KEXP Album Review Archive
KEXP’s Review Revue is scanning and posting the little sticker-based LP reviews that their DJs taped to albums added to the station’s collection. Ranging from Paul Simon’s Graceland to Sonic Youth’s Goo and more. The brevity and small size of the notes makes them amenable to hosting conversations among DJs posted in series, an antecedent to weblog comment communities. Above is the nearly filled cover of Lou Reed’s New York, which split the community a little:
“This doesn’t deserve H. It’s not lighting up my phones. I’d much rather play ‘This Gift’ than this 2nd rate MTV trend scooter music. So there.”
“Oh Phil, you are such a rock historian. Slip on an Aerosmith disc, maybe ‘Rocks’ or ‘Toys in the Attic’ next you’re spazzin’ over the ‘latest guitar thang.”
“Take a listen! ‘Endless Cycle’ is great! Lou & his many hats (+ cigarettes)!”
“The listeners on NNTNBT loved this disc.”
“Besto!!”
“Contrived anger for the masses.”
[Via metafilter.com]
