Cut to the chase. Send a turd in the mail.

I think this is about you, bames.

oh it makes me angry - well at least the Allmusic guide's review of Like Flies on Sherbert by Alex Chilton - completely fucking misses the point.

re-record the whole album. and send it again with a 20 000 word trestise

what for? cos someone disagrees with you, you want to write them a letter??? what do you think they're going to do with it?

when reviewers don't agree with you:

put the magazine down.

log off.

go outside and walk around the block.

come home, put said album on and enjoy it.

This does happen all the fucking time with everything.

Morons not understanding why Shoot 'em Up or Rambo 4 is awesome.

Fucking drilled dill brained morons.

Ahhh well.

At the end of the day there's always plasma really.

i read a review of Disquiet - a novel by Juliet Leigh in the Age on the weekend. the reviewer Sophie Gee didn't even understand the plot. and then she slammed the novel. oops.

Yeah totally. Review the reviewer. Sling some shit back. It might look pathetic but they should be able to take it.

chinawoman- Be fucking serious. They most definitely can NOT take it. As by doing so you are threatening the basis of their existence.

todays reviews are lining tomorrows bird cages

dont let it get to you - if i let every bad/'misses the point/didn't even listen to the cd review get to me i'd be insane now....

ac/dc, led zeppelin and a bunch of others never got a good review in rolling stone - ever

well until they were considered ''classic bands'' anyways

plus they're all so subjective anyways - enjoy the record for the pleasure it gives u and fuck everyone else

todays reviews are lining tomorrows bird cages

werd.

I had a reviewer say I was like coldplay. Another reviewer said I was like Edgar Froese. MAybe I'm like both?

I did this once many years ago after someone wrote a hopelessly inadequate review. My rant was apparently printed up in the following issue which was not my intention be strangely rewarding none the less.

...and no it wasn't regarding a review about one of my CD's.

this is my favourite example of a reviewer ''not getting it'':

On the strength of his Big Star releases from the early 1970s and a host of live performances he gave during the latter half of the 1970s, Alex Chilton had rightly become a rock connoisseur's darling and an inspiration to independent-label bands throughout the United States. Despite all this favorable attention, he would not return to the studio until 1980. Sadly, this release is a dreadful disappointment. Production values are among the worst this reviewer has ever heard: sound quality is terrible, instrumental balances are careless and haphazard, and some selections even begin with recording start-up sound. Chilton's false-start vocal on ''Boogie Shoes'' is simply left in without correction. Many of the songs here stop dead or fall apart rather than ending properly. Instrumental playing is universally slipshod and boorish, and vocals are sloppy and lackluster. A cover of the Lonnie Mack hit ''I've Had It'' contains vocals that, without exaggeration, sound like a group of tavern inebriates trying to sing. An attempt to burlesque Elvis Presley's vocal excesses in ''Girl After Girl'' misfires badly. A few of Chilton's songs here, such as ''My Rival'' and ''Hook or Crook,'' aren't bad in their own right and would have been listenable had they been performed and produced better. Regrettably, this album cannot be recommended under any circumstances.

I heard a story about a band in Melbourne who got a shit review. The review may or may not have been on the mark but it was written pretty poorly and demonstrated some pretty average comprehension. They rang this reviewer up and corrected her mistakes over and over again until she got it. That's fucking funny and shit reviewers deserve to have their work magnified and bent over. Too many people read reviews and forget to form their own opinion.

totally jose - fuck that review makes me see red... totally.fucking.misses.the.fucking.point.

totally jose - fuck that review makes me see red... totally.fucking.misses.the.fucking.point.

but. why?

it's bought you pleasure? yes? so some nerd in internet land's slated it. has it really reduced your enjoyment of the album?

because someone is going to read it and not form their own opinion and lose out on a great listening experience becuase some douche bag completely missed the point.

you were capable of forming your own opinion on it ...

medicineman, may I introduce you to metacritic.com/music?

I do agree with Dan_Crad, that would be a better review. But there's a place for Lester Bangs and a place for Ian MacDonald.

and teh pee wee herman fight is with someone who doesn't give a shit about your opinion.

hahaha of course.

i let it slide for nearly everything - just this one particular review really fucking gets on my nerves.

well as for the rest of it, i don't think it is wrong to expect a level of competence in people.

i don't think it is wrong to expect a level of competence in people

I gave up on that expectation long ago.

i like metacritic. i've been aware of it for a while. though going back up the thread - i like reading reviews but they don't inform my opinion of a record - i can do that myself.

hahaha yes too true, though by realising that i often show signs of incompetence (which i strive, occasionally, to eliminate) it still gives me the resolve to keep expecting it of others - even when they don't show it.

It's fairly obvious to me that the Like Flies On Sherbert review that MM objects to is a fairly straightforward case of classicism versus romanticism - Like Flies On Sherbert is in a way one of the ultimate romantic records (in the philosophical sense where feeling/raw emotional pain trumps reason/craft), whereas the reviewer reviews it as a classicist would, focusing on the craft of the record, whether the songs are well written, and the performances are good.

pffft.

anyway - i'm out of here - we can continue this on monday hilly.

Mr. T speaks

Mr. T speaks

The Kids are the only true punk band in Belgium, let there be no doubt about it. This album is a classic and I think everyone should have this. *Although recorded in 1979, the lyrics are still up to date. *'' No work'', '' I wanna get a job in the city'', '' Fascist cops'', '' Do you like the nazis'', '' Old dj's'', ''Money is all I need'', ''The city is dead'', ''Bloody Belgium'', ...

This is a rollercoaster of great rock and roll **with a **destinct punk attitude. All nowadays punkbands should have a listen to this, just to realize how punk should sound like. These guys are respected all over the world, from Belgium to USA to Japan to ...
Enjoy!!!

Ok so I was putting on bold the moronic parts of the review but it just got out of control!

*Although recorded in 1979, the lyrics are still up to date. *

whoops missed one

I WASNT GONNA LISTEM TO THEM BUT NOW I KNOW THEY'RE RESPECTED OVER THE WORLD. OH GEE THANKS YOU EVEN LISTED COUNTRIES SO I WOULDN'T GET LOST!

also can someone snatch an lp for me or link to the record label who is reissuing! its totally old news but seriously when that LP came out I was in an mp3 before vinyl state.

URRURRR IM A STUPID MORON THAT ABUSES FREEDOM OF SPEECH ON THE INTERNET BY PUBLISHING MY BRAIN TURDS ON A BLOG!!! ALSO MY LAST 15 PLAYED SONGS ON LAST FM WERE ON FUGAZI BECUASE IM A PEICE OF SHIT AND EVERYONE WHO LIKES FUGAZI NEEDS TO KILL THEMSELVES!(he has a last fm on his blog) im not a stalker or anything i was just desperately looking for that record by the Kids!

hey dork features, I have an original copy....and i only ever dj ''i wanna get a job in the city''....

Ill send it to you and add a free pack of xanax.......

Thanks! I'll send a surprise back, I don't know what it is yet, surprise!