what does this pfm song review thingy even mean anyway?

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A quality review is one anybody can understand, regardless of how well-read they are. It takes skill to be descriptive while simultaneously being clear. There's no substitute for simply saying what you mean in a way that allows any given reader to understand it.

― name:, Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Although really if one goal of writing about music is to get people thinking about it, why is trying to teach your reader a little bit about the way the song is put together such a verboten thing?

dude, it totally shouldn't be! though i wouldn't be able to write that review.

my uncle often sends me letters saying he doesn't understand the stuff of mine that runs in the London Times, which is frustrating because that's generally the least-opaque, least-artful, most-straightforward stuff i write, and i *want (sometimes) to be understood by *everyone. he also clips out pieces in the paper that he liked better than mine, as 'guidance'.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Sunday, 8 January 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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