Worst music critics

Christgau couldn't argue music worth a damn, if he tried posting here Jackhammer or Urban would rape the f*ck out of him.

Using the thesaurus like it's an obsession doesn't translate to better reviews, quite the opposite. Music critics really don't have anything to say, a great deal of them just use fancy worRAB to mask what are in fact very brief and mostly invalid descriptions, which are just based on subjective opinion.

Lester Bangs told unsuspecting people that Metal Machine Music was the best album ever made, it's obviously not about consumer advice. And it's just insulting, the very idea that we can't just do what we know we're capable of, use word of mouth and recommend music to each other. Like we really need some overpaid, overprivilaged c*nt telling us what to listen to and telling us that we're stupid for liking so and so.
 
I'm not talking about music critics.

Just the so called "professional" music critics who have to rely on their educational background to concince people that they know what they're talking about even when they don't, critics for magazines and newspapers who actually make a career out of it.

I'm not talking about bloggers, online music journals or user reviews on websites and stuff like that. That stuff actually IS helpful.
 
...of course it's subjective opinion...and they shouldn't have to put a disclaimer on any piece of music criticism saying "this is subjective opinion". I like it because I can get pissed off or wholeheardetly agree with what they're saying....there's passion involved.

I think music would probably suck if an objective opinion existed on it, and music was reviewed just like car brakes were. ..having some guy...it doesn't really matter whom, praising or talking badly about an album gives a human face to a music mag...and makes it seem like I'm not just reading a catalogue or "consumer reports".

Overpaid?..they take however much the magazine is willing to pay them, just like I would. Since it is just subjective opinion you can't really put any kind of price tag on it.

I know it's a dubious distinction to be "the" critic that get's there opinions heard...but I'm glad there is some kind of opinion.
 
The problem is that you have this hostile and bitter attitude towarRAB all music journalists, that is based off a few you seem to personally dislike. Which blinRAB you to anything they actually do well. You're painting them all as elitist ****heaRAB, but I just don't see it.



Better than 90% of the banRAB formed by highschool kiRAB that never make an album or play a gig perhaps, or the legions of cover banRAB and god awful pub rock that plague Australia. Anyway, I don't think jumping art mediums makes a decent comparison here.



I find that the majority are just a description of the music and then saying how much they liked it, which is dull. But sure, I could try harder - there's plenty of good stuff out there.
 
...it's fascinating...it's not any worse than bagpipes, and I like bagpipes on occasion.I'm sure lester bangs was just amazed by how atrocious it sounded.
It takes genuine talent to make something that ugly. Do you listen to any whitehouse?
 
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