I am always amazed when someone can review something on a 100-point scale. The idea of having justification for a 68.2 boggles my mind. Why not 68.3 or 68.05?
And so, I use an extremely basic 3-tiered scale:
You May Enter!
Drop everything you are doing and add this to your library.
This is your entry key, and The Oozy Channel Keep awaits!
Be on the lookout for traps!
Not for everyone, but there are elements to be enjoyed. I will mention if I kick my personal recording to the curb here, but understand others may very well enjoy it more.
This is obviously the most common rating, cementing a traditional bell-curve.
Move Away!
I do not like using this rating. It means this is not music, or if it is music, it is unbearably so.
Members of The Keep beware!
I usually don't search out brand new recordings, although I come across a few.
There are plenty of quality recordings made in the last six decades
worth my attentive perusal, so I tend to focus on what I haven't heard vs. focusing on the latest flashes
in the pan. After all, good music is good music.
I like listening to music I know I will like. That means very few are thrown to The Kraken. Those looking for a vitriolic review system best look the other direction. If anything, you can rest assured of a casual, mind-numbing experience.
I also am not a reviewing machine. My life takes priority over an exhaustive covering of Beethoven Symphony cycle #642. Occasionally, the members of The Oozy Channel Keep will chime in, but for the most part you are stuck with a single editor.
What you can expect from our writing is an over-abundance of misused punctuation, confusing word usage and combinations, and a mish-mash of mixed tenses. If your brain feels a little oozy after reading, you have successfully made it to the Channel Keep!
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