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Apr 20 11 12:08 PM
Garro wrote:Well I don't want to offend any of Starostin's big fans, but I honestly cannot stand him. I like him even less than Christgau. Lengthy, emotionally driven rants with almost no effort whatsoever to have a fresh unbiased look at the album. Also, a lot of his reviews are way too influenced by what other critics say about the album, and less about how the album sounds. He's someone that can take about 100 words worth of material and spread it over several pages. Factor in the wacked out rating scale with absurd evaluations on "listenability", "resonance", and "adequacy" and you get a site that's basically unreadable to me. He should have stuck with posting reader comments.
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thecrikster wrote:Sleepinthrustatic009 wrote:One thing I do hate about George is that he compares basically everything he hears to the Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Kinks, etc. He did this a lot especially on his page for The Jam. I'm also not too crazy about the people he's choosing to review on his new blog either. His rating system is pretty stupid too, and his philosophy about no album being good all the way through.lol. so basically you hate him....But no seriously, how old is this guy? From what you said he sounds totally stuck in a timewarp.I thought Scarufi was some young college dork shooting his pretentious mouth off. Turns out he's been going for decades. Honestly I find it increasingly hard these days to trust the opinion of just one critic (sorry Mark).
Sleepinthrustatic009 wrote:One thing I do hate about George is that he compares basically everything he hears to the Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Kinks, etc. He did this a lot especially on his page for The Jam. I'm also not too crazy about the people he's choosing to review on his new blog either. His rating system is pretty stupid too, and his philosophy about no album being good all the way through.
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http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/kinks.htmlsupport wroteStarostin is great. He got me into The Kinks. Hello, I'm Mr Pleasant; I'm happy to be in this board. I've read some of Mark Prindle's work, (like some of you have, I assume), and I miss drinking.
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Mark Prindle wrote:My kinks reviews are drunker though!
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Jul 22 11 5:44 AM
Sleepinthrustatic009 wrote:Mark Prindle wrote:My kinks reviews are drunker though!Not to mention more reasonable...
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