August 22, 201114 yr Hello, everyone! So I subscribe to Rolling Stone and in a small section of the new issue (Sept. 1, 2011) they talked about Coldplay's new, "weirder" sound. And they assigned star ratings to each song, including PoC. Hurts Like Heaven: 3.5 stars Charlie Brown: 2.5 stars Us Against the World: 3.5 stars Princess of China: 3 stars Rolling Stone is usually pretty harsh in their reviews, so I'm pretty pleased with those scores myself. :) Anyway, I just thought I'd share, since it's not online. The scan is below.
August 22, 201114 yr Thanks for sharing. But what the f***? 2 1/2 Stars for "Charlie Brown"? out of 5?
August 22, 201114 yr Author Secret Weapon = WILL :D The end Haha I laughed at that part too! He's awesome. :lol:
August 22, 201114 yr Author What was interesting to me is that they liked Charlie Brown, just not Chris' delivery of the song. Soooo..... Why does that knock it down to just 2.5 stars? Durp.
August 22, 201114 yr What was interesting to me is that they liked Charlie Brown, just not Chris' delivery of the song. Soooo..... Why does that knock it down to just 2.5 stars? Durp. They might have layered it like they did Major Minus.
August 22, 201114 yr Author They might have layered it like they did Major Minus. Well if I recall, they gave pretty solid accolades to Major Minus, MTM and ETIAW. So I don't think that's the problem.
August 22, 201114 yr Author What did they give ETIAW? 3.5 stars. :freak: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/songreviews/every-teardrop-is-a-waterfall-20110603
August 22, 201114 yr Author Critics are actually not panning ETIAW. They seem to like it. Coldplay fans are just more stubborn because it was such a turn from their previous stuff that we know and love. I don't think they're comparing it to older Coldplay; They are just reviewing it as an autonomous piece instead of comparatively.
August 22, 201114 yr Critics are actually not panning ETIAW. They seem to like it. Coldplay fans are just more stubborn because it was such a turn from their previous stuff that we know and love. I don't think they're comparing it to older Coldplay; They are just reviewing it as an autonomous piece instead of comparatively. That's how it is. I like "ETIAW".
August 22, 201114 yr Rolling Stones have gone downhill BIG TIME with their music reviews..for example-Lady gaga's new album is just plain awful -.- they gave it a 4/5..dear god and 2 1/2 stars? really? and Princess of China a 3? wow i love to hear that grand HD quality they have, cause POC is nothing special..well at least not to me....
August 22, 201114 yr Pretty harsh, ey? Well, if those are harsh scores then the "Coldplay fan" score must be +2 to that then :P. So, 5 all around practically. Hahaha
August 22, 201114 yr Author Rolling Stones have gone downhill BIG TIME with their music reviews..for example-Lady gaga's new album is just plain awful -.- they gave it a 4/5..dear god and 2 1/2 stars? really? and Princess of China a 3? wow i love to hear that grand HD quality they have, cause POC is nothing special..well at least not to me.... I appreciate GaGa. I don't really care for a lot of her stuff, but I admire that she writes her own songs, it's bold and it's composed well. Her new album didn't flow very well. To me it sounds like the LP only cares about singles...not a track listing. But I can see why they gave it a good score. But anyway, back to relevance, I think RS reviews are usually okay. I appreciate that theyre more critical than other magazines are, but that the criticism is meaningful and not just a matter-of-fact opinion (a la Pitchfork). PoC can't be judged well by us yet because we don't have an HD version of it at all but I think it sounds awesome!
August 22, 201114 yr So they reviewed the live songs from Youtube :\ Coming from RS, I'd expect better.
August 22, 201114 yr I appreciate GaGa. I don't really care for a lot of her stuff, but I admire that she writes her own songs, it's bold and it's composed well. Her new album didn't flow very well. To me it sounds like the LP only cares about singles...not a track listing. But I can see why they gave it a good score. Most critics gave it a pretty good score, not just RS. But anyway, back to relevance, I think RS reviews are usually okay. I appreciate that theyre more critical than other magazines are, but that the criticism is meaningful and not just a matter-of-fact opinion (a la Pitchfork). PoC can't be judged well by us yet because we don't have an HD version of it at all but I think it sounds awesome! I think Gaga's album is pretty solid but it's too damn long. She needs to take a page out of Coldplay book and shorten her next albums to 42min. She has so many songs that could have been left out.
August 22, 201114 yr Author ^Agreed. Anyway, I don't know if they reviewed them from YouTube. But whatever the medium, I think it's a good example of how professional reviewers are going to grade the new material.
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