What, Wilson & Alroy are chopped liver? They were the first of the web reviewers, with Mark being the second. In the late '90s, I was the third (as far as I'm aware). George was the fourth - my first interaction with him was him sending hatemail to my old website (he had a few problems with some of my reviews; he admitted that he had a rash temper when he was 23 - so did I). We became friends in the end, though - in fact, he hosts my long-abandoned website as an archive. Maturity does that to people.

Sometimes I wish I'd kept up my little review site as an ongoing process (I only kept it active between 1998-2001), but you know how what originally starts out as a fun hobby slowly morphs into a boring job? You don't what it feels like to simply listen to music as entertainment as opposed to, "Hmmm, does this album deserve a 3.0 vs. a 3.5?"