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    Posted: October 09 2007 at 20:07
Originally posted by Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote:

Originally posted by markosherrera markosherrera wrote:

Bald is bad,...two wigs is ridiculous..the same is for reviews..too short  produce few information...too long  make bore

A review must be like a skirt.
Short enough to keep us interested, but long enough to cover the basics.
 
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Unfortunately I won't have any attention span to red any reviews now that they will remind me of short skirts.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2007 at 17:02
Originally posted by markosherrera markosherrera wrote:

Bald is bad,...two wigs is ridiculous..the same is for reviews..too short  produce few information...too long  make bore

A review must be like a skirt.
Short enough to keep us interested, but long enough to cover the basics.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2007 at 17:00
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

"Size doesn't matter"

I believe it goes "Size matters not"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 24 2007 at 16:34
You do it, the T.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 24 2007 at 14:48
"Size doesn't matter"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 24 2007 at 14:38
My shortest review ever was my last, GY!BE's F#@#.... My longest review was DT's review, 3990 words... I'll keep my promise, even though I hope language doesn't get in my way...Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 24 2007 at 10:57
You do it, Zitro.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 24 2007 at 10:55
This thread inspired me to write shorter reviews, like I'm doing lately (in some albums)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 24 2007 at 02:00
Bald is bad,...two wigs is ridiculous..the same is for reviews..too short  produce few information...too long  make bore
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2007 at 22:46
Is there anything about the review being good?
I'll write a 10,000 word one. It'll probably suck and be on an album thats not remotely worth it, but it WILL be the longest...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2007 at 01:41
InPraiseOfFolly has told me that he is going to shorten his famous/infamous Tago Mago review to 3 or 4 thousand words, thus relinquishing its position as longest review.  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 23:36
Wow....I was just in the Silly Story thread and posted something, and somehow my reply got teleported to this thread.

My computer is on drugs!!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 07:10
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The best you can is good enough...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 03:05
Scared to tell you that I already have a 4000 words review for a Tangerine Dream simple EP. Tongue
And counting, of course...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 21:14
There's no need to go far over 600 words, and not much need to go into detail about each specific song, methinks. A 400-500 word review is usually the best.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2007 at 14:28
I honestly have never managed to read that Tago Mago review in full. Obviously, a lot of thought has gone into it and I respect that, but it's a bit too daunting, IMHO (it just seems to get longer and longer every time I look at it!). I personally don't think it's a terribly good idea to write thousands of words for reviews and I speak as someone with experience in these matters!!
 
Most of my earlier reviews tended to average just under the 1000-word mark and I found I was getting laborously over-descriptive and formulaic. I feel SO much more comfortable with the way I write now I(no more track-by-track reviews or describing every note that the listener can hear anyway!) where most of my reviews are around 500-600 words and sometimes below that.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2007 at 14:15
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Exactly.

Wasn't there a list of albums that haven't been reviewed yet? Someone could write the longest ever review for one of them.

This made me think of the Simpsons episode where Homer was a food critic. "Screw Flanders!" LOL
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Yeah, hilarious episode LOL
The fun thing was that the letter "E" didn't work on the typewriter, but he still managed to write "ScrEw FlandErs" Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2007 at 14:02
You do it, Thellama. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2007 at 23:31
Status update on my ridiculously long Rush review:
This is taking longer than I anticipated. I am only up to 3000 words so far, so it won't be ready by Monday after all. But never fear! It WILL get done.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2007 at 17:53
Don't spoil it for me.

Also: all reviews I'm writing from now on must reach a bare minimum of 300 words, and much preferably 400 at the least. Also, I intend to write at least one ridiculously long review...perhaps not 7000 words, but up there.
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