― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Of course, letter grades aren't unique — EW aside, Xgau has kind of written the book on them. But it's actually a pretty interesting standard. I mean, giving a C to a Radioheard record or something would be a pretty big slam.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Awwww gimme a hug!
What I'm thinking about are the reviews in The Wire, which are great at description but sometimes avoid evaluation. I'll read one and think: "Okay, this is an album of repetitive staticky noise - but how does it compare to the others?"
― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
I do this with most longer reviews, but merely out of curiousity - it doesn't really influence whether or not I check the album out. If you like the writer you'd read the work and if you don't like the writer than what the fuck do you care what they'd rate it?
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
i don't get this, but have you read the reviews in Ugly Things? everything's totally bonkers according to stax and his reviewers, but in both publications the writers tend to use tone and adjectives to describe their feelings about a record instead of a number, letter, or inanimate object that can be interpreted as a value judgement.
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
I APOLOGIZE STYLUS
― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Sunday, 9 January 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej., Sunday, 9 January 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link