Album Rating: 5.0
But the meaning is deeper than just the personal meanings and associations from Bannon's own
individual experience; the underlying reason for the band's producing this album is not Bannon's
personal experience.
If you can actually prove that I'll start listening to you, but until then I remain steadfast
in my assumptions that you're just another pretentious troll.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I don't see how what Bannon & co were actually thinking (or not thinking) while writing the record is supposed to affect how I perceive the music while listening to it. It doesn't matter if they were in control of what they were writing or not, the record is fucking good to my ears no matter how I look at it
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Album Rating: 4.5
good review; negged
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Album Rating: 2.5
good review; pos'd
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
I don't give a shit about his fucking intentions.
What matters is how the album turns out, not how or why it was created. You fail to really describe why it's a bad record. You don't go into about the actual quality of the music. It's a delightful essay, but it fails in every aspect to work as a review.
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Album Rating: 5.0
This review basically states why I think this album is one of the greatest of all time. WTF?
My point is that, since the album was written by no one, and music is by definition an arrangement of sounds written and performed by human beings, Jane Doe cannot be given a high rating as music
Then, using your reasoning, it can't be given a low rating either.
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I might as well also claim that any one of my reviews is more valuable to music criticism than Knott-'s entire corpus.
whoa man
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
It's like you people only read his last two reviews and nothing else, seriously
I've read quite a few of his reviews. I mean i still think he's a good reviewer and all
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It seems that the words abstract, genericness, anonymity, and nothing are all the same to you.
edit: Music is an art form that uses sound as it's medium. Converge make sounds(regardless of whether they put thought or
anything into their music). Converge make music.
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Okay, so I actually read this over. What a stupid amount of fucking useless prolixity; most people are going to have
to read each individual paragraph five times over before they even get a gist of what you're trying to say. I don't know
if you think that's a testament to the general idiocy of the internet or whatever, but accessibility is what makes a
piece of writing - review or not - good or otherwise. Right now, this review basically just regurgitates outlandish
analysis and awkward phrasing in order to make a point that has little to do with music reviewing in the first place.
Rate this a 1. Write a review for it, I encourage you. You can't expect a piece of writing like this, as impressive as it
might be on other websites or in your own head, to fare well on a site that values accessibility so much.
His frenetic flailing during their songs is the enactment of a total powerlessness, the involuntary spasm of a
marionette
This line is admittedly good (albeit irrelevant) imagery. Kudos.
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Music is an art form that uses sound as it's medium. Converge make sounds(regardless of whether they put thought or anything into their music). Converge make music.
Syllogisms kinda rule
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Album Rating: 5.0
The fact that this album transcends music is what makes it amazing. I still don't understand why you even bothered reviewing not-music on this site.
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syllogisms kinda rule
Precise, yo.
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If this is not music, why review it then?
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Yeah, but the minute the Converge dudes were like "Hey, let's make an album" and starting banging on their pots and pans and singing the nightingale song, it was music.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Obviously it's impossible to "prove" what someone was thinking when they perform an action (say, record an album).
so stop acting like you know something the rest of us don't, and stop using bullshit shakespeare and descartes references to make you seem smarter, it doesn't really serve a purpose other than to make you look well-read and therefore superior to other users on the site
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However, if somebody heard the monkey banging the pots and pans and enjoyed it in a musical sense, then it's music. For instance, wind does not work in a musical sense, but to many it is musical and many sample it for musical purposes. The producer of music doesn't have to be aware of the fact that it's creating music.
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Album Rating: 5.0
It's kind of hard to present your ideas logically and clearly when they don't actually make sense though, i.e. making points that no one could possibly prove or back up with any amount of research or listening.
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What about sample-based music? What about photography? Do you regard either of those as artforms?
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Album Rating: 5.0
I don't find it very reasonable at all. Just because someone sounds like someone else, writes like someone else, etc. doesn't mean that they didn't write it. You're taking that idea to an extreme you can't possibly back up, because let's be honest, no one can back up a claim so ridiculous and over-the-top.
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