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Maxim promises no more sight unseen/unheard reviews...ok, just one more
Submitted by ChrisB on February 28, 2008.Remember over the weekend how we learned that Maxim Magazine "reviewed" the new Black Crowes record without actually listening to it (a practice, I believe, that gleefully began here at TIG)?
Maxim, of course, apologized and said that in the future they will no longer continue to reviewing records without actually hearing them. Besides, album reviews is not what Maxim does best anyway (what Maxim does do best is find new ways to say "show us your tits").
Fair enough, but it looks they had their fingers crossed behind their backs when they released that statement/apology because they gave Nas' forthcoming record (whose title I will not reveal here but you can surely find on any one of the internetz) another 2.5 star review. Nas told the New York Post that he's finishing up the album now and hopes to have it out in late April. Whoops.
So, yeah, no more "educated-guess" reviews in Maxim starting now.
OK, now.
(Hat tip to Idolator, of course.)
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dannyspkrspkr said on March 1, 2008:
Printing a review by someone who never listened to the record is bad and all, but have you ever taken a moment to read other articles in Maxim? I had the misfortune to do so recently. It made me dumber. I hope no one would take a Maxim record review seriously, anyway.
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douglas martin said on February 28, 2008:
now, what's worse: maxim writing reviews of phantom albums they've listened to through osmosis, or "credible" music magazines like spin that listen to the entire album and still only write 25 words?
i gotta go with the lesser of two evils, here.