I’ve been worryin’ on album reviews for awhile now and I have reached a coupla conclusions.1. I have amnesia. When it comes to reviewing an album I forget the old Motown adage: Two hits, two tracks for the concert, 6 dogs with fleas.
2. You can’t judge music that fast. It’s hard to figure out a track after a coupla listens (that’s why I am always changing my mind: latest victim, Lil Wayne but I’ll tell you why I love it another post). An important album? A Monitor or a Suburb or an 808s? It can take months of returning to it to fully grasp what you love on it. The Scissor Sister’s newbie just deepens and deepens on me.
3. You get stuck with 2K words for a 0.5K necessary review. You end up doing the “Enter galactic (Love Connection, Pt 1)” writing a paragraph on a song not worth mentioning..
4. Editors don’t (though bloggers don’t mind) a review where the writer doesn’t know whether he likes the album or not. We live in a world that hates ambivalence.
5. So here is my tip to the record reviews: edit it down as much as you can and if you have no idea about an album, just say so.
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6. Better towrite too little than write to much…