The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123224   Message #2710759
Posted By: The Sandman
28-Aug-09 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: how can musical critics improve?
Subject: RE: how can musical critics improve?
Brian ,thankyou.
Exhaustive list of tracks: boring, but surely its necessary to let the potential customer know whats on the recording,in my experience at gigs,I have noticed potential customers,looking at the recording to see if certain tracks[presumably ones they liked ]are on it.
1.dont make comments without qualifying them.e g, why you dislike something,why something is incongruous,why a modern song is poor.
2.dont review something you feel you are not qualified to judge,example,if you prefer traditional music,and care little for modern songs,refuse to do the review,let the editor pass it on to a songwriter,or somebody who is more likely to be objective about the genre.
3,try not to make factual errors.
4.try not to be verbose,the reviewer should be reviewing a record,not entering a competition to have his erudite efforts judged.
5.comments on the music are of primary importance.