Reviewing music you haven't heard

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- it's easier to get creative - you're not limited by someone elses intrusive vision
- you can always be positive, so you won't crush the artist's spirit
- it's bound to be more accurate

The ultimate is reviewing music where you don't know the artist's name, never seen them, don't know the genre, no song title

'When I first heard the record, I thought 'jaded pointillism.' But on listening to it a second time, I realised that this music isn't hackneyed art: it's the criminal's response to a libido-less leisure-world.'

― Holly, Friday, 18 April 2003 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

plus you can focus on the important stuff: the song titles.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 April 2003 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

but the whole point of not listening to an artist's music and then reviewing it anyway is TO crush the artist's spirit! the whole fucking point!

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 18 April 2003 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Holly, I hope to record a song perfectly fitting your
review.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 18 April 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Song titles! You CAN sort of pre-review an as-yet-unheard album by looking at the song titles. If they're boring and sucky and cliche and unmemorable, chances are the music will be the same. I used to deprioritze about half the discs in my in-box that way, and, upon further listening, I very rarely reevaluated.

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 18 April 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Mellifluous yet empty.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 18 April 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Lester Bangs reprazent.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 18 April 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Richard Meltzer does this every week in the Seattle Weekly. I'd go so far as to say that we should all review records without hearing them.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 18 April 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i have done it on occasion... i've always said i haven't listened to it because i don't see the point in wasting 45 minutes listening to something i already know i won't like!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 18 April 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

You say you like it: classic. Making people laugh: classic.

You say you don't: dud. Spirit crushing: dud.

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 April 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Naive, yet...chubby.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Friday, 18 April 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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