sweet track, pots 👍

Album Rating: 5.0

@normaloctagon: wow you consider ratings more than I do, you’re definitely overthinking it if simply deciding on a rating is giving you anxiety. I sincerely hope that was in jest. Also this album is incredibly creative and I prefer it to s/t by some distance.

P.S. if you want to avoid additional stress I wouldn’t look at my ratings re 3s/3.5s 😄

Album Rating: 4.0

eeehhhh

Album Rating: 5.0

Oh!!!! A whole Portishead page happened without me 😳

Album Rating: 4.5

Be grateful you maintained your purity

Album Rating: 5.0

Was it that bad? Yikes.

a 3 out of 5 can be anything from "yo this is good shit!" to "i mean this sputnik user project is good i guess compared to other sput projects at least"

Album Rating: 5.0

Passion's overrated anyway.

Album Rating: 5.0

You only have to quote some Massive and Pots is summoned instantly.

a sput user album 3 is like a real artist 2-2.5

a typically high calibre artist 3 is basically a 1

a low calibre artist 3 is extremely high praise

a neutral or unfamiliar artist 3 is a 3

with the latter example it usually means that the release would be a 3.5 if all the songs were as good as the best songs but there were some songs that were boring, poor, or skippable

a 3.5 means there was no "poor" songs but something was preventing it from being a complete experience, whether it is quality discrepancies, lack of aesthetic or conceptual cohesion, whatever. a 3.5 usually gets ripped apart into pieces with highlights stuck into daily playlists and lowlights forever forgotten. a 3 maybe has one or two of these highlights where a 3.5 will have many.

a 4 is the point where i expect close to 90% cohesion as an album regardless of overall quality of individual songs. 4's rarely have enough lows to warrant deconstruction / dissemination into playlists and are often preferred in album format regardless of a boring or skippable track or two.

4.5-5s are basically perfect even when they aren't perfect.

^ this is a very apt description

a 2.5 means average. the average human being is fucking shit. 2.5 is not a positive rating. being average at something is unacceptable. being average at something is almost worse than sucking at it completely because it's fucking impressionless. 2.5 is one of the worst ratings in that regard. at least 1's are often divisive and spark debate and adverse reaction. that is often a lot more commendable than eliciting an apathetic "meh".

i dont have an explanation for 1.5-2s other than that they probably aren't relevant enough to be triggering when 1'd. they are awful but not worth singling out with that cold cold hard 1.

perhaps a 2 is more apathetic than a 1 and 1.5 as well. maybe it isn't entirely irredeemable.

the difference between a 4.5 and a 5 can be minute. sometimes a 4.5 is even personally preferred over a 5 but it lacks a certain cultural significance. 4.5s are always enjoyable. 5's aren't always enjoyable, but may rather be simply indisputably iconic, relevant, quintessential, game-changing, revolutionary, innovative, inventive etc. there is an objective element to evaluating a 5 that separates it from the 4.5 territory.

some 5's are simply 5s because it's fucking hilarious

ratings ranked:

1. 5
2. 1
3. 4.5
4. 4
5. 3.5
6. 3
7. 1.5
8. 2
9. 2.5

ratings rated:

5 - 5/5
4.5 - 4.5/5
4 - 4/5
3.5 - 3.5/5
3 - 2.5/5
2.5 - 1/5
2 - 1.5/5
1.5 - 1.5/5
1 - 5/5

ratings with users as descriptors rather than adjectives

5 - LordePots
4.5 - jots
4 - tectactoe
3.5 - slex
3 - neek
2.5 - colton
2 - toondude
1.5 - tundra
1 - acad

my general system of ratings is:
5.0 - as close to perfect as an album can get
4.5 - a step down from perfect; there is some aspect that you would have changed to improve it but nonetheless immensely enjoyable
4.0 - an very well-constructed, very enjoyable album. flaws are present but but don't impede the experience in a significant way
3.5 - an enjoyable album but flaws are more noticeable and there are certain aspects you don't care for
3.0 - admittedly enjoyable but still flawed in some regard that keeps it from being much better than just "good"
2.5 - half and half, really couldn't care less about it. often goes to albums that are just kind of boring but not really bad
2.0 - i did not enjoy the experience and it was a blatant waste of my time. few redeemable qualities
1.5 - thoroughly unenjoyable, positives about the album are slim to none
1.0 - good fucking lord this sucks ass

obviously there are excepting factors like context of release, influence, originality, and other qualities that detract from or benefit how i feel about the album