Goat wrote:
Satan's Anus wrote:
rio wrote:
What nonsense, Ken. If by "in love with your own words", you mean "we spend a lot of time and effort trying to write as good reviews as possible, and secretly harbour hopes that people will, you know, read them", then guilty as charged.
Nothing wrong with that at all, but you guys
expect everyone to have the time to read those reviews. That's what my comment refers to. Suggesting people are lazy for liking the scores is fucking arrogant.
Igor, fetch the sackcloth and ashes! Woe is us! Oh, forgive us, mighty Ken, for running a metal website that doesn't cater to people who don't have time to read metal websites! My god, we must immediately slash everything to the bone so that people who have no time can skim it all within their precious few seconds!
Seriously, I'm a democratic sort of guy, more people clearly want scores than don't, but I think the argument against scores deserves to be put more clearly. Honestly. If you look at a number and use that for the basis of an album purchase, without looking at all the words beforehand, then woe betides you when said album turns out to not have been adequately summed up by a score out of a hundred. Presumably that's how such people buy household appliances, computers and cars as well, without stopping to consider whether it fits their needs or no? Wish I had that money to throw away.
Lets say one week there are 5 power metal reviews. I don't like power metal, so typically I wouldn't read any of them. However if an album of those 5 was scored 99/100 I'm more likely to read that review. Doesn't mean I'll buy it just because it got a high score, but it does give valuable information for my choice on whether to read that review or not.
You could argue that demos and EPs need to be scored MORE than full-lengths. There are bands out there that have written incredible demos and EPs that are higher quality than other bands full-lengths. But there are also demos and EPs that are hilariously shit. A score would simply act as a shorthand hint as to whether, say, a black metal band is worth seeking out or is a generic fucking Darkthrone clone.
You guys argue that all we want is to not read the reviews. I for one don't read them all. I don't read reviews of genres I don't like, and I am not likely to read a black metal review if it scored 20/100. Why would I waste my time reading about something that if it's shit and I'm never going to want to hear it?
Finally, split albums are widely scored here, yet aren't they for a large part simply two Eps stuck together?