19 pages of grown men losing their shit over 40 year old record guides.
forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/rolling-stone-record-guides-anyone-else-get-irritated.723049/I think Freezerburn is this close to stroking out. Here is a typical poat from Freezerburn:
"Here's a few nice ones from the red 78 edition:
AC/DC : "AC/DC is an Australian hard rock band whose main purpose is to offend anyone within sight or earshot. They succeed on both counts." - Billy Altman
Black Sabbath: "These would be kings of heavy metal are eternally foiled by their stupidity and intractability. In the early seventies their murky drone was all the more appealing for it's cynicism-the philosophy that everything is s##t, and a flirtation with pre-Exorcist demonic possession. Time has passed them by, their recent stuff is a quaint bore." - Ken Tucker
Elf (with Dio) : Cheap platers too incompetent for as bad a judge of heavy metal horseflesh as Ritchie Blackmore. Destined for the glue factory." - John Swenson
Foreigner, Double Vision: "Double Vision however was a myopic rehash of the first album, a formula approach that suggested the group belonged in the ranks of the simply banal." - Dave Marsh, gives it 1 star
Grand Funk: "Wretched was the word to describe Grand Funks music. The playing was never much more than energetic, and the singing was completely hopeless." - Dave Marsh
Iron Butterfly, In-A-Gada-Da-Vida: " But the album that at one point out sold everything else in the Atlantic/Atco catalog quickly became as forgettable an artifact as the group itself, so speculation as to it's worth is pointless. It's now garbage"-
John Swenson
Moxy: "The very poor man's Aerosmith. Makes Rush look like an intellectual's concept." - John Swenson
Nazareth: "Dog food. Dreadful stuff." - Dave Marsh
Queen Jazz: "Jazz was another bombastic farce." - Dave Marsh
Rush: "This Canadian power trio, which boasts a vocalist who sounds like a cross between Donald Duck and Robert Plant, reached it's pinnacle of success the day it was discovered by Circus magazine and turned into fanzine wall decoration material. Rush is to the the late seventies what Grand Funk was to the early seventies-the power boogie band for the 16 magazine graduating class." - Alan Niester ("a high school teacher in Toronto who writes for a variety of American and Canadian magazines.")
Uriah Heep: "A mutant version of Deep Purple, Uriah Heep has to be considered one of the worst commercially successful bands of the seventies. Good points: sincerity and and an organist (Ken Hensley) far more intelligent and capable than the group. Bad points: one of the most strident and annoying singers (David Byron) in rock history. The problem is Byron gets the material he deserves." - John Swenson
ZZ Top: "On record, ZZ Top was never more than a poor man's Lynyrd Skynyrd-some rural feeling but just numbing guitar drive. Rock & Roll can be mindless fun, but it never deserved to be this empty headed." - Dave Marsh
So yes, biased nonsense from a bunch of haters of anything heavy. These little write-ups speak for themselves.
Nothing but the blather of a bunch of key clacker hacks, Dave Marsh easily being the worst of the lot."
I don't know, the reviews seem pretty accurate to me.