You guys might not have any interest in doing this, but I'm bored so I snagged this from the Konstantiboards.

This is basically rated like the Pitchfork 0-10 scale, but kept to increments of .5 to keep it simpler. They're also ranked according to favorites.

1. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs : 9.0
2. Madvillain - Madvillainy : 8.5
3. Brian Wilson - SMiLE : 8.5
4. Vetiver - s/t : 8.5
5. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic : 8.5
6. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender : 8.5
7. Arcade Fire - Funeral : 8.5
8. Mike Ladd - Nostalgialator : 8.5
9. Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld : 8.0
10. The Double - Palm Fronds : 8.0
11. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands : 8.0
12. Les Savy Fav - Inches : 8.0
13. Fennesz - Venice : 8.0
14. cLOUDDEAD - Ten : 8.0
15. Gang Gang Dance - s/t : 8.0
16. Black Dice - Creature Comforts : 8.0
17. Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral : 8.0
18. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans : 8.0
19. The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows : 7.5
20. Califone - Heron King Blues : 7.5
21. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days : 7.5
22. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News : 7.5
23. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind : 7.5
24. Panda Bear - Young Prayer : 7.5
25. Devendra Banhart - Niño Rojo : 7.5
26. Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector : 7.5
27. Björk - Medulla : 7.5
28. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse : 7.5
29. Man Man - The Man in the Turban With a Face : 7.5
30. Squarepusher - Ultravisitor : 7.5
31. Jason Molina - Pyramid Electric Co. : 7.5
32. The Blood Brothers - Crimes : 7.5
33. Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse : 7.5
34. Pinback - Summer in Abaddon : 7.5
35. Deerhoof - Milk Man : 7.5
36. OOIOO - Kila Kila Kila : 7.5
37. Charalambides - Joy Shapes : 7.5
38. Tom Waits - Real Gone : 7.0
39. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose : 7.0
40. The Boredoms - Seadrum/ House of Sun : 7.0
41. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill : 7.0
42. Air - Talkie Walkie : 7.0
43. Mission of Burma - ONoffON : 7.0
44. Make Believe - s/t EP : 6.5
45. !!! - Louden Up Now : 6.5
46. The Futureheads - s/t : 6.0
47. Ratatat - s/t : 6.0
48. Franz Ferdinand - s/t : 6.0
49. Erland Øye - DJ Kicks : 6.0
50. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free : 6.0
51. Richard Youngs - River Through Howling Sky : 5.0

Stuff I need to listen to more:

MF Doom - Mm... Food?
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
Interpol - Antics
Annie - Anniemal
Mirah - C'mon Miracle
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman I'm a Machine
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Xiao
Isis - Panopticon
Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
We Versus the Shark - Ruin Everything
Mastodon - Leviathan
Black Dice - Miles of Smiles
The Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere

Really want to hear:

Ike Reilly
Lhasa
Drive-By Truckers
Bloc Party (EP?)
Bark Psychosis

Scale:
10 - as close to perfect as humanly possible
9-9.5 - excellent to classic
8-8.5 - really good to great
7-7.5 - good, worth hanging onto
6-6.5 - decent, but not really worth having
5.5 and below - pretty bad to terrible

Your giving away 8's and 9's!

I'm a very harsh judge. Just look.

1. Franz Ferdinand 'Franz Ferdinand' Domino 7.77*
2. Sluts of Trust 'We Are All Sluts Of Trust' Chemikal Underground 7.45*
3. Broken Family Band 'Jesus Songs' Track & Field 7.35*
4. The Fiery Furnaces 'Blueberry Boat' Rough Trade 7.23
5. Loretta Lynn 'Van Lear Rose' Interscope 7.23
6. P J Harvey 'Uh Huh Her' Island 7.20*
7. The Libertines 'The Libertines' Rough Trade 7.14
8. Sufjan Stevens 'Seven Swans' Rough Trade 7.08*
9. Ikara Colt 'Modern Apprentice' Fantastic Plastic 7.00
10. The Golden Virgins 'Songs Of Praise' XL 7.00
11. Adem ‘Homesongs’ Rough Trade 7.00*
12. Sons And Daughters 'Love The Cup' Domino 7.00
13. The Walkmen 'Bows + Arrows' Record Collection 6.99*
14. Devendra Banhart 'Rejoicing In The Hands' Young God/XL 6.93
15. Half Cousin 'The Function Room' Gronland 6.90
16. The Shins 'Chutes Too Narrow' Sub Pop 6.90
17. Shitmat 'Killababylonkutz' Planet Mu 6.90
18. The Delgados ‘Universal Audio’ Chemikal Underground 6.90
19. The Blue Nile 'High' Epstein 6.88
20. Nectarine No.9 'I Am Total Destruction' Beggars Banquet 6.86*
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21. The Black Keys 'Rubber Factory' Fat Possum 6.84
22. Morrissey ‘You Are The Quarry’ Attack 6.83
23. Jason Forrest 'The Unrelenting Songs of the Post 1979 Disco Crash' Sonig 6.80
24. Andrew Bird 'Weather Systems' Fargo 6.77*
25. Mountain Goats 'We Will All Be Healed' 4AD 6.76*
26. Devendra Banhart ‘Nino Rojo’ Young God/XL 6.75
27. Beta Band 'Heros To Zeros' Regal 6.75
28. Air 'Talkie Walkie' Source/Virgin 6.75*
29. Comets On Fire 'Blue Cathedral' Sub Pop 6.75
30. The Futureheads 'The Futureheads' 679 Recordings 6.73
31. cLOUDDEAD 'Ten' Big Dada 6.70*
32. Oneida 'Secret Wars' Rough Trade 6.68*
33. Blonde Redhead 'Misery Is A Butterfly' 4AD 6.63*
34. Mr Airplane Man ‘C’mon DJ’ Sympathy For The Record Industry 6.61
35. The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster ‘Royal Society’ Universal/Island 6.61
36. Von Bondies 'Pawn Shoppe Heart' 6.58*
37. TV On The Radio 'Desperate Youth, Bloody Thirsty Babes' Touch and Go 6.55*
38. James Yorkston & the Athletes ‘Just Beyond The River’ Domino 6.54
39. RJD2 'Since Last We Spoke' Definitive Juxx 6.45*
40. Electrelane 'The Power Out' Too Pure 6.45*
41. Clinic 'Winchester Cathedral' Domino 6.41
42. Beans 'Now Soon Someday' Mute 6.27*
43. Modest Mouse 'Good News For People Who Love Bad News' Epic 6.02




Awaiting Konstantimark

Fennesz 'Venice' (still!)

I should explain The Shins don't get a UK release until April '04. I have an import copy but I didn't get it until after the 2003 poll so I'm including it in my 2004 list.

Key

0.00 - 6.00. Very poor to distinctly average
6.00 - 6.50. Reasonable, but not good
6.50 - 6.99. Pretty good, worth checking out
7.00 - 7.50. Very good album
7.50 - 8.00. Superb album, likely album of the year
8.00 - 9.99. Masterpiece, all time classic

Revised Konstantimarks

* Means that this album has been reviewed twice and the konstantimark is an average of the two scores. I hope to review each album twice to give them all a more indicative position on the list.

Yeah, I noticed that. Your scoring system's obviously a lot more sophisticated, too...

but that doesn't mean it's right!

Dude, SMiLE and Sung Tongs deserve 9s. I might be little generous with some of the 8s, but only time will tell...

For me, giving something a 6 is pretty harsh. I don't have very many of those on my list because I haven't spent much time listening things that haven't grabbed me unless I had already bought them.

If 5 is average 6 is better than average. Therefore 6 isn't to shoddy at all.

Modest Mouse is two hundreths of a point past average. phew! just snuck in there!

my american schooling says that 60-70 percent is in the D to D- range though

But Spade, seriously what do you expect from someone whos only math skill involves how much dole his lazy ass is going to steal from the people who actually do work?

I'm with Konstantin on this one. I don't take seriously any rating system that doesn't leave a couple points to differentiate one of the best albums of all time from something that's just very good. Magazine's don't leave the point differentials because they are in the business of trying to market & sell records. Us amateurs aren't and should leave more room to distinguish the all-time greats from annual favorites. I'm too lazy to rank things but I doubt I'd rank more than 10 albums over 7.0 this year, and nothing an 8 or above.

It's £55 a week and to be able to live off that you have to have far more extensive math skills than you might think - including adding small positive numbers to large negative numbers.

See, I actually don't feel like most highly revered classic albums - even my favorites - are better than a lot of great ones, current or otherwise, by that huge a margin. They all have flaws, and pretty much anything can be overplayed.

It might seem arrogant for me to rate the albums I've heard this year as if nearly all of them are well above average, but I truly believe they are. Just as you suggest that we should leave room at the top for the classics, I think we should leave plenty at the bottom for the crap. I realize konstantinl is leaving room at both ends by ranking all of his albums as just above average, but I think you're being overly conservative.

There are truly very few albums which qualify for the 9.5-10.0 range in my book, and I don't feel like there's any reason to leave a full 2 point range (8-10) to have room to differentiate them all.

Apparently its enough to have picked up 101 cds this year, have internet access and i could go on, but you know what---its not worth it because you honestly seem like a really good person and we dont even live in the same country....In truth, i wish you the best in finding whatever it is that you are looking for...

Small positive number - benefit cheque
Large negative number - credit card bill

Marah 20,000 Streets Under The Sky 8.5
The Faces Five Guys Walk Into A Bar (Box Set) 8.5
Jim White Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See 8.3
Mark Lanegan Bubblegum 8.0
Jolie Holland Escondida 8.0
Tom Waits Real Gone 8.0
Ted Leo + The Pharmacists Shake The Sheets 7.9
The Libertines The Libertines 7.5
Gingersol Eastern 7.5
TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes 7.5
French Kicks Trial Of The Century 7.3
Patti Scialfa 23rd Street Lullaby 7.3
Steve Earle The Revolution Starts Now 7.3
Tommy Stinson Village Gorilla Head 7.2
Tift Merritt Tambourine 7.2
Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News 7.2
Fancey Fancey 7.1
AC Newman The Slow Wonder 7.1
Thelonious Monster California Clam Chowder 7.0
The Hoodoo Gurus Mach Schau 7.0
Ben Kweller On My Way 7.0
The Pink Mountaintops The Pink Mountaintops 6.8
The Detroit Cobras Seven Easy Pieces 6.5
Panurge Throw Down The Reins 6.0
The Paybacks Harder And Harder 6.0
Grant-Lee Phillips Virginia Creeper 6.0
Paul Westerberg Folker 6.0
The Boss Martians The Set-Up 6.0
Martin Gordon The Joy Of More Hogwash 5.8
The Walkmen Bows and Arrows 5.8
Rocket from the Tombs Rocket Redux 5.8
Graham Parker Your Country 5.7
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand 5.6
Powderfinger Vulture Street 4.9
MC5/DTK Live In Detroit 2004 (bootleg) 4.5
The New York Dolls 2nd Night Of The Living Dolls/ Live at Meltdown (bootleg) 4.5

New entry on my master list. The bounderies between success and failure can be so small can't they? Morrissey's 'I Am The Quarry' misses the Top 20 by 0.03. Sorry Moz!

Updated.

Just rescuing this from page 6. I plan to keep it up until I make my year-end list.

Somebody else should try and do this, too. I know someone else besides KonstantinL, Radcliffe, and myself had posted ratings on the refugee board.