Negative criticism that inspires you to seek out music

Entire Red and Blue editions of The Rolling Stone Record Guide to thread.

you mean the 1992 edition? or that AND the earlier, dave marsh-edited edition?

i remember a raincoats review from one of the older editions that was extremely harsh but made me think i would like them, which turned out to be true.

marsh didn't really "get" postpunk i suppose.

Robert Christgau's Seventies Record Guide. Dave Marsh on Grand Funk. Rolling Stone on Black Sabbath.

the 1992 edition was kind of misfire wasn't it?

Red Edition = 1979; Blue Edition = 1983; later editions = possibly less clueless sometimes but also way less fun.

the 1992 edition was kind of misfire wasn't it?

Eh, it's not bad. Our own m coleman wrote quite a few blurbs; he's one of the few who Gets It.

it's sort of touching that in 1992, on the cusp of the internet revolution, some folks thought you could actually compile reviews of all the important pop and rock albums in a little book.

boy is that OTM. actually 1992 was the middle of the cd-reissue boom w/so much coming back into print every month so the RS guide was out-of-date as soon as it was published. the subsequent RS guide from a few years ago (which includes lots of the 92 book) is the one that seems redundant in light of the internet etc.

some of my own negative crit has spurred me to seek out and re-examine in recent years, now that everything's available online. shamefully I sort of shrugged off Kraftwerk in 1992 but today I rate them as The Beatles of 80s

(thanks thanks thanks alfred)

If something is being described as pretentious, overtly clever and way too smooth, then chances are I'll love that.

From an interview I did with Peter Rehberg in 2000:

"She (MM reviewer of Get Out) said this sounds like someone trying to download a ZX Spectrum game. Fine! That sounds very good!"

FAO sexyDancer

http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15151/reviews/4139388

A more unpleasant 31 minutes and 24 seconds you will not experience. Otherworldly and chaotic, the six songs are merged into one, filled with a constant beat surrounded by wailing and grunting nightmarish voices. ‘LIL’ provides a brief respite and shows a glimpse of a song, starting out daintily euphoric and losing the nitrous oxide vocals of the preceding two tracks before descending once more into a distinctly Arabian chaotic mess. The strange voices return and the music is left behind...What has been so enjoyable about other artists on Paw Tracks, in particular Animal Collective themselves, is that they challenge our perceptions of conceptual and typical song structure without completely abusing them, pushing boundaries instead of banishing them altogether.

Presidence is way awesome

yeah that's kinda what I've realised, after reading that review

lol @ "distinctly Arabian"

Only got one Excepter album (Debt Dept) but the opening synth bit from 'Greenhouse/Stretch' keeps popping into my head

oh Curt1s, if only you read DiS more often, you'd learn so much ¬_¬

the best part about Presidence is the title track, to which they do give semi-props in that review

except for the "unnecessary longevity" jab - the longevity of that track is essential to its nature

well I'm eager to get hold of it! sounds a bit Thighpaulsandraesque and y'all know how I stan for that dude

on a similar note, here's another recent DiS review of a record I love, full of baseless claims, inaccuracies, poor grammar, and rubbish musical analysis, that immediately alert you to the fact that the album is a LOT better than is claimed. yeah there are a few comments from me beneath. sorry, can't help it. http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15188/reviews/4139378

also longevity is never fucking unnecessary if it's what the artist wishes to express