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Oh... there are 1-star albums.
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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.
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1 star alums are rare, with the precondition that I refuse to count in styles I usually don't listen to, such as Tech/Extreme Prog Metal: I don't want to give an album that deserves four or five stars a 1-star rating because I am not familiar with the subgenre. So the only albums that pop up in my mind are Warchild and Roll the Bones, and Saga's live album In Transit.

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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.

Also things can change.  When I first bought Caravan and the New Symphonia In 1974, I hated it and that's after having several Caravan's in my collection already.  I almost never played it, it just seems a bad sound recording.  I would have given it a 1 star then because I just did not like it compared to my other Caravan's.

A few years ago I rebought it on CD as a remastered version for completeness and I was blown away as that was not how I remembered it.  I can listen to it a lot now.

Either back in 74 it truly was the poor sound quality or my ears at that time just did not want not hear.  Hard for me to say for sure almost 50 years later.  But I would be foolish to rate it 1 star today.

Perhaps if someone has the 1974 version vinyl they can confirm if it was a bad sound recording or just me not wanting to get to like the album back then?


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Originally posted by micky 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!
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:


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

the very definition of rating abuse. LOL 
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Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Originally posted by micky 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.
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Originally posted by micky 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...
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Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Originally posted by micky 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.
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Originally posted by micky 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.

Gotcha. I was initially infuriated by the comment though. LOL
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