selling England by pound

zravkapt wrote: Dancing 9/10 I Know 5/10 Firth 9/10 Fool 1/10 Battle 3/10 Ordeal 7/10 Cinema 8/10 Aisle 5/10 Pros: best sounding album up to that point Cons: More Fool Me and Epping Forest

My ratings would go like this:

Dancing with the Moonlit Knight - 10/10
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) - 10/10
Firth of Fifth - 10/10
More Fool Me - 10/10
Battle of Epping Forest - 10/10
After the Ordeal - 10/10
The Cinema Show - 10/10
Aisle of Plenty - 10/10

 . . . it's very rare that I think song quality varies much on an album (regardless of what I rate the album overall), and I can't think of a single album, out of the many thousands I'm familiar with, where I'd rate one song as high as a 9 and another song as low as a 3.  There are albums where I'd rate some songs a 10 and some an 8 or 9, or some an 8 and some a 7 or 6, etc., but I don't know if there would be any album where I'd have more of a point spread between songs than that.


Edited by Terrapin Station - December 23 2016 at 05:26

SteveG wrote: And how do rate album that you don't like? Are all tracks rated 1/10?

So, if it were an album that I'd rate a 1/10 (if in fact there are any, I'm not sure), per the above, I'd not think any track on that album were better than a 3/10, and I wouldn't think that many tracks, or a very high percentage of the album was a 3/10, otherwise I wouldn't rate the album a 1/10.

If I think an album is a 5/10, say, which I certainly do think about some albums, then I'm going to think that all of the tracks are somewhere between 4/10 and 6/10, where 5/10 would pretty much be an average (per running time). 

I'm not saying that it's impossible for there to be an album where I think a track is 4/10 and another an 8/10 or something like that, but that's just never how I actually respond to anything (at least to my memory).  I can't think of any album where I really like some tracks and really dislike others.  Heck, even talking about entire discographies, most artists are more or less consistent quality-wise in my opinion.  There are some examples where people have albums I love and albums I don't like, but that's pretty rare.  And there are artists, including with large discographies, where I rate every album of theirs with less than a 3-point spread (so, for example, they might have 50 albums and I'd rate them all an 8, 9 or 10).   There are even artists with relatively large discographies where I rate every album a 10--that's true of many of my favorite artists, which is why they're favorites.

That I react to music that way is why it's so hard for me to pick out favorite albums, favorite songs, etc. from particular artists.


Edited by Terrapin Station - December 23 2016 at 06:24

SteveG wrote: ^Well, you're more easy to please then I am. Perhaps you don't own very lousy albums. I do and I can rate Tarkus 10/10 and Love Beach 1/10. But that's just me.

Love Beach gets a 10 from me.

The two ELP albums that get less than a 10 from me are Black Moon and In the Hot Seat.  Black Moon I'd give an 8.  In the Hot Seat would get a 7.  Every other ELP album, including Emerson, Lake & Powell, would get a 10 from me.  ELP is one of my top 10 artists, by the way.

Not including stuff I've downloaded, I've owned over 15,000 albums, by the way.


Edited by Terrapin Station - December 23 2016 at 07:11

love beach a mistake i say 

SteveG wrote: One man's treasure is another mans' junk goes the saying.

dr wu23 wrote: SteveG wrote: One man's treasure is another mans' junk goes the saying.   Apparently..... Anyone who thinks Love beach gets a 10 is an enigma to me.

Never understood why this was often considered as their best album.

For sure, there are great prog epics here: Dancing With The Moonlit Knight and Firth Of Fifth.
But I can't stand I know what I like... and More Fool Me. And The Battle Of Epping Forest is kind of... odd

An uneven album IHMO...

Modrigue wrote: Never understood why this was often considered as their best album. For sure, there are great prog epics here: Dancing With The Moonlit Knight and Firth Of Fifth. But I can't stand I know what I like... and More Fool Me. And The Battle Of Epping Forest is kind of... odd An uneven album IHMO...

Prog fans not liking something because it's odd is a new one for me.

Terrapin Station wrote: Modrigue wrote: Never understood why this was often considered as their best album. For sure, there are great prog epics here: Dancing With The Moonlit Knight and Firth Of Fifth. But I can't stand I know what I like... and More Fool Me. And The Battle Of Epping Forest is kind of... odd An uneven album IHMO... Prog fans not liking something because it's odd is a new one for me.

Did you ever play some prog to a non prog fan, in a car, say? And suddenly realize that they think this music is just f**king weird? 

Edited by SteveG - December 23 2016 at 14:57

SteveG wrote: Catcher10 wrote: SteveG wrote: ^Well, you're more easy to please then I am. Perhaps you don't own very lousy albums. I do and I can rate Tarkus 10/10 and Love Beach 1/10. But that's just me. Steve I am shocked you actually gave it a rating, you must be expecting Santa to bring you something nice! Or you are inebriated right now....... BTW, I don't own that album anymore, traded it in at the local record store many moons ago. A bit of both, Jose. If it wasn't two days before Christmas, I'd give it 0/10!