Holly2003
Earlier maybe. Kerrang gave a great review of The Works tour; I used to have a few guitar magazines from the early 1980s that featured and spoke highly of Brian.
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Another American who thinks that the U.S is the world and Queen were only big in the UK.
dysan
[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]
Earlier maybe. Kerrang gave a great review of The Works tour; I used to have a few guitar magazines from the early 1980s that featured and spoke highly of Brian.[/QUOTE]
Sure but I think we're talking about the general mainstream reappraisal of the band. The post-millennium change where the beardstrokers were told it's ok to like queen because even though Freddie is kitsch they used to have some heavy songs so it's ok.
Earlier maybe. Kerrang gave a great review of The Works tour; I used to have a few guitar magazines from the early 1980s that featured and spoke highly of Brian.[/QUOTE]
Sure but I think we're talking about the general mainstream reappraisal of the band. The post-millennium change where the beardstrokers were told it's ok to like queen because even though Freddie is kitsch they used to have some heavy songs so it's ok.
dysan
And interestingly, it's the general views that we have from those times that are still in place today IE Freddie solo / HS = bad, Live Aid = good. At least, they were cemented for another generation in that era.
Vocal harmony
Music and art critics really are a law unto them selves. If they don't like something they often won't give a rational reason and will just list their dislike. A review should at least tell you about the music, or the show. I've read hundreds of gig reviews that clearly don't say a word about what is going on on stage and just a,out's to a one man/woman attack on the artist and or there fans.
Some reviewers think they have to fall into line but later trip themselves up. One example, though I could quote many. When Kate Bush played That long string of dates at The Hammersmith Apollo a few years ago every critic was falling over themselves to say how amazing those shows were. One such review was written by Ludovig Hunter Tilney of The Financial Times who told of the amazing performances of some of the most memorable songs from the Kate Bush catalogue, he praised the staging and performance of the Nine Wave. . .
Two years later when the live album of the show was released he all but criticised the whole release implying that the song choices were boring and pedestrian in their performance.
I guess what I'm trying to say is so often a journalist will either jump on a band wagon or write complete twaddle and at the end of the day some are no more, and in sone cases less qualified, to judge and write than you or I
Some reviewers think they have to fall into line but later trip themselves up. One example, though I could quote many. When Kate Bush played That long string of dates at The Hammersmith Apollo a few years ago every critic was falling over themselves to say how amazing those shows were. One such review was written by Ludovig Hunter Tilney of The Financial Times who told of the amazing performances of some of the most memorable songs from the Kate Bush catalogue, he praised the staging and performance of the Nine Wave. . .
Two years later when the live album of the show was released he all but criticised the whole release implying that the song choices were boring and pedestrian in their performance.
I guess what I'm trying to say is so often a journalist will either jump on a band wagon or write complete twaddle and at the end of the day some are no more, and in sone cases less qualified, to judge and write than you or I
dysan
It can be a used a number of ways. There was a review of a Kingmaker show in 1992 with Suede supporting and the reviewer (Steve Sutherland who very definitely had an agenda) totally destroyed Kingmaker and their fans when comparing them to Suede. It essentially killed 'Fraggle' and set the blueprint for the rest of the 90s. The article was called Pearls Before Swine and is well worth checking out if this kind of thing is of interest.
dysan
Here it is: