Album Rating: 4.5
"Yeah I read this full review and think either Fripp's review or Arcade's eulogy should still be the flagged review." [2]
And then again, as I always say, reviews should be flagged depending on their quality and not judged under the elitist standard of you being a staff, contrib or normal usert
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Album Rating: 3.5
Not a 5.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I don't generally consider your opinion to have merit, hence the silence.
A few revisions will be made based on the constructive criticism of others. I will resume ignoring your existence and its lack of impact on my life. Have a day.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Before the recent death of its creator, I wasn't sure Blackstar was worthy of a "perfect" 5, as our system dictates.
confused as to why "perfect" is in quotations. or why it's followed by "as our system dictates". I assumed you'd follow it with some rationale regarding what a "perfect 5" entails via our system, and you didn't, so its function as an opening sentence doesn't make sense to me.
prior to hearing the album, I felt certain that the album would follow suit.
the repetition of "the album" in this sentence is awkward.
In the immediate and very small space between the moment in which my cosmic expectations were set by this marvelously and deliberately quirky, devilish beast of a track entered the global listening space and the moment I heard the gospel of its disciple tracks, I must confess I was a bit disappointed.
prolix sentence. since this is the last sentence of the opening paragraph (basically the launch board into the rest of the review) it makes it difficult to feel motivated to keep reading.
that tinged this pinnacle of absolutely dark and free jazz
maybe it's just me, but the descriptor "free jazz" shouldn't belong in any sentence regarding this album. I understand that this is an art rock album that has some jazz elements, but it's not free jazz. maybe you meant "free" as in liberated and it just sorta got tacked onto the jazz descriptor or something, idk
But the point is, there are two elements to Blackstar: its title track (paired loosely with Paul-bearer "Lazarus") and its other constituents.
- again, pallbearer*
also, sentence isn't convincing. you say there are two elements, then go on to describe a slew of elements... it seems like you mean to say there is a zenith (the title track) that holds dominion over the other tracks. you could use a better analogy than what you chose to do, I think
I'm also not big on how you jump back and forth between describing different songs. it feels like backtracking. it's like, in hindsight, you thought "Oh right! that reminds me, I forgot to mention ___. Oh, and ___. Am I forgetting anything...? Oh, yeah, ____" It's just really herky-jerky.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Cheers, Johnny, I'll keep these points in mind in revision. The "perfect" basically denotes that nothing is perfect. The reference to the system is basically reinforcing the "5" being whatever "perfect" is as per the site. The pallbearer thing is a fuck up I've made more than once.
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Album Rating: 2.5
ahh i c. i'd prefer if it wasn't in quotations as the "perfect paradox" or whatever doesn't need to be an immediate focal point, but that's entirely up to you - really minor complaint.
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Album Rating: 4.5
johnny is right it just seems like you neglected to proofread this shit hard. it was extremely difficult to read and those are good examples.
also as for the free jazz thing
regardless of whether or not the free jazz descriptor should be there
read this sentence to yourself 5 times in a row and tell me what is wrong with it:
""Lazarus" carried the spirit on, but not to such an obscene degree of perfect strangeness that tinged this pinnacle of absolutely dark and free jazz (though its video certainly ticked all the boxes)"
unless you are using the terms 'dark' and 'free' as descriptors for the style of 'jazz' the song is playing instead of using 'free jazz' as a genre term this makes literally no sense whatsoever. so you either need to finish your sentence or if you were indeed using 'free' as a descriptor instead of a word inherently directly linked to jazz as a genre term you need to figure out a new word to use there because 'free' and 'jazz' right next to each other implies you are referring the the genre.
for example, you could change it something along the lines of either
a) Lazarus" carried the spirit on, but not to such an obscene degree of perfect strangeness that tinged this pinnacle of absolutely dark free jazz (though its video certainly ticked all the boxes)
by deleting the 'and' to make dark a descriptor for the genre 'free jazz'
or b) Lazarus" carried the spirit on, but not to such an obscene degree of perfect strangeness that tinged this pinnacle of absolutely dark and (insert literally any synonym for 'free') jazz (though its video certainly ticked all the boxes)
by changing the word free so it doesnt misleadingly change it from a descriptor to a genre abruptly ending the sentence
so how you want to fix it depends on what you were actually trying to do there but tbh i cant really decipher it either way because the song has literally nothing to do with 'free jazz' and alternatively using 'free' as a descriptor for jazz that isnt 'free jazz' seems silly.
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Album Rating: 4.5
You like this potsy?
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah, I picked that up potsy. Thank you for making your criticism construcrive. This will be addressed when I have time to edit.
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Album Rating: 3.5
While you're at it, get rid of "obscene", "perfect" and "absolutely", they add nothing and obscene seems to be misused.
"Lazarus" carried the spirit on, but not to such an obscene degree of perfect strangeness that tinged this pinnacle of absolutely dark and free jazz (though its video certainly ticked all the boxes)
"Lazarus" carried the spirit on, but not to such a degree of strangeness that tinged this pinnacle of dark free jazz (though its video certainly ticked all the boxes)
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Album Rating: 5.0
"Such a degree of strangeness" is terribly bland for the comparison against an extreme being employed.
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just get rid of this review or rate it without auto rating it a 5 just because the guy died, thats my constructive criticism
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Album Rating: 4.5
I can see why people are rating this a 5. Emotions aside it's undeniably a great album.
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why the hell is this flagged over fripp's or arcade's?
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Album Rating: 5.0
Because sputnikmusic is run by bourgeois scumbags, and where the proletariat get fuck all for their hard work. No disrespect to the author but this review shouldn't be flagged.
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Album Rating: 4.2
You make it sound like Nazi Germany Tuna, jesus
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Album Rating: 5.0
I swear this time I could make communism work if you just gave me a chance. I know everyone says it's a naive concept but Lenin was just doing it wrong.
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Album Rating: 4.2
sorry about the whole "jew" thing btw
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lolling out loud at this banter
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Album Rating: 4.1 | Sound Off
real good staff review huh
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