Which is easier to review? A good album or a bad album?
 

Is it easier for you to review a great album or do you find it easier to write reviews for crap?



Shit sandwich.

Depends what kind of music it is, and whether or not I have the right frame of reference to either do accurate justice to its majesty or to intelligently criticize what I find to be objectionable about it. I have no idea what makes a "good" zydeco album, for instance, because zydeco is one type of music that I truly cannot stand (rare is it that a genre of music is so objectionable to me; I have not heard a single note of zydeco I could stand) and therefore I am simply not the right person to write about it. It would be like me writing about modern dance. I know whether or not I liked a performance, but I lack the vocabulary to critique it in any way that the true devotee would find helpful or insightful.

However, in the areas of psych/experimental/folk/rock and such, I have more fun dishing out praise for stuff I like than wasting the same amount of energy giving negative attention to something I don't like, at least in terms of actual "review writing." Of course on messageboards and the like, I enjoy a good slam as much as anyone.

I personally think it´s easier to rave about something,
but that´s probably just me

a bad record takes at little effort as possible to review. a good one takes forever to review////

best review ive ever read was for mundys new live album (huge singer songwriter here in ireland. housewives favourite, kinda like an alt david gray but worse)
it read

"dear mundy,
fuck off!,
thanks"

inspired

Nono you've got it wrong.

This is the best review ever!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...3/Jet_Shine_On

anyone remember Musician magazine? they used to haev a section called Short Cuts, where they had pretty short (a sentence or 3) reviews of records. the best was the 'supergroup' GTR's record review: SHT

reviews for bad albums are funnier

i love reviewing bad albums.

Damn

hi. i think it is easier to review an album you like, at leat on the basic level. albums you don't like fall into two main categories; albums that flat out suck, and albums that you do not "get" right away. some albums sound bad and would be given a bad review but would actually grow on you, you know? sometimes it is hard to tell the difference.

I like what Rodney Anonymous says about Darkness on the Edge of Town:
http://www.rodneyanonymous.com/liste.../darkness.html