# Fulfill your dream...become a music critic TODAY!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fulfill-your-dream-become-a-music-critic-today/34543>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 26, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fulfill-your-dream-become-a-music-critic-today/34543 "2000-09-26T02:47:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skwerl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Skwerl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skwerl)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fulfill-your-dream-become-a-music-critic-today/34543/1 "2000-09-26T02:47:17Z")

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Come to my site, [http://www.anet-stl.com/~mrmann1/index.html](http://www.anet-stl.com/~mrmann1/index.html) . There you will find songs that redefine the word “amateur” and “cheap”. Using nothing but the Encore notation program and an Alesis keyboard, I’ve made some MP3s of my prog-rock MIDIs, and then put them on my site. Feel free to download just the MIDIs, but beware: they don’t sound too pretty. But my question for the Teeming Millions is: do the MP3s sound pretty? I don’t mean quality-wise, I’d just like some input on the songs themselves. Imagine a singer and real instruments in place of a piano and synthesized ones. I prefer constructive criticism to flames and esoteric essays about robots and pants.

(PS: Please note that I don’t have much experience with guitars or singing or drums, so I’d also like to know how feasible these songs are to play…I try to stick mostly with power chords because I know they’re easy, but it’s hard to stay so simple.)

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fulfill-your-dream-become-a-music-critic-today/34543/2 "2000-09-26T03:50:55Z")

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Sorry, I gave up my dreams of becoming a music critic years ago, but the heady memories of hangin’ with Lester\* and the whole _Creem Magazine_ crowd\*\* still linger.

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  - Bangs. And the extent of my “hangin’” was a phone interview for J class. But I still have the tape and got an A for the article.

\*\* - Whom I, obviously, never met.

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**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fulfill-your-dream-become-a-music-critic-today/34543/3 "2000-09-26T03:57:25Z")

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[continuing hijack]  
Unbelievable, first we get a member of the famous Five Americans on the board, and now someone who once spoke with Lester Bangs. We’re truly in the presence of greatness here.  
[/continuing hijack]

Oh, Skwerl, I’ll try to check them out when I get home.

HenrySpencer