[redshifter]

hey riordan,
everyone is free to my own opinion.

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

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Originally posted by waylman I love allmusic to death. IMO, it is the best site on the net. They are way off sometimes though. They gave the album below 4.5 stars. I kid you not.

 

[the faint]

ALL OF AMG's RATINGS ARE RIDICULOUS!

All this website is good for is TRACK LISTINGS

NOTHING ELSE(well their bio's and definition of genre's are pretty crecent fresh) but that's all!

 

[djgustashaw]

yeah, i'm starting to see that more of their ratings are ridiculous than i thought. i've never used AMG only, though. i use AMG, drownedinsound.com, pitchfork media, and even rolling stone sometimes to get a wide range of opinions. anything from a single reviewer should be taken with a grain of salt. many would like to complain about influence of earlier artists on current artists instead of actually listening to the music.

 

[fractus2]

I see. Search for an album that you would not be caught dead buying and see if the rating is more than the negative two stars that is your opinion of it and when they rate it high you discount all of their services.

 

[djgustashaw]

and how do you know i was referring to the britney album? and besides, as i said, you have to take ANY review with a grain of salt. geez. just because you made it clear you love AMG doesn't mean there can't be differing opinions. they've given me some good recommendations, too, but it ain't perfect. no review site is.

 

[fractus2]

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Originally posted by djgustashaw and how do you know i was referring to the britney album? and besides, as i said, you have to take ANY review with a grain of salt. geez. just because you made it clear you love AMG doesn't mean there can't be differing opinions. they've given me some good recommendations, too, but it ain't perfect. no review site is.

Hmm, are you assumming something here?

 

[the faint]

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Originally posted by djgustashaw [B i use AMG, drownedinsound.com, pitchfork media, [/B]

pitchfork is great although they are a bit elitist. although their best new music picks cannot be beat!

 

[djgustashaw]

Quote:

Hmm, are you assumming something here?

 

[grinch]

i think allmusic sucks. the page is ugly and it's hard to link to certain pages in it. it also forces you to make a new window when i'd rather be able to open the link in a new tab, but that doesn't work due to the java they use.

also, a big chunk of their information blows and is wrong. occasionally they are useful, and it's pretty much all we have now, but i really just miss cdnow and wish it was back. i thought they had a much better resource of information and how it was presented was awesome.