Operation Mindcrime was the one I was talking about. That's what album. If you're saying "What Metallica album is that song of off," (which I doubt you wouldn't know), it's Master of Puppets.

...there is not a song called In Madness You Dwell on MoP.

This is exactly what I was talking about, btw.

The Thing Thart Should Not Be. I got the title confused.

How often do you think your top songs change?

It's hard if you take it literally and you don't have a small number of favorites and instead there's a ton of stuff you like about the same amount.

I mean, I can just pick random stuff that I like and say that, and because music discussions online are so oriented towards favorite this, favorite that, rank this, rank that, I developed some stock answers for those things just so that I could participate, but that doesn't really make those things favorites above everything else if I'm trying to answer literally/honestly.

Just name something. Anything you like. Give me something we can discuss. You pretty much end the conversation if you say you like everything.

I like Shania Twain.

*high fives Batty*

Yeah, again "I can just pick random stuff that I like and say that."

I don't get into many real-life conversations where someone would just ask "what kind of music do you like" without there being any context for it that would steer my question to particular things.

That's because you're more concerned with your dumb numbering system than actually listening to music.

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Total misconception. And what "numbering system?" Just because I estimate the amount of albums I listen to, there is nothing to hint at me not actually feeling the music. You're saying I don't feel the overwherlming emotions in Bridge Over Troub;led Water, which I love BECAUSE of it's emotion? What abouyt my Popol Vuh review? That was all about the feelings and imagery I got. The fact that I'm not good at speaking the emotions I feel when I listen to an album doesn't mean I don't feel anything.

That's usually exactly what it means.

Your goofy 1-100 rating system.

Speech and thought are two different things. They might go hand in hand a lot, but no one will tell me I don't feel anything.

Simon and Garfunkel, one of my favorites because of their powerr to envoke emotions. Nick Cave, one of my new favorites because of his way of combining his artistic talent with his unique sense of darkness and depression. I play happy songs whenever I feel like I need cheering up. I don't listen to Meat Loaf very often anymore because I tend to get angry after listening to it. And his music is FULL of anger. I got srriously depressed during my long AiC buzz a couple years ago. I even got people to understand the difference between punk "angst" and grunge "angst." You can't really do that without feeling the emoiton. Music has had a huge impact on me emotionally, but I prefer not to talk about my emotions on the forums because I'm trying to get a hold of my emotions. You know how agitated I can be, so why bother talking about my emotions? Because of this, I'm not good at speaking them.

You mean a common rating system that's too smart for 1-5 stars?

No one on Earth rates an album a 91 except you. Cause no one can tell the difference between a 91 and a 92.

I'm gonna back up JGuy on this one - people typically assume I'm an emotionless robot because I can be a fairly stoic kind of person. Even in stressful situations, I try to keep an even keel, so people assume I must be emotionally stunted or something. I'm actually a very empathic person and I listen to music to sort through a lot of the emotions I have a hard time communicating.

You can't assume someone doesn't have emotions just because they have a hard time articulating them.

Unless they've heard enough albums they would put above 9 and below 9.5. And if it's not so common and people don't do it, why do so many websites allow people to choose which rating system they'd like? These includes a 5 star rating, 1-10, 1-10 including decimals, and 1-100. In flact, Glitchwave is doing that.

P.S. Glitchwave is RYM's video game website that I occasionally do beta-testing on.

And another good reason why I don't express my emotions on the forums is because I have a history of people taking advantage of my lack of self-control.

"This music is very emotive."

Boom.

Something a robot could say. It doesn't actually mean anything.

Yeah, no. If you think you can tell the difference between single points then you're probably just being delusional and OCD.

To be fair, a robot can say pretty much anything, so long as it isn't a paradox.

I was initially just being a little trolly, but if you put it simply as that it'll convey the same idea, even if it's not in as much detail.

I agree. I was really just making the point that just because someone has a hard time saying exactly what they are feeling, it doesn't mean they aren't feeling anything.

And I assume being OCD means I'm dumb in every area? No. OCD behavior can improve some areasd of the mind while other areas (usually ones revolving around social behavior) are generally not as advanced as the average human. I'm pretty sure my past behavior hasd proven that.

But all in all, that means I have heard enough albums to be able to do so. I'm not going to go on a long speech using examples or anything, but I'm not changing my rating system simply because you're annoyed by something as trivial as the differences between two people's rating systems.

Btw, I think there are more than enough albums in the woprld to have up to 100 numbers that can be used to rate the quality.

Man, I wish I had OCD.

We're having an OCD-People-Only party at my house tonight.

OMG when you talk about the number of albums you've heard it makes you look like you're begging to be taken seriously as a music fan.

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I said I've heard enough. There was nothing about an exact number in that. Would you say the same thing to a painter who didn't know the exact number but said "enough to call myself a skilled artist" simply because of all the practice? And I'm not putting myself on the same pedestal as a great painter, but I'm usin the example.

The exact number of...paintings that he's looked at?

I think I understand Ki a little better after that post.

Wait how many albums have you recorded?

I've released more albums than This Heat, therefore I am more skilled than any of the musicians in the band.

Am I doing it right?

Painting's he's PAINTED. He's a PAINTER. I've made that clear as I called him a painter. I fail how to see how that wasn't obvious, or at least how you didn't even think about what I was saying.

I know it wasn't the best example, but say I was talking about "Things to rate that I've rated."

A painter who paints only one great painting and nothing else is a skilled painter. A painter who paints a million and a half ****e paintings is not a skilled painter. I fail to see how that isn't obvious, or at least how you didn't even consider that your analogy might not be perfect.

You mean like an art critic? If an art critic told me how many paintings he'd seen I'd assume he was a shallow, pretentious ****.

It's just called recognizing the things you do better than other things you do. And I even flat-out said it wasn't the best analogy.

OK, I'll let you decide. How good or bad of a critic do you think I am? Am I decent? Does the 100 system annoy you or interest you? Have I improved since I first got here?

Doesn't Pitchfork rate albums this way?

But I do agree, I find immense rating systems to be pretty useless. The point of "ratings" (imo at least) is to place an album into a general tier, which fragmenting them into decimals sort of takes away from. Even if intuitively (or god forbid: mathematically) you figured "Album X is a 92", it means nothing to most people when they're comparing that to your 91s or 94s. It's the ballpark you're aiming for, not the bullseye.

This, I totally get.

If I read one of your reviews I usually skip to the end cause you tend to bloviate.

I'll try tro tone down on the bloviating then.

You like a lot of crap so you're a bad critic.

Says the guy who admits his own music is ****. :P