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When I first signed on to MOG, all of 11 weeks ago, I spent a little while getting used to being a mute. As I soon found out it would take awhile for other MOGgers to come around to my brand of BullShit that at times seems to roll endlessly off of my finger tips. I know there were a couple of posts I made in my beginnings in which I just babbled on in a sort of stream of consciousness style rant because it appeared that no one was going to read the damn thing anyway and of course they didn't. In time my "trusted" lists would grow and more and more people would sign on to read my blatherings and listen to the music that makes me happy. The majority of folks that MOG are doing it for the same reasons. I guess I was on MOG for about a week reading all the posts that popped up when I came across this post by "quagmire of quirk":http://mog.com/quagmire_of_quirk/blog_post/92628. In it she presented a few songs by a band I never heard of but instantly clicked with. She heard something that made her happy and then passed it along to others to hopefully make them happy. At this point for me, MOG had accomplished what it set out to do. Get people to talk about good music and then get people to go out and buy it. I bought Pinback's "Summer in Abaddon" as well as "Blue Screen Life" and thoroughly enjoy both of them, money well spent.So when I later saw a posting for Pinback's new album "Autumn of the Seraphs" from "pinkertonwasbetter":http://mog.com/pinkertonwasbetter/blog_post/107735, I just assumed it was coming from a fan because up until this point I had yet to read such a negative write up for any band, to me that just wasn't the point of MOG. So I flamed her a bit.I later found out that what Benny Hill once said was very true "Never assume, because you're likely to make an **Ass** out of **U** and **Me**". I went back and read through her early posts and found this: "A huge thanks to all you good-people at MOG who responded to my internship post below with suggestions. As it turns out, I’ll be doing album reviews for the “READ” section here.":http://mog.com/pinkertonwasbetter/blog_post/92626 I was a little taken aback that the MOG main office had to hand out assignments, I thought that that's what we were already doing. But then it foolishly dawned on me that MOG is a business, so while we're all off to the side writing posts on "The Little River Band" and "Foghat" someones got to be churning out the reviews on albums that have yet to hit the streets. This way when a non-MOGger searches on "Hypemachine":http://hypem.com/list/3588 for the brand-spankin'-new _Pinback_ album up will pop MOG with a review and a song thus increasing MOGs foot traffic as well as possibly pumping up those subscriber numbers. Hell, that's exactly how I got here. Pinkertonwasbetter's reviews are, for the most part, really good. I just wasn't aware at the time that MOG has a bunch of ringers out there but, whatever. No harm, no foul! Keep on keeping on I say and long live the MOG!
I would post a song from Pinback's "Autumn of the Seraphs" but I've heard it's not that good, I guess I won't be buying it.
I would post a song from Pinback's "Autumn of the Seraphs" but I've heard it's not that good, I guess I won't be buying it.
Comments (20)
While I'm not naive enough to dismiss your argument on the commercial motivations for posting negative reviews, I do believe any critique is highly subjective. The reviewer is entitled to their opinion... They may not adhere to the aesthetics proposed by a given artist but if they're honest enough they'll acknowledge this proposition.
Conversely, to dismiss a negative review just because it goes against your "fan-hood" or belief is just as dishonest as saying "I don't like it." Tastes are for buds.
Assessing and appreciating any work of art is a matter of discerning not liking (or licking).
My exact feeling. A friend suggested I should post more polemic songs. Which in his mind meant bad stuff that pervaded TV and radio. Why should I bother about that kind of artists? There's enough good music to keep me busy and content. Why waste time on worthless things?