It a related story, Maxim's credibility is miraculously unchanged by Black Crowes review scandal because the band is convinced that 2.5/5.0 is probably the highest score the album will get.
While it is a pretty funny story, I wouldn't necessarily be shocked if this is all a big publicity stunt. Seriously, did anyone even know The Black Crowes were coming out with a new album? I sure as hell didn't.
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Seriously, did anyone even know The Black Crowes were coming out with a new album? I sure as hell didn't.
I did. Paste (I think) did a feature on them last month. They seemed pretty excited about it. It made me pull out my copy of Shake Your Money Maker which is still a damn fine album.
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I thought their follow-up, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, was also pretty good. After that, they kind of lost me. Amorica was bad. Three Snakes and One Charm had a few good tunes. I kinda gave up after that.
I did pick up their 2000 Live at the Greek disc with Jimmy Page, which was a pretty solid collection of mostly Led Zeppelin covers.
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Originally posted by EricG75: I thought their follow-up, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, was also pretty good. After that, they kind of lost me. Amorica was bad.
I agree, but that same Paste article I mentioned was kinda baffling. It ranked both TSHaMC and Amorica ahead of SYMM. Even going as far as to call Amorica "the Crowe's crowning achievement, a top-to-bottom classic." Bit of revisionist history there, methinks.
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What if Obama gets into White House and turns out to be some crazy muslim terrorist? What do we do then? We'll be pretty screwed. It could happen." -- by some fucking nutjob
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Originally posted by David Angeli: I agree, but only because Maxim didn't have any credibility to begin with. I didn't even know that Maxim had words in it.
Maxim: Not quite GQ and not quite Playboy.
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I agree, but only because Maxim didn't have any credibility to begin with
Well yeah, I was hinting at that as well.
I'm surprised to see some actual Black Crowes fans on here! I've never liked them at all, personally. They just always seemed like they were 25 years too late to me. "She Talks to Angels" is one of the most irritating songs played on the radio, too. Again, just not my style of music at all.
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i wouldn't say i'm excited about a new release from them, but there was a brief period where i played the southern harmony and musical companion a whole freaking lot. if i heard decent things (from a source not named maxim) about their new album, i'd probably pick it up.
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this is pretty much what most mainstream music journalists do anyway. If you've only got 100 words to put your case across to an uninformed audience then you can happily fill 2/3 of it with a direct transcript of the press release, then add a couple of broad sentences to reveal your uninsightful consensus-pitched opinion
Most mainstream reviewers listen at least a couple of times, but deep deconstruction is hardly a concern
