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Old 06-11-2017, 01:46 AM   #7
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The only thing more useless than writing about eating is writing about listening.

I mean, some can do a decent job every once in a while of creating a mental picture for the reader, and at least restaurant reviewing can be enhanced with photos, but unless you have a long intimate relationship with a reviewer's tastes, their reviews are meaningless. Literally meaningless. I don't know how many music reviews I've read out of boredom when it's all of a particular newspaper I haven't read in the days before WiFi, but no matter how much effort I put into deeply appreciating the effort of the reviewer, and no matter how skilled and valiant that effort, at the end I couldn't tell you a ****ING THING about the music they were describing if I hadn't heard it already.

OTOH, NPR's All Songs Considered is a trusty companion.
Only thing I read on music reviews is the conclusion and rarely even that. Will say they have a lot of use for me for finding new music when the rating is very high.
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