NEWSFLASH: ARYEH STEINER HATES ANOTHER ALBUM!

Many of you will find this completely shocking. Please grab hold of something and be prepared for this amazing news. Aryeh Steiner has reviewed another album - and hated it! I have to wonder why this man writes a Jewish music blog at all? For someone who hates 98 percent of what he listens to, I'd think he just doesn't like Jewish music. If that's the case then why bother reviewing it.

For your entertainment purposes I will now publish the template that Mr. Steiner uses to review albums.

I just came from my friends house and borrowed the new (INSERT ALBUM TITLE HERE) this is their/his (INSERT ALBUM NUMBER) attempt at putting out a decent album. (INSERT CD PRODUCER) has really been phoning it in lately. He really sucks.

It won't be any surprise to you that I think (INSERT ALBUM ARTIST/GROUP HERE) have failed miserably once again. The choir sounds like (CHOSE BETWEEN SUCKS, STINKS & BLOWS) and the guitar is the (INSERT REPETITIVE SYNONYM HERE) Avi Singolda. Sadly Avi is off pace with the (INSERT SECOND RATE DRUMMER/AND/OR PIANIST HERE) and the Brass and Horns are (INSERT DISAPPOINTING TERM HERE.)

(INSERT ALBUM NAME HERE) is a pathetic joke of an album that doesn't even come close to sounding like good music. I'm glad I didn't waste my money on this garbage.

The songs are so bad that my CD player actually spit it out. (INSERT OVERUSED COMPOSERS NAME HERE) hasn't composed a good song in 20 years, it's wonder anyone uses him anymore.

This album is perfect for a deaf blind man and people who are number then stones and won't know the difference anyway. Whatever happened to (INSERT NAME OF ALBUM SAMEACH SENT ME FOR FREE), now THAT was good music. (PAUSE FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT AND HOPE MORE PEOPLE WILL SEND ME THEIR CD'S FOR FREE)

Steiner, why don't you change the name of your blog to the "(ALL) JEWISH MUSIC (SUCKS) REVIEW BLOG" you are embarrassing yourself and anyone who was dumb enough to send you music to review in the first place. When are you going to shut down your blog, or at least start writing real reviews. No one in their right mind can actually hate Jewish music as much as you do and still enjoy actually writing reviews.

It's not like people actually read your blog or respect your opinion anyway. So why do you do it? Does it make you feel good about yourself that at the end of the day you trashed another album?

Whats the problem, did Yitzy Schwartz not ask you to be on his CD? What did people do to you to make you so hurt and angry. If you need some help, let me know, I know a few good Frum shrinks. They can help you deal with your issues.

WE HAVE HIM WORRIED!!!

Aryeh is scared, and he should be. People are finally realizing that he doesn't know what the heck he is talking about. Look at Yitzy Spinner's CD for the most recent example. Before he even heard the album he trashed it. Then he didn't even BUY it, he borrowed it, listened once and proceeded to step on it, rip its heart out and stab it to death. Aryeh, what is wrong with you? What kind of a person are you? This isn't about attacking you, this is about forcing you to realize that what you are doing is wrong! When will you finally give into your shame?! You have the chutzpah not even pay for an album while at the same time attempting to destroy someones parnasa for your own personal issues.

Now if this was truly a bad album then I'd have no leg to stand on, but at least three other usually hyper critical Jewish music bloggers all liked to loved that CD. What does that tell you? When bloggers who are usually very critical love a CD and you not only dislike it, but rip it to shreds, well, it shows one simple thing. You have a personal agenda with certain artists. In fact I think you have a personal agenda against most artists.

I don't want your olive branches, I want you to do the right thing. Stop allowing your personal feelings to bias your reviews. It's one thing to pretend Country Yossi reviews are real, we all know they are BS, but your reviews are the same kind of evil. Whereas one writes because of cash, you review from a place of jealously and resentment.

Aryeh Steiner, do not assume you know who is behind this blog. You will be shocked to find out that we are not one person. The people behind this blog are a rather large group of people. We are a mix of industry people and your fellow bloggers. People who all agree that you have crossed the line and we have to stand up and fight back. There are almost ten people involved in this blog.

You are on notice, your personal attacks via nasty reviews must come to a close. No one has problems with honest or fair reviews, but yours are neither. We already know that our numbers are higher then yours. We can see your stats, we are getting a lot of hits from people googling your name and googling Jewish music reviews.

Your reviews are tainted, biased and full of motzei sheim ra. When you are ready to stop using the internet to seek revenge on an industry you seem to have a lot of venom towards, only then will we be able to accept your olive branch.

