Posted by Trung
on 6/8/2012, 2:54 am, in reply to "biggest things:"
110.175.228.247
Yeah, i probably shot myself in the foot there
They are pretty fair enough reasons for not doing the reviews. Although the problem can be overcome if there were requested reviews, you could always have a disclaimer that there is no obligation to review the work and that you could email or post links etc it but there's no promise for it to be reviewed in the indefinite future. Although you may feel that may be rude to people who sent the work to you, well it's lot more polite than the A and R people in record company who are "supposed" to evaluate sent in recordings.
Although saying that, that's still extra work for you.
In terms of point 3, it really was just a joke. Reviewing unsigned artist isn't pretending to be a professional critic or an A and R manager at a record company, if anything it just makes you look like supporting talented unsigned struggling artist.
--Previous Message--
: 1. As you said, people would start sending me
: things en masse (I actually get asked by
: people to do it every couple of months,
: believe it or not) and I'd have to start
: sorting through what to look at and what not
: to.
:
: 2. I really really do not want to spend
: *more* time on my site than I currently do,
: nor will it be possible to do so.
:
: 3. I don't really like the idea of having
: the facade of being a wanna-be professional
: critic. I'm an amateur reviewer; an amateur
: who takes what he's doing seriously (because
: I can't help but try to do a good job in
: pretty much anything I care about doing),
: but an amateur nonetheless, and I like it
: that way.
:
: "Or maybe it's the idea of listening to
: music sent by me and he has some really
: negative perception of what it will sound
: like based on what I've written on this
: board. "
:
: I'm sure your music is fine.
: