Introducing Opinz!

[moonmaster]

Classic Album Review: David Bowie - Hunky Dory

 

[ourchair]

Classic Album Review: David Bowie - Hunky Dory

I was just working on that.

 

[moonmaster]

I was just working on that.

For Opinz?? When it was first suggested that you might help with this thing, I held off on doing any Bowie reviews but I figured after a while that you were out...

Also: it would be awesome if this guy is who he says he is -

 

[ourchair]

For Opinz?? When it was first suggested that you might help with this thing, I held off on doing any Bowie reviews but I figured after a while that you were out...

I'm not out. I merely have poor time management skills. I'm working on it.

In the meantime, I've already got a couple of reviews ready, I'll just post them one by one after I've accumulated enough backlog.

 

[E]

For Opinz?? When it was first suggested that you might help with this thing, I held off on doing any Bowie reviews but I figured after a while that you were out...

Also: it would be awesome if this guy is who he says he is -

I'm pretty sure it is. I saw them commenting on their own reviews when I was looking them up.

 

[moonmaster]

New album review: Beach House - Devotion

 

[ourchair]

Tonight, I'm blowing off work responsibilities and writing for this.

Oh, and how do we 'rate' albums?

 

[moonmaster]

Tonight, I'm blowing off work responsibilities and writing for this.

Coool.

Oh, and how do we 'rate' albums?

Do you just mean what 'scale' we use? If so, it's 0.0-5.0.

 

[ourchair]

Coool.

Do you just mean what 'scale' we use? If so, it's 0.0-5.0.

I mean what's the basis of the measure of goodness?

 

[moonmaster]

I mean what's the basis of the measure of goodness?

Hmmm. I don't know exactly. (That sounds bad.)

I suppose I usually go off of instinct.

I'm not sure what other way there is to go when doing something like this.

 

[ourchair]

Hmmm. I don't know exactly. (That sounds bad.)

I suppose I usually go off of instinct.

I'm not sure what other way there is to go when doing something like this.

This is why I hardly ever give ratings. I think the review should speak for itself.

If ever an editor mandates I give a rating, I avoid scoring in gradations that exceed more than 5-10.

Meaning, I don't believe in a rating of 5.9/10 or 88% or any of that nonsense.

 

[E]

Tonight, I'm blowing off work responsibilities and writing for this.

Oh, and how do we 'rate' albums?

It's a very complex algorithm. I will email it to you. It's so huge that it will have to be split up into 46 emails.

In the mean time, just do what I do and make something up.

 

[ourchair]

It's a very complex algorithm. I will email it to you. It's so huge that it will have to be split up into 46 emails.

You're just going to send me an old swap file from Windows 95 aren't you?

 

[E]

New album reviews: Lucinda Williams - Little Honey

 

[moonmaster]

New album review: David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

 

[E]

New album reviews:

Alphabeat - This Is Alphabeat
Fall Out Boy - Folie à Deux

Also, the whole site has a new, cleaner look.

 

[SeAcoW]

Funny, I remember when Alphabeat was just a small danish band.

 

[ourchair]

I liked the old look more. It was more fun.

I've got six reviews in the can, will start posting them every two days once I have ten in the can.

 

[moonmaster]

New EP review: Passion Pit - Chunk of Change

 

[moonmaster]

New album review: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

And I've already given out a higher rating to a 2009 album than I gave to any albums in 2008. Congratulations, Animal Collective.