Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Hi!

Hey, what's up? Welcome to my blog! If you couldn't tell already by the title, I'm just going to be doing album reviews on this little thing, and since this is the beginning of my blogs lifespan, I might as well tell you now how I'm going to review albums, so let's get started!

The first thing I'm going to start off with before I even start the review is just give a little introduction to the band, for example, I may start by telling you who's in the band and what do they do, and also giving a little background info to the album I'm about to review, and then maybe post a picture of the band at the end. I feel this will be a good way to start off with because I know that some of you may not know the album I'm reviewing or the band that made it, so this should be a pretty good way to start things off, and since this is my blog, well, you can't really do anything about it now can you. So this concludes this explanation.

The next thing I'm going to do after I give the introduction is give my review on the actual musical content. This means that I'm not going to review any of the words coming out of the vocalist's mouth, but just review the actual musical stuff, like the bass line, or the beat, or the guitar riff. However, that doesn't mean I'm not doing to review the vocal melody, I am going to cover that in my reviews, but again, I'm not going to review the words coming out of the singers mouth. Just how the vocal melody sounds. To me, it's pretty obvious why I'm covering the musical content, but if it isn't, it's because the majority of the content of an album is musical content. I really shouldn't have to explain myself any better then that, so let's move on to the next aspect I'll review when it comes to albums.

The next thing I'm going to review after the musical content is, you might have guessed it by now, the lyrical content. Yes I did say I wasn't going to review the words coming out of peoples mouths, but that was the musical section. Now we're in the lyrical section, where I'm more then obligated to review all the potentially stupid lyrics being said by potentially stupid people. However, some of you might be wondering why I might be reviewing the lyrics of albums if sometimes, you just don't care what they're saying? Well, that's because I think the words are pretty important in anything. Again, I really hope I don't have to explain myself any further then that, so let's go on to the last thing I'm going to evaluate.

The last thing I'm going to evaluate in terms of albums may not be the most obvious thing to review. What I'm going to review is how well the album fits together. I think it might not be completely obvious why I'm bothering to talk about and review this certain aspect, but I feel it's important. I think it's important because you could have the best guitarist, bassist, drummer, and vocalist in the world, but if they don't function well together, it's going to sound like a piece of crap. So that pretty much explains all the three major aspects I will review separately.

Lastly, I'll just sum up all my opinions, give it a score, and tell you readers my final thoughts on the album, and that will simply just end the review. Thanks for reading through all of this if you've actually stumbled upon this first blog post, and I hope to see you again when I make my first album review! Really I've been bouncing this idea around for a while, of me making album reviews, or reviews in general really. I've seen other people do reviews on video, like The Nostalgia Critic, and The AVGN, and Todd In The Shadows, but I don't have a video camera so I couldn't do it, but then when I discovered I could just simply make a blog and post my reviews on here, it just opened up this whole new world for me. So yeah, I hope you enjoy my future reviews, and if people really do like them, well, maybe I will keep doing this. Bye!

1 comment:

  1. That third criteria you have, (all together) doesn't really make a whole lot of sense and seems like a pretty minor thing to are about. In fact, it should be in the same category as the music. Lyrics aren't really that important in most albums. They maybe should affect an album rating by....1 point at most.

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