Review Albums in the TH Love or Hate Style

YorkeDaddy · 11-18-2015, 09:13 PM

I mean, it's a pretty great template. It's very easy to get the overall opinion of the album on a quick glance but the writer can put a lot more depth into the reviews as well for people that care more deeply about the results. It's quick to write up too so not a whole lot of stress on the writer. So props to Trollheart and credit for the whole idea goes to him.

Basically the style is to list out album information and go track-by-track with a simple color system: red if you hate it, white if its meh, orange if you like it, green if you love it, and blue if you truly love it. A recent example with several of the colors can be viewed below:

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Title: Emotion
Artiste: Carly Rae Jepsen
Genre: Pop
Familiarity: Zero, though I have heard of her

1. Run away with me: Nice catchy pop song. No autotune which is nice, and the bass is supercool. Pleasant song, nice beat. Her voice is very sexy indeed.
2. Emotion: This one's a little more Janet Jacksonesque when it opens, but it changes into a more solid melody when it hits the chorus. Kind of reminds me of acts like Johnny Hates Jazz and Curiosity Killed the Cat, only, you know, better. Yeah, I'm that old. Touches of Kylie in there too.
3. I really like you: This sounds very like early Miley, but has a nice sort of semi-rock backing. It's cute. Oh cool: she writes her own songs. Good for her.
4. Gimmie love: Ballad? Got a slower feel to it, nice synth, very sort of dark. But not a ballad. Slower certainly than the other tracks. Sort of a marching beat. Catchy if a little simplistic.
5. All that: This is the first ballad. And it's pretty damn beautiful. Sense of 70s soul in it. The descending keyboard riff is cool.
6. Boy problems: The spoken bit at the start is cringeworthy; song's a bit throwaway. Is that brass?
7. Making the most of the night: This one's a lot better. I like the juxtaposition between the verses (soft and laidback) and the chorus (pumping and dancing)
8. Your type: Almost a striding, swaggering, rocky beat to this. Interesting guitar work. Like the lyrical idea too, quite refreshing. Yeah, went downstairs after this track and it was playing in my head, and not in a bad way.
9. Let's get lost: Started out quite lightweight but then kicked up. This may be another blue. Yeah it is. Wolves at the end?

10. L A Hallucinations: Oh god no! I don't like this at all. The kind of almost videogame pop song I hate. Make it stop!
11. Warm blood: Yeah, don't like this one either. What's the ****ing vocoder bit? Jesus. This album has taken a terrible turn at the end. Yuck.
12. When I needed you: Well the final track rescues it. Assumed this would be a ballad. Was wrong. Good closer, quite powerful.

End result: A decent pop album, and I'd probably listen to her other stuff now. I have a sort of inbuilt distrust of and disdain for X-Factor/Idol pop stars, but I could be persuaded to listen to this one some more, and she certainly seems to be finding her own identity and existing outside of and independent of the powerful forces of manipulation many of these often one-album-wonders end up struggling under.

So, Love or Hate? Give this one a Love.

I plan on doing some reviews in this style in the near future so figured I'd make an overarching topic for anyone else that's potentially interested in doing the same.

Spoiler for bonus:

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