rokkrx

Name: Abby
Member Since: May 20, 2002
Rank: 7070
Average Vote Received: Correct (3.93, 14 votes)
last 10 days: Correct (3.92, 12 votes)
Rated 27 releases, average: 4.89
Location: New Zealand
Profile: Nothing in my collection is for sale. And I have neither the inclination for, nor the interest in, trading CDR burns or ripping MP3s. Thankyou.

I was a discogs moderator in all genres prior to the conversion to teo's Version 4 (aka More Entries, More Sales, More Money, Less Mods). I was originally drawn to discogs because of the stringent approach to accurate data, ensuring if you saw it on discogs, it was almost certainly accurate. The management's move away from this emphasis on accuracy, under the guise of making users "happy", as well as its use of banning to stiffle dissent until it became overwhelming, has affected the validity of this site as a comprehensive database and made a mockery of its claim to be community-based. As it stands, discogs is no longer a community, but rather a group of individuals foolish enough to contribute to it and thereby line the pockets of its ungrateful owner and lousy software developer.

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Reviews:

Jan Hellriegel - It's My Sin - 20-Apr-07 12:48 AM
Jan Hellriegels "Its My Sin" is very much an album of its time; if not earlier. At the time, before the female singer-songwriter boom of the 90s, Hellriegel seemed quite unique, and lead single "The Way I Feel" was a breath of fresh air that sounded current. In retrospect, she was let down by the dated production with which she and the rest of the album was packaged. It has the kind of over-produced, session-muso sound that came to the forefront in the 80s, and seemed to hang around well into the 90s in New Zealand. This prejudice is confirmed by the cast list of familiar studio faces, but none more so than when you listen to the backing vocals on a track, musing derisively that it sounds like The Mutton Birds, only to see that, yes, the dreaded Don McGlashan had a hand in the arranging. Thats not to say its all bad, with "The Way I Feel" still retaining a great hook (and famously using the what was then considered erudite word "quagmire"), and "No Idea" doing likewise. Theres just too many moments when the musos break out their contrived session licks, including the weedly-weedly guitar leads for that "lets rock" moment.