ANYWAY, we're talking about music here, and everyone agrees, especially Rolling Stone writers and editors that music, especially popular music, is always very important. And I agree with them. Every album ever made is significant. The trick is only in finding out how. And I ask you, my friends, why go through the effort to find out when you could just make up reasons why an album is important?
To that end, I'll be adding a new column here at Meatiocrity called "The Best New Album of the Year, Ever." Here's how it'll work:
- Every couple of weeks, I'll go to a local independent music store. No FYE or anything like that. I'm doing this Empire Records style. Anyway, I don't need to explain my art to you. But I will, mainly out of my own personal sense of self-indulgence.
- I will only buy music displayed on one of the listening booths. Nothing off the regular racks. This is because I like to keep things fresh.
- No compilations or best-of albums. That stuff is weak sauce. And everyone agrees those are almost never important or significant.
- The album gets a full, uninterrupted listen, plus exclusive play in my car for at least 3 days. I know this is way more air time than most music reviewers give new albums, but I'm not getting these for free like they are, so I value them more.
- I write a review where I invent reasons for the album to be culturally significant. So, basically, I write a review.
1 comment:
i agree. weak sauce for sure.
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