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Originally Posted by Comus
No, professional reviewers do it as well and each time I read a song-by-song I shudder because albums are not about the songs, they're about the album as a whole.
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Good point, BUT doesn't that really depend upon whether a coherent, unified statement was the intention behind the album? Sometimes you get records that are clearly just random assortments of songs.
Aside from that, I agree that more general reviews are a lot more interesting.