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S tier prattle

Album Rating: 3.5

lemme see if we can work in a braindead generational cliche and have it come out in a language you understand

is this the first time the same album has been featured twice on the front page at the same time

Album Rating: 5.0

I’m for applying the same threshold/criteria for album vs song ratings, why would comparing albums across genres be easier than comparing songs? Of course, the album can be more than the sum of its parts and does not necessary reflect song ratings within, but an S-tier song rating should apply across all songs one has in mind, not just in the context of the corresponding album. Otherwise I would rate “King of My Castle” as S-tier, instead of E where it belongs.

Album Rating: 4.0

Ya know...the dumber the better, ain't ya brat?

Album Rating: 3.5

comparing albums or songs across genres is mostly a misguided waste of time unless there's a very specific reason for it. the greater point is that it's much easier to form and maintain a consistent opinion on an album than it is on a song: songs are situational and individually specific in a way that albums are not (as, obvs, they're way you conceptualise comparatively static relationships between fixed sequences of songs). it's easier to treat the album as a known entity, whereas there's a much wider range of variance for your listen-to-listen experience of individual songs; an album has the space to set its own tone and produce its own context where a song does not

also the thought of comparing every song you hear to every other song you've heard within a certain perceived increment is such a hilariously contrived overthink that anyone with an ounce of common sense would immediately skip it. the real question is whether we were all idiots to apply this to albums in the first place (and ig my answer would be that ratings are a necessary evil for making a practical personal catalogue of albums, which isn't necessary for songs)

so yes, keep it dumb plz. the luddite solution is arguably the smartest here, whereas anyone who thinks they can reliably produce percentage ratings for individual tracks or albums is kidding themselves and wasting the time of anyone they opinon spam

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I love listening to albums on shuffle.

Album Rating: 3.5

which canto in dante's inferno is that from?

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lol

Album Rating: 4.5

Ah but Johnny you haven't heard my 14 hour long prog/jazz/grindcore/k-pop/flamenco/Roomba/rice cooker music encompassing track that is meant to encompass the breadth of my entire (prolific) discography

Can you not assign a percentage to that hm?

Album Rating: 3.5

will take me well under 14 hrs to plop it in the bottom of my bin and fill the rest of the container with egg boxes, so leave that one pending

Album Rating: 4.5

You won't be saying that when needledrop strong 8's it for its 12 seconds of Danny Brown feature

Album Rating: 4.0

If we wanna be real numerical ratings are antiquated in this point in time, people just want more informed and nuanced opinions. I really like it as a way of contrasting just vague ideas of comprability but it really stifles how we feel about art. People just don't revere scores like that anymore.

Album Rating: 4.5

this is everything i ever could've hoped to hear from them at this day and age

Album Rating: 3.0

"and ig my answer would be that ratings are a necessary evil for making a practical personal catalogue of albums, which isn't necessary for songs"

yeah, album ratings are somewhat impractical, certainly imperfect, but they are a great cataloguing tool (which I admittedly spend excessive amounts of time and energy contemplating).

I cannot begin to imagine what rating individual songs across multiple albums looks like, in fact the very thought of such lunacy is turning me inside out. I'd last a couple of months max before succumbing to stress induced heart failure I reckon

Album Rating: 5.0

Why is it harder to rate a song as independently ‘S Tier’ than an album? If anything it should be easier :/



Not sure about this logic, I thought everyone had their ‘5 star songs’ etc



Maybe people clinging to an idea of being ‘objective’ might struggle but it’s super easy for me to rate my enjoyment of songs independently (not tied to that album).



What is madness is having the track averages equal the album score - I find that silly.

Album Rating: 3.5

Wow this might be the first time Johnny and I wholeheartedly agree on something and it's making me feel all tingly inside.



At the end of the day, any and all ratings are (mostly) a lark. But if I didn't at least limp along with them for albums, making personalized year-end or "x-artist ranked" lists would be even more cumbersome than they already are. Totally a personal problem, no one is telling me I need to make meaningless lists that approx 16 or 17 people I don't even know on the internet will actually read, but everyone has their vice(s) I guess.



To that end, ratings on sites like this, RYM, Letterboxd (for movies), or whatever else are always far more interpersonalized than people assume. By giving two different movies/albums/whatever a 5/5 or 10/10, my intention is (almost) never to imply that the two things are equal in any pseudo-objective measure (which is BS anyway); it's merely an indication that "my enjoyment for these two things—by whichever agencies that enjoyment might be cantilevered—are about the same".



Yes I have considered just deleting my ratings en masse. Can't bring myself to do it, though.

Album Rating: 3.5

I also think tier lists, specifically, are inherently contextual and make no sense in a vacuum. If I forced continuity and made one tier list for my favorite cheeses and one tier list for my favorite fruits, my cheese tier list would be littered with S and A tier cheeses while the fruit list would certainly be more centered around C+ tier at best, with maybe one or two S tier fruits. This is merely because I prefer cheese to fruit, generally, and that fact spread across the lists in totality does not behoove those who care about the cheeses (or the fruits) relative to one another, which, again, is entirely the point of a tier list.



By thumbing through your tier list of songs on this album, I care far less about how you fancy these songs in comparison to.... every other song ever made (lol ?)... and far more about your feelings toward them solely relative to one another.

Album Rating: 4.0

like 80% of my 5s are only 5s because I heard them at a special time/place and it makes my opinion extremely biased. Other times I just want to bump up the average. Basically don't listen to me about anything

All my 5s are 6s