You're talking about the stars somewhere in your huge, spacious, deep negative review. Good coincidence! Also, very good one, dude. A bit long to read for the french speaker I am, but I can live with that. Long live Google translator.

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Merci mille fois Jethro! =) Je suis heureux quand j'ai recu un pos de toi, haha!

Good Review. And I agree with most of it, though I think the Rating may be a little bit to harsh on Matthew... but this is definitely his weakest effort by far, compared to Avalanche or Hospital Music it really sucks balls.

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You're probably right AutoRock. For any other musician this would probably have been a 3.0 at least; unfortunately I simply know that Good could have done much better. For what it's worth this album did grow on me slightly though. I could rate this a 2.5 and not be thoroughly bugged about it.

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One further observation: the songs, when listened to individually, are ok - but when packaged together in an album, they thoroughly suck. This album is worth much less than the sum of its parts.

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Okay. So this album has just started to grow on me hardcore. And not a 2.0 -> 2.5 kinda grow, but more like a 2.0 -> 4.0.



Damn it.

You should have known better than to give an album a bad rating. It's like using reverse psychology on yourself.

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As I recall you have this problem too, Sowing. It's annoying as hell, isn't it? Each time I rate an album as bad, it starts to grow on me. The process is particularly accelerated if I have reviewed it =.="

Yeah...I think it is because reviewing it forces you to give it multiple listens. Then it grows on you, and you start to appreciate it more than you initially did.

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That's so true. Wargh. This reviewing business is a bitch, isn't it?



Also, I wanted to ask you this: do you find that you enjoy music less after you started reviewing? That you always seemed to find that you had too much to listen to? And as a result ended up rushing through the whole thing every now and then?

it's complicated. i like more music than i used to, and i have discovered almost all of my current favorites by getting into reviewing. but at the same time, i do feel like my appreciation for the albums that i do like has dwindled. i used to be able to listen to an album for months, maybe even years if i liked it...even if it wasn't really that good. now i digest an album and have to move on. there are a few exceptions, but for the most part unless itunes is on shuffle, i leave a lot of the music i review behind. even the stuff i rate highly. i dunno its a sickness...

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i used to be able to listen to an album for months, maybe even years if i liked it...even if it wasn't really that good. now i digest an album and have to move on.



THIS. SO MUCH THIS.



I can't tell you how much I miss being able to stick around one single album for up to weeks/months on end. Moreover, I feel that my attention span has dropped off catastrophically too. It's hard to describe - I sort of get bored with an album within the first two listens, but if I somehow manage to return to it again (a VERY BIG "if"), I'll start wishing I had treasured it while it was still fresh off the shelf.



That being said, I love reviewing a lot. I like sharing my thoughts with an audience, and that it allows me to appreciate an album in a more finite space of time - under tighter circumstances, if you will. Oh well, it's so hard to describe.



=/?



I also don't understand how people can rate 5-6 albums a day. Like, HOW DO YOU MANAGE THAT?! (Deviant I'm looking at you.) I feel that even one a day (my average) is uber fast lol o.O

I've recently heard an experienced sports journalist stating he doesn't perceive/enjoy a sport game like an entertainment since his debut as a journalist (business as usual). Also, he has no favorite team in any sport anymore. Actually, his favorite teams are always the ones that feed him to write a big deal of fresh articles.
Devenir journaliste, c'est s'exposer à ce risque.

"I also don't understand how people can rate 5-6 albums a day"

For me, after I've listened to an album I almost always know exactly what I thought about it. I guess for some people it takes more time to process.

I always know exactly how I feel about an album after 1 listen as well.

Until my 2nd listen, that is.

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^ HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.



I've recently heard an experienced sports journalist stating he doesn't enjoy a sport game like an entertainment since his debut as a journalist (business as usual). Also, he has no favorite team in any sport anymore.



That kinda sucks =( I would cry if I had to give up my love of the Malaysian national soccer team, Manchester United, and the Ottawa Senators =(

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Reviewers Anonymous meeting, this is.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHS3ci9H_Uc



"I think TDAG...is a little bit weird."

That kinda sucks =( I would cry if I had to give up my love of the Malaysian national soccer team, Manchester United, and the Ottawa Senators =(

The moral of the story - Stop reviewing, and enjoy music thoroughly instead.
=|

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But I like reviewing and having an audience to share my thoughts with =( And it's a cool way of making someone fund my collector's habit and musical appetite =(