How do you rate music? (1-5 scale)

Josef K · 01-24-2015, 08:32 PM

5 - Perfect
4.5 - Near Perfect
4 - Great
3.5 - Very Good
3 - Good
2.5 - Decent
2 - Mediocre
1.5 - Bad
1 - Very Bad
.5 - Terrible

Almost nothing gets above a 4 on first listen.

Dylstew · 01-29-2015, 07:03 AM

Here's my rating thing on RYM:
5.0 - Amazing, but I'm probably being biased
4.5 - ****in' Great
4.0 - Really good
3.5 - Good
3.0 - Above average, okay.
2.5 - Average, meh.
2.0 - below average, pretty bad.
1.5 - Bad.
1.0 - Very bad, horrible.
0.5 - Worst thing ever

I rate anything I listened to once (so I can see what I did and did not listen to on RYM), just based on what I feel.
Ofcourse this is pretty inaccurate, so sometimes if I listen to the album again, the rating changes.

HellCell · 01-29-2015, 11:31 PM

Yeah tell me about it.
Go listen to a random album you haven't heard of before and throw some knee jerk ratings on it.

Then give it a real listen after a day and see if there are any changes.

Dylstew · 01-30-2015, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by HellCell

Yeah tell me about it.
Go listen to a random album you haven't heard of before and throw some knee jerk ratings on it.

Then give it a real listen after a day and see if there are any changes.

Sometimes it stays the same though.

Zer0 · 01-30-2015, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by JustinJJustin

I usually just rate my albums based on one listen, and if I like it enough I will give it another go. But I keep the rating the same. First impressions count.

I don't think anybody can accurately rate an album based on only one listen. It usually takes me about two to three listens to form a proper opinion on an album. Some of my favourite albums I wouldn't have rated as highly on first listen as I do now.

People rating albums based on first listen is one thing which has put me off giving albums numerical ratings or rating them based on some scale. I don't want to forever define an album by a number out of ten or whatever as my opinion on the album could more than likely change for better or worse.

Dylstew · 01-30-2015, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Zer0

I don't think anybody can accurately rate an album based on only one listen. It usually takes me about two to three listens to form a proper opinion on an album. Some of my favourite albums I wouldn't have rated as highly on first listen as I do now.

People rating albums based on first listen is one thing which has put me off giving albums numerical ratings or rating them based on some scale. I don't want to forever define an album by a number out of ten or whatever as my opinion on the album could more than likely change for better or worse.

I know, but I still do it since it's still an easy way for me to see what I listened to.

Zer0 · 01-30-2015, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Dylstew

I know, but I still do it since it's still an easy way for me to see what I listened to.

You could just catalog an album and not rate it.

Dylstew · 01-30-2015, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Zer0

You could just catalog an album and not rate it.

No, I've cataloged everything I have. I rate everything I've listen to.

Chula Vista · 01-30-2015, 02:10 PM

This is a perfect (5) album. I can't imagine anyone who gave it a serious listen thinking otherwise.

Dylstew · 01-30-2015, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

This is a perfect (5) album. I can't imagine anyone who gave it a serious listen thinking otherwise.

It's so perfect that the video is not available.

01-29-2015, 07:03 AM	#32 (permalink)
Dylstew Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 1,366	Here's my rating thing on RYM: 5.0 - Amazing, but I'm probably being biased 4.5 - ***in' Great 4.0 - Really good 3.5 - Good 3.0 - Above average, okay. 2.5 - Average, meh. 2.0 - below average, pretty bad. 1.5 - Bad. 1.0 - Very bad, horrible. 0.5 - Worst thing ever I rate anything I listened to once (so I can see what I did and did not listen to on RYM), just based on what I feel. Ofcourse this is pretty inaccurate, so sometimes if I listen to the album again, the rating changes. Last edited by Dylstew; 01-29-2015 at 07:15 AM.*

01-29-2015, 11:31 PM	#33 (permalink)
HellCell Music Addict Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 272	Yeah tell me about it. Go listen to a random album you haven't heard of before and throw some knee jerk ratings on it. Then give it a real listen after a day and see if there are any changes. __________________ http://www.last.fm/user/deannewb

01-30-2015, 02:10 PM	#39 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	This is a perfect (5) album. I can't imagine anyone who gave it a serious listen thinking otherwise. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

01-24-2015, 08:32 PM	#31 (permalink)
Josef K A Jew on a motorbike! Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 800	5 - Perfect 4.5 - Near Perfect 4 - Great 3.5 - Very Good 3 - Good 2.5 - Decent 2 - Mediocre 1.5 - Bad 1 - Very Bad .5 - Terrible Almost nothing gets above a 4 on first listen.