You're SUPPOSED TO BE ENCOURAGING ME TO BUY THE STINKIN' ALBUM!!!!!

I was kindof surfing iTunes, so to speak... I was given a $15 iTunes gift card for Christmas, and I was looking for some songs by my favorite artists.

I usually read the album reviews for any album I'm interested in, but I've found quite a few official reviews on iTunes that didn't make me want to buy the album. Here's one for the Phillips, Craig & Dean album Top of my Lungs

"Christian Pop music carries with it twin dangers, and each is kindof a mirror image of the other: one danger is the risk of falling into saccharine sweetness; the other is the risk of treating sacred things in a casual, flip manner. For both of those reasons, pop songs about sin and redemption tend to succeed best when they focus on the Sinner, not the Savior -- in a pop context, you have to sing about Christ in general terms so as to not sound disrespectful, whereas you can sing about yourself in the kind of gritty detail that tends to make a song compelling. So how do Phillips, Craig, & Dean walk that particular tightrope? Pretty well, which shouldn't be a surprise, since they've now been doing it for about 16 years. On Top Of My Lungs, their sound is based in sturdy folk-rock, and when it fails sonically, it's usually because producer Nathan Nockels couldn't resist throwing in that dang string section where it doesn't belong (most egregiously on the slightly syrupy title track and the equally over-sweet "Saved the Day"). When it fails lyrically, it's because they sound too offhanded about their Lord ("That's my Lord"). Not surprisingly, they succeed best when they rock out about the path of salvation ("One Way") and about their own religious commitment ("For Your Glory"). Overall, Not bad at all. "

WHAT?!?!?!?!? These things may be true, but they don't make me want to buy the album. I enjoy PCD, but this honestly doesn't sound like a good album. and I know it's to the contrary, because I've listened to this entire album. * NOTE, if YOU WANT SOMEONE TO BUY THE ALBUM, MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A GOOD ALBUM!!! Whomever wrote that review pretty much failed.

Seriously, you're supposed to try and make the person reading the review WANT to buy the album.

~The Two Young Men