Rating Albums

[RFNAPLES]

Here are some Allmusic 5 star albums released in the 2000s:

Eminem-The Marshall Mathers LP
Jay-Z-The Blueprint
OutKast-Stankonia
The Strokes-Is This It
The White Stripes-Elephant
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[Boogn1sh]

I feel like some of these systems that you all have devised are a bit too analytical, you might be missing the point of a lot of great albums if for instance you rate every individual song on an album then take the average. Some albums are great for reasons that you can't pin down, but the effect of the album as a whole is so specific and so successful at what the artist was trying to achieve that you can't help but deny they have succeeded. Averages do not take into account the effect of an album as a whole, which is the context I think they should be judged on. .

If your rating individual songs you're rating on album on whether or not it is a singles album, as opposed to as an entity onto itself. When you start rating the individual songs of an album it becomes more consumer reports style, are you looking for a great album, or a great value proposition?

You don't see people rating paintings out of 10 (god I hope no one is), and its because people have gotten past the need to assign a value judgment and would rather have an intelligent discussion about different aspects of the work apart from "how perfect/not it is"

I'm not a huge fan of rating systems in general, my enjoyment of an album is too personal and subjective to assume someone else will relate and react to it the same way I will. Not because I'm special in any way, but because I recognize that we all hear things differently, so someone telling me "this is a 100 out of 100" doesn't mean much to me. I would MUCH rather read someones reaction to an album that has no score out of anything at the end. An album is not a toaster, it has value beyond whether or not the individual components work or not.

PS Rembrandt's "Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galililee" 10/10