What is the deal with these "doctor/patient" reviews. They are terrible! First Beck, now this:

http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/l/louis-xiv/best-little-secrets-are-kept.shtml

yeah, i think thats really low rating too i mean i could see a 5 or 5.5....but come on!

Well literacy and numeracy often go hand in hand...

yea.. that review was not informative nor entertaining...

that louis xiv album does suck though.. it's really bad, though i like that 'finding out true love is blind' song

I talked with those guys in Atlanta. They are total douchebags. THe album is more like a 4.5. Fuck pitchfork. Why can't I stop reading it?

it's like a bad car accident, so horrible but yet you still stop to look. i get really annoyed by the reviews but i still read them!

but 1.2? i'm not a fan of louie xiv, but wow. that's a lower rating than frances the mute! *snicker

I never seem to remember to click on the pitchfork button in my toolbar lately.

The scale is reviewer-intrinsic. I doubt Ryan Pitchfork would look at a review and say "That number's too low - we'll have to fix that before we go to press"...

He leaves the numbers-fudging for year end/top 100 lists...

good or bad, it's still relevant. that's why I read it. I think the writing is often attrocious, but it's still one of the most relevant publications going, which is unfortunate.

Audri, you and I are going to tangle.

Monkey-bars, three o'clock. I'm going to take you down, one, two, three.

last i knew he would change ratings. but that was a while back. it wouldn't surprise me if he did change scores though, it seems like a lot of music pubs do that.

Postscript to the "50 Albums of 2004" list:

you. me. outside. NOW! i can take you on. BRING IT!

sorry to break to you dude, but frances the mute made my ears want to BLEED. worse $7.48 i ever spent in my life.

I could count on my ten fingers how many times I have read Pitchfork. When I was done counting, the two middle ones would be left standing, as well. I found it to be a waste of time and moved on.

I think I'm worn out with complaining about their reviews. I stopped going to the site.

ha! Oh, odd...

I am so sick of Pitchfork's humor (?) I think, "gee, I wonder what the new Beck album is like." Or, "I wonder what Bob Drake's music sounds like." I open the reviews thinking they'll answer these questions, and alas. Nothing. Just a useless number at the top of a bunch of words that make next to no sense.

The only reason I think I still go there is to find out when bands have a new record, 'cause I'm too lazy to find a different source.