There are no 1-star albums, are there?

SteveG wrote: A Crimson Mellotron wrote: SteveG wrote: A Crimson Mellotron wrote: micky wrote: there are plenty of 1 star albums... in fact.. I'd say there are more of them than people who really should be rating them. some of my favorite albums and reviews.. were of 1 star albums..  get it..  1 star has not a damn thing to do with being....good or bad. I gotta say: This barely makes sense! It has nothing to do with being good or bad? Would you rate your favorite albums with 1 star? And if yes, why the hell would you do so? Do you know the purpose of a rating system? Sorry, your comment is bullsh*t! Ah, you gotta know micky in order for that to click. Hmm, I really don't know him/her... yeah, I believe he means that no matter how much he likes someone's work, if there's no progression from previous works, then it's lacking critically.

SteveG wrote: A Crimson Mellotron wrote: micky wrote: there are plenty of 1 star albums... in fact.. I'd say there are more of them than people who really should be rating them. some of my favorite albums and reviews.. were of 1 star albums..  get it..  1 star has not a damn thing to do with being....good or bad. I gotta say: This barely makes sense! It has nothing to do with being good or bad? Would you rate your favorite albums with 1 star? And if yes, why the hell would you do so? Do you know the purpose of a rating system? Sorry, your comment is bullsh*t! Ah, you gotta know micky in order for that to click.

micky wrote: 1 star has not a damn thing to do with being....good or bad.

Reading all your posts, I would still maintain it's really hard to accurately rate something you don't like because immediately there is a bias.  You just lived through listening to it.

Edited by Spaciousmind - October 28 2020 at 17:08

there are plenty of 1 star albums... in fact.. I'd say there are more of them than people who really should be rating them.

If you buy something, and that purchase makes you mad: You simply have the urge to express your pain. I'm not talking about albums and books and such stuff here, but things that are malfunctioning or lacking decent quality. You want to have the revenge and warn people not to buy that product.

If you listen to something, and that disappoints you: You generally ignore it. But if you listen to some awesome stuff, you want others to listen to that too. Some people do it out of their goodness, some want their "idolized/iconized" album to get more attention, which would indirectly satisfy their ego and reassure that they have good taste/understanding in music.

This is why "complaints" are more abundant than "compliments" in the marketing sphere, about the products' physical or functional aspects; while it is almost the contrary regarding the cultural productions that enrich and reflect people's "tastes" and/or apprehension.

I sometimes try an album, find it absolutely not in my taste, but I don't give it a poor rating. It feels a bit unfair for me to rate albums with music styles that I don't like. The album may be very well received by fans of that particular genre, so I'd rather not rate it at all. That may give it a more accurate average rating than if I gave it 1 star.

^Well said. It should be a reviewers obligation to warn others about the quality of the release. No reviewer should only review what they like.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Cristi wrote: I would rate (and have rated) only albums from artists I know and like, genres I enjoy.  I would never rate poorly an artist that is not my thing, that i would never listen to anyway.  So if you auto-buy a new release of your favorite artist/band and it's a stinker you would not rate the album?