The AV Club's been on record (hah!) in the past about this- they said that because of the sheer volume of music product, they only review stuff they like unless the band is too big to ignore.  They've probably been waiting to pull out that F for eons.

@Flaubert Cooper- Well, I sympathize with the viewpoint that the Beatles were basically a decent-to-good boy band for the first chunk of their career. So, you know, why not the Black Eyed Peas? Why not (at some point) Lady Gaga? What if one of them came out with an incredible game-changing album? Would we allow…

I'm neither a boomer nor much of a Beatles fan, but you're nuts if you think AftP or the Soft Bulletin had the same impact on pop music than Revolver (which I never referenced BTW). Or at least, that the culture insists had the same impact on pop music. I'm actually on the opposite of the fence- it bugs the…

The hope
I sympathize with what Reynolds is trying to do, or at least what I think he's trying to do based on just this one review. While a lot of these works seem to boil down to "everything after year X sucks," I find a lot of resonance with the idea that the post-boomers are still looking for their Beatles to…