Reply To: Artificial Heart discussion
JoCo is nothing BUT self-editing. The man’s primary problem is that he doesn’t know when to STOP.
I also kind of boggled at the dislike of Today With Your Wife – when a song requires you to peel back so many layers of potential meanings and stories, I feel like criticizing the genre of the music is rather like giving an elephant a hard time for being big. It’s rather missing the point.
Still, the thing that is and has always been true is that music-reviews are entirely useless as a source of any other knowledge than “what did this reviewer think of this record?”
It only very rarely imparts any information on the objective quality of music, because music is so completely and utterly individual. A reviewer is only potentially useful to those readers who share his specific taste in music.