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Did Rolling Stone downgrade Musicology? I swear it was a 4-star review before?
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It was..
http://www.prince.org/msg...sg_1517520 the original review... http://216.239.41.104/sea...logy&hl=en . [This message was edited Tue May 18 5:35:16 2004 by Universaluv] | |
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Was the voting done in Florida? If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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i always thought it was a 3 out 4 star review Check it out ...Shiny Toy Guns R gonna blowup VERY soon and bring melody back to music..you heard it here 1st! http://www.myspacecomment...theone.mp3 | |
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Absolutely. It was 4 out of 5 in the magazine. | |
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i dont see any 5 star cd's on the web site so maybe for some reason they only give 4 star smax on the web site cuz i know Musicology didnt get a perfect score..so maybe in the mag it was 4 out 5 and on the website 3 out of 4 Check it out ...Shiny Toy Guns R gonna blowup VERY soon and bring melody back to music..you heard it here 1st! http://www.myspacecomment...theone.mp3 | |
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Mazerati said: i dont see any 5 star cd's on the web site so maybe for some reason they only give 4 star smax on the web site cuz i know Musicology didnt get a perfect score..so maybe in the mag it was 4 out 5 and on the website 3 out of 4
No, Musicology was 4 stars on the website. FYI, SOTT is an example of a 5 star CD, also on the website (That's one they actually upgraded over the years). | |
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Universaluv said: Mazerati said: i dont see any 5 star cd's on the web site so maybe for some reason they only give 4 star smax on the web site cuz i know Musicology didnt get a perfect score..so maybe in the mag it was 4 out 5 and on the website 3 out of 4
No, Musicology was 4 stars on the website. FYI, SOTT is an example of a 5 star CD, also on the website (That's one they actually upgraded over the years). strange.. i wonder how come they go back and change ratings like that Check it out ...Shiny Toy Guns R gonna blowup VERY soon and bring melody back to music..you heard it here 1st! http://www.myspacecomment...theone.mp3 | |
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This is definitely a case of The Man bringing him down. The Last Otan Track: www.funkmusician.com/what.mp3 | |
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Knowing RS, they probably bought all the initial hype, freaked out when the single tanked, and didn't want to look bad with a four-star review for an album that (at least initially) might prove notable mostly for its sales tactic. Then, 5 years from now, when the consensus is reached that it actually IS a damn solid Prince album, it'll bump back up to 4.
Either that or someone's HTML sucks.  | |
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Or perhaps a huge P fan wrote the review, and the chief editor wanted an un-biased review, being that RS is a credible news source, so they had somebody else re-review (or re-rate) the CD.
Or maybe the url to that 4th star is broken. The Last Otan Track: www.funkmusician.com/what.mp3 | |
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WTF? Can they do that, just go back and change any review scores whenever they feel like it? The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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jfs said: Absolutely. It was 4 out of 5 in the magazine.
Yep, looks like they've changed it. Don't worry, RS sucks anyway. All they do is jump on the bandwagon. They didn't give Prince a second of their time for years and now all of a sudden he's on their cover. | |
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otan said: Or perhaps a huge P fan wrote the review, and the chief editor wanted an un-biased review, being that RS is a credible news source, so they had somebody else re-review (or re-rate) the CD.
Anthony Decurtis wrote the review. He's a pretty well-respected rock critic. The review hasn't changed, just the star rating. | |
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It might be because they just re-formatted the site. Every music review on the site seems to say "Unrated" or 3-stars. | |
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croweonbranch said: It might be because they just re-formatted the site. Every music review on the site seems to say "Unrated" or 3-stars.
Perhaps, but SOTT managed to hold on to its 5 star rating. | |
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