You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: With Confidence, Man, One of the Best . . . Product review: examples of songwriting and musicianship I've heard in a long time. Stephen's lyrics, his style (country? rock? folk? jazz? avant-what??) deliver poetry in every song. His voice whispers, croons, pleads, or expounds while the band tastefully punctuates, elaborates. Take a listen: The 600 Club (. . . "I've had Thanksgiving Dinners so sad that I've had to rearrange my first impressions . . . ") and Stephen's rendition of Ted Hawkins' "Stay Close to Me". While he hasn't produced a record since, Stephen still writes. He appears very occasionally in the Bay Area, and we fans hope he records again. This is art. This is music. Thank you, Stephen! (And your fine, fine muscians and engineers. . . )
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You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: It'll get in your head ... Product review: I saw the video for Galang on BPM and was laughing out loud. This skinny little Sri Lankan girl was spitting out london ghetto rap while dancing crazily in front of a cartoon backdrop. But the next few days, something about the beat stayed in my head. I had to hear it again. I did, and I taped it, and the more I listened to it the more I realized I wanted to hear more. I found it at a store and bought it. On the bus ride home I didn't much care for it, but like the Galang video, it stayed in my head. Everytime I listened to it I liked it a little bit more. It's like watching Pulp Fiction, each time you see it, something appears to you that you missed before that makes the whole thing make more and more sense. By now, it is one of my favourite CD's and I don't even listen to this genre (if it even fits into any genre) regularly. It isn't for everyone, but if you have a good subwoofer and an open mind for something unique...give it a shot.
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You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Made the same mistake. Product review: I never ever thought that a book would be placed on Amazon.com and when not publihsed in English be made more emphatic. The book looks good but of course I can't read one word of it. I live in Australia so to send it back will put me out more than keeping it. Very frustrating but what can you do? Now I always check that the book I am purchasing is in English. By looking at the prior customers who had the same problem I don't feel as it I was the only one caught out with this book - Spanish who new?
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You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Good info but disturbing editorials Product review: I do like the investment information in this paper, but you must be willing to put up with some disturbing editorials and some amount of very conservative bias in news articles. This didn't bother me tooooo much until the misogynistic comments about Fluke. There's also a lot of Obama bashing. I can't be comfortable about the quality of information in this newspaper given the extreme bias. I will not be renewing my subscription because there are other places to get good information without the hatefulness in the editorials. I sure hope that IBD becomes more balanced in their views and tempers their comments about women. There is no reason to pay for hatefulness.
