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Originally Posted by noisereductions
sev, I did the same thing 10 years ago haha.
And now Pfork has actually run a news story about... how they are going to review Notorious BIG's albums soon. Who cares? I mean... spoiler: they're going to give Ready To Die a 10. Wow. I can't wait to read that review of an album that I read reviews of in 1994 and rushed out to buy and listened to and formed opinions of then. I mean, a feature that maybe chronicles his discography? Ok, cool. But reviews of his major work? How safe is that? It's boring. It's unnecessary.
But even weirder is why this is some big announcement. I mean, every Sunday they run a review of some old classic album (that really doesn't need to be reviewed again). Strange.
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I dunno. They reviewed a bunch of Prince albums right after he died too. Of course Sign o' the Times got a 10 (deserved it) and so did Purple Rain (deserves it but a little bit less), and everything else warms highly favorable, because what are they going to do? Pan this recently deceased legend's music? Nope.
I do like their liner notes series or whatever where they look at older albums. Enjoyed the one for Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive... and The Lips' Soft Bulletin. But... yeah, not exciting.