fascinating enough for you to blog it, you no-talent assclown?

i prefer assjester.

My friend was an engineer on that record, you anus-twiddling fingerpupeteer.

For what it's worth, my ex worked for allmusic.com and described the author of that article as, essentially, a no-talent ass clown.

It's worth quite a bit.

I wondered why the hell this piece had 5 comments. I'll be the sixth. Lorelai, what is the deal with allmusic.com? How does it make the money for all that it does? Is it basically a front for B&N music? Was it always alligned with them? I just have been using that site for years and, due to my retardation, didn't notice that you could buy record there until recently. I guess that part really isn't stressed.

What's that?
An intelligent and informed comparison between two musical artists that have long and varied careers?
Who in the world would find value in that?

I think they make money selling books. They probably have ads, too. But I don't really know.

nothing to add, except that none of these comments had anything to do with the new album. i haven't listened to it yet; though he'll never repeat "Graceland," i'm hoping this is as decent as "You're the One," which grew and grew on me.

on a side note, it would be funny if album reviews had SPOILER WARNINGS. cause.. why?

Jim, who was one of the engineers, says it's got some good spots. I meant to add that last time but hit the button too soon. I'd have a hard time getting too worked up for Paul Simon at this point, Eno or no.

I kid you not, I have seen Spoiler Warnings in message forum album reviews when the review is written before the album is released. I guess why read the review if you don't want your first impression of the album written. I also listen to silly prog rock wherein a lot of the albums are concept albums.

I like how "spoiler" has entered the lexicon.

I believe allmusic's main business model is licensing their database to folks like Lala, Epinions, or whatever-- sites that need a database of existing records before they can even really start. (No idea whether either of those two actually uses AMG.)

I read once that the whole thing was some kind of Erlewine family cult dedicated to a hippy all-is-one aesthetic theory, but I don't seem to be finding any confirmation for that now.