Words you (irrationally) like in music reviews

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We've had the dislikes, what words do you always enjoy seeing in a review/article?

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

My personal favourite at the moment is 'threnody'.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

to be honest,not so much any more,but there was a time when i loved the idea of a soundscape...

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

intercity

― willem (willem), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

handclaps. I like when someone has to mention the handclaps (cuz what if the would-be listener wasn't aware! dear god!). Not that there aren't many songs improved by them.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

- mesmerizing -

is a nice word, and the music tends to be good, too.

― jot eff pe, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"explosive"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"lush" and turning anything that's not an adjective into one. (esp. a sentance)

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"dimple" (verb)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

emplastic

― bob zemko (bob), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"hook and drone"

"fuck"

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

cockfarmer

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

sux

― brains (cerybut), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Decomposition.

― gazuga (gazuga), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

hogtied

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

louche
bitchin'
tantamount

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

reverb

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 19 December 2002 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

*Louche* is such a great word.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 19 December 2002 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I try to use "discombobulate" as often as possible. not only does it look/sound good, it has the word "disco" in it.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 19 December 2002 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"transcendent" is THE word that makes me immediately interested in the recording.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 19 December 2002 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned Raggett

― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 19 December 2002 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"As good as (band name)'s (previous album) was, (new album) is even better."

Ahh, Ben Vendetta.

― call mr. lee (call mr. lee), Thursday, 19 December 2002 01:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Elegiac

What's the difference between an elegy and a eulogy?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 December 2002 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"hullabaloo" & "gobbledygook"
never fail to please my eye and warm the heart (i mean it)

wait - there's one other, only what was the spelling? "brouhaha"?

― t\'\'t (t''t), Thursday, 19 December 2002 05:35 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

polite: "Actually it crackles with a sensibility from still further back, because of how Alasdair Maclean sounds wide-eyed and polite and like he's singing through gauze."

― youn, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"torque," a Rod Smith specialty

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"rueful"

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it when a reviewer calls someone's work pretentious. Because if they're right, and they usually are, I get a feeling like there's a good chance that person reads all his reviews, is a big egomaniac, and was jsut chopped down to size a bit.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember tha olden days when journos used to use world like "Swagger" and "attitude"?!?!?!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i hate "criminally underrated" as a phrase in music reviews

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"decathexis"

― dave q, Tuesday, 30 December 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"nü-Alanis-lite-esque"

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the all-time classics:

cathartic
posturing
transcendent
alienation
touchstone
lush
coda
remeniscent
expansive
audacious
gorgeous harmonies
tendencies
grand guignol
intimate
soundscape
ululations
personae
vignettes

― pete s, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Distrust any review that uses the word 'trope'.

I suppose it might be interesting to work out the number of times Greil Marcus uses the words 'America' and 'American' in his writings.

― pete s, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

'sanguine'

because it's the word that got my letter published in The Economist

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

'unfortunate' - even though I see it more in badly-written reviews.

Very English-butler - "Oh, dear, that chord is very unforrrrtunate."

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"that chorrrd is verrry unforrrtunate."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

In my head, it sounds like the guardian of the Grail from Indiana Jones. "He did not choose... wisely."

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.jeffwilliamsartist.com/images/jeeves.jpg

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

plangent/plaintive

― sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

would like - elegant - to describe a sound

― youn, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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