Album Rating: 4.0
It's revenge for what happened to me in this:
http://reviewsofreviews.com/archives/363
Haha.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Our next reviewer, from Sputnik Music, is known simply as Irving. The fact that he has chosen to follow Yanni’s lead in identifying himself by just a single name indicates a high level of fanaticism before the review even begins. His concise yet completely over-the-top article summary – A modern day Midas – confirms this suspicion.
So he’s off to a good start.
Once we get into the review itself, Irving treats us to several satisfying displays of man-crush inspired hyperbole. He claims that Yanni is a musical Messiah and that when his music finally slows to a halt a part of oneself always seems to disappear along with it. (Usually, it’s the spleen.)
Musical genius, or super-douche?
According to Irving, Yanni also compares favorably with some of the greatest composers in history, as he is: neither as daunting as Beethoven nor as high-brow as Mozart, yet more earthly than Bach and less ethereal than Chopin. One might be tempted to criticize Irving here, pointing out that “more earthly” and “less ethereal” mean practically the same thing. But that’s not the point – what he wants us to realize is that Beethoven and Mozart are pompous douchebags, and that Bach and Chopin need to get their stupid-looking heads out of the clouds already.
Unfortunately, Irving completely loses us in his penultimate paragraph, as he writes: But this album is not without its faults. Excuse me, Irving? I don’t care if you do think the final three instrumental numbers appear to sprawl around rather aimlessly. We came to you for blind, overzealous approval. If you can’t deliver it, we’ll find someone else who can.
For those of you two lazy to click the link.
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Album Rating: 3.5
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Album Rating: 4.0
Thanks, everyone. Next time I will actually work carefully when I write a review. I was just careless on this one. I think I was going more for an interesting read than a good review. Glad you liked it, Sowing.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I dunno the longer I've been here the less I care about every review being a carefully crafted English project.
I'd rather read something fun.
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Album Rating: 4.0
^ Heareth ye the wrinkly olde contributor.
;)
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Album Rating: 3.5
I really do feel old.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Cheno you should do grad school in Malaysia, just sayin'.
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
neggers are faggots
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Album Rating: 4.0
holy shit formatted Irving post, someone screen capture that shit so theacad can put it on flag plz
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Album Rating: 4.0
haha Irving I just read that review of your review. it wasn't even that bad, he's just accusing you of being over-the-top in love with a piece of music. so what? we all have some albums/pieces like that
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Album Rating: 4.0
and for the triple post:
"I dunno the longer I've been here the less I care about every review being a carefully crafted English project.
I'd rather read something fun."
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as long as blatant grammar/spelling issues are minimal, I don't mind two much
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