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Nicko1234
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Several new reviews
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April 03, 2015, 06:52:17 PM »
I thought sticking these in one place would be better than starting a million threads (sorry if any have been linked to before):
The Financial Times :
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b2834770-d835-11e4-ba53-00144feab7de.html#axzz3WIejuHt7
theartsdesk:
http://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/cd-brian-wilson-%E2%80%93%C2%A0no-pier-pressure
The Herald Sun:
http://www.pressreader.com/australia/herald-sun/20150402/282376923086674/TextView
The Globe and Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/the-brian-wilson-legend-doesnt-resonate-like-it-used-to/article23789134/
Virgin media:
http://www.virginmedia.com/music/reviews/brian-wilson-no-pier-pressure.php
Presstoplay:
http://pressplayok.com/review-brian-wilson-no-pier-pressure/
And Hotpress awarded it 3/5.
Plus a couple in German:
musicexpress - 3.5/5:
http://www.musikexpress.de/reviews/alben/article714637/brian-wilson-no-pier-pressure.html
Rolling Stone German - 3/5:
http://www.rollingstone.de/reviews/alben/article715780/brian-wilson-no-pier-pressure.html
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Re: Several new reviews
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April 03, 2015, 07:17:34 PM »
Christ. Those are some brutal reviews.
I think I'm going to head to someone other than this board to enjoy the album for awhile before I re-engage.
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April 03, 2015, 07:40:00 PM »
Awful thoughtful to start a thread of the bad reviews! I can see your grin from here.
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April 03, 2015, 08:13:12 PM »
Whats the drift here? The OP hates Brian Wilson and collected the most dopey reviews that could be found? Congrats for hanging around a BW board with that many posts for no good reason apparently.
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April 03, 2015, 08:28:45 PM »
Something about all of these reviewers hearing This Beautiful Day an going "Hmm...the magic is just gone. Bad album 2/5" makes me kinda laugh. They all talk about how great pet sounds is, or the "triumph" of TWGMTR (Are songs like Daybreak or Bill and Sue triumphant??) and the fact the album has guests that sing but are bad. Glad that these are all in one place, thanks.
From the virginmedia review:
"No Pier Pressure is not the worst record ever made: this is, after all, Brian Wilson. But it would be quite a good idea for him to stop making them now."
Really??
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April 03, 2015, 08:32:10 PM »
Quote from: job on April 03, 2015, 08:13:12 PM
Whats the drift here? The OP hates Brian Wilson and collected the most dopey reviews that could be found? Congrats for hanging around a BW board with that many posts for no good reason apparently.
Well, I guess we'll have to have a little fun with him if & when the Luhvster unleashes his ditties to a world of listeners who are on their tiptoes clutching their seats nervously in anticipation.
What goes around comes around, huh?
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April 03, 2015, 09:07:20 PM »
Since when have 3/5 or 3.5/5 been bad reviews? Hardly my fault that the best reviews are either in German or not available to access online (Hotpress).
These are all of the reviews that I found when doing a 5 minute Google search that I wasn`t certain had been posted yet. And, as mentioned previously, I enjoy reading all of the reviews of the album from things like the Daily Mail 4 star review to the Rolling Stone Australia 2 star piece (and can find things to agree with in both of them).
The average review score for the album so far is probably around 3/5. Not bad at all.
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Yeah, thank goodness for those 3 star German reviews that helped it all go down smooth.
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Quote from: ontor pertawst on April 03, 2015, 09:17:38 PM
Yeah, thank goodness for those 3 star German reviews that helped it all go down smooth.
I think the phrase is...Don`t shoot the messenger!
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(Whistles tunelessly, fumbles for Nerf® sniper rifle)
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Quote from: ontor pertawst on April 03, 2015, 09:21:40 PM
(Whistles tunelessly, fumbles for Nerf® sniper rifle)
Never fear, I`m sure there will be dozens more reviews over the course of this weekend and I will indiscriminately post links to any and all of them, good or bad.
The independent`s is here:
http://www.pressreader.com/uk/i-from-the-independent/20150403/283021168183658/TextView
And The Scottish Daily Mail:
http://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20150403/282673275832685/TextView
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Re: Several new reviews
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April 03, 2015, 09:45:31 PM »
"anodyne" they say, eh? Talk about using a thesaurus. All these bad reviews have one thing in common: they sacrifice pure musical pleasure, in the Wordsworthian sense, for the advantages of personal wit, in the Popian sense.
I hate when that happens.
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Quote from: ontor pertawst on April 03, 2015, 09:21:40 PM
(Whistles tunelessly, fumbles for Nerf® sniper rifle)
Never fear, I`m sure there will be dozens more reviews over the course of this weekend and I will indiscriminately post links to any and all of them, good or bad.
The independent`s is here:
http://www.pressreader.com/uk/i-from-the-independent/20150403/283021168183658/TextView
And The Scottish Daily Mail:
http://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20150403/282673275832685/TextView
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April 03, 2015, 10:07:18 PM »
A lengthy review in Rebeat
http://www.rebeatmag.com/album-brian-wilson-no-pier-pressure/
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April 03, 2015, 10:10:37 PM »
damn, I thought I was expanding myself in enjoying RD, but that song cannot get any love!
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April 03, 2015, 10:36:16 PM »
Quote from: the professor on April 03, 2015, 10:10:37 PM
damn, I thought I was expanding myself in enjoying RD, but that song cannot get any love!
I think it was misplaced as the second track on the album.
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April 03, 2015, 10:47:48 PM »
It would appear that the consensus amongst critics is that this is a poor album. I have only heard 3 songs released so far from iTunes as part of my pre-order as well as that Peter Holeman thing that I purchased a few months ago.
I will keep my mind open. I sure hope that it is not as disappointing as the performance (and songs) that I heard on Kimmel last night. That performance was downright embarrassing imho
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Quote from: Vernon Surfer on April 03, 2015, 10:47:48 PM
It would appear that the consensus amongst critics is that this is a poor album.
It would appear that would sorta be the purpose of Rotten Nickotomatoes... providing coincidental consensus with bad and/or German review aggregation for your busy, modern lifestyle.
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Quote from: Vernon Surfer on April 03, 2015, 10:47:48 PM
It would appear that the consensus amongst critics is that this is a poor album.
I have only heard 3 songs released so far from iTunes as part of my pre-order as well as that Peter Holeman thing that I purchased a few months ago.
I will keep my mind open. I sure hope that it is not as disappointing as the performance (and songs) that I heard on Kimmel last night. That performance was downright embarrassing imho
I wouldn`t have said that reviews averaging around 3 stars are `poor`on the whole. Mixed certainly but not bad.
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Quote from: ontor pertawst on April 03, 2015, 10:56:28 PM
Quote from: Vernon Surfer on April 03, 2015, 10:47:48 PM
It would appear that the consensus amongst critics is that this is a poor album.
It would appear that would sorta be the purpose of Rotten Nickotomatoes
There`s one obvious remedy then isn`t there. If you think that the reviews that have been posted on this board so far are not representative then it should be easy for you to find loads of positive ones that nobody else has yet linked to.
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April 03, 2015, 11:20:24 PM »
Being objective as I can, I'm not really surprised at the harsh tone of some these reviews. After all, they're not being written by Beach Boys fans necessarily, and there's plenty to be critical of if you're not just going to blindly or generously accept this record's flaws. They're not looking at it with the rose-colored glasses of a fan.
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Quote from: Nicko1234 on April 03, 2015, 11:02:27 PM
Quote from: ontor pertawst on April 03, 2015, 10:56:28 PM
Quote from: Vernon Surfer on April 03, 2015, 10:47:48 PM
It would appear that the consensus amongst critics is that this is a poor album.
It would appear that would sorta be the purpose of Rotten Nickotomatoes
There`s one obvious remedy then isn`t there. If you think that the reviews that have been posted on this board so far are not representative then it should be easy for you to find loads of positive ones that nobody else has yet linked to.
Mmm-hmm. How convenient that several more positive reviews already got their own threads so you could fill one up with nonsense from Australian community college newspapers, eh?
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Quote from: krabklaw on April 03, 2015, 11:20:24 PM
Being objective as I can, I'm not really surprised at the harsh tone of some these reviews. After all, they're not being written by Beach Boys fans necessarily, and there's plenty to be critical of if you're not just going to blindly or generously accept this record's flaws. They're not looking at it with the rose-colored glasses of a fan.
Well, if they're reviewing the album by looking at it, that's definitely part of the problem. Listening works much better.
And given the general depth of some of these reviews, the writers merely glimpsed at the title and then hacked something out. Understandable, perhaps. We all have deadlines.
But worse than useless to anyone interested in the quality of the music.
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Quote from: Wirestone on April 03, 2015, 11:27:02 PM
Mmm-hmm. How convenient that several more positive reviews already got their own threads so you could fill one up with nonsense from Australian community college newspapers, eh?
Yeah, you noticed that? Golly. He's just trying to be helpful setting the tone, our own Metacritic1234...
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Botany Bay? Oh no, we've got to get out of here.
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Quote from: Wirestone on April 03, 2015, 11:27:02 PM
Quote from: Nicko1234 on April 03, 2015, 11:02:27 PM
Quote from: ontor pertawst on April 03, 2015, 10:56:28 PM
Quote from: Vernon Surfer on April 03, 2015, 10:47:48 PM
It would appear that the consensus amongst critics is that this is a poor album.
It would appear that would sorta be the purpose of Rotten Nickotomatoes
There`s one obvious remedy then isn`t there. If you think that the reviews that have been posted on this board so far are not representative then it should be easy for you to find loads of positive ones that nobody else has yet linked to.
Mmm-hmm. How convenient that several more positive reviews already got their own threads so you could fill one up with nonsense from Australian community college newspapers, eh?
Which is precisely why I didn`t link to them. They are already on the board.
And as I earlier posted a very positive review from a Scottish paper, I can`t really see the problem with linking to a critical review from an Australian paper. I wasn`t judging the writers based on who they worked for.
I linked
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