February 2007 Reviewer of the Month

[Jom]

Hey dudes and ladies,

You know the drill - it's time for the February ROTM contest, Jom style.

Here are the rules, though, as required:

- Dates accepted for consideration: February 01, 2007 - February 28, 2007
- User must have submitted at least three (3) reviews
- No self-nominations, please, but nominate as many users as you desire
- Please write a sentence or brief paragraph as to why you are nominating who you're nominating.
- The top ten vote-getters (if it gets that high) will be in the final round, so if someone you want to nominate is already nominated, just say "[User]'s nom second'd" or something similar and I'll know that it's another vote.

Next: please link me to the reviews you are nominating. If you are seconding a nomination, you don't need to do this unless you are particularly attracted to a review that was not previously nominated.

Lastly, label your links with Artist - Album with the link below it. If you could do that, that'd be appreciated. If you forget, you're a lazy piece of ****, but that's your character flaw, not mine :)

Right on, so this is going to be up for about a day, and the final round will commence March 2nd.

Best of luck to all.

EDIT: February was a pretty spectacular month for the site, so hopefully we'll have a tight race.

[JumpTheF**kUp]

February was a pretty spectacular month for the site, so hopefully we'll have a tight race.

Spectacular in that it didn't work most of the time?

Nom: chan for his mm8 review.

[IsItLuck?]

Spectacular in that it didn't work most of the time?

Nom: chan for his mm8 review.

that is true but shush. You know what me means.

br3ad for Jesu

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11134

Do Make Say Think

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11200

Arcade Fire

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11249

[Jom]

I am a jackass who can't read the rules even though I've been here longer than a month to know how this competition works.

Yeah, go soak your head.

[lunchforthesky]

Spectacular in that it didn't work most of the time?


123.

[Kaleid]

Flawed Perfection

Aereogramme: My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11106

Bright Eyes: Four Winds
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11248

And especially for:

Norah Jones: Not Too Late
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=10918

All enjoyable and well-written

[The Door Mouse]

Two Headed Boy: Teh Awesomeness

The Tragically Hip - World Container.

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11031

A Silver Mount Zion - Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly...

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11081

Do Make Say Think You - You're a History in Rust

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11193

[Iluvatar]

Nevermind, this month was a great month and I'll nominate someone in a bit.

bad I second br3ad's nom

I hate my typing skills

[JumpTheF**kUp]

Ok, so since every nom so far has been an approved/staff reviewer, I'm gonna go ahead and throw in a new reviewer.

paperslut
For writing consistently good short rewiews which are to the point. These three are his first three reviews, and they're all pretty good.

Something For Kate - Desert Lights
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11217

The View Hats - Off To The Buskers
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11242

Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11231

[The Jungler]

Spat Out Plath
Lots of well-written reviews, always just the right amount of humor mixed in with the facts.
Paul Westerberg - 14 Songs
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11209
Butch Walker - This is Me.. Justified and Stripped
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11018
The Blizzards - A Public Display of Affection
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=10782

and Iluvatar
Pretty much the same deal as Plath. What a cool guy.
Pokemon - 2BA Masta
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11169
cLOUDDEAD - s/t
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11157
Drive Like Jehu – Yank Crime (reissue) http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=16475

[IsItLuck?]

to Jump:

I don't see many non-approved reviewers spitting out three reviews a month, and it's hard to notice when they do since they usually fall to the bottom after two days...

[JumpTheF**kUp]

^ The key word there is many. Some do, and I think they deserve some recognition.

[IsItLuck?]

^ The key word there is many. Some do, and I think they deserve some recognition.

I never doubted the recognition. I'm just saying why they don't get recognized.

[Channing]

A lot of them suck.

The ones that deserve recognition will get it.

[Iluvatar]

The standard is set so high now even with average joe reviewers that trying to remember people is diffcult =/.

not many reviews suck these days chan.

[Eliminator]

dyeva rules

um what ilu

i'd say there are a lot of reviewers that suck.

[Iluvatar]

Compare the reviews of today to that of 6 months ago on average.

At least most people these days know what a reiew actually is and dont just babble on about "this happens now etc etc"

[Eliminator]

It's even worse now because they think they know what they're talking about.

Example: me.

[Iluvatar]

Example 2: Me

But at least their sounder writers. As much as we wish we could have music-theory literate people writing all of these reviews, there is no way thats going to happen.

[Channing]

not many reviews suck these days chan.
oh. okay.

[Eliminator]

The world doesn't need music theory literate people writing reviews. DFelon is enough.

[Kage]

Who wants music theory-literate people? I like reading reviews from the average guy.

[pulseczar]

yeah i don't see a problem with no music theory knowledge, i'm more annoyed by people who don't know the artist or their discography well, and have nothing solid to base their opinion/rating on. that's partly why my reviewing became less frequent, more research.

[JumpTheF**kUp]

As long as they're english-literate and their sentences make sense, it's all good.

[Channing]

It's not about sentences making sense. It's about the information that the sentences contain. Yeah reviews are getting better but we still have people like gunmaster posing as a 10 year old and submitting five word track by tracks.

[Iluvatar]

I was overstating my case I suppose.

Hearing an average joe going on about something he knows nothing about can be just as introspective as someone whose listened to each other members previous 18 projects and personally knows the keyboardist. Just because someone has no idea what they're talking about in regards to things, doesn't mean they cant get you into something.

Its just usually they're listening to terrible music anyways.

edit: I certainly don't read reviews as often as I used to, but I think you guys are overexagerating a little. I never see a review littered with sentences that make no sense.

[JumpTheF**kUp]

I certainly don't read reviews as often as I used to, but I think you guys are overexagerating a little. I never see a review littered with sentences that make no sense.

zepdude


edit: ok that was mean, srry zepdude

[Iluvatar]

Zepdude is an approved reviewer, and I'm fairly sure I was referring to non-titled reviewers.

I just think the quality of the entry level review has improved massively, and thats something to celebrate to an extent rather than say "oh well they still suck."

[Dave de Sylvia]

The quality of reviews has definitely gone up. Remember, I was here when most of you guys started posting reviews!

[Channing]

Oh I realize I'm really in no position to complain about bad reviews. The thing is that most of the guys that can't write are so arrogant that they have no intention of improving because they think what they're doing is fine. It's to the point where it's almost a surprise for a new user to take criticism well and actually want to apply the advice they're given.

But yeah this conversation is pointless blah

[Iluvatar]

So how about those reviewer of the month nominees?

[Dave de Sylvia]

Oh yeah. I second Two Heads.

Syncratic:

Sly und die Familie "Stone" - Frisch
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=10925

Infectious Grooves - Groove Family Cyco
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=10971

Chroma Key - Graveyard Mountain Home
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11120

[Channing]

you pretty much started this

anyway i second flawedperfection

[south_of_heaven 11]

I really don't like it when in reviews people try and sound all-music knowing by talking about a scale in certain song or the measure or some sh*t like that. Honestly, that doesn't help me at all.

[Liberi Fatali]

Damn I should have submitted Robert Miles & Trilok Gurtu - Miles Gurtu before the month ended, then I would have been eligible. I guess I'll just have to submit it this weekend.

[FlawedPerfection]

I'll be looking forward to that review.

I second Spat.

As far as the theory vs. average joe discussion, I know music theory but I don't want to bombard the reader with theory because most of them won't know it. However, I think it really helps me understand the music better and I can analyze it better.

[ToWhatEnd]

I'm going to nominate UnderstandingInACarCrash. Despite me sending him the LoveHateHero record than reviewing it before me, he wrote some quality reviews this month and plenty of his work is painfully overlooked.

Smashing Pumpkins - The Killer In You
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11213

LoveHateHero - White Lies
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11150

Calico System - They Live
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=11111