I wish, in the spirit of Chanukah, that you choose to do the right thing. Realize the error of your ways and stop trying to destroy peoples careers. You might feel better after you trash soeones album when it isn't really bad, but you'll feel even better if you do the right thing. Write honest reviews and people might start respecting you again. Until then, you can keep expecting us to write these posts and take you to task for every nasty mean spirited "review" you publish!

PS - We did comment on your site at first, you deleted our comments! You can not handle the truth and therefore you moderated or deleted it. We tried on several attempts to discuss this with you head on but you hid behind your comment moderation. We will not discuss this with you any further on YOUR terms, that ship has sailed, now we will discuss this on OUR terms. What we feel and what we think you should do has very clearly been laid out here. It's up to you now to choose what to do with these criticisms.

Aryeh Ateiner of Jewish Music Blog Misrepresents Himself to Newspaper!

HaHaHa!!! Aryeh called himself a "musician" in a recent interview with a newspaper. This reporter must know zilch about blogs because if he did even the most basic google search he'd know Aryeh has no respect anywhere in the Jewish blogs community. Everyone knows he has personal beefs with artists and groups and wouldn't know an honest (or fair) review if it hit him in the blog post. You have to read this article, it's hysterical! Rife with more self riotous quotes from the self music blog king.

“I hoped that people would read [my blog] and be more discriminating in the music they listen to and the bands that they hire, and that bands would read it and ensure that they deliver a quality product,” he said. Isn’t that what Lester Bangs wanted too?

Lester Bangs???? OH MY G-D, someone help me, I just fell off my chair from out of control laughter. HOlY CRAP ON A GIANT STICK!!!! He thinks he's Lester Freakin Bangs??? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!!! Are you mad Aryeh?? Lester was honest, fair, smart, and didn't have any well documented person biases against Groups or Bands that he destroys and hurts with his mean intentioned words.

Lester Bangs? Now I know he's delusional. Aryeh, seriously, tattele, you have serious issues. You want to trash all music so people hire YOU? You think you have even 1/100th of the talent that 90 percent of the real musicians in this industry have? You wish it! You could never make a decent album, and the music that most of us mortals enjoy you trash in hopes of these artists thinking they suck and becoming what? As good as you!!

As specific as it may be, Steiner certainly found his niche. His blog, up and running since 2005, attracts hundreds of viewers per week and was a finalist in the Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards for 2007. He’s developed relationships with the largest Jewish recording labels, which frequently send him press packs to review.

I have to stop to give even more laughter for this paragraph. hundreds per week, is that supposed to be good? A blog like DovBears gets almost 1,000 per day. Real blogs outside the Jewish blog community gets hundreds of thousands per day. He gets what, like 30 hits a day? Thats considered a massive failure in almost every single aspect.

... and his cozy relationship with recording labels? You mean just one, not plural. Just Sameach and no one else and he hasn't posted a review from free cd's from them in months. When he was postings reviews for his free cd's he would kiss their butts and either held back from his usual nastiness or write glowing reviews for free cd's. He sold out and for what? 30 hits a day and a couple of free cd's?

Don't even get me started on that joke of an award program for Israeli Blog Awards. They could never get their act together, every year a new crew, half of them fighting it out on peoples comments sections, even canceling one in the middle and starting it back up a few months later. Come on, that gets you press?

Aryeh gets a verbal beatdown from commenter ...

So here you make it obvious that you have a personal bias or beef with Yitzy Spinner.
On your spinner "review" you castigated him and his album for he composed all of his own material, all songs composed by spinner, which you describe as a bad thing.
Yet, this logic seems to be absent from your mentions of Rosenthal's shalsheles which is all of his own compositions and songs as well. (which i think is fine, but you have an inconsostent problem with it).
Furthermore, you took Spinner to task for many other arbitrary things, including criticizing him for recording a song (acheinu) on his solo album which already appeared on another album six13.
Again you have an inconsistent double standard here as Rosenthal's shalsheles 4 contains at least one track (shir hamaalos) which is a song he composed and was recently recorded and released on the Yacov Young albvum, which contains several rosenthal compositions.
Again, I have no problem with this, but since you do, it is necessary to point out that you are biased and have a problem with spinner himself and not his produciton which you seemed to invent problems for, which you dont have for others who do the same thing.

Of course his response is lame and pathetic. He should have just said "you're right, I'm sorry, I dont know what I'm talking about", but then he'd had have to do that after every post.

Memo to Aryeh. Time to hang it up. Everyone knows the truth, we all know you don't didly squat about music. You're just a bitter jealous wanna be. Stop trying to ruin peoples parnasas because you have a grind to axe. It's one thing if you were giving honest reviews, but they are not honest, and you just want to hurt people! Shame on you!!

Aryeh Strikes Again! Another Stinker from Jewish Music Blog.

Aryeh Steiner of the Jewish Music Blog is at it again.

http://jewish-music.blogspot.com/2007/11/shalsheles-4-preliminary-thoughts.html

Let me just speak frankly, you are not a navi. You need to hear the full album before you make your genius available to the masses. G-d Bless your heart, you really think you are the embodiment of perfection. Wow, do you have mind reading and fortune telling skills also? I would love to hire you for parties!

Once again he has "reviewed" an album from a sampler that was less then 5 minutes long. Yes Aryeh Steiner, the king of the Jewish Music Blog empire has listened to all of 5 minutes of preview clips and determined that you should not waste your time, because Shalsheles 4 is just more of the same. Hey Aryeh, I've heard Shalsheles 4 and it's actually VERY different then the first 3. I also think you have no taste in music and that must really suck for you. I think Shalsheles 3 was really good and I think your blog is just an outlet for your bitterness and jealously.

How many times have you been rejected from groups? Did you also try out for Shalsheles? Did you offer to arrange Spinner's album? Did you want to join Lev Tahor? Was it only AKApella that rejected you or was it everyone out there with an album? Did you try out for Blue Fringe? Yeshiva Boys Choir? Be honest, did you try out for Miami Boys Choir years ago and you determined with your amazing fortune telling skills that one day when they invent blogs you will give every album a bad review?

What resides inside your heart that it is so blackened and cold? Why do you feel the need to make yourself feel good by putting down other peoples hard work? Does it make you feel big? Powerful? Important? Do you think the 38 people who read your blog rely on your vision to make these decisions?

Do you like being despised? Do you enjoy when people leave negative comments on your blog? Does it make you feel mighty that you can delete them? It's funny that you give the harshest criticism on the web, yet you can't even take an iota of criticism yourself.

You need to really look deep inside yourself and ask Mechila from all the people you have offended and insulted and I hope they can all forgive you. If it were me, I wouldn't.

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF BAD REVIEWING BY JEWISH MUSIC REVIEW BLOG

this is coming from the comment section by LifeofRubin blog.

I have no comment on the bad review/Lashon Hara line of demarcation. I think it's too vague a line and try to stay away from it at all costs.

I think that MJBS's comment regarding JMR's review is completely justified - the guy hasn't even heard the album yet!!! He makes it seem like he knows the CD so well that he can judge it, which is completely wrong in my opinion. If he doesn't like it after he's heard it in its entirety, great. Just don't write it off for others until you know what you're talking about.

After seeing MJBS, I decided to take a look at his reviews of Gabay and Gertner. They two debut CDs should give some idea how he treats the new guys. Besides seeing negativity, I realized that he generally has no idea what he's talking about! He seems to approach things from a musical/insider's perspective, when in reality he has neither one.

Cases in point: In his review of Gertner he was so proud that Yaron Gershovsky played on the track entitled 'Kodesh'. Guess what? He didn't! In his review of Gabay, he credits Shloimy Zeiger with bad mixing. Check the credits - it was mixed by Lishinsky and Gates. And one more thing - in his quite lengthy examination of Gabay's harmonies, he tries to prove that he knows so much about music theory by educating us about intervals, scale degrees, and harmony theory.

NOTE TO JMR - if the melody of a song is the fifth of a chord, a third above is the seventh, not the fourth. He seems to be disappointed with all JM recordings. Is there anything that he's satisfied with? I agree with MJBS - he's got a big grudge against everyone in this business and he's letting everyone it. Poor guy.

Opinionated, but Nogeiah B'Dav

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This proves he doesn't even know what he is talking about. It's one thing to debate whether opinion is justified or correct, but the "facts" which he states in his reviews aren't even correct!!

Jewish Music Review Keeps at It

He has deleted my comments again, I have not written anything that isn't just as fair game as a "review" that he does. I did not curse in my comments to him, I did not call him names. I simply asked why he thinks he has the right to trash an album and why he thinks he can write such a harsh brutal review of an album he hasn't even heard in full. But he wants to keep trashing the album in his comments section.

He has no guilt, no shame no self respect. How do you sleep at night? It's obvious from the abrasiveness in the tone of your postings and reviews that you have a disdain towards certain peoples success. Were you also rejected from the Miami Boys Choir? Are you jealous that Spinner was in Miami? Are you bitter?

I hate that I have to even have this blog but someone needs to stand up to the bully!

Jewish Blogmeister (who in my opinion is much better at reviewing albums although some of his are also a bit too harsh) asked why I'm even drawing attention to Jewish Music Blog. The reason is because I want this blog to stand as a counteractive to his nasty reviews. Each time someone googles "Jewish music blog reviews" I want THIS blog to come up and for people to remember to make their own decisions on albums and remember to keep in mind what Jewish Music Blog says is neither a professionals opinion or coming from such a clean kosher place.

Ask yourself how a person can sleep at night when they are knowingly causing serious financial harm to another Jew?