I think that is a good review.HeuristicsInc wrote:It's interesting, I think reviews can be a good thing. But sometimes on, for example, allmusic.com, I find myself disagreeing a lot with the reviewer. Sometimes I think it would be good to collect, say, 3 different reviews by different people. But I guess that's a lot of work, and also database space.
On another note, it's especially good when a reviewer can relate the new album to a band's previous ones, and say how they compare... using that information along with what you already know of those albums can be helpful.
Here's something for you, the best record review I ever wrote (this was some years ago). You can decide if it's good or not:
Adrian Belew - Salad Days
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I've never heard of Adrian Belew before - so I need you to tell me if I should bother searching him out to listen.
You link him to Bowie, Zappa, Talking Heads, JMJarre, NIN etc... I know enough about music to know that these don't normally share the same pigeon-hole (unless maybe the experimental/creative pigeon-hole) - so this bloke is obviously a bit of a jack-of-all-trades super-muso.
So, you're already turning me off him (I find that sort of stuff pretty wanky and annoying). The phrase "Belew's trademark guitar-made animal noises" is definitely the kiss-of-death - BUT - this is an accoustic album, now I'm intrigued.
VERDICT: It's made me curious enough to listen to look this album up on Amazon to hear some 10-second grabs of it - although I probably won't bother checking out the rest of his catalogue.
5 minutes ago I'd never heard of the bloke - now I've got an opinion (albeit a poorly informed and possibly incorrect one) so the review has done it's job.
(...I'm reviewing reviews now....this is taking work avoidence to new lows...)