kidding

justice 4 lulu

:)

i have a hard time ranking these bc a significant difference between rym and the other two is that the writing is almost completely worthless as opposed to marginally/mostly worthless

rym and amg are v useful when approaching completely discographies and weirdly ime tend to pick up each other's slack? what's received wisdom at one isn't always received wisdom at the other. pfork is useless for this but it's not built that way

but then i use rym exclusively for personal use and cannot even imagine using it socially

i have a hard time ranking these bc a significant difference between rym and the other two is that the writing is almost completely worthless as opposed to marginally/mostly worthless

― flamenco drop (BradNelson)

the great thing about writing for free is that i don't need to give a shit about whether or not my writing is "worthless"