To review or not to review?

I felt moved to do a post on reviews in general.

Apparently the golden rule in show buisness is never to read your reviews. I have been lucky to have had a few good ones lately,but there is always a slight bit of negativity in them that must be seen by the reviewer to show their ability for critical thinking. The comments are generally about something that I have agonised about, and I feel frustrated that in true Harry Potter style a little paragraph cant magically appear under the review with the title "YES BUT!".

The negative points usually are about the fact that synthesised instruments are used on backing tracks. (YES BUT! do they think how long it would take an instrumentalist to record all these tracks perfectly, and how much it would cost for a top notch player to do this... there is more to all this than meets the eye....).

Then, in the same paragraph they say how wonderful it is to have two speeds of backing tracks.... ( add another few days with instrumentalist onto the recording time in a busy in house studio which is trying to produce quality backing tracks for every publication....

Actually what made me laugh, was a few months ago I had a review of a saxophone book from a very eminent prof. of the instrument. His negative comments were that he didn't like the tone made by the tenor sax player on the backing CD ( It was a book for alto sax), and that the player had unwisely decided not to use vibrato in his playing..... not sure he realised it was synthesised!.