Worst Music Media Publication (indie, rock, album, magazine, reviews)

lucifer_sam · 11-20-2008, 08:07 PM

I don't know if there is a thread on this yet, but there should be.

What, in your opinion, is the WORST music media publication? Not in terms of the layout/budget, but in terms of quality/bias of reviews. What ranks the highest on your shitlist? (It could range from newsmagazines to an online archives to whatever other music media you read.)

Urban Hat€monger ? · 11-20-2008, 08:10 PM

Easy option but the NME by a mile.

Even when I was it's target demographic (I.E. teenage indie kid) I could feel my brain cells melting whenever I read it.

Just a bunch of clueless morons more interested in being cool than finding any good music.

~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ · 11-20-2008, 08:37 PM

Rolling Stone is the worst in my opinion. All of the major releases they review are always medicore until the album gets big, then they change their tone.

They've also been doing really sh!tty articles and cover stories in the recent years, such as a nameless amount of Jonas Brothers articles and things like "Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero."

Astronomer · 11-20-2008, 08:41 PM

Any publication that attempts to compile a list of the "Top 100" anythings.

mr. goth glam · 11-20-2008, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shiseido_red

Any publication that attempts to compile a list of the "Top 100" anythings.

I can go with that.

~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ · 11-20-2008, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shiseido_red

Any publication that attempts to compile a list of the "Top 100" anythings.

It's a good thing Music Banter aint a magazine...

**Janszoon** · 11-20-2008, 10:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sonace

Rolling Stone is the worst in my opinion.

I agree. I have three main problems with Rolling Stone (oo, my first time using a numbered list):

They only seem to cover teenybopper crap and new music by classic rock dinosaurs. Two things I don't give a shit about.
I don't like reading a music magazine where I feel like I know more about music than the people writing the articles.
Sort of off topic, but their movie reviews suck. They give every fucking movie a good review. I appreciate the positive attitude and everything but this give me zero frame of reference for whether or not I might enjoy the movie.

lucifer_sam · 11-20-2008, 10:23 PM

RS is unfairly biased towards mainstream pop/R&B music, and it's pretty sad that they represent such a huge portion of the industry. Although their reviews are usually impartial and very well-written, it seems like they go easy on everybody and it makes for an extremely hard time to figure out whether a record's good or not.

Bulldog · 11-21-2008, 02:36 AM

NME easily. I blame them for a lot of the mediocre music which makes up the British rock scene today. Their excuse for journalism these days is just a complete joke too

WaspStar · 11-21-2008, 01:03 PM

Anyone who hates Rolling Stone mag (hopefully everyone) needs to check out Elvis Costello's liner notes for the Rhino version of Get Happy!!!

It's hilarious; he dismisses the magazine as a "rag [which] has, over the years, undergone a remarkable transformation from an organ of the supposed counterculture to a shallow pop-culture shop window for starlets and acrobats while funding their efforts with generous amounts of Big Tobacco advertising revenue and offers of penis enlargement to easily deluded teenage boys."

11-20-2008, 08:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	Worst Music Media Publication I don't know if there is a thread on this yet, but there should be. What, in your opinion, is the WORST music media publication? Not in terms of the layout/budget, but in terms of quality/bias of reviews. What ranks the highest on your shitlist? (It could range from newsmagazines to an online archives to whatever other music media you read.) __________________ first.am

11-20-2008, 08:10 PM	#2 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Easy option but the NME by a mile. Even when I was it's target demographic (I.E. teenage indie kid) I could feel my brain cells melting whenever I read it. Just a bunch of clueless morons more interested in being cool than finding any good music. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

11-20-2008, 08:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4,538	Rolling Stone Rolling Stone is the worst in my opinion. All of the major releases they review are always medicore until the album gets big, then they change their tone. They've also been doing really sh!tty articles and cover stories in the recent years, such as a nameless amount of Jonas Brothers articles and things like "Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero."

11-20-2008, 08:41 PM	#4 (permalink)
Astronomer we are stardust Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 2,894	Any publication that attempts to compile a list of the "Top 100" anythings. __________________

11-20-2008, 10:23 PM	#8 (permalink)
lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	RS is unfairly biased towards mainstream pop/R&B music, and it's pretty sad that they represent such a huge portion of the industry. Although their reviews are usually impartial and very well-written, it seems like they go easy on everybody and it makes for an extremely hard time to figure out whether a record's good or not. __________________ first.am

11-21-2008, 02:36 AM	#9 (permalink)
Bulldog why bother? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 4,840	NME easily. I blame them for a lot of the mediocre music which makes up the British rock scene today. Their excuse for journalism these days is just a complete joke too

11-21-2008, 01:03 PM	#10 (permalink)
WaspStar Back to mono Join Date: May 2008 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 509	Anyone who hates Rolling Stone mag (hopefully everyone) needs to check out Elvis Costello's liner notes for the Rhino version of Get Happy!!! It's hilarious; he dismisses the magazine as a "rag [which] has, over the years, undergone a remarkable transformation from an organ of the supposed counterculture to a shallow pop-culture shop window for starlets and acrobats while funding their efforts with generous amounts of Big Tobacco advertising revenue and offers of penis enlargement to easily deluded teenage boys." __________________ "This sure doesn't look like 'Crazy Ernie's Amazing Emporium of Total Bargain Madness!'"