Experimental. Usually just means a few triangles tinkling in the background, use of dodgy keyboards, or mixing musical styles which go together about as well as milk and beer.
Now, music reviews can be and often are self-absorbed masturbationery and a mean for aging Gen-Xers and Boomers to prove that hey, they know more about the music than the modern youth so there. However, when you learn to read the code, there's a lots of useful information. For instance, the adjective 'wistful' is music-reviewese code for "A 'man' mewls about love like a neutered kitten while the rest of the band strums acoustic guitars or makes ambient noises and NOTHING F*CKING HAPPENS." Thus, one should steer clear of such bands.
What other such warning signs do the reviews offer?
"Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world
Experimental. Usually just means a few triangles tinkling in the background, use of dodgy keyboards, or mixing musical styles which go together about as well as milk and beer.
generally they tend to make the most crappy albums sound good.
music reviews are all crap
I don't know. I don't read music rewievs. I want to listen to the music myself and make the decision based on that (not some wimpy review from a wimpy mag)
I'm not a complete idiot: some parts are still missing.
What other such warning signs do the reviews offer?
Well, if it's written by Snapcase (*ahem* Buck Birdseed), that's usually a big warning sign.... for the review
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
Thanks for saving me the trouble of writing that.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
What other such warning signs do the reviews offer?
Well, if it's written by Snapcase (*ahem* Buck Birdseed), that's usually a big warning sign.... for the review
He's got the Midas touch.
But he touched it too much!
Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!
np
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
ImranIt's funny that what he comes out with is a pretentious load of drivel, intended to attack pretentiousness in music
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