Dumb Things Rock Critics Say

[DudeAsInCool]

I'm sure you run across these pseudo-reviews about your favorite album, artist or song of the moment and are ready to pull out your hair at the stupidity you are reading. I did so today and wrote a quick retort.

Post your favorite samples here, and a reply, if you gave one...

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Rickie Lee Jones

Evening of My Best Day

"Lyrically, though, the disc is really aggravating: a bunch of simpleminded advertisements for the Democratic Party ("Tell Somebody (Repeal The Patriot Act Now)"), with no depth or subtlety, no narrative and for all the ranting, no real emotion.

Source

Thank God the media stayed on top of things like WMDs and the NSAs eavesdropping from the gitgo, and we have artists like 50 cent celebrating the best America has to offer and writing cool lyrics, too- fancy guns, beautiful women, making money and the American way. They expose the sham of wannabe artists like Rickie Lee Jones who can't play a lick to save their soul without copying Joni Mitchell and writing lyrics straight out of the liberal's bible."

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[KiwiCoromandel]

"Definition of rock journalism: People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read."

..frank zappa...from "the real frank zappa book"..... :) :)