Music critic in being critical of music shocker

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Next best thing? "Botherd" says McCormick

Most of this article made me go 'oh, what a load of t0ss', but there's a point lurking about in there somewhere: does an artist need more than one great album in order to become AMAZING? Does an artist even need more than one great song? Does a string of consistently 'very good' albums count for anything if there are no dazzling peaks?

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otherwise they will be wasting money

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

although on one hand i think you're largely right about this, the flipside of the coin is also that with everything so accessible now, it's your time and energy you have to ration. no, it doesn't take that long to find and listen to something new, but it does take a certain amount of discipline to weed through all the noise. at this point, it usually takes repeated mentions, often coming from different places, before I'm motivated to try something completely new (or who have sucky track records).

(One should also note that this article was by someone who is not just anticipating existing acts vs. new ones, but who is expecting that next classic record that Oasis still have in them, not to mention REM and U2.