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rolling stone is pretty much a joke

Yeah their layout and stuff is well done, easy to navigate and they don't randomly delete old reviews like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone do (so many dead links from wikipedia goddamn). I just struggle to trust their reviews

Yeah Rolling Stone is laughable. Even NME gets it right more often, despite their obsession with hype and novelty

ZOMFG ARCTIC MONKEYS/HORRORS/ARCADE FIRE

How about some love for Uncut and The Quietus?

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I think it's just that Allmusic's opinions can be a little overly generous a lot of the time (the

people they choose to handle the Christian music releases are far too nice), they're pretty lenient

and dismiss a lot of flaws for not being as bad as they are (they gave Lulu a 3/5 for example lol).

For a music critiquing site they aren't too critical or harsh, which I admittedly do like for the most

part, it's a nice change in attitude from most other sites.

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It's not bad as a gateway site for a first pass of a discog for some band that are new to you so you can then move on and read some more in depth reviews elsewhere.

Nothing wrong with a bit of generosity no, sites like Pitchfork can be so unnecessarily scathing (I take it you've seen the review of The Fragile, Mr. Breaking)

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What I like about allmusic is how concise their reviews are. No bullshit, it just cuts to the chase and tells me what I want to know immediately. Come to think of it, they're really the only reviewing site I like aside from Sputnik. I can't think of many other publications, Q Magazine is shit, I'm not a fan of Pitchfork at all, and I agree with both of you, Rolling Stone is an absolute joke. Their reviews aren't even reviews, they're sentences that barely describe anything and don't give either praise or critiques. And their ratings are completely batshit, and they know it. 80% of the albums on their list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" they originally gave 3 - 3.5/5's.

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And yes, Polyethylene, I've seen that Pitchfork review of The Fragile lol. 0.2/10, seems legit. Still though, fuck that album lol. Well okay, It's not THAT bad.

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Mojo isnt bad sometimes

I read a Rolling Stone of my sister's I found downstairs, it had The 500 Greatest Song Of All Time Ever in it... I've never raged so much in my life. There were literally about 90 Beatles songs, just as many Dylan tracks, almost as many Elvis ones, etc. etc.
I really hate that attitude of "it's old and therefore good", sure that stuff is influential but jesus christ.

The Fragile is okay I reckon, if the best tracks got put on one disc it'd be his best album (maybe). I go on Pitchfork a couple times a week just because they're easy to navigate in terms of new, alternative releases... their reviews though I can never really trust. So many shit albums get called amazing, and vice versa

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@menawati I've never heard of Mojo before.



@Polyethylene They originally gave Led Zeppelin 2's when they first started out, then changed their ratings to 5/5's once the band's legacy was set in stone. Their editors just seem incapable of being able to identify albums that have something really special about them. They actually revised that 500 Greatest list in the early 2000's with more albums they gave 3/5's lol.

Mojo is onto it sometimes, I agree with menawati there.
And yeah they're the worst when it comes to rubbishing stuff on release and then praising it ten years later. There will be cases, like with Led Zep, where those albums are actually establishing a whole new genre, and they get poor reviews because the genre isn't one that exists yet and is therefore inapplicable to any that the writer is familiar with. I guess the solution to that is to be less reactionary in the first place.

Souleater, how many times do you gonna say that?

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Could one of you link me this Mojo site? Can't seem to find it.

Some scores can be found here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A1Dos!

allmusic, LA Times and RS giving hgh scores

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http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/home_index.html



its just support for the paper publication , they used to review a lot of non mainstream stuff and give away cd's of obscure shit dunno what their web presence is like tho

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Looks interesting, thanks for the link.

This album is just terrible, please just go away Green day, you were never interesting to begin with....