metacritic

http://www.sidequesting.com/2009/11/the-gaming-of-metacritic/

Rabelais

"As for you, little envious prigs, snarling bastards, puny critics... go hang yourselves... you shall never want rope enough."-- Rabelais

Maugham

"People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise."-- W. Somerset Maugham

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From the ever-fine Quietus site. Music criticism is GOOD!

music critics

tug of the ET beard to Jim Smith on Facebook for helping me define my role... 

I'm a music critic. My job is to report objectively on each band I see or album I review: how many songs / members / who plays what / audience reaction / sales performance and whatever else appears in the press release.