Kill Your Idols

[DudeAsInCool]

Any critic who begins with the pompous statement "When the album was released (1967), there was very little "serious" rock criticism in the mainstream press"--has already lost me. I dont know about you, but I the best critics I now is my ears. This book of critiques is likely to infuriate rather than inform you. Take his review of Sgt Peppers, which while I agree it wasnt the best Beatles album, it certainly is not rubbish. Frankly, I think the guy is full of shit, and my guess is the others guys are, too. As the famed movie critic Pauline Kael once said, a good critic's job is to excite people about the entertainment experience. I'd rather hear of the Beatle's lesser cuts than to read this whiney critic's review again. thumbsdown