Beatles Open the Vaults For 50th Anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by eDave

**** music critics. **** them hard.

I don't give a shit about what some ****ing asshole "music critic" has to say about the music I like. I like it. . That is all that matters. **** that coffee swigging, donut eating, fat ****.

While he's critiquing, the artist wrote, arranged, engineered and produced a work of art. And he is up there, rocking it, getting laid ALL THE TIME, and receiving the adulation of millions.

**** music critics.

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.