On average, how many record reviews do you read in a week?

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Looking at the rating, the writer and moving on doesn't count.

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I just look like the writer and not the rating! Damn those sites that put the writer at the bottom.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

this isn't looking good so far

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

on average i'd say about 15

that's 10 in dutch and 5 in english

― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Between 5 and 10 on Pitchfork, always skimmed.

When I used to get Blender, I would read a lot of theirs.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

depends on what your definition of "read" is. what does that word mean, anyway?

― marc h. (marc h.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I'll let read mean anything between "skim to get gist of" to "edit for publication". Ultimately, after you're done, you have a good idea of what the review said and how the writer feels about the record.

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

10-15 probably, on average. Is the next question related to the number of albums I buy so we can correlate for market research?

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

including old reviews for research, it's probably 25-30, plus. new reviews, read for pleasure? 15-20, with a lot of skimming. full-on reading? 5-7, depending on which of my favorite writers happen to have reviews out in a given week.

― marc h. (marc h.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Two or three. Certainly no more than five. I don't visit many sites covering music I actually give a flying fuck about, and the only music magazine I buy is the Wire (because they won't send me contributor's copies), so it's only when Pitchfork or Stylus or the Voice stumble onto something interesting that I stop and read.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

a hundred or so? i just read everything that my eyes can catch. it helps when you're senior editor with a musiczine :-)

― vincent romain (nico vrintman), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

1 or 2.

― The last honest gentleman (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

On average about 7 a day, so within a weekday, that's roughly 30+/-
I work at a magazine, so I'm on the computer for the prior half of the day, thus most of the blurbs are from the 'net. There is a lot of biased bullshit reviewage out there, though...so, sometimes the reviews just become a negative surplus to my listening experience.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

1 or 2...unless its the beginnning of the month and i plow through the wire on the train.

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

0.465789314159

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

a few dozen

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Enough to know that fewer should be written.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

.08 or something on average

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Maybe 20?

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

do ppl still 'trust' print reviews more than on-line reviews (ie arthur magazine+the wire vs pitchfork and stylus)

some of the best reviews i read are on the retail sites - volcanic tongue, forced exposure, fusetron etc

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

none. anymore.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 1 September 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

Prob'ly none if ILM doesn't count.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 1 September 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

― Pvt. Dave Goes To Far (scarlet), Thursday, 1 September 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

As few as possible. Maybe one or two.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 September 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

prob about 4 per month. unless looking at ILX counts as "reviews"

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 1 September 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

on a normal week, probably two to five. if i buy a magazine, which is getting rarer these days, I'll probably read between a third and two-thirds of what's in there (depending on what magazine it is).

― haitch online poker (haitch), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Hardly any. I already have like hundreds of albums on mp3 to listen to. I get most of my new music recommendations from ILM and mp3 blogs, occasionally I do get some from AMG though.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

two, if that. (which doesn't include the occasional ones i write.) i find ILM substantially more useful than most reviews. (which does include the ones i write.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

very few - two to five, i suppose. mostly online.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

None... but if you factor in the occasional purchase of the occasional magazine, something like 0.063

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

... but for online reviews the answer is "never"

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

I read however many I read - it varies, I can't quantify it.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

It varies from day to day, depending largely on whether I’ve gotten a magazine in the mail or not. Thinking about it, overall I read way more magazine/alt-weekly reviews than online-based ones, though each format carries its share of utter and total crap. Yesterday I picked up the Baltimore City Paper and read the whole music section, which was maybe like 8 reviews, and read the three Seatlle Weekly reviews, and a couple others here and there. On a weekday I average maybe 8 reviews total, not including my own. Whether or not I read Stylus or PF reviews depends on (a) the writer, (b) if I have any interest in the artist, and (c) how much time I have to spare.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh, right – thread asked about “per week” = then roughly 40 per week, maybe more if weekends are factored in and I’m laying around the house flipping through magazines.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

i guess i didn't think about stuff i read almost by accident in newspapers etc. hmm. even so: the answer is still "ILM".

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 1 September 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

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