As always, my answer is this:
Original score was U.2 
, now updated to an 8.2. The review has been left absolutely the same otherwise so it now makes no sense. I mean, this is exactly how you would expect an 8.2 album review to finish, right?
Do You Like Rock Music? sounds empty at its core, with a rock where its heart should be.
Megatwats.
my theory with Be Here Now reviews is that all the reviews were written after 1 or 2 listens, under the influence of just as much sniff as the band were when recording
that record literally sounds like cocaine - very clean and all the treble in the world
People lost their minds when that record came out. There was so much hype. I queued up to buy it on release day like thousands of others.
I think there was a huge element of the music press burying their heads in the sand. Theyâd instigated the hype. The album release was on the national news as the first story. No-one wanted to believe it was shite. But shite it is.
I think this is more common than people will ever admit, itâs very easy to hype and will yourself into thinking something is better than it is
yeah Kid A/Amnesiac were received quite poorly critically and commercially in general originally. It was only as the decade rumbled on that people started to recognise how great/important they are
The Everlasting Gaze is probably my favourite production on a Pumpkins track
Iâm listening to this album, having not gotten round to it for whatever reasons in 2019, despite really loving the title track/lead single
just read this review, in looking to see what critics thought of it, and itâs completely compromised by the reviewerâs own distaste for the artist and his music
I think maybe I find it easier to see through a criticâs authority to their projection & etc these days, and I trust my own feelings, knowledge, critical insight, whathaveyou, and yeah⌠a real poisonous tone to the writing, here
misinformation, right here ^
Pitchfork gave it a 10 straight off the bat. Brent DiCrescenzo with some of the most awed and glowing praise youâll ever read in a review.
There was a review of a Robyn Hitchcock album on Old DiS that took note of the biographical note that heâd played with Peter Buck and John Paul Jones and took as its central framing a session lag thinking his songs were worth other people hearing, assuming heâd played behind them rather than vice versa.
Iâm currently flicking through the April 1994 edition of Select and there is a 5/5 review of Primal Screamâs âGive Out But Donât Give Upâ. The headline is âOn a Jagger Tip! Dance Traitors? Pah! Who needs that techno stuff when you could have The Rolling Sly and The Family Stones?â
shits the bed right out of the gate by calling the movie terrible
ooh, noted. wanted to watch some Australian New Wave films, Iâll add that to the list