And it looks like that's only the tip of the iceberg.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Glasgow-United-Kingdom/Rubadub/59699696224
The horror!
On 28/11/2009 10:34, Tristan Watkins wrote:
Haha. It's true! http://twitter.com/rubadub_glasgow
Non-stop slagging off of some Jason fella though.
On 27/11/2009 22:04, [email protected] wrote:
What? We Tweet? You'll be telling me that we've got a Facebook Page
next!!!!
Jason (the Techno Luddite!)
2009/11/27 Tristan Watkins<[email protected]>
I gave up on music shop reviews about five years ago. That said,
Rub-a-dub's tweets are very useful, and necessarily brief.
On 27/11/2009 17:00, kent williams wrote:
As a frequent, repeat customer of Boomkat, I feel compelled to rise to
their defense.
I write music reviews for a local free paper, and have written in the
past for a variety of publications. What one realizes very quickly in
writing reviews, is that it is difficult to do at all, let alone well.
Especially when it comes to electronic music, where you don't often
have lyrics to provide some sort of 'meaning' to critique. And the
more you do it (and I've written hundreds over the past 10 years) the
less you actually have to say.
Boomkat's reviews are actually well written, and are much, much better
than any other download store site on the internet. They are
consistently helpful to me -- they provide context to each release
which sends me off to research other related music. They are also
sometimes humorous without succumbing to the jokey Britishisms that
grate the ear when you read a lot of UK music publications.
They are definitely oriented towards trying to shift units. They
definitely reflect the personal prejudices of the writers. They, no
doubt, occasionally give more weight to their friends or labels they
don't want to make into enemies. But it's like reading anything --
you have to consider the source and make up your own mind.
It isn't as bad as Beatport. Beatport tries to be all things to all
people, so they pimp absolute sh1t. Beatport has discovered that you
can make money catering to DJs with no taste, no shame, and no soul.
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Martin
Dust<[email protected]> wrote:
On 27 Nov 2009, at 15:23, Odeluga, Ken wrote:
I like Boomkat's random shards of disdain.
Although the fact that 99% of their reviews make each item sound
like the next best thing since sliced bread, still leaves the
final joke on them!
This comes up a lot from techno heads, what do you really expect
them to put?
m
