Is there anything worse than Wilson & Alroy?
Golly, thanks for asking. The most similar site on the web to this one is probably the Rough Guide to Rock, and believe us, “rough” is the right word. They’re incredibly comprehensive, but they do this at the price of throwing together reviews by something like two dozen authors, and cutting corners on coverage and detail. If you’re looking for longwinded pronouncements by reviewers who don’t seem to have really researched their topics and rarely know how to write a grammatical English sentence, that’s the place to go… And while I’m bitching, I’ll mention the innumerable on-line CD “stores,” all of which are a massive ripoff: you can get the same stuff for half the price at your local used CD store. As for their reviews, the best you can hope to find is either overhyped ad copy pumping up Joe Has-been’s latest product, or telegraphic quotes from that paragon of critical insight the All Music Guide (a.k.a. All Mushy Gibberish). As a matter of policy we don’t provide links to any of th