On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, david turgeon wrote:
quoted 2 lines following greg clow's review on feedback monitor, i bought solar x> following greg clow's review on feedback monitor, i bought solar x
> "little pretty automatic" (worm interface).
While I know that the point of reviews is to help sell records (or to warn
people not to buy something in the case of negative reviews), I still find
it odd to know that my opinions on things actually influence people.
Even weirder was an experience yesterday when I was flipping through some
stuff at Tower and found a release by a local indie artist called
Automatic Fats that had an excerpt from my review of the album printed on
a sticker. With my name and everything.
And then there's the occassional press bio I get that has an excerpt from
a review I wrote for the artists previous release. At least I haven't been
misquoted yet. I'm just waiting for the day when I write something like
"The utter suckiness of this album is truly outstanding!", only to see it
quoted as "...this album is truly outstanding!". :)
Greg