mortified
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Post by mortified on Mar 27, 2018 15:47:21 GMT
That last review is as far off the mark as I can possibly imagine. Not sure where the writer is getting this "hyped up as a long lost Status Quo" album from. Never read that anywhere at any time. And certainly not from any official source. He's made that up to suit the review. I'm also not keen on "knowing the way certain Quo fans behave" either. Bee and bonnet spring immediately to mind. The criticism of Rick's voice and how they've auto-tuned it is also a bit bizarre. Does no one else do that these days? Are all albums scrupulously honest so that what you hear in the end is how it was played and sung in the studio? Use another singer? Seriously? That is a plainly stupid comment to make and smacks of "oh, I know what I'm talking about here with studio techniques and stuff; me, me, me". I actually disagree with pretty much every word. Comparing it with Quo's cover of Safety Dance and saying that the album sounds a lot like that is, frankly, complete nonsense. By all means, don't like it and say so. Say it's nothing ground-breaking or nothing special. Which, unless you're a Quo fan, it probably isn't. But don't tell outright lies. It's like 1974 all over again My own personal review, whether I liked the album or not, would probably just say it's not for me but it does resemble what many Quo fans have been praying for. For quite some time. That's exactly how I feel about it at the moment. Knob. Right, that's that off me chest
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Post by frozenhero on Mar 27, 2018 17:43:47 GMT
GoodTimes gave it a good review. Eclipsed, not so much.
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Post by smokie on Mar 27, 2018 21:26:07 GMT
These are the first reviews that I've read.
I would say that all of the reviewers bar the last one actually listened to the whole album with an open mind and gave an honest opinion.
The last review? I'd hazard a guess he had the majority of it written before he put the CD on.
Lazy. Cliched. Lame.
No wonder he's writing for the title that he is. (Whatever it may be, I've already forgotten it).
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Post by snakelady on Mar 28, 2018 7:01:42 GMT
Thanks for putting them up, @inna
I actually think the second is the most straight forward and honest one, so the best for me. The third made me smile .. The last one ? - well, the less said the better.
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Post by mortified on Mar 29, 2018 7:28:05 GMT
If that last reviewer has a thing about Quo fans - which it certainly sounds like he does - the album was never going to receive a half decent review from him. For that reason alone. I always hate that sort of critical bias. In any medium. Incidentally, I thought it quaint that he used an old analogy completely irrelevant to the new download era. The "bargain bin" no longer exists to any great extent in music terms. And just to put him straight on that, everything used to end up there anyway. From Thriller to Bat Out Of Hell. Everything has a shelf life. And on iTunes to this very day, there are 'bargain' offers, many of them very big sellers indeed from only a couple of months ago. Very lazy journalism I thought. But he's hardly unique in that respect
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Post by mortified on Mar 29, 2018 8:36:30 GMT
The author does appreciate some of Quo's output, though. He thinks the Heat album is a hidden gem.... I rest my case! The man's an idiot
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