[FlorianJones]

100s are perfect, I've given out around a dozen of these
90-99 are masterpieces
80-89 is great, I'll probably buy it and listen to it a bunch
70-79 is very good, but probably has some pretty notable flaws
60-69 is good, but I probably wont listen more than once
50-59 is just sort of there, not good, but not bad
00-49 is all varying levels of bad, I don't rate albums like this very often, because I usually wont listen to the whole thing.

My ratings on here are skewed up a little, because I usually round up to the nearest 5
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Overall - The 2010's - 2020

[dihansse]

Although I'm fairly new to BEA, I have already rated 1580 albums (and counting) with an average of 76.

My general rating scale for albums is:
95-100: outstanding
90: Excellent
80-85: very good
70-75: good
60-65: average
50-55: below average
I don't tend to rate albums below 50 and of course there is a bias towards my favorites if not because I only rate albums in my collection and even in my selection I only rate albums where there are at least a few good tracks on it.

But now I come to what is in fact a new topic but I'd like to introduce it here anyway. The scale above is not sufficient to rank my top albums, top decade albums, top year albums and custom charts so I tried to find a system that allowed me to do a fast ranking which is based on the individual tracks on an album.
The point is, I have been scoring the individual tracks on my itunes collection already for a long time so I use these points to give scores to albums:
5: absolute top songs (about 1000 songs; I know it's a lot but I have a wide ranging taste)
4: very good
3: good
2: average
1: below average
This approximately coincides with the above albums scores.

and then I convert these Itunes scores like this:
5 converts in 5
4 converts in 3
3 converts in 1
2 and below: no score

And then I add these up per album where I put a limit at 13 tracks (not to give advantage to the albums with very many short tracks). For long songs (at least 10 minutes), I tend to double the score of that track (this not to disadvantage albums with few long tracks).
I use this kind of scoring for the moment (but I'm not quite finished yet) to sort my different lists and of course when I'm finished with that I'm gonna reshuffle a bit because this scoring shouldn't be the unique way to sort my albums: there is also the overall quality of the album on top of the quality of each individual track, there is the variety of music in the album, etc.
My current top list isn't sorted that way yet (currently it's even a bit chronological so I'm currently building a custom top list based on above system.

[RoundTheBend]

85 to 100: Good to Great
60 to 84: Don't necessarily like, but respectable to average
50 to 59: Dislike but can see how it deserves some respect.
49 and below: needs to die in a fire

I wrote this earlier too:
85-100 if I love it, 60 to 85 if it's ok and if I dislike, but seem some merit anywhere between 10 and 60.

[LevonTostig]

100- Top 15-20 albums of all time.
95- Strong contender for "legendary" status...may eventually grow to be an 100.
90- Too impressive to be an 85 but not quite on the same plane as the 95-100s in terms of significance.
85- Anything ranging from above average to Top 100 worthy.

I do not generally give albums anything below an 85...This is largely because I do not make an active effort to listen to poorly done music and enjoy most everything I have the opportunity to seek out. If something below an 85 is given, the album likely was so terrible that it upset me in some way.

I also feel sorta awful for labelling somebody's artwork "bad" or "mediocre" just because I as an individual did not appreciate it so my ratings tend to skew upward.

[RoundTheBend]

You know... I started thinking about this and a lot of us are rating it like a grade... like a percent. That means a 3 star is failing... that then means that we have a pretty small range of average vs good vs great.

I wonder what this site would look like if they rated it on stars...

So something like this... an average album would then would be a 50-60 (3 stars) though, and I think because we are looking at it almost like a percent (assuming "we" are doing this because usually 50 usually means bad because that's typically failing)

5 Best Ever
4 Good
3 Average
2 Below Average
1 Terrible

I hope that makes sense... my writing is terrible.

[dihansse]

Yes SethMadsen, but this doesn't allow a big difference between the good en great albums. To score my album tracks I use my scores I use on Itunes (which also go from 1 to 5 stars) and I convert the 5 stars into a score of 5, a 4 stars into a score of 3 and a 3 stars into a score of 1 and below that 0. I think that allows me better between great and good (and average and bad don't count at all).

[RoundTheBend]