Album Rating: 3.5

"The song exists as a separate entity from the album; the scene does not exist as a separate entity from the movie."

yes agreed



"I don’t watch movies twice, though"

nvm

Album Rating: 4.0

Bootleg YouTube clips are not an official movie release, lol.

Spinning my turntable real fast to get through the songs I don’t like and learning not to complain on Music Criticisms website Sputnikmusic

Spinning my turntable real fast to get through the songs I don’t like and learning not to complain on Music Criticisms website Sputnikmusic


Doing this while wishing Colton would cradle me under the tree in his avatar

lot of hostility in this thread for such a milquetoast album

Album Rating: 4.5

I was wondering myself how this argument ended up happening in a Fleet Foxes thread lmao

Album Rating: 4.0

If you’re listening on vinyl, good point, you can not skip the songs you don’t like. Fortunately, the overwhelming majority of people don’t exclusively listen to music on vinyl.



My solution stands and frankly I don’t even know why we are still debating this. Fleet Foxes aren’t going to retroactively remove songs from the album, so the only way to not experience them is to skip them. I guess I don’t understand the critique that “the album should have less songs,” when it couldn’t possibly have less songs once it’s already out. Having too many songs doesn’t compromise the quality of the good ones, so in my mind I would just not listen to the ones I don’t like. A possible exception would be some kind of very fluid concept album - but this here album in particular (and most) is literally just a collection of songs. I get that it’s a critique, but there is a solution to work around the critique and heighten enjoyment of the album.



The critique of bands that “release too much music” are similarly perplexing - just don’t listen to it. There’s someone out there who will enjoy it and the artist is doing what they love, so let those people find enjoyment in it. I see this statement made with Weezer and such a lot. “They should stop making music.” No one should ever stop making music. It’s a music criticism site, yes, but I think what ties us all together is the love of music foremost.

Album Rating: 3.5

"Bootleg YouTube clips are not an official movie release, lol."



Who cares whats "official", the point is that people watch individual movie clips all the time.

Album Rating: 4.0

Trailers aren't official? Teasers of a single scene from major film studios aren't official? YouTube isn't all "bootleg."

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't know why you're latching so hard to such an irrelevant point. I'm aware that scenes can exist separately from movies by being specifically doctored out of them - I've never argued that. I'm saying that the analogy of comparing a scene in a movie to a song in an album is fallacious - they are not the same thing. The scene is not released as a standalone entity separate from the movie. You can't buy a blu-ray or DVD of a scene (I'm sure there are a few exceptions here, somewhere); you can buy a song without buying the album. In fact, many songs are merchandised and marketed as separate from an album and made to exist separate from the album.



Trailers were never discussed up to this point, so I'm not sure why you brought them up. I think that's a separate conversation entirely?

If your point is that the artist can't retroactively go back and remove songs from the album therefore saying there should be fewer songs is a moot point

How is that different

From L I T E R A L L Y

Any other aspect of an album

Like it genuinely seems that you don't understand the concept of music criticism which is very troubling given how long you've been on this website

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm honestly shocked too. I didn't think any true music fan thought this way. It's like you've never read a review before.

wait are we not allowed to skip songs

who tf listens to full albums anymore

If you don’t like a song, you aren’t allowed to rate it. Duh?

to be fair I give aenima by tool a 5 and we all know half of that album is skips

lowkey this guy who rejects albums entirely because they have a couple skips is pretty dumb too. That has nothing to do with criticism. That’s just, enjoying the good songs from the album lol. You have to throw a whole album in the trash because one track in the middle is mid? Lame.

I genuinely don’t understand people who can only consume music within the context of an album. Ur missing out on sooo much good shit that was never really intended for that format.

somebody say something

Yeah an album having a couple mid tracks shouldn't stop someone from enjoying the tracks they do like

I mostly listen to music on Bandcamp tho so if an album is like 25% skippable I probably won't end up buying it unless some of the other tracks are like MAJOR bangers, just sayin

I’m just wondering whether anthrax is implying that you should still like this album despite its skips (a good take) or if you should rate and review it highly despite its skips (a less good take). Seems the latter? Idk I kinda get it. When people claim an album is trash because of one song, it irks me. It’s a balance?