Are they the worst review site?

No, Youtube is.

>>74168883
No that's TheNeedleDrop

Allmusic is pretty awful.

>>74168913
Allmusic is based

>>74168913
Allmusic is actually OK if you look at it more like a synopsis of what the music is like than a review.

>>74168894
NeedleDrop and Scraffi are tied for the two worst review sites.

>>74168883
That's not p4k

>>74168883
CoS is pretty trash, honestly. bad opinions, bad writing, the whole cancerous package

>>74168913
I like Allmusic just to keep track of what I listen to and to review albums myself, and the reviews aren't bad, but not good either.

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Daily reminder

>>74169621
cringe

>good and above tier
none

>okay tier
Allmusic
Scaruffi
Popmatters

>shit tier
Tiny Mix Tapes
Sputnikmusic
Rolling Stone

>meme tier
Fantano
Christgau
P4K

I dont read english review sites but one finnish site i dont like

soundi.fi

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>>74168883
rolling stone is a bunch of plebs who just like whatever's popular. it's shit but inoffensive.
pitchfork is the worst because not only do they have shit taste, but they try to pretend that they listen to obscure stuff in the process. also, they brought hipsters into black metal and that is completely unforgivable.

>>74168883
reminder "professional" music criticism is totally useless in an age in which you can listen to the entire history of music for free.

IMO, the worst review site is Entertainment Weekly. They are so bad that I read their reviews just to laugh at them.

>>74168883
Naw top 5 worst
1. Scruffi
2. TheNeddleDrop
3. Pitchfork
4. NME
5. Roling "Dadrock" Stone

>>74170029
This list is full of shit.

>>74170124
wrong

As long as tinymixtapes is around - no.

>>74168913

For contemporary albums this is true

>>74170492
you need strangers to tell you what music you have to listen to, i feel sorry for you.

>>74170467
t. stantano

>>74168913
I unironically agree with pretty much every allmusic review I've read.

>>74170726
even the ones that contradict each other?

>>74170029
How is Scaruffi not meme tier?

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>>74168913
>>74170726

>go to allmusic
>mfw pretty much every meme album gets perfect scores
>ITAOTS, Loveless, Spiderland, TMR, 2 Kanye West albums (but not MBDTF for some reason), and fucking 3 Radiohead albums all get 5 stars

Which one of you fuckers works at allmusic?

>>74170860
It's like every album ever gets at least a 4

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>>74169621
Classic p4k

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1433-an-art-historians-take-on-those-beyonce-pregnancy-photos/
>"Bey"
>"Perhaps only time will tell if Beyoncé’s power widens the lexicon of beauty and female control of their image for girls and women who aspire to be just like her—a dragon breathing fire, with beautiful mane, like a lion. But what we know now, and perhaps knew on some level before, is that Beyoncé is a Venus of our times."

>>74168883
the shit trifecta
>Rolling Stone
>NME
>Fader/Matter/Noisey/whatever unfunny subsidiary Vice or Vox is dumping onto the world

damn archive and lack of images

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The popular formula in England in this, the aftermath era of such successful British bluesmen as Cream and John Mayall, seems to be: add, to an excellent guitarist who, since leaving the Yardbirds and/or Mayall, has become a minor musical deity, a competent rhythm section and pretty soul-belter who can do a good spade imitation. The latest of the British blues groups so conceived offers little that its twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn't say as well or better three months ago, and the excesses of the Beck group's Truth album (most notably its self-indulgence and restrictedness), are fully in evidence on Led Zeppelin's debut album.

Jimmy Page, around whom the Zeppelin revolves, is, admittedly, an extraordinarily proficient blues guitarist and explorer of his instrument's electronic capabilities. Unfortunately, he is also a very limited producer and a writer of weak, unimaginative songs, and the Zeppelin album suffers from his having both produced it and written most of it (alone or in combination with his accomplices in the group).

The album opens with lots of guitarrhythm section exchanges (in the fashion of Beck's "Shapes of Things" on "Good Times Bad Times," which might have been ideal for a Yardbirds' B-side. Here, as almost everywhere else on the album, it is Page's guitar that provides most of the excitement. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" alternates between prissy Robert Plant's howled vocals fronting an acoustic guitar and driving choruses of the band running down a four-chord progression while John Bonham smashes his cymbals on every beat. The song is very dull in places (especially on the vocal passages), very redundant, and certainly not worth the six-and-a-half minutes the Zeppelin gives it.

>>74172276
Two much-overdone Willie Dixon blues standards fail to be revivified by being turned into showcases for Page and Plant. "You Shook Me" is the more interesting of the two — at the end of each line Plant's echo-chambered voice drops into a small explosion of fuzz-tone guitar, with which it matches shrieks at the end.

The album's most representative cut is "How Many More Times." Here a jazzy introduction gives way to a driving (albeit monotonous) guitar-dominated background for Plant's strained and unconvincing shouting (he may be as foppish as Rod Stewart, but he's nowhere near so exciting, especially in the higher registers). A fine Page solo then leads the band into what sounds like a backwards version of the Page-composed "Beck's Bolero," hence to a little snatch of Albert King's "The Hunter," and finally to an avalanche of drums and shouting.

In their willingness to waste their considerable talent on unworthy material the Zeppelin has produced an album which is sadly reminiscent of Truth. Like the Beck group they are also perfectly willing to make themselves a two- (or, more accurately, one-a-half) man show. It would seem that, if they're to help fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer (and editor) and some material worthy of their collective attention.

>>74170518
you blindly listen to shit music, i feel sorry for you