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Which one is your favourite ? Is there any other databases like that I should be aware of ? |
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i like discogs |
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discogs..until xltronic gets it's shit together :p |
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The discogs for me too. www.discogs/~mortsto |
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well the xltronic discog is quite comprehensive for the IDM related artists... discogs is mainly contributed by users (some obscure music trolls mainly). Allmusic has more coverage and good reviews by I guess semi-pro music journalists. I like to go to metacritics.com ; It's like a digest of different e-zines and magazines articles. They give you a 'normalized' score on a 1 to 100 scale so you can have a 89.5% grade for an indy punk-rock band and a 64.2% for an aphex release because they don't fucking understand the 'deep' meaning of kpta1 and kpta2 and WHY ON HEARTH THIS IS THE BRILLANT MUSIC OF A GENIUS ... MYSELF (mogwai - punkrock) ! |
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- very good music indeed (just listening to it now). |
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All Music for me, definitely. The reviews are generally spot on |
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Discogs is very complete and usefull, but it is a boring website. |
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fuck...i use |
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All Music for reviews and bio's, cover art, and an extensive non-electronic discography discogs.com for extensive electronic discography |
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Allmusic Rules. Great reviews, excellent deep linking for everything and anything even remotely related to an artist. To top it all most of the releases can be heard on Barnes and Nobles site in the form of 30 second clips. Check it. |
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discogs wouldn't let me comment on my artist page (i got no voted) i was only pointing out some mistakes that app can't be rectified but it's a good resource ... |
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allmusic hands down. |
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discogs is more complete, anyway allmusic is nice for pics and general info. i always check both the sites. |
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discogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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cdnow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pitchfork !!!!!!!!!!!! |
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I hate my avatar name. |
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and i hate pitchfork, those trendy faux anti-trend fuckers. |
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i prefer: allmusic over discogs fakejazz over pitchfork |
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AMG gave the new outkast a non-bullshit review. i doubled over with laughter reading pitchfork's review, as i so often do on that awful site. good thing they have a news section or i'd never visit except for the occasional comedy value of their meaningless reviews. |
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Allmusic... I go to that and IMDB about 50 times a day each. Discogs, only when I want to go REALLY in depth and learn about rare/alternate releases, singles, whatever. |
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i wouldn't choose... because neither is complete... or even remotely close to it... you have to use both, and sometimes more.... but amg is much better for finding new music... and how can someone prefer fakejazz over pitchfork, when pretty much all fakejazz reviews is obscure rock? when was the last time anyone could talk about a fakejazz review on xltronic? |
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I like both of them for different reasons, but I tend to use allmusic.com more, since I'm not looking for super-rare releases. |
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well i guess i just like obscure rock reviews... |
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me too... and when i want to hear more obscure rock... i go there... but they have the same inferiority complex as pitchfork (they're just smaller)... and all they review is rock... which is ridiculous |
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discogs for electronic music, allmusic for non-electronic music. On Allmusic the discography of most of the electronic artists is incomplete. |
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yeah, neither is perfect....but if the same album is reviewed on both sites i tend to favor the opinions on fakejazz over those on pitchfork. fakejazz would definitely benefit from including other genres in their reviews as well. |
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Ditto. The last shit one I read was Brian Eno's last release... they spent 9 paragraphs about his fucking career (even though they did that a while ago with a W.A.T.W. on him), a quick paragraph on the album, then one more about how the making of the album and that's supposed to be a review. 5.2, apparently. |
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discogs is reasonably complete for release information and an excellent reference, but most reviews are the biased gushing of fans. also, anecdotally, there is a lot of redundancy, and contributions are controlled by a group of uninformed people who try to edit info they are unfamiliar with, apply rules inconsistently, and rely more on dubious web references than on the word of individuals who actually own the release they are listing. allmusic has interesting reviews, as with most resources you'll agree with some and disagree with others. somtimes the rating and the review don't seem to match, eg the rating is two stars, but the review seems quite favorable. when it comes to more obscure music (like much electronic music), the coverage is spotty and the reviews usually nonexistent or not very useful. the reviews are generally straightforward, as opposed to say pitchfork, where a review may be an exercise in how clever the reviewer thinks he/she is. |
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