Allmusic Album Reviews Gone

anyone know what's going on w this?

(apologize if this is covered elsewhere)

I was wondering today why none of Genesis's albums had reviews. fwiw the song reviews still exist. Some very enthusiastic person with a French name has written reviews of almost every early Genesis song.

what a disaster for Stephen Thomas Erlewine

I've noticed this too. The page formatting looks different as well.

bummed about this, cuz while they were erratic as hell, they were a GREAT pocket resource. hope it's just a temporary reshuffling of some sort...

I've also noticed this.

maybe ned can explain this

wow i hope they come back...hate to say it but theyre kind of the main appeal since wikipedia is way less annoying for quick discographical reference

Why would they delete this? It's already been written.

I guess if the album's dead, then album reviews must be as well.

It's temporary -- related to changing the database platform.

It's weird because not every review is affected - I went to look some stuff up the other day and half of what I needed was there and half wasn't, seemingly at random.

think that was true as recently as yesterday but this morning i couldn't find anything

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gifixqy5ldte

made it!

well there you go then

oh hi there

This is interesting: The tracklisting for The Beatles (white album) currently shows only half of the songs (15 of 30), apparently taken at random, with sides 1, 2, 3 and 4 all represented:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gifwxql5ldae

If I could find that old "edit the White Album and make a single killer LP" thread, I'd look to see if those 15 represented anyone's ideal. (Or anyone's worst-imaginable, for that matter.)

good riddance.

too many notes

i was using the advanced search a lot, but it seems to have been down for the last few days. is it coming back?

i was using the advanced search a lot, but it seems to have been down for the last few days months. is it coming back?

― een, Monday, March 17, 2014 12:18 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Your search for Boards of Canada as an artist name or the title of an album or song did not have any matches.

so basically they're just not even trying to be a reference site anymore

concentrating on the what do you call it pitchfork format

i pretty much just use discogs now when i want to do a quick artist search. allmusic will forever remain in my heart, though, for introducing me to Chrome and tons of other great bands back in the late 90s/early 2000s.

One tries.

sad because they really had so many great reviews

had / have

try googling "boards of canada allmusic"

maybe their internal search is just broken at the moment?

yeah, i haven't noticed the broken search function, cuz i always arrive thru google

One tries.

8)

i feel like the declining popularity of those listening stations at like barnes and noble (along o/c with buying music at barnes and noble) must have been allmusic's downfall. i appreciate what a beast it must be to run with esp. with the snazzy interface, but it's been so spotty for so long.

Allmusic was perfect for a long time as far as its design and functionality. Now it's cumbersome and full of annoying pop-up ads and videos, and it does seem to have lost a lot of content for some reason. I rely on Rateyourmusic more and more lately, which seems far better than Discogs.

well, discogs is for buying/selling, RYM for evaluation. both pretty great on their own terms.