AlexWest

how delightfully idiosyncratic...

they're just implying there's no personality in the writing

i thought the festival finished after Johnny Foreigner!!!

the rest of the world is rendered obsolete and irrelevant. why not reading festival???

the subways

their brothers are headlining?

it's only natural

even their MEANT-to-be-shit stuff is better

"great pop"

writing about this.

Did you run out of real bands to write about?

childish

it's a big, big reason why this site is not and will never be regarded as highly as Pitchfork

half-arsed

The magazines that are well written and RELEVANT to their demographic are still prospering.

What are Metal Hammer and Terrorizer doing? Selling almost as many as NME you say? How very niche.

10/10

complete.

is there a review of fightstar but not one of megadeth?

have fightstar got the indie cred that megadeth do not?

lol

why is there not a single rock album in this 'list'?

this list is so meh

just judging by the context, i.e. the sentences around it.

if it was a review of all the real metal bands there would only be a handful of readers who would actually care

this review is pretty much a perfect DiS review of Download

sad really isn't it

says something about how non-committal this review it

he writes like he's ashamed of his opinions

he writes like he's someone else who wants to say something else but is too scared

£900k to Warners

that grading philosophy is all well and good, and also widely accepted (you'll only give about ten 10/10 grades in a lifetime) but that leads to the vast, vast, vast majority of albums deserving 5,6,7 or 8 out of 10. Not very fun and even more pointless and self indulgent.

the joys of reading comments from the musically intolerant

tony must be gutted

http://www.drownedinsound.com/bands/1174

sadly some people change their opinion about music when it's not so cool to like them

first the Some Questions fiasco and now THIS

HAVE A FUCKING WORD!

instead of sticking to one of your arguments - either 4 or 8 - you've gone halfway. not given a real opinion one way or the other. you've sat on the fence.

someone's sat on it HARD

he produced the album himself

i'm also a bit gutted i missed the london show

to alexis petridis from the guardian as well. i hope gareth slags him off back.

i love findong out about bands which i might never be able to see normally

fuck the cribs!

do you write news stories every time a band decides on their artwork?!