Resound Radio Reviews

Last semester I began writing album reviews for our College radio station - Resound Radio. From contemporary, to alternative, to pop-Christian albums, my rating scale has gone from atrociously awful to somewhat bearable. It's so hard to give any album 5 stars when you can give an album like Physical Graffiti, The Dark Side of the Moon, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band 5 stars. That's why I'm pretty hard on whatever I listen to.

Basically, unless you're redefining sound, making a resonating statement, or blowing the definition of what you're doing out of proportion with anything I've ever heard or seen before, there's no way you're getting above a 4. Now lately I've been easing up and letting the reigns fall lower than usual - but that was based on pressure I was getting to justify my low ratings - which was possible to do, but wouldn't have been worth 5 more pages of analysis and in depth reasonings for my personal standards or what I expect other people's standards to be. That's not to say I'm coping out by any means, but just that my ratings don't always reflect my personal belief - just what I think the review says, and what the general public will probably agree with. Okay yes, that sounds like coping out...

What can I say?

Maybe I'm just being too judgmental in the first place. I add some sugar on top of the harshness of my reviews so they're easy to swallow, but I'm sure that the real meaning in my words can be discovered by the people who know what I'm talking about. In any case, if you're interested, you can check out my reviews.

So far I've done:
All Star United - Love and Radiation
Inhabited - Love
Relient K - The Birds and the Bee Sides