Well, I think everyone has their own '10' and it doesnt necessarily have to mean perfect. It is certainly relative for me, and I rated about 12 albums a 10, but they are classic and timeless, no matter what the release date. Also, I could play any of them start to finish and want to do it all over again afterwards...exile, revolver, the bends, aeroplane, my aim is true...never get tired of these. However, I would not intentionally rate an album below 3, I think, because I could never listen to such an album all the way through.

People have actually listened to it?

haha

Seriously, though, a lot of his favorite stuff isn't obscure. I'm really eager to hear his justification for this.

Also, the dude's given out a lot of 10s. I'm thinking maybe I've been too stingy with my 10s...

i know; im with you on the justification on Kind of Blue; I mean if you dont like it fine, but a 2 seems a bit harsh coming from that dude.

My only problem with 10's has been dealing them out to any albums from the so-called modern era: I think I've only given out about 4 or 5 to anything after 1990.

The justification was I must have accidently rated it while navigating the screen using the wheel on my mouse. I've done that a few other times, caught it, and reversed the rating. Guess I'll have to do an audit of my votes.

I'd have to give it some thought as to what I would rate it. I think it made my listmania but would be unlikely to make it again so probably an 8 or a 9 but truthfully I'd probably have to give it a spin to decide.

well played sir, a clerical error then? very good.

yeah, i gotta go back and check my shit too. the thing where you can look at all of your ratings is amazing.

Dammit. Way less controversial than I'd hoped.

I checked and fixed it...I'd also apparently unintentionally rated the new Queens album as a 7 which would be a bit generous.

What would be really cool would be if we could run a report to see what fellow boarders rated most similarly. Now that would be useful although I guess you'd probably guess most of them correctly.

check out my thread down the page for more suggestions. (edit: http://www.obner.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=9213)

ive actually been pleasantly surprised on some people's ratings (i always check after i vote to see what others think) Apparently shiv and I are both massive Faith No More freaks.

It's a great format to be able to track others' lists of scores.

5 people gave "Across the Rooftops" a perfect 10. Only one other voter scored it at all. Alongdrive gave it a 1. Alongdrive has three votes only, a 3 and two 1's. Methinks Alongdrive has an agenda or an incipient date with a professional counselor or the law. Surely he must like something.

Hence the conclusion that a vote can be driven not even by an opinion about about a work, but rather to have an impact on a work's average.

Dropping the a "top score" and a "bottom score" before averaging the work might mitigate the nihilist voter urge.

Can't speak for him, but some people have things called "strong opinions" about works one way or another, I truly find The Stooges and Patti Smith unlistenable...and I truly think Exile and Blood on the Tracks are damn near perfect.

You may call it an agenda..but I'm not rating many of the albums that I find beyond meh, just to drive to averages or anything.

Well my point exactly, you LIKE things. You don't like Iggy so you were probably a special needs kid, but I value your differently-abled critical faculty. But what about someone who votes one 3 and two 1's. Oh, I am admire nihilism, bit partial to it myself, but if you want a clearer average for a work...

I feel you harry. Actually, I was in T.A.G., and one of those things that I was brought up doing was thinking for myself, and not listening and pretending to enjoy rote garbage because some magazine or an arbitrary group of morons has deemed it "classic."

I've read these five pages and come to the conclusion "This is why I have my own chart".

I rescinded the rating of the album I gave a 1 to out of spite.