I use the review sites to take something I end up liking and trying to find other artists they recommend. Unfortunately I have a limited scope for music review sites. I'm looking for something that has someone who does the reviews for the album as opposed to a mass of people commenting. Pitchfork, CokeMachineGlow, Tinymixtapes (the ones i've heard mentioned the most) recommend alot of the same shit that I end up hating. I want something with a big array of reviews across a plethora of genres. If anyone could point me to some of their favourites I will check them out. As a side note, is there any site that someone knows that doesn't absolutely hate The Mars Volta's Frances and Amputechture. I love these albums and I think that is where the genre differentiation comes in for me with the aforementioned websites.
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Kinda obvious, but allmusic.com
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ledbutter wrote:
Mercury wrote:
Kinda obvious, but allmusic.com
i second this; besides pfork its the only review site i visit with any regularity (and i trust all music a hell of a lot more).
Well, sometimes I agree and sometimes I don't but I don't really sense an agenda with them at least.
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The only problem with AllMusic is that lots of the reviews in certain genres are written by hardcore enthusiasts. This is nice if you're already pretty learned in a genre, but it can lead to some inaccessible reccomendations otherwise.
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Orpheus wrote:
The only problem with AllMusic is that lots of the reviews in certain genres are written by hardcore enthusiasts. This is nice if you're already pretty learned in a genre, but it can lead to some inaccessible reccomendations otherwise.
I agree, but if you go there and read a metal review at least you know the person reviewing it is a fan of the genre and won't judge it against some ridiculous standards that shouldn't even apply. It's not perfect, but I enjoy the site.
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Rollingstone.com?
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metacritic.com is where I go to get a good overall feeling on what all the reviews are. It doesn't review the albums itself but links to all the reviews and gives a weighted average rating of them.
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Anything else? I know amazon but it's useless basically lol. I occasionally look at ubl.artistdirect.com which is decent.
I used to stumble into a lot of good recommendations on amazon through their user lists and guides, but the last time I checked, they would only show half a list or whatever and I couldn't see the rest unless I added all of it to my wishlist/cart. wtf?
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