I am looking for a high quality site that has album reviews from all sorts of critics, sort of like rottentomatoes.com but for music. I would appreciate it. maybe with some mad love in my sig!!
These are the review sites I have bookmarked. Most of them are from the Web Reviewing Community (WRC), a collection of amateur review sites. <a href="http://www.disclaimerband.com/dmra.html">Disclaimer Music Review Archive</a>: Focuses on 80s and 90s electronica, indie pop/rock, punk, and singer-songwriters.<br> <a href="http://www.markprindle.com/">Prindle Rock and Roll Record Review Site</a>: Probably the funniest and most popular site in the Web Reviewing Community. Focuses on hard rock and punk, but covers all genres.<br> <a href="http://members.aol.com/cosmicben/page/">CosmicBen's Record Reviews</a>: The least pretentious of the bunch. Focuses on classic rock.<br> <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/steveandabe/">Steve and Dennis and Abe's Record Reviews</a>: Written by one man with the help of his infant son. Focuses on classic rock, though covers others cursorily.<br> <a href="http://starling.rinet.ru/music/index.htm">George Starostin's Classic Rock And Pop Album Reviews</a>: The most verbose of all the WRC writers, Starostin originally concerned himself with classic rock and prog-rock, but has begun treading into the modern era.<br> <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/">AMG All Music Guide</a>: The best guide for brief overviews of artists and genres.<br> <a href="http://pitchforkmedia.com/">Pitchforkmedia.com</a>: Hated by much of the WRC for its evident pretentiousness. Focuses on new indie and electronica. Some avant-garde.<br> <a href="http://www.warr.org/">Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews</a>: Hated by even more of the WRC for its brevity. Covers all decades.<br> <a href="http://dailyvault.com/">The Daily Vault</a>: One new review per day. Random.<br> <a href="http://www.splendidezine.com/">Splendid</a>: New music, four new reviews every day. They review everything they receive.<br> <a href="http://www.prefixmag.com/">Prefix Magazine</a>: New music. Good site for news links.<br> <a href="http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/albums.html">Adrian's Album Reviews</a>: Covers all decades.<br> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/mjareviews/">Music Junkies Anonymous</a>: Featuring reviews from a couple of dozen writers. Covers all eras.<br>
www.epinions.com you guys can also check out my reviews at www.epinions.com/user-jello77 i dont write as much as i used to but its fun.
ahem, have you ever heard of the website called www.pitchforkmedia.com ?? I believe there are some reviews to be found there. Maybe. Possibly.
Was poking around in AMG All Music Guide and thought I'd check out what they had to say about a record I used to play regularly, before my turntable went south, by Spooky Tooth, called Spooky Two. This is easily their best album, from 1969. I saw them in concert in Houston a couple of times and then a year or two later at a blues club in Denver in '71, where they kicked azz, per usual. (met a real babe on that trip who I took to the club... had a thing with her for awhile) Spooky Two From All Music: Spooky Two is this British blues-rock band's pièce de résistance. All eight of the tracks compound free-styled rock and loose-fitting guitar playing that result in some fantastic raw music. With Gary Wright on keyboards and vocals and lead singer Mike Harrison behind the microphone, their smooth, relaxed tempos and riffs mirrored bands like Savoy Brown and, at times, even the Yardbirds. With some emphasis on keyboards, songs like "Lost in My Dream" and the nine-minute masterpiece "Evil Woman" present a cool, nonchalant air that grooves and slides along perfectly. "I've Got Enough Heartache" whines and grieves with some sharp bass playing from Greg Ridley, while "Better By You, Better By Me" is the catchiest of the songs, with it's clinging hooks and desperate-sounding chorus. The last song, "Hangman Hang My Shell on a Tree," is a splendid example of this group's ability to play off of one another, mixing soulful lyrics with downtrodden instrumentation to conjure up the perfect melancholia. Although the band lasted about seven years, their other albums never really contained the same passion or talented collaborating by each individual musician as Spooky Two. — Mike DeGagne http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDMISS70405072307522293&sql=A7mpyxdkbjol7 Thanks for the links, folks. Really cool. I found out, for example, that this is now on CD. Didn't know that.
