Musicians review the Singles!

Picking up on the "mean review" thing, as with the Tin Machine II beat-down ... it struck me that music journalism is much closer to real-life fan (or anti-fan) chat than it is to literary criticism or other forms of arts reviewing. (Not that these are completely devoid of no-holds-barred, personally insulting take-downs). But rock writing is closer to vernacular shit-shooting of the kind that…