Comments In Reviews Most Likely To Get You Rushing To The Record Shop/Ticket Outlet!

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Um having come up with this v.obvious thread idea I can't think of any.

― Tom, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Normally when I read reviews (particularly in NME) where they dismiss something as "pretentious", I tend to think "Ooh, I might buy that then"

― jamesmichaelward, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

if it says "album of the century", or "soon to be classic," thats my hint to turn and run.

― Brock K., Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"... Captain Beefheart ... Abba .... "

Must both be used in the same review

― Dave225, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Between the unlistenable self-indulgence of Captain Beefheart and the crass pop banalities of Abba sits the excellent Coldplay..."

― Tom, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ouch! Good one, Tom.

― Dave225, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i need to have "parachutes"!

― willem, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Seeing the name of a writer I respect and enjoy at the bottom, is the main thing. I'm rarely if ever fully convinced by a review alone, though.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was just about to contribute a more serious answer when clarke came up with his: the name of the reviewer is usually a good 'marker'. however, it requires some time to get to know the musical preferences of a reviewer; you have to built up something like a one-way relationship.

― willem, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

taxidermy
hydraulic
lincolnshire
drill'n'bass (sorry, but that shit still gets me, i;m stuck in 97 like a glasgow scene pimp)
messy
a shannon for the y2k+2
pretentious

― gareth, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

teen idol.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This album features no connections whatsoever with Bis.

― Judd Nelson, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

latin freestyle.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ethereal

― baboon, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oblivious

― tyler, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"...reminiscent of [Prince/The Cure/Skinny Puppy/Severed Heads/My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult/A Tribe Called Quest/Orbital/New Order/Depeche Mode/The Prodigy] (pick one)"

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"the songs on this record bear no resemblance, intentional or otherwise, to anything ever recorded by Sting."

― baboon, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Galaxie 500 meets MBV! (this actually happened)

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"post-punk"

― DG, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no idea what they mean, but "soundscapes" and "sheets of noise" tell me I'm gonna like.

― Curt, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"You will headbang until your head falls off."

I like an album that gives me head(lessness).

― 1 1 2 3 5, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"(Friend that I've lost touch with)'s record...."

Hasn't happened yet, though.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Music reviews are too subjective by their very nature... It's not so much the money lost upon purchase of a dud album... but you feel sort of used and dorky to have skipped the listening station or the online samples. Can't think of anything in a review that would get me that excited... but I can think of tons of things that would signify a no- go; things like "Tortoise-esque," "emo," and "next big thing."

― Tim DiGravina, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"the human side of Jan and Dean" is my ticket to Whip Out Walletsville.

― lawrence kansas, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The new Telescopes record.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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