Album Rating: 4.5

I feel like by definition your favorite album has to be a 5

Who are you talking to @boney?

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah...I dunno, at the time, I felt as though a 5 defined perfection

w/e clearly not important anymore seeing as I have like 25 or 30 5's

Album Rating: 5.0

@Asleep: Because I associate people being really stingy over ratings with people being over critical, pedantic and petty just for the sake of it. Plus I don't like it when albums are put to a higher degree of love when you have memories associated with it, we're all human so it's bound to happen to some degree but I avoid it as much as possible. Nostalgia or memories affect almost none of my ratings, things I used to love and still have fond memories of I'll slap with a 2.5 without remorse if it has aged poorly.

Album Rating: 4.5

Sowing you liar you have almost 50 5s :-P

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't think Asleep is being pedantic for the sake of it or anything, he's one of th most genuine people I know here.

With that said, anyone who doesn't eventually 5 this has no heart ; )

Album Rating: 5.0

@Sowing: If I went by the criteria of a 5 being perfection, I would only 5 one thing.

Album Rating: 5.0

I mean when I said the above, the word 'basically' was key; had an interesting conversation with Blushful about this this morning actually, concluding that of course a 5 doesn't have to be perfect, but for me it has to be the height of musical enjoyment as I know it, which I've found only comes from a near perfect album (in a subjective sense) that I've lived with for a good period and that I've connected to in a way that I could never connect with an album on the first handful of listens (hence why I don't insta-5, not because of some stingy principle, just that nothing is ever going to be 5 worthy for me in that scenario)

Album Rating: 5.0

"Sowing you liar you have almost 50 5s :-P"

Yeah I went and counted after I posted that but didn't want to admit I have 46 now lol. I'm a classics whore, don't look at me.

Album Rating: 4.5

I guess I have no heart then

There are a couple songs here that I don't love as much which hold this back a bit

Album Rating: 5.0

"I don't think Asleep is being pedantic for the sake of it or anything, he's one of th most genuine people I know here."



Never said Asleep was, but I've seen and heard it too many times it's made me slightly jaded.

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm a classics whore, don't look at me.

god that pic is mezmerizing in the worst way possible

Album Rating: 5.0

thx boney for being my friend despite my loose ways

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I TRIED COUNTING THE HIGHLIGHTS ON THIS ALBUM WITH MY HANDS BUT THEN I REALIZED I DIDN'T HAVE ELEVEN FINGERS

Album Rating: 5.0

Maybe I phrased what I said poorly in using the word 'perfectly'. One of my 5s (Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial) is flawed, and not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it has that feeling that I was talking about previously. And when I was discussing 'that feeling', that wasn't nostalgia I was referring to, just that an album only impacts me in a 5-worthy way if I've stuck with it for a while. Obviously if my enthusiasm for it wanes, or that feeling vanishes, then it isnt a 5 for me anymore.



Also, 3k comments, whoo. Nice to hit it whilst having an interesting conversation

Album Rating: 5.0

don't really have to defend your method of rating when there's staff like academy who have a dichotomous rating system of either a 5 or a 1

Ok. Listened to Illinois and this back to back.
It's like an angel fucked me in the ears

Album Rating: 5.0

except one angel was annoyingly chipper and the other was slitting its wrists