Welcome to "Technology Tuesdays"! Every day of Tues, I will highlight an important website, electronic device, or random curiosity that is important to music--as well as let you know what new music is hitting stores.
Today, I am highlighting Metacritic.com's music section. If you're not familiar with Metacritic, you need to get on it. It compiles reviews of music, movies, video games, DVDs, and TV shows, and assigns each review a numeric score from 1 (garbage) to 100 (classic). Then, it takes an average of all the scores to give you the overall critical score average for the product. Specifically to music, it is very important to read multiple reviews (and do YouTube research) to truly understand the dynamics of an album and what makes it unique.
Reading one review from one source will not tell you anything. For example, Rolling Stone gave Eminem's Relapse a 4-star review. It must be pretty great, right? Well, let me put it this way. Every Eminem album since The Marshall Mathers LP has earned a four-star rating. So let me get this straight... The Eminem Show is in the same league as Marshall? No. Rolling Stone loves Eminem. That's it. If a critic loves you, you will (almost) always get favorable reviews. That's where Metacritic comes in. Relapse's Metacritic score is 58--out of 26 reviews, only seven rate it above 60. By reading more, you'll learn that, while Relapse certainly boasts some killer tracks (pun intended and duly noted), it isn't anywhere close to a masterpiece and has numerous flaws.
So... That's Metacritic.com, the first feature of "Technology Tuesdays"! And here's some of your fresh choices at the music store today (which may or may not be from a list at Metacritic)...
Black Crowes' Before The Frost.....Until The Freeze
Whitney Houston's I Look To You
Insane Clown Posse's Bang Pow Boom
Juliette Lewis' Terra Incognita
The Used's Artwork
Andrew WK's 55 Cadillac
Go get 'em (or in some cases, not), tiger!
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