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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: Ħ on December 08, 2012, 07:45:15 PM
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What do you think of the ratings by Allmusic? They seem to consistently cover nearly every release by the artists I've heard. Quite a large scope.
I like their ratings, usually. They've got IAW and TOT with the highest rankings for DT, and I think that's pretty much right. They've got FOABP and SD at the top for PT, and that seems right to me, too. Generally, I don't disagree with what they have to say. So when checking out a new artist, I'll usually check out Allmusic's top suggestion.
What do you think? And if you don't like them, are there any review sites that you trust?
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What do you think? And if you don't like them, are there any review sites that you trust?
Haven't paid any attention to them. I don't really look up music reviews in any capacity.
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I used to read their stuff a lot as a good indicator of which order to check out albums in. Their reviews are usually barebones and shitty though. I use user-generated sites like Sputnik and Encyclopedia Metallum for reviews now.
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I've been visiting AMG for years, and I think I finally noticed that they have ratings maybe a year ago. I think I'm so used to completely ignoring anything that looks like ratings (numbers of stars, or checkmarks, or whatever) that I automatically filter them out. I agree with what they say about albums about half the time, and the other half I think they just don't get it. If they happen to mention particular songs in their "reviews" I almost never agree with what they say. It's a site for the masses, not for people who actually know music. Yeah, that sounds pretty snobby, but it's true.
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I prefer SputnikMusic, myself - they seem to be in line with my tastes more often, though I still check out stuff on YouTube or Spotify, regardless of the reviews that it has gotten, before buying it.
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I used to read their stuff a lot as a good indicator of which order to check out albums in. Their reviews are usually barebones and shitty though. I use user-generated sites like Sputnik and Encyclopedia Metallum for reviews now.
This.
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sputnik is the best
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sputnik is the best
never heard about allmusic, but this x2000
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I used to read their stuff a lot as a good indicator of which order to check out albums in. Their reviews are usually barebones and shitty though. I use user-generated sites like Sputnik and Encyclopedia Metallum for reviews now.
This.
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The fact that AMG uses different reviewers to review different albums by the same band kind of makes it inconsistent. I know I've disagreed with a good number of reviews in the past but I haven't been to the site in awhile so I can't think of any good examples.
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All Music is kind of weird, as was said just above me, they use different reviewers on different albums by a band. And the review content can be wildly uneven throughout a discography; one reviewer will write the War and Peace of reviews on Album #1, while Album #2 gets a three sentence review that reads like a bare bones description. Consequently I really don't give much thought to All Music's reviews. :lol