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Tapfret 
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 Topic: Whose is the Longest Review?
Posted: October 09 2007 at 20:07 |
 Shakespeare wrote:
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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Wisdom much you have
-Yoda
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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Shakespeare
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Posted: October 09 2007 at 17:02 |
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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Shakespeare
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Posted: October 09 2007 at 17:00 |
rushfan4 wrote:
"Size doesn't matter" |
I believe it goes "Size matters not" - Yoda
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Shakespeare
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 16:34 |
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You do it, the T.
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rushfan4
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 14:48 |
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"Size doesn't matter"
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The T
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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... 
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Shakespeare
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 10:57 |
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You do it, Zitro.
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Zitro
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 10:55 |
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This thread inspired me to write shorter reviews, like I'm doing lately (in some albums)
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markosherrera
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 02:00 |
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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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JJLehto
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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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rileydog22
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Posted: August 23 2007 at 01:41 |
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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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Shakespeare
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Posted: August 18 2007 at 23:36 |
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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!!
Edited by Shakespeare - August 18 2007 at 23:37
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sircosick
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Posted: August 16 2007 at 07:10 |
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The best you can is good enough...
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Ricochet
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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.  And counting, of course...
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Shakespeare
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 21:14 |
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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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salmacis
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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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Abstrakt
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 14:15 |
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!" 
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Yeah, hilarious episode  The fun thing was that the letter "E" didn't work on the typewriter, but he still managed to write "ScrEw FlandErs"
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Shakespeare
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 14:02 |
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You do it, Thellama.
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thellama73
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Posted: August 12 2007 at 23:31 |
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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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Shakespeare
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Posted: August 10 2007 at 17:53 |
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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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