Does this actually qualify as an album review?

Promethium · **Posted:** Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:53 am

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-re ... usic.shtml

It doesn't really even mention why the album only gets a .6 rating. I'm sure it is has the opportunity to be nearly as bad as Plastic Mutations is, but at least make an effort at a critique rather than a long rant about Amazon.com review posts and childhood fantasies.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:57 am

Did you skip the second paragraph?

iron_and_beer · **Posted:** Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:37 am

Fu Wrote:

Did you skip the second paragraph?

It's still a pretty bad review. But I think the concept is enough explanation as to why this should earn a 0.6.

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

Reviews are so last week. PFM is in the now, man!!

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:47 am

peter macia Wrote:

So I've got an idea, partially inspired by Exit Music, but pretty much something I've been thinking about for a long time: My instant messages covered by post-rock bands.

What about an album of spoken-word renditions of a/i/m windows? It could be another installment of Postcards & Audio-letters.... Jurado could get unfamous people to read texts into cheap DAT recorders, master the recordings, and sell 'em thru the Secretly Canadian website.

Promethium · **Posted:** Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:56 am

This album title is going places: These are people who are "heads" because they make beats, but they also purportedly like a group named Radiohead, you see? So, I mean, someone probably should do something with that. Maybe they should go on iTunes and get the Radiohead Essentials (nothing off that crappy first album, though!) and give whatever songs to some artists who are in the studio right now. What's ?uestlove up to? He's mentioned Radiohead in a few interviews. Get him to ask some of his friends to contribute something. Have them whip a track together and hope it doesn't sound like the band at one of those live karaoke bars. Just enough to recoup investment and maybe break one song to radio (Mark Ronson and Alex Greenwald's "Just"), if not a spot in a commercial or "Veronica Mars". I don't know. Oh, and the Bad Plus. They're good at this kind of thing. Possibly set something up with Gilles Peterson and have Jamie Cullum and Joss Stone sing a 20-minute medley of all the album's songs with, like, Lee Ritenour and Grandmaster Flash jamming behind them. It's time people knew how funky Radiohead can get, you know? They're so gloomy.

I read this paragraph which would barely constitutes a partial review. You can guess that the reviewer doesn't like the album or the basis for the album, but he doesn't really critique any tracks or even say why it sucks. Atleast Marc Hogan did a critique when he gave Statistics a 1.0 and Rob Mitchum referenced Weezer's past albums when he gave Make Believe a .4 rating.

To me it seems like this guy threw this crap together an hour before deadline.

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

Pitchfork Wrote:

I told my friend L00p3r about how I used to set up elaborate crime scenes in my bedroom when I was four years old. I would take all the clothes out of my little red dresser and throw them around the room like someone was looking for a microchip or something. Then I would flip my mattress off the bed, lay on the floor, and put the TV on my head so the blue glow of "ChiPs" would reflect in my dead eyes. I would lie there and wait for my parents to come in and fall to their knees in agony, and then I would jump up and say, "I told you not to make me eat hot tuna!" But they would never come in my room.
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What can you say? Really it's the review editors fault for allowing it to go online.

Does this actually qualify as an album review?

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