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Does The Words opinion count for nothing?
Posted by Dave Amitri on 8 November 2009 - 12:21am.
I bought the new Cribs album today, "Ignore The Ignorant" a sticker on the front shows the opinion of said album of the following publications:
NME 8/10 Album of The Week
Mojo **** Album of the Month
Observer Music Monthly ****
Hot Press ****
Uncut ****
Daily Mail ****
The Sun ****
Q ****
The Times ****
Time Out ****
The Fly ****
The Guardian ****
It's late, I'm tired, I'm coming down from the high of David Hayes vitory and this bothers me. Where is the opinion of our favourite music monthly? Did we not review The Cribs? Did we give it no stars? If not The Word why The Times and The Daily Mail? Can someone tell me how this stuff works?
Oh, and if you're wondering why I bought The Cribs new album, this is why.
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I like it too.
Sounds like The Smiths with Mark E Smith singing. Pretty obvious why, but good nonetheless.
I would guess...
...that all those reviews are listed because they give scores and someone at the record company thinks that a long line of asterisks equates to a good impression. Personally, I don't. I see adverts all the time now which are just a forest of stars. They generally confirm me in my resolve to avoid whatever it is.
Occasionally they make it up
an ad last year for Syd Griffin's album (or his band - sorry can't remember their name) claimed The Word had given it 4 stars. The ad was in The Word too.
It's a good song
Works brilliantly over the goals on Match of the Day 2.