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I can't believe this mother fucker has listened to all the music he has claimed to have listened to
So he says on his website under all musicians that "As of march 2016, this website contained profiles of 8,600 musicians.".
Assuming that the average length of an album is around 30-40 minutes, so lets say 35 minutes and that Scaruffi only listened to each album once (this obviously isn't correct).
>Average of two albums artist
10033 hours or 418 days
>Average of three albums per artist
15050 hours or 627 days
>Average of four albums per artist
20,066 hours or 836 days
>Average of five albums per artist
30,816 hours or 1284 days
So he could have spent between 1.1 - 3.5 years listening to music which averages at 2.4 years of listening to music in total. This is an extremely conservative estimate imho since there are many artists who have spent years in the recording industry and have released up to ten albums and more with drastically varying time lengths for each album.
Although his website started in 1983 that's an obscene amount of music.
It also states back in 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20030919023711/http://www.scaruffi.com/music/groups.html
That he only had the profiles of 4,568 musicians
So if we cut the estimates in half he's listened to 200 days - 1.75 years of music between 2003 and 2017 (which is again extremely conservative)
That's not even asking the question of the obscene amount of money he would have to spend on music between 1983 and 1999 (when Napster became public)
This is all within the realms of reality but assuming he doesn't like most of the music he listens to (which is usually rated at around a 6/10 on his website), he has to be either lying or absolutely insane to spend all this time and money on music (most of which he claims to dislike)
And when you top that with all the time he has spent reading books, watching movies etc and general life shit, this is fucking ridiculous.
Anyway discuss
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He's autistic as fuck, he probably has spent that amount of time listening to music
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>autist is autistic
shocker
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>>73322957
It's not consuming that amount of music that is challenging but rather having the time to actually digest and properly listen to the music.
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>>73322957
>he hasn't listened to at least 1000 albums
What are you even doing here
Also, Piero is an old man, he's had enough time to listen to more than this.
Kuso post BTW
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>>73322957
Fuck Donald Trump
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>>73322965
I believe it's possible but he doesn't come off as completely autistic, he has a good career and seemingly a lot of friends.
>>73322985
This as well, I can totally see the validity of his opinions on his favourite albums and even bands which he has lampooned before but he cannot possibly be able to give a valid critique of every album he has reviewed.
Not that he has to objective (cause lol) but he can't keep claiming (or at least his fans can't) that he has this broad ocean of knowledge about music from listening to so much of it
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>>73322957
He obviously didn't just start listening to music in 2003 mate
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>>73323076
No it's just that the amount of musician profiles he has has almost doubled since 2003 (which seems appropriate given the propagation of download links, torrent services and streaming since then), so between 2003 and 2016 he listened to on average 1.2 years of music, which again is extremely conservative.
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>>73322957
You are a fucking genius, OP.
I love you.
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As ridiculous as it may seem, I think he has listened to all of it. He's an old guy and has spent a lot of time listening to music during his life.
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>>73324599
How is op a genius? For doing simple maths?>>73325015
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>>73322957
>610
>bad
you're retarded
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He said in an interview once that he usually only listens to albums once before reviewing them, and sometimes doesn't even finish them before scoring them.
His website is the definition of quantity over quality.
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>>73325141
If it's the albums he doesn't find worth finishing, I can understand. Especially with how easy it is to get albums out nowadays. There's so much crap produced and more than 99% of it isn't worth the listen.
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>>73325141
"You have to listen to it multiple times!" is meme advice. Of course in some cases it's very true, but 90% of the time it's said for some mediocre flavour of the month pop album.
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>>73322957
>Each musician had complete freedom of interpretation.
>Beefheart uses the Delta blues as a pretext, but dismembers its structure, rhythm, harmony, tonality and melody, and then reassembles the pieces randomly, injecting it with free-jazz and casual improvisation.
How is he completely wrong about how his top rated rock album of all time was made, it's literally one of the reasons why its so renowned like what the fuck
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>>73325462
Dude listen to more music and stop being igno
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>>73322957
dude he's like 60 fucking years old and most music is mediocre, he recognizes this and only praises the stuff he finds to actually be unique. he has hundreds of 8/10s
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>>73322999
checked
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>>73325466
why is he wrong?
i've never listened to it
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>>73325466
>he fell for the "none of TMR is improvised" meme
Do you want to you know how I know you can't read music?
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>>73327088
In an interview Drumbo (the drummer on TMR) said that none of TMR was improvised, it was painstakingly planned out over like 8 months of sitting in Beefheart's shitty house.
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>>73327157
Who? Unless Beefheart said so I don't care.
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>>73327157
None of what the Magic Band played was improvised, but Beefheart himself definitely improvised: he could not read music nor could he play any of the instruments he used.
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>>73327513
Beefheart had his bandmates transcribe his improvisations to sheet music, so technically the final album wasn't improvised.
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>>73327513
Did he play anything? Anyway 8 months is enough to get some routines down
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>>73325229
>>73325462
How can scaruffi drones be so fucking blinded by Italian cock that they will defend the literally indefensible?
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>>73327584
the other band members instruments were all written but beefheart on the clarinet / sax was mostly improvised
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>>73327628
>plebs force themselves to listen to shitty albums over and over again because P4K or Fantano said they were good
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>>73328014
I agree that for a regular person it is definitely ridiculous to try to listen to an album you don't like over and over waiting for it to "click." But for a critic it is a completely different story.
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