# Do you have a favorite All Music Review website? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 26, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-all-music-review-website/209698 "2003-10-26T19:20:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![criminalcatalog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@criminalcatalog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminalcatalog)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-all-music-review-website/209698/1 "2003-10-26T19:20:35Z")
I’ve been referring to [All Music Guide](http://www.allmusic.com/) for a while now. I’d like to find a site that has reviews that reflect more of what I think good music sounds like. For most people, that’s probably not something that can be defined too easily. So any submissions you might have would be appreciated. Anyone who knows a fantastic site to follow electronic music will be considered, by me, the **RULER OF ALL** for…ah, how about until it seems just too absurd. \O () /\ beer belly disco king ---
**Author:** ![criminalcatalog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@criminalcatalog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminalcatalog)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-all-music-review-website/209698/2 "2003-10-26T19:25:51Z")
Seemed like an opinion topic at first, but I suppose it should be in Cafe Society…oops wrong forum. sorry moderators. ---
**Author:** ![Ruiniform](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ruiniform](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruiniform)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-all-music-review-website/209698/3 "2003-10-26T19:29:47Z")
I _love_ AMG. Certainly one of the msot useful resources on the Net. It’s always seemed to me that most reviews are written by someone who appreciates the genre…what, precisely, is your grievance? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![criminalcatalog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@criminalcatalog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminalcatalog)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-all-music-review-website/209698/4 "2003-10-26T20:55:43Z")
Aside from the mis-informed song titles, not much. Sometimes songs are spelled wrong too. ---
**Author:** ![Ruiniform](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ruiniform](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruiniform)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-all-music-review-website/209698/5 "2003-10-26T21:03:20Z")
Mmm, yes, you’re right, I’ve noticed that too. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-all-music-review-website/209698/6 "2003-10-26T21:10:01Z")
Actually, I think that the misspellings are not a fault of AMG themselves, but rather misspellings by other sources that are included to lead someone to the correct title and/or to show a record of the mistaken liner notes, etc. for completeness’ sake. I haven’t seen a misspelled title that wasn’t accompanied by the correct spelling of such. Anyone remember CDNOW’s old format, before they were taken over by Amazon? IMHO, AMG was second to CDNOW, as it combined reviews, information, etc. as well as a sample of the songs in question. It was one of the great research sites out there (which perhaps added to its demise?). ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-all-music-review-website/209698/7 "2003-10-27T01:23:33Z")
You could try the ultra-snobby Pitchfork Media. PFM pisses me off sometimes, but I still keep going back. Also, [www.metacritic.com](http://www.metacritic.com) gives you a link to various reviews of a nominated album, similar to the film review site [www.rottentomatoes.com](http://www.rottentomatoes.com). ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-favorite-all-music-review-website/209698/8 "2003-10-27T16:17:05Z")
I’ll second Pitchfork, but it’s pretty niche market. They do cover electronic music reasonably well (though not mainstream electronica), so you ay get something out of them. I find AMG is good as reference, but their reviews are useless. They’re too often excessively positive: pull up an average band and you’ll see their discography with each album recieving four or four and a half stars.