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Post by The Cap'n on Feb 12, 2019 17:41:45 GMT -5
I got this idea from the sometimes-funny podcast "Why I Hate This Album," wherein they end episodes by reading select reviews of the week's album from Amazon.com. They usually find glowing reviews for terrible albums, but I was thinking bad reviews for great albums might be funny, too. Anyway, I don't know if anyone wants to participate in this, but it tickled my fancy.
Pet Sounds
BriGuy gives it 2 stars and says: "I don't get all the high praise for this record. There's three good songs. The rest is blah to the nth degree, and I have very diverse musical tastes. Guess you had to be there."
LARichard also gives it 2 stars and says: "The remastering is decent, but this was never the best of the Beach Boys. The best suggestion I have seen among the reviews is to listen before you buy this expensive offering. There are two songs that most people will like and a lot most will no really care for. Buy "Wouldn't it be nice" and "Sloop John B" and let the others fade into the Rock graveyard."
Sgt. Pepper
Amazon Customer, with a verified purchase, gives it 1 star and says: "Only two songs in entire cd worth listening" I wonder which two...
Over-inflated Piffle, also 1 star, says: "Just try getting through Mr. Kite or Within You Without you. A condescending middle finger to the fans that appreciated of them as a rock and roll band. By this point in their careers (read:millionaires), the Beatles knew the cound serve any pretentious **** they wanted. They just didn't CARE. Search Yoko Ono for the for the complete artistic emasculation of John Lennon."
Solidarnosc (1 star) says: "This record is regarded as a "Classic"? After listening to legitimate classic albums like Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, Exile on Main Street, Animals, Rubber Soul, Sticky Fingers, London Calling, Beggars Banquet, Spiders From Mars list goes on..... Sgt Pepper sounds so weak that I sometimes pity the people that truly think this album is great? Is it the lame title song that they actually decided to do a reprisal of? Is is the rooster going cock a doodle do? Three good tunes do not make a classic album.. far from it. This record deserves nothing but contempt but I do delight in pointing out that Rubber Soul is a classic album. This one is dreck."
Anyway, that's enough for now. Maybe I'll find and post more. Maybe you will. Who knows?
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Post by B.E. on Feb 12, 2019 18:20:11 GMT -5
Just this week I was marveling at the classic album, Rumours. In my opinion, it really lives up to its reputation. Which is no minor feat! Anyway, what are the chances this Amazon reviewer is being serious?
FlamingMudkip gives it 1 star and says: "I listened to this album, and my eardrums popped. Stevie Nicks' vocals are so high, he sounds like a girl. Seriously, sing like a man, like Chad Kroeger from Nickelback.
Oh, and another thing wrong with this album is that there is no 'U' in 'Rumors.'"
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Post by The Cap'n on Feb 12, 2019 18:35:20 GMT -5
That is glorious!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2019 19:16:37 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/music/2008/aug/29/popandrock9Pop review: Brian Wilson, That Lucky Old Sun 1 / 5 stars 1 out of 5 stars. (EMI) Rob Fitzpatrick The trouble with pop music, the thing no one ever envisaged, is that no one ever wants to stop making it. A few decades ago the idea that bands would exist past their 30s was ludicrous, now the baby-boomers are into their 60s and still they plough on. Brian Wilson brilliantly nailed the elliptical beauty of the Californian lifestyle 45 years ago - so why can't he just leave it alone? That Lucky Old Sun is full of Beach Boys-isms - the massed choral voices, the jaunty piano, the strident strings - but it's just not any good at all. When Wilson sings about surfer girls and Mexican girls and Southern California and first love, truly, the only emotion you feel is sadness. Every single note feels forced, in hock to a sound and a set of attitudes that date from a time before many of us were born. Please, let this be the end.
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Post by kds on Feb 13, 2019 8:44:20 GMT -5
Just this week I was marveling at the classic album, Rumours. In my opinion, it really lives up to its reputation. Which is no minor feat! Anyway, what are the chances this Amazon reviewer is being serious? FlamingMudkip gives it 1 star and says: "I listened to this album, and my eardrums popped. Stevie Nicks' vocals are so high, he sounds like a girl. Seriously, sing like a man, like Chad Kroeger from Nickelback. Oh, and another thing wrong with this album is that there is no 'U' in 'Rumors.'" That is hilarious. I'll admit, I do sometimes find it interesting to read negative reviews of highly regarded classic albums. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2019 9:19:12 GMT -5
This thread is comedy gold!
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Post by filledeplage on Feb 13, 2019 9:58:36 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/music/2008/aug/29/popandrock9Pop review: Brian Wilson, That Lucky Old Sun 1 / 5 stars 1 out of 5 stars. (EMI) Rob Fitzpatrick The trouble with pop music, the thing no one ever envisaged, is that no one ever wants to stop making it. A few decades ago the idea that bands would exist past their 30s was ludicrous, now the baby-boomers are into their 60s and still they plough on. Brian Wilson brilliantly nailed the elliptical beauty of the Californian lifestyle 45 years ago - so why can't he just leave it alone? That Lucky Old Sun is full of Beach Boys-isms - the massed choral voices, the jaunty piano, the strident strings - but it's just not any good at all. When Wilson sings about surfer girls and Mexican girls and Southern California and first love, truly, the only emotion you feel is sadness. Every single note feels forced, in hock to a sound and a set of attitudes that date from a time before many of us were born. Please, let this be the end. Wata - that review is a joke and only shows the writer's-reviewer's ignorance of the BB/BW body of work. I was looking for comments attached to the article - but didn't find any. The time to object to the review was in 2008. Often reviewers - were favorable only to their favorite bands and even with the live shows, the trend - at least in the later 60's was to shaft the BB's as "irrelevant." Frankly, it was maddening and they were tone deaf. |
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Post by g00dvibrations on Feb 13, 2019 16:18:45 GMT -5
Just this week I was marveling at the classic album, Rumours. In my opinion, it really lives up to its reputation. Which is no minor feat! Anyway, what are the chances this Amazon reviewer is being serious? FlamingMudkip gives it 1 star and says: "I listened to this album, and my eardrums popped. Stevie Nicks' vocals are so high, he sounds like a girl. Seriously, sing like a man, like Chad Kroeger from Nickelback. Oh, and another thing wrong with this album is that there is no 'U' in 'Rumors.'" That one has to be a joke review. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 5:36:06 GMT -5
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Post by filledeplage on Feb 15, 2019 13:39:08 GMT -5
That was pretty funny.  |
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