In my own way, I guess. In my obsession with organization and statistics (even if i didn’t enjoy the class). And in my obsession with media (music and movies, mostly.)
(Side note: I’ve been listening to SO MUCH Yann Tiersen recently because of Phillip. It’s been a good time).
And, if you have heard me rant about music that I really need to catch up on (it’s not like I’m totally behind on knowing every awesome band/artist from the last 50 years or anything) or new movies, I might have ranted to you about how much (too much) I use(d) Metacritic to find what I wanted to know (aka, the top 200 albums from the last 10 years and movies that actually won’t waste my time).
But, lo! What’s this I see? They have changed the format! What is this blasphemy?
Luckily, there’s a link to the old beloved site here. It’s much more clear than what they have now.
I just linked to the music sections because the home pages don’t really give the full effect. When I first saw the change, I was like “ok….cool?” I’m not someone who gets too emotionally traumatized by change (quite the opposite, actually). But in all honesty, this “re-vamping” is a hot hot mess, and 99% of users who bothered to comment on it are in agreement. An interesting observation that was made by a chap named Greg:
“Their change in motto (from “We Deal With Criticism” to “Keeping Score Of Entertainment”) is telling. This used to be a great clearinghouse of what talented critics wrote about media. Now it’s all about con$uming entertainment…”
I dunno, I’m not about to riot like some of the users, but I probably will be getting most of my music info straight from the critics now. Not that much more difficult, I guess…just more website bookmarking.
And I guess it’s a good thing I finished my “Ultimate Music List” Excel spreadsheet about a month ago…
(This is not a lie. Granted, the title is not really true, since it’s just the last 10 years. I’ve since remedied that with a different spreadsheet of albums to look into from the 70s-90s. But it IS 4 sheets long and probably overly complicated. I would have been pissed if this website was launched 2 months ago.)
EDIT: Good news! Skimming the massive amounts of comments gave me a link to Any Decent Music? which does basically the same thing…except they’re a lot more indie (not that big of a problem), haven’t been around as long, and use less sources. Well, I’ll take what I can get.
