What's the highest rated album you give 1 star?

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That’d be the first Keys to Ascension album (by Yes). I’ve rated 258 albums here, but just eight of those get one star. Meanwhile I rate nine Yes albums at four or five stars. Anyway, Keys 1 has a rating of 4.05 based on 497 reviews! So I guess that makes me quite an outlier. 

H to He--or Pawn Hearts--if you don't buy into the singers voice its hard to get into it.

I take back what I just said. I did give one star to WOIIFTM. That means I find no merit to the album. Other one star albums for me include Queen's Flash Gordon OST, two albums by Earth, and The Mother's Day Concert by Jon Anderson, but none of those are as highly rated as Zappa's.

Seeing that individuals here think H to He, Who Am the Only One and Lodger especially, as well as Trout Mask Replica (I do much prefer Safe as Milk), and We're Only in it for the Money (not that into it, but I still can appreciate it, not that I've spun it enough to have a strong opinion) as one star albums is just a little sad to me.  That said, to each his or her own tastes. For me to rate an album one star, not only would I have to heavily dislike it, I'd have to believe it really bad and lacking significance objectively (no merit whatsoever) .  Also, I would tend to follow the rating guide if rating at PA  "One star: Poor. Only for completionists", to which I would take to mean only for completists of that artist or category. If rating classics by bands/artists with various works, I would want to rate compared to other ones by the artists and compared to others of a similar ilk.  So for instance, if rating H to He, I would compare it against other VdGG albums -- if the singing was an issue to me, I would be more likely to give that a one if it weren't an issue for me on other VdGG albums.  I generally wouldn't rate albums of styles I'm not into either.  I tend to only listen to albums in full that I enjoy (and I had friends with similar tastes and some with very different tastes, and that sort of music would not be in PA), and do feel that some albums need to time to percolate before formally judging them.  I guess with teamwork I listened to some stuff I disliked, but it's been along time that I've bought albums that were bad for my tastes (sometimes I buy used records without much expectation because I like the cover, especially bad covers).  Back in my early getting into Prog days, I did buy some albums that were recommended to me that I found pretty poor, and I did try to be completist with some bands that led to some poor acquisitions.  And when younger I would get exposed to more albums by bands, or kinds of music that I wouldn't normally listen to by friends. The music I most dislike I tend to hear blaring out of muscle cars.

Apparently the highest rated one-star album for me was Yes' Big Generator album at 2.53. I don't seem to have many outliers on the low-end of the rating spectrum.

Easy: EDGE OF SANITY's Crimson . To my ears, that album's one song is nothing but a continuous ripoff of about 45 other pop and rock artist's riffs, sounds, and themes strung along like some kind of stage review. 

Edited by BrufordFreak - October 07 2019 at 08:06

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