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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?"

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 am a terrible guy to have around and regardless of how drunk i am now, my inability to control rating systems will result in numberous Bs.

I APOLOGIZE STYLUS

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Sunday, 9 January 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

To be honest, I just like assigning numbers/grades bcuz I'm a nerd and it is fun to try and quantify something entirely unquantifiable (like my love/hatred for a record).

― deej., Sunday, 9 January 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

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