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[Big Ears]

I love music and it is a massive hobby of mine.I am always surfing the net and visiting sites like rate your music and the metal archives.I also enjoy looking at hifi mags etc.

I joined MA, when they first started as an offshoot of PA. My first post was to suggest they should include Robin Trower. They told me he did not belong, so I left immediately. I went back recently and noticed Trower was included!

 

[2LITTLETIME]

^Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives^this is the one-I glance through it for reviews but mainly use rate your music or just search for the artist here to obtain opinions.
Thanks for the Nektar recommendations

 

[Big Ears]

^ You're welcome.

 

[LG]

Of all the Metal specialist music boards Encyclopedia Metallum is the only one I bother looking at when I'm curious about a particular band. I like the layout and the feel of the place is civilized compared to almost every other one I've looked at.

 

[gcczep]

@2LITTLETIME, LG & Phantasmagoria... Thanks guys.

At this record place in Pasadena I go to they always have something on vinyl playing. Even with simple equipment, the sonics...it really projects.

 

[ElPatanico]

I've stopped reading reviews over the years. When I was younger, I couldn't tell you just how many bands I passed on due to someone giving the band a terrible review. Too many people have a social agenda when it comes to music. I'd rather form an opinion on my own.

 

[Big Ears]

I read quite a lot of reviews, but I don't always agree with them. A review can be well written, despite being wrong.

 

[LG]

Critics tend towards hyperbole many times, after all they make their living offering their opinions about the subject at hand so they have to entertain as well as offer a thought or two. Some I grew to respect over the years, but I never really let what they said deter me from buying and enjoying a new album.

If a critic has been around long enough and you have read their columns for years you can almost guess what they are going to say when reviewing an artist.

What I don't like are "corporate" custom fit reviews, in which money changes hands to promote a particular artist or brand.

 

[Sweaty]

Brown envelopes are a no no but they are a big part in promoting...

 

[Riff Raff]

I don't take many reviews on Metal Archives seriously. Most of them are extremely biased.