Cool Site of the Day

Posted November 21, 2002 * Comments(3)

A site that I frequently go to when I want to read about a new movie, cd or videogame is Metacritic.

The wonderful thing about this site is they take a CD for example, Spoon’s Kill The Moonlight (a 2002 top 10 candidate) and they have a database of newspapers and online sources from which they gather the scores and excerpts from all the different reviews of this album. They then assign a meta-score, and provide links back to each individual review.

It does wonders for my research process when I’m going to buy a new disc (be it DVD, CD or GameCube game).

Note to the RIAA. I do actually do research before buying CDs, I don’t listen to the radio to find new music, and I’m not going to buy what you tell me to buy. I rarely buy a CD on impulse. I’m always going to try to have heard most of the album before purchasing it. I know you think filesharing is the problem, it’s not. The problem you have now, is that all of us (your customers) are becoming better informed. We don’t want to buy the crap you’re trying to feed us.

3 Comments so far

  1. Codi on November 21st, 2002

    Codi’s Albums that never leave her car (in no particular order):
    1. Alana Davis – Blame it on Me
    2. India.Arie – Voyage to India
    3. India.Arie – Acoustic Soul
    4. Party Girl Soundtrack
    5. Neptunes – In Search Of
    6. John Mayer – Room for Squares
    7. Jack Johnson – Brushfire Fairytales
    8. I Am Sam Soundtrack
    9. City of Angels Soundtrack

  2. Luke Stumme on November 26th, 2002

    I just wanted to say that I think Spoon’s “Kill the moonlight” is an excellent albumn, and I love the fact that someone has gotten all the reviews together for one alumn…however I noticed that they only mentioned reviewers that are pretty much controlled by the RIAA and their cronies. Basically you should take a look at http://www.pitchforkmedia.com for some funny, but true, reviews of stuff I actually listen to. In fact, I think Aj, you too listen to alot of this stuff. Screw Billboard, they are telling me what 14-year old girls are listening too, and I am not knocking 14-year old girls, but they were nuts about NSYNC at one time, are they what you listen to Aj, you pansy. Just kidding, but seriously if you want some good reviews take a look at pitchfork, and also some online zines. Anyway, you need to check out a new band…I will post more about them later…just check out http://www.mymoringjacket.com…if you dare

  3. A.J. on November 26th, 2002

    Hey Luke, they do have pitchfork on metacritic. Another one you should check out is http://neumu.net they are pretty cool as well.