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Reviews of movie scores mean NOTHING to me. Don't read them. I know they're out there somewhere, but I don't seek them out. Everything is so subjective. All I had to do was watch "Field of Dreams" to hear that Horner's score was sublime. Anyone else's thoughts were "moo points"....not worth a cow's opinion, in other words.
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I wrote this a month or so ago on another thread, but it belongs in this one: I learn something from positive reviews that give me a sense of why the music is appealing to the listener, what there is in the music that draws attention. This can apply even to music that I'm not that partial to, and has helped me expand my horizons. But by and large I don't learn anything useful from negative reviews, because most of the substance of the review is an intensely personal dislike about something the reviewer disagrees with - the choice of composer, the kind of music they write, the arrangement of the album, etc. If my taste does not exactly match the reviewer's own, what they say doesn't matter to me at all, and if our taste does match, then I'm just in lock-step agreement - finally, someone who gets it! Either way, not useful. This is very different from reading negative reviews of books, movies, etc. - those are often as useful to me as positive reviews. For me, music is in a very different category, and I find this to be true about all genres. Another way to say it - what Solium said!
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I KNOW! RIGHT?
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Yeah, not at all. I know what I like & what I want, & at $20 plus p&p I don't blind buy. In fact I can't even remember reading a review of a soundtrack CD. I like to read reviews of a Blu-ray release before I buy it, but that's it.
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Reviews affect absolutely nothing. I buy what I like
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Well, time to close down the site then! It's been a fun 18 years...
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