Jots
10.08.15 | usually not |
Jots
10.08.15 | like, only to clarify something that happened at a certain point of a certain track, maybe |
wtferrothorn
10.08.15 | same
btw 7 and 8 are amaze |
RadicalEd
10.08.15 | I usually do. |
Judio!
10.08.15 | Usually yeah, just so it's fresh in my mind and none of my words feel outdated. |
Jots
10.08.15 | a big question for me is whether or not the album is actually effective and memorable. I find the best things I can come up with when describing an album are a result of thinking about it afterwards a bit |
SharkTooth
10.08.15 | yeah, it helps when trying to write stuff to describe the music/think up stuff to write to flesh the review out
(I specifically do this for albums that recently released so that I get a good supply of material to write about in a short amount of time) |
Calc
10.08.15 | yep, I do. |
Fort23
10.08.15 | @johnny i feel u on that |
Fort23
10.08.15 | i feel like it's always a fine line between being inspired and being distracted |
DominionMM1
10.08.15 | for the one review i've written i listened to the record while making bullet points but i wasn't listening to anything while actually writing it |
MrSirLordGentleman
10.08.15 | I do |
granitenotebook
10.08.15 | yeah, or I'll listen to very similar music or no music at all. It's really hard for me to write about music when I'm listening to music that doesn't sound similar |
Gameofmetal
10.08.15 | yea i usually do |
zaruyache
10.08.15 | Takes me a while to get my thoughts together for reviews so I generally sit and listen to the album multiple times whilst writing. I want to make sure I get all the details right and basically double-check my feelings toward the music. My Dispirit review was originally gonna be a 3/5 but after listening to it another two times I started to appreciate it more, and bumped my rating. |
ArsMoriendi
10.09.15 | Actually, always, but sometimes I skip around the album looking for specific moment I want to write about. |
ScuroFantasma
10.09.15 | Yeah always, constantly looping the album I'm reviewing. I sometimes make dot points but generally I have a kind of idea of what I want to highlight in the album and comment on, and I find it helpful to be within that music while I'm writing. It'd be super boring to write without the music playing at all, and as for writing while different music is playing, I've done that a few times, but I start to think about that album as opposed to the one I'm writing about so I usually switch back. |
Deviant.
10.09.15 | Definitely. I could never write down words about an album while another album was playing |
Parallels
10.09.15 | I could never write down words about an album while another album was playing [2]
this hard |
Jots
10.09.15 | I'd rather just listen to the album a bunch while I'm working or whatever and think about it and "write the review" in my head. Then I just think about what stood out for me most afterwards, and when I sit down to write I'll hopefully have a decent thesis or something. I've tried writing reviews where I just sit down, play the album, and make it happen, but I always find that approach frustrating. Kinda like trying to start an essay before researching the topic. |
Jots
10.09.15 | Yeah I get that. Just a preference of mine to turn it off for the actual writing portion. |
JohnXDoesn't
10.09.15 | nah i just take pieces from other reviews and change them a bit and make a montage of my own. been doing that for 96 reviews and hasn't failed me yet!
no lol. i listen if i don't know the album like when i was a staff reviewer some time ago and i reviewed music i did not listen to. otherwise i just write 'em for albums i know well. like my recent reviews, some i haven't heard for years but i'm a fan so feel like expressing myself and so i write a few things about 'em. i've never listened to an album while actually writing the review for it, though. idk just never have |
ScuroFantasma
10.09.15 | "nah i just take pieces from other reviews and change them a bit and make a montage of my own."
Not sure you understand what a montage is
"i listen if i don't know the album like when i was a staff reviewer some time ago and i reviewed music i did not listen to"
Are you saying you just randomly wrote stuff about albums you didn't even listen to? Or am I reading that wrong? |
Fort23
10.09.15 | I used to do everything that guy^ said forreal when i was 12/13 running around here back in the day. I wanted all the staffers to think I was kewl Lol like hanson & pixiesfanyo ahh to be young and inside . |
JohnXDoesn't
10.10.15 | @scurofantasma
well montage meaning : a technique of combining in a single composition elements from various sources, as parts of different photographs or fragments of printing, to give the illusion that the elements belonged together originally
so like pieces of other peoples reviews put together as my own. but of course i never did that, i only jest. the grammar and overall amateurism of my writing and reviews prove that. i mean if i were going to plagiarize i'd plagiarize good stuff, not stuff like i write
no, i never randomly write stuff. but back then (don't know about now) staff reviewers were expected to focus on new releases. and we had a thread in the forums where upcoming new releases would be posted and we'd choose what we wanted to review and sort of call dibs on it. and so i never listen to hip-hop or Sarah McLaughlin or Barry Manilow or NIN for example, or music like it. but to review it i would have to. i could have been more clear. i listened to music and artist i did not listen to so i could review the album but if i knew the album like my earlier and later reviews of course i do not need to listen even if i haven't heard it in awhile
i didn't only write new release reviews as a staff writer, though. but quite a bit and it was the only reason i had to listen to Taylor Hicks, 2Pac, and New Found Glory :/
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ScuroFantasma
10.10.15 | Oh okay, sorry your original post was written in a way that made me think you didn't listen to the music you were reviewing, but you meant it was music from genres you weren't fsmiliar with so that makes sense. And collage is probably a better word, montage is more of a film technique, and the definition you listed is only partially correct because the main point of a montage is to condense a time frame and show a progression. |
JohnXDoesn't
10.10.15 | i stand corrected and corrected :( |
Archelirion
10.10.15 | I normally don't for the introduction and conclusion. If I'm trying to pinpoint certain things in the bulk of the review then I do, and sometimes I'll have it on in the background, but it doesn't need to be.
That said, I NEVER have anything else on while writing a review. Screws my thought process right off. |
