Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by Glitterboiii

From ForegroundNoise 02/14/2019 09:28 | #231929

Look, there's nothing wrong with your albums, there's obviously a lot of great stuff here, but your systems for rating and ranking are just perverse.

As per your 10:100 score, you're expecting me to believe you love all these albums absolutely identically, to the point that you need to let an arbitrary online score system decide how to rank them? All 100 are identically good in your eyes? Even if this was the case, doesn't that leave you playing a bizarre game of cat-and-mouse with the overall chart in order to keep it up to date (something I can see by the misplacement of a few has already gone awry)? Not to mention the fact that there is nothing that interests you outside of the BEA top 300 or so, which would be fine if you genuinely thought that but given this chart's propensity to give over control to whatever the website says is good I don't get the impression that this is an honest reflection of your favourite albums.

I've taken a look at your ratings, and it looks to me like you've misunderstood what exactly a numerical system in music criticism is trying to represent (you have around 550 100/100 scores, vs only about 100 95/100s): reviewing an album isn't marking it alongside a crib-sheet where you mark it out of 100 according to how many right answers it gives; the score is relative to all the other music you've heard, since music criticism is a subjective exercise, not an objective one.

Sorry to go all theory on you but I think when you make a chart that leaves so many scratching their heads you might want to reassess how you're presenting your favourite albums. I will definitely amend my admittedly harsh score if you give us a representation of yourself through your music that is just a little more honest. I hope I am being honest in saying that.

From JulianR TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/11/2017 04:16 | #197779

it's weird to see how closely this follows the overall chart...

From doubleA 10/02/2019 14:21 | #243307

"A chart that I hope reflects my tastes to the best of my ability." Man, I hoped that too. I can see an effort behind this, hand picking quotes for every record. Some personal picks like Takk and A Crow Looked at Me shows some thought, preference and character, but otherwise I cannot get that behind this chart that much. As many others have said, a vast majority here is so close to the overall chart it almost feels a bit dry. I still appreciate the chart and want to believe that the intro description clangs true, but at the moment I can't totally see it. (Edited)

Sorry, but I find this chart a bit boring and lacking personality. It's like the best of the best of BEA members charts. When I look at user charts I am always hoping to be 'surprised' (at least a little) and to trigger my inquisitive nature to explore a previously unheard of artist or album. No surprises here, unfortunately. (Edited)

From ForegroundNoise 11/05/2019 17:05 | #244467

Much better than when I last visited!! So glad to see a much more honest mix, some notes would give this a perfect score from me!