trailerprincess
07-24-2006, 06:01 AM
I was just thinking about this the other day when I was reading a review of the new Razorlight album in the Sunday Times, in which they wrote the below
"The worst album I’ve heard this year, in any genre: lyrically inept, musically lazy and trite, with shockingly poor production. The chasm between Johnny Borrell’s increasingly laughable bombast (“The best songwriter of my generation”; oh, stop it) and his work is as wide as an ocean here. In the Morning kicks things off, with its poor man’s Tom Petty/mid-1980s George Harrison sound. On track two, Borrell rolls out the lamest rhyme in songwriting, asking: “Who needs love? Who needs a heaven up above?” More to the point, who needs an album this excruciating? Tragically, with the usual cheerleaders already gushing superlatives, the answer is: many more people than you’d hope for. 1/10"
However, for the same album, Q Magazine also described it as 'the best guitar album since Definitely Maybe'
How much value, if any, should people give to the opinions of music journalists/reviewers? Are there any particular publications or journalists that rile you or that you admire?
I personally can't stand Word magazine. The few times I have bought it I have found the writing sloppy and inaccurate. I am also tired of NME not seeming to be able to go to a gig and be vaguely critical - every gig seems to be brilliant and every band are going to be THE NEXT BIG THING. It drives me mad. Anyway, rant over
"The worst album I’ve heard this year, in any genre: lyrically inept, musically lazy and trite, with shockingly poor production. The chasm between Johnny Borrell’s increasingly laughable bombast (“The best songwriter of my generation”; oh, stop it) and his work is as wide as an ocean here. In the Morning kicks things off, with its poor man’s Tom Petty/mid-1980s George Harrison sound. On track two, Borrell rolls out the lamest rhyme in songwriting, asking: “Who needs love? Who needs a heaven up above?” More to the point, who needs an album this excruciating? Tragically, with the usual cheerleaders already gushing superlatives, the answer is: many more people than you’d hope for. 1/10"
However, for the same album, Q Magazine also described it as 'the best guitar album since Definitely Maybe'
How much value, if any, should people give to the opinions of music journalists/reviewers? Are there any particular publications or journalists that rile you or that you admire?
I personally can't stand Word magazine. The few times I have bought it I have found the writing sloppy and inaccurate. I am also tired of NME not seeming to be able to go to a gig and be vaguely critical - every gig seems to be brilliant and every band are going to be THE NEXT BIG THING. It drives me mad. Anyway, rant over