Chula Vista

Google Youtube is your friend mate.

I can't guarantee my links.

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Lisnaholic

^ Yep, I´m with Zer0 on this; I don´t want to worry about numbers when I listen to music, and in any case, my opinion today may be different tomorrow.

In the parallel debate being carried on by Urban, Janzoon and Frownland, I´d put music up there as one of life´s greater pleasures - better than pottery and poetry, but below good health, exercise and reading.

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Schizophobia

I've made me a rating system that perfectly fits with how I feel about the music I listen to.

5.0 - A perfect album, that I could listen to at anytime in my life. No such thing exists... Yet?
4.5 - A favorite album, which I listen to very often.
4.0 - A very good and memorable album, that I reccommend to almost anyone.
3.5 - A nice album, that stands out in the genre.
3.0 - A decent release. I can listen to it but I wouldn't really come back.
2.5 - An average album. I don't really care.
2.0 - Mediocre music, which I can tolerate but I probably never will listen to again.
1.5 - Annoying stuff. I'd skip it.
1.0 - A very bad issue. I could shout for it to stop.
0.5 - The worst I've heard. I doubt I can mark something with this rating, since it would need to hurt me, make me insane.

Goofle

I'm having a bit of an internal dialogue right now. For years I've rated 90% of the albums I listen to on first or second impressions, then leaving that album to the side for several years without ever returning. But the rating sits there forever (on RYM specifically) gathering dust.

Albums I loved at one point keep that 5*, even if I may not enjoy it so much if I were to return. Conversely, albums I may now completely adore just dwell in mediocrity as far as my rating system is concerned.

Another issue I have with the way I rate albums is that I can sit here and listen to the new Justin Bieber album at least once a day, but have the audacity to rate it lower than an album I have listened to maybe twice in my life. How can I do that? Does it even make sense?

Is that elitism, laziness or me just having a particular fondness for one album at one moment in time, whilst understanding the flaws? Sometimes you just do what you do.

I dunno. Ramble over.

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DwnWthVwls

Because deep down you know Justin Beiber kinda sucks even when other people make catchy tunes for his stupid face to market.

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Zhanteimi

I rate with a (+) or (-). (+) means it stays in my alphabetical rotation of albums. (-) means it gets cut from rotation and is stored away.

The Identity Matrix

I do have my own number scale I like to attach to albums. The overall score stays the same on each listen until that album has made a case strong enough for a score change. I am willing to change a score if an album that I loved grows boring or if one I hated becomes a grower and all of a sudden I love it. If an album hits an above threshold than like mordwyr said above me, it stays in rotation.

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Trollheart

I would agree, and yet there are definitely (as you've seen from my "Love or Hate?" thread) albums that either impress me or don't on first listen. In general, if something doesn't chime with me first time I'm unlikely to give it a second shot, and I think it has only happened a handful of times in my life that repeated listens have changed my opinion of an album I didn't like. For proof, search my journal under "Last chance saloon" and you'll see that when I gave albums I hadn't enjoyed a last chance, the result was almost universally the same: I still didn't like them.
Fixed

I, as you all know, use my patent-pending colour coded system, where each track is rated on a rising or sliding scale, with tracks I like as Orange, Love as Green, Not mad about as White and so on. I think this works really well, as it not only gives you an overall idea of the album but you can see at a glance how my opinion went as I progressed through it. It's a very visual appraisal of an album and easy to understand, I feel.

Now if only I can market it and make some money out of it ....

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Black Francis

True but i don't see anything wrong with sharing your first impressions of something. Some bands or albums are an acquired taste but before you recognise that there's gotta be some sorta intrigue, something that prompts you to dig deeper. if you don't feel that, why should you bother to keep listening to it? To give a fair objective review? most opinions end up being subjective anyway so why take that long to formulate one?

I get your point and even agree with it but on the other hand I don't necessarily think personal taste is obligated to be fair.

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Trollheart

This is almost exactly how I feel. If there's nothing there, nothing to draw me in or make me curious, why keep hammering at it in the hope it may click? And if I have to do that, could it have been that good an album in the first place?

